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Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250-c. 1650 by Richard MacKenny 9781442649682
$94.18This study re-examines Venice's political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people or popolani who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility or nobili, actually organized and ran for themselves... -
Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period by Angela Vanhaelen 9781487544935
$88.51Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars... -
A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 by John M. Najemy 9781405119542
RRP: $118.62$103.42In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state,... -
The Venetian Discovery of America: Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters by Elizabeth Horodowich 9781107150874
RRP: $116.10$105.04Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers... -
The Moral Economy: Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early Modern Europe by Laurence Fontaine 9781107018815
RRP: $96.75$87.38The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit, and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the... -
A History of New South Wales by Beverley Kingston 9780521833844
RRP: $104.49$85.24The history of New South Wales and Australia once seemed interchangeable. But since at least the 1850s New South Wales has had a unique history, partly growing out of its origins as a convict colony at Port Jackson, and largely shaped by natural... -
A New Economic History of Argentina by Gerardo Della Paolera 9780521822473
RRP: $135.45$122.18Argentine economic history has long presented a puzzle: how could a country that was once one of the world's richest, now fare so poorly? What is the economic story behind such long-run divergence? And how does economic reality reflect deeper social,... -
The Strained Alliance: US-European Relations from Nixon to Carter by Thomas Alan Schwartz 9780521899994
RRP: $135.45$122.18Using a wide array of recently declassified archival materials in the United States and Western Europe, this collection offers new insights into the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations during the era of detente (1969-1980). Whereas prior studies... -
Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520-1545 by James L. Larson 9780521765145
RRP: $112.23$101.61The turbulence of the Protestant Reformation marks a turning point in European history, but the Scandinavian contribution to this revolution is not well known outside the Northern world. Reforming the North focuses on twenty-five years (1520-45 AD) of... -
An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 by George R. Trumbull 9780521734349
RRP: $39.98$36.48An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and... -
Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 by Joy Damousi 9780521516310
RRP: $116.10$105.04Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a... -
Measuring Immorality: Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy by Gail Reekie 9780521629744
RRP: $41.27$37.62Why do conservative politicians and scholars in Britain, Australia and the United States continue to view rising rates of out-of-wedlock births and teenage pregnancies as a threat to civilised society? This book examines the process by which social... -
A History of New South Wales by Beverley Kingston 9780521541688
RRP: $45.15$37.18The history of New South Wales and Australia once seemed interchangeable. But since at least the 1850s New South Wales has had a unique history, partly growing out of its origins as a convict colony at Port Jackson, and largely shaped by natural... -
Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 by Prof Martin Korenjak 9780198866053
RRP: $154.80$141.04During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the... -
Medicine in an Age of Revolution by Prof Peter Elmer 9780198853985
RRP: $129.00$117.26This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Medicine in an Age of... -
Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India 2 Volume Set: Including a Residence There, and Voyage Home, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 by Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood 9781108019187
$86.75Described by The Morning Post as exhibiting 'facilities of observation never before possessed by a European lady', Anne Katharine Elwood was the ideal narrator for an exotic and exciting travel journal. The first woman to travel overland to India, she... -
Basel 1516: Erasmus' Edition of the New Testament by Kaspar Von Greyerz 9783161552748
RRP: $72.37$72.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161552748Author Kaspar Von GreyerzFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 567g -
Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective by Robert I. Rotberg 9780521785754
RRP: $47.72$43.28Societies work best where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively for common goals, and thus share a civic culture. The accumulation of reciprocal trust, as demonstrated by voluntary efforts for the creation of common goods, builds... -
Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts by Cathleen Sarti
RRP: $101.91$97.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641892728Author Cathleen SartiFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Italian Courts and European Culture by Marcello Fantoni
RRP: $138.03$131.49Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century, princely courts dominated the Italian political scene. These courts were effervescent centers of cultural production. As such, they became a model for European monarchies who imported Italian courtly... -
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization by Strathern Paul
RRP: $24.45$14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362134Author Strathern PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
The Italian Renaissance by Werner L. Gundersheimer
RRP: $33.53$30.01An anthology of writings from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries designed to illustrate the life and thought of Italians for students and the general reader. It offers a broad sampling of humanist work by educators, statesmen, philosophers,... -
Venice's Most Loyal City: Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia by Stephen D. Bowd
RRP: $59.28$47.85By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had established an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part of the peninsula. The wealthiest and most populous part of this empire... -
Heroic Forms: Cervantes and the Literature of War by Stephen Rupp
$67.02Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military... -
Pessoa's Geometry of the Abyss: Modernity and the Book of Disquiet by Paulo De Medeiros
RRP: $109.64$95.27Paulo De Medeiros concentrates on some aspects of the Book of Disquiet, in the hope of contributing to what he see as the fundamental task of relating Fernando Pessoa to other modernist writers and addressing the theoretical questions Pessoa's texts... -
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti: An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics, 1576 by Walter R Laird
RRP: $41.28$37.58Mechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics... -
Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics by Brendan Dooley
RRP: $96.75$74.94One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune... -
Short Epics by Maffeo Vegio
$40.07Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance,... -
The Household and Court of James IV of Scotland, 1488-1513 by William Hepburn 9781783276905
RRP: $83.85$78.16Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its centrality to the effective government for which James IV is renowned. James IV is regarded by many... -
Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500-1914 by Michael Anderson 9780521557931
RRP: $30.95$25.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Rohonc Code: Tracing a Historical Riddle by Benedek Lang
RRP: $27.03$24.03First discovered in a Hungarian library in 1838, the Rohonc Codex keeps privileged company with some of the most famous unsolved writing systems in the world, notably the Voynich manuscript, the Phaistos Disk, and Linear A. Written entirely in cipher,... -
The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 by Rebecca Earle 9781107693296
RRP: $29.66$23.08This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial... -
The Hidden Chapter: An Investigation into the Custody of Lost Knowledge by Joy Hancox 9780956639400
RRP: $32.25$24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956639400Author Joy HancoxFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Byrom ProjectsPublisher Byrom Projects -
Greek and Latin Poetry by Angelo Poliziano
RRP: $38.64$30.52Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes epigrams, elegies, and verse epistles, as well as... -
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns by Valerie Traub
RRP: $45.15$40.17What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and... -
Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System by Barbara L. Solow 9780521457378
RRP: $55.46$46.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
History of the Florentine People: v.2: Books 5-8 by Leonardo Bruni
RRP: $38.64$31.04Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was... -
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present by Jan de Vries
RRP: $34.82$26.65In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This 'industrious revolution' is the context in which the economic... -
The European Renaissance: Centers and Peripheries by Peter Burke
RRP: $52.83$46.30This is a fascinating account of the geography, chronology and sociology of one of the major cultural movements in European history.About the AuthorPeter Burke is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College... -
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 by MacGregor Knox 9780521800792
RRP: $65.78$58.01The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are...