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Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic by Peter C. Mancall
RRP: $36.11$31.66In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs,... -
A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Leslie Bethell 9780521626262
RRP: $45.14$35.86The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early... -
Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society by John Walter 9780521406130
RRP: $34.82$31.06Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a... -
Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain - Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533 by Michelle L. Beer 9780861933488
RRP: $103.20$79.27Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as queens over the glittering sixteenth-century courts of England and Scotland, alongside their husbands Henry VIII of England and James IV of Scotland. Although we... -
Modern Japanese Thought by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi 9780521588102
RRP: $34.82$29.93Over the past two centuries, Japan has undergone Westernization not only in the external realm of material culture and sociopolitical organization, but also in the inner realm of thought and morals. This comprehensive intellectual history, consisting of... -
Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius by Richard B. Allen 9780521027823
RRP: $58.04$49.20In this wide-ranging social and economic history of the island of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the beginnings of modern political life in the colony in the mid-1930s, Richard Allen brings out the importance of domestic capital... -
From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa by Robin Law 9780521523066
RRP: $50.30$41.64This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in... -
Framing the World - Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought by Margaret Small
RRP: $103.20$98.83A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century understandings of the world were framed by classical theory. The long sixteenth century saw a major shift in European geographical understanding: in the space of little more than a hundred... -
Giannozzo Manetti: The Life of a Florentine Humanist by David Marsh 9780674238350
RRP: $60.57$48.34An introduction to one of the premier humanists of the Italian Renaissance, whose extraordinary work in biography, politics, religion, and philosophy has been largely unknown to Anglophone readers.A celebrated orator, historian, philosopher, and... -
Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance by Gungwu Wang
RRP: $34.82$29.41Chinese encounters with the British were more than merely those between two great powers. There was the larger canvas of the Empire and Commonwealth where the two peoples traded and interacted. In China, officials and merchants had to place the British... -
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History by Steven L. B. Jensen
RRP: $116.10$105.04This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' - rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights... -
Why Does Michelangelo Matter?: A Historian's Questions about the Visual Arts by Theodore K Rabb 9780930664329
RRP: $23.22$20.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930664329Author Theodore K RabbFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint SpossPublisher SpossWeight(grams) 513g -
The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul by John Henderson 9780300109955
$92.96In this fascinating and richly illustrated book, John Henderson takes us into the Renaissance hospitals of Florence, describing vividly the enormous barn-like wards and exploring the lives of those who received and administered treatment. Drawing on an... -
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions by Luke Clossey 9780521173261
RRP: $51.59$42.91This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing... -
Essays and Dialogues by Bartolomeo Scala
RRP: $38.64$32.96From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence as a leading citizen of Florence, serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before becoming first chancellor of... -
The Conversational Enlightenment: The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought by David Randall
RRP: $36.11$33.55The Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion.Book InformationISBN 9781474448673Author David RandallFormat... -
The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750 by James D. Tracy 9780521457354
RRP: $58.04$49.72European dominance of the shipping lanes in the early modern period was a prelude to the great age of European imperial power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet in the present age we can see that the pre-imperial age was in fact more an... -
Why Does Michelangelo Matter?: A Historian's Questions about the Visual Arts by Theodore K Rabb 9780930664312
RRP: $45.15$40.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930664312Author Theodore K RabbFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint SpossPublisher SpossWeight(grams) 669g -
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions by Luke Clossey 9780521887441
RRP: $116.10$93.62This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing... -
Mexico: Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest by Alan Knight 9780521891950
RRP: $32.24$27.32This book is the first in a three-volume history of Mexico, a major work that conveys the full sweep of Mexican history in all its social, economic, and political diversity. Volume 1 charts the development of Mesoamerica from roughly 25,000 BC down to... -
Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World, 1400-2000 by John R. Chavez 9780521736336
RRP: $30.95$24.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Leslie Bethell 9780521623278
RRP: $90.30$80.70The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early... -
Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius by Richard B. Allen 9780521641258
RRP: $125.12$105.79In this wide-ranging social and economic history of the island of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the beginnings of modern political life in the colony in the mid-1930s, Richard Allen brings out the importance of domestic capital... -
China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge by Timothy Brook 9780521640299
RRP: $127.70$113.92This book addresses the historical relationship that has arisen between the concept of capitalism and the idea of China. Formulated by European intellectuals in order to identify the social formation in which they found themselves, capitalism was... -
Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London by Patrick O'Brien 9780521594080
RRP: $135.45$106.31This innovative work in comparative urban history explores why outstanding achievements in material and intellectual culture in early modern Europe tended to cluster in certain maritime cities. Patrick O'Brien and his co-editors have assembled a team of... -
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade by Boubacar Barry 9780521592260
RRP: $135.45$120.27Boubacar Barry is one of the leading figures in West African historiography. His authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivalled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Taking as its subject the vast area... -
An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930 by Giovanni Federico 9780521581981
RRP: $116.10$105.04An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930, first published in 1997, is an ambitious historical analysis of the development of a major commodity. Dr Federico examines the rapid growth of the world silk industry from the early nineteenth century... -
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and their Hinterland, c.1600-c.1960 by Ralph A. Austen 9780521562287
RRP: $116.10$93.10The Duala people entered the international scene as merchant-brokers for precolonial trade in ivory, slaves and palm products. Under colonial rule they used the advantages gained from earlier riverain trade to develop cocoa plantations and provide their... -
Citizenship, Identity, and Social History by Charles Tilly 9780521558143
RRP: $39.98$36.48Citizenship and identity provide the focus for this collection of original essays from a group of theoretically innovative historians and social scientists. The volume explores the competing and sometimes conflicting roles of citizenship and identity, be... -
The Economic Development of Japan 1868-1941 by W. J. Macpherson 9780521552615
RRP: $63.21$56.89The rise of Japan from a position of relative international obscurity in the mid-nineteenth century to that of third largest industrial nation in the 1980s has elicited an enormous amount of interest among academics. This short book provides an overview... -
France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960 by Christopher Harrison 9780521541121
RRP: $47.72$39.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
De-Industrialization: Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects by Bert Altena 9780521532167
RRP: $38.69$35.35De-industrialization processes have accompanied industrialization from the start, both regionally and globally. Most historical studies of de-industrialization focus on economic issues, including structural causes and forms of unemployment. Much less... -
Church and State in Bourbon Mexico by D. A. Brading 9780521523011
RRP: $49.01$40.39In the eighteenth century the Mexican Church experienced spiritual renewal and intellectual reform. The establishment of Franciscan missionary colleges, of the Oratory, and of convents and sisterhoods was to the great benefit of the diocese of Michoacan... -
The Central Republic in Mexico, 1835-1846: 'Hombres de Bien' in the Age of Santa Anna by Michael P. Costeloe 9780521441216
RRP: $116.10$105.04Much of the so-called Age of Santa Anna in the history of independent Mexico remains a mystery and no decade is less well understood than the years from 1835 to 1846. In 1834, the ruling elite of middle class hombres de bien concluded that a highly... -
Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu by Michael A. Gomez 9780521419406
RRP: $141.90$120.27Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic... -
European Colonialism since 1700 by James R. Lehning 9780521518703
RRP: $87.71$76.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths 9780521483490
RRP: $58.05$50.04Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists,... -
Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty by Christopher Wrigley 9780521473705
RRP: $141.90$127.89The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the... -
Mexico since Independence by Leslie Bethell 9780521413060
RRP: $94.17$85.62Mexico Since Independence brings together six chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social and political history of Mexico since independence from Spain in 1821. This, it... -
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante by T. C. McCaskie 9780521410090
RRP: $163.83$139.31Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T. C. McCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in the...