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Land and Lineage in China: A Study of T'ung-Ch'eng County, Anhwel, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties by Hilary J. Beattie 9780521101110
RRP: €30.93€26.05This is a study of landholding, taxation and social structure in one county of central China that became famous in the Ming and Ch'ing periods for producing great officials and remarkable intellectual traditions. The primary aim of the author is to... -
The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution by Daniel Moran 9780521030250
RRP: €36.88€28.32The People in Arms, first published in 2002, is concerned with the mass mobilization of society for war. It takes as its starting point the French levee en masse of 1793, which replaced former theories and regulations concerning the obligation of... -
Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of European Culture, 1400-1700 by Jane P. Davidson 9780313393433
€77.98Devils, ghosts, poltergeists, werewolves, and witches are all covered in this book about the "dark side" of supernatural beliefs in early modern Europe, tapping period literature, folklore, art, and scholarly writings in its investigation. The... -
Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment by Joseph P. Byrne 9780313381362
€72.29Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French... -
The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe by Dr. Jon Arrizabalaga 9780300213171
€37.85A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its... -
Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe by Sandra Sider 9780195330847
RRP: €26.17€20.88The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminated in England in the... -
1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies 9780061492181
RRP: €17.84€15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061492181Author Gavin MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 490g -
Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine De' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang 9781250338402
RRP: €27.37€16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250338402Author Leah Redmond ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader by Keith Whitlock 9780300082234 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.41€3.02An essential reference for any student of the Renaissance, this book is a collection of readings on one of the most fascinating periods of Western development. Eminent scholars explore themes of humanism, structures of authority, and levels of culture... -
Access To History Themes: Renaissance Italy by Robert Hole 9780340701362 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€2.53Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
Argentina since Independence by Leslie Bethell 9780521439886
RRP: €53.54€45.86Argentina Since Independence brings together seven chapters from Volumes III, V and VIII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Argentina since independence. Each chapter is... -
History of the Australian Environment Movement by Drew Hutton 9780521450768
RRP: €88.06€80.04This book traces the development of the environment movement in Australia from the first visionaries who pressed for preservation of native fauna and for sanitation in cities to a mass social movement that challenges the most powerful interests in... -
Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland by Allan Kennedy 9781837650231
RRP: €95.20€91.17An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century. Throughout the early modern period, Scottish society was constructed around an expectation of social conformity: people were... -
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy by Alison Brown 9781108746571
RRP: €30.93€27.64Following the life of one man, Piero de' Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent's son, Alison Brown sheds new light on several of the most important themes of Renaissance history and culture by combining political history, the history of ideas, and cultural... -
The Cambridge History of Terrorism by Richard English 9781108455329
RRP: €35.69€31.34The Cambridge History of Terrorism provides a comprehensive reference work on terrorism from a distinctly historical perspective, offering systematic analyses of key themes, problems and case studies from terrorism's long past. Featuring expert scholars... -
Slavery in Brazil by Herbert S. Klein 9780521193986
RRP: €67.83€61.32Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and... -
Between Law and Custom: 'High' and 'Low' Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600-1900 by Peter Karsten 9780521099196
RRP: €45.21€41.45When British authorities established 'settler' colonies in North America and the Antipodes (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Fiji) from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, they introduced law through parliamentary statutes and... -
Humanitarian Intervention: A History by Brendan Simms 9780521190275
RRP: €83.30€75.81The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass... -
Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire by Nile Green 9780521898454
RRP: €63.07€56.67Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British... -
Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era by Sushil Chaudhury 9780521037471
RRP: €36.88€33.65Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a... -
Colombia before Independence: Economy, Society, and Politics under Bourbon Rule by Anthony McFarlane 9780521416412
RRP: €89.25€81.09This book describes and analyses economic and political developments in Colombia during the final century of Spanish rule. Its purpose is threefold: first, to provide a general portrait of Colombian society during the late colonial period, showing the... -
Colombia before Independence: Economy, Society, and Politics under Bourbon Rule by Anthony McFarlane 9780521894494
RRP: €36.88€34.13This book describes and analyses economic and political developments in Colombia during the final century of Spanish rule. Its purpose is threefold: first, to provide a general portrait of Colombian society during the late colonial period, showing the... -
Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815 by Leandro Prados de la Escosura 9780521793049
RRP: €83.30€75.81This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a... -
Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa by Luke S. Roberts 9780521621311
RRP: €69.02€61.89This book explores the historical roots of economic nationalism within Japan. By examining how mercantilist thought developed in the eighteenth-century domain of Tosa, the author shows how economic ideas were generated within the domains. During the Edo... -
Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 by Brooke Larson 9780521561716
RRP: €53.55€48.30This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during the turbulent nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were... -
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador by Suzanne Austin Alchon 9780521401869
RRP: €67.83€60.84This book examines the relationship between the indigenous peoples of northern Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. It addresses an important and often overlooked element in the history of... -
The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experiences by Mary O. Furner 9780521394246
RRP: €98.77€89.52This book addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state - the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy-making. The traditional assumption, which... -
The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Fabian Klose 9781107075511
RRP: €83.30€75.81How should the international community react when a government transgresses humanitarian norms and violates the human rights of its own nationals? And where does the responsibility lie to protect people from such acts of violation? In this profound... -
Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society by Sandra Lauderdale Graham 9780521815321
RRP: €52.36€47.25This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman... -
Mexico: Volume 2: The Colonial Era by Alan Knight 9780521814751
RRP: €57.12€51.92This 2002 book is the second 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. Focusing on the period from 1521 to 1821, Volume 2 offers a comprehensive... -
Mexico: Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest by Alan Knight 9780521814744
RRP: €52.36€47.73This 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... -
Between Law and Custom: 'High' and 'Low' Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600-1900 by Peter Karsten 9780521792837
RRP: €98.77€89.52When British authorities established 'settler' colonies in North America and the Antipodes (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Fiji) from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, they introduced law through parliamentary statutes and... -
The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870 by Samuel Amaral 9780521572484
RRP: €89.25€81.09In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires underwent rapid economic growth, only dwarfed by the even greater prosperity that occurred there at the end of the century. Previous studies have focused on the economy as a whole, or on a... -
Shen Pao-chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century by David Pong 9780521531269
RRP: €36.88€34.13The Opium Wars ushered in an era of intensive Western imperialism in China, at a time when the Ch'ing dynasty was already in decline, forcing a small number of Chinese officials to come to the realisation that China must protect itself by adopting the... -
China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge by Timothy Brook 9780521525916
RRP: €36.88€33.65This 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... -
Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade by David R. Murray 9780521524698
RRP: €36.88€33.65The Atlantic slave trade brought to Cuba the African slaves who created the dramatic transformation of the island from a relative backwater of Spain's colonial empire in the mid-eighteenth century to the world's richest plantation colony one hundred... -
Church and State in Bourbon Mexico by D. A. Brading 9780521460927
RRP: €69.02€62.37In 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... -
Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Eugene Ridings 9780521454858
RRP: €84.49€76.87This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century. Business interest groups strongly affected the modernization and prosperity of... -
Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture by Dr. Nina Taunton 9780415809078
RRP: €35.69€31.70Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a... -
The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 446-593 (1516-17) by Desiderius Erasmus 9780802053664
€117.35The year that began in August 1515 was the annus mirabilis of Erasmus' career, the year, notably of the epistles of St Jerome and the first edition of his New Testament. In the months following, covered in this volume of the CWE, from August 1516 to June...