Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 264 p. This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of industrialization, technological innovation and imperial expansion, the industrializing powers of...
Rider, 2012 — 340 p. The book 21 Speeches That Shaped Our World - The People and Ideas That Changed the Way We Think by Chris Abbott is a thought-provoking collection of 21 speeches that have shaped the modern world In this fascinating book, a political analyst takes a close look at 21 key speeches which have shaped the world’s history over the last 100 years. He examines the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 252 p. Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 252 p. Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 464 p. Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 408 p. This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of sovereignty emerged in the Americas as a response to...
Routledge, 2021. — 344 p. Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to the dynamics around civilian-driven mass violence against indigenous peoples. In many cases,...
Routledge, 2021. — 344 p. Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to the dynamics around civilian-driven mass violence against indigenous peoples. In many cases,...
Routledge, 2016. — 236 p. At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case. This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it...
Routledge, 2018. — 400 p. What kind of political representation existed in the Ancien Régime? Which social sectors were given a voice, and how were they represented in the institutions? These are some of the issues addressed by the authors of this book from different institutional angles (monarchies and republics; parliaments and municipalities), from various European...
Thames & Hudson, 2007. — 861 p. — ISBN 978-0-500-77529-5 The critical story of thirteen empires, showing their key role in the foundation of today’s global civilization. For over five hundred years, empires have been a feature of the political landscape, and today, many contemporary conflicts resonate with issues tied to colonial conquest and the uneasy situations they...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 296 p. Royals on tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. Such tours projected imperial...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 482 p. This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 482 p. This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 400 p. From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish nationalists to French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of a common, interrelated pattern. In this new transnational history, Micah Alpaugh demonstrates the connections between the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 216 p. A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions. Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book explores the dissemination and transformation of revolutionary ideas in the period between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. In addition to revolutionary movements in Europe and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 216 p. A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions. Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book explores the dissemination and transformation of revolutionary ideas in the period between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. In addition to revolutionary movements in Europe and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 217 p. A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions. Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book explores the dissemination and transformation of revolutionary ideas in the period between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. In addition to revolutionary movements in Europe and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 375 p. The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation―in principle, they were ‘for everyone’―they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 272 p. The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. Focusing on what was seen in the nineteenth century as the three most pirate-infested areas in the region - the Sulu Sea, the Strait of Malacca and Indochina - this comparative study in colonial history explores how...
Greenwood Press, 2010. — 280 p. Organized thematically, Daily Life during the Reformation covers the hectic and tumultuous years between 1517 and 1648, allowing readers to discover what it was like for ordinary people during this critical period and to compare events and living conditions in early Modern Europe with those of today. With the help of eyewitness accounts, the book...
Abingdon: Routledge, 2014. — 479 p. Preface Introduction The sources The structure of society Economic life Government and administration Monarchs and despots: tensions within the state Armies and navies Diplomacy and international relations The expansion of Russia; Poland, the Baltic and the Near East The German States and the rise of Prussia Spain, Italy and the Mediterranean...
Bristol: Western Printing Services Ltd, 1974. — 510 p. Политический характер абсолютизма на протяжении долгого времени был предметом споров среди историков. Развивая идеи, выдвинутые в предыдущей работе (Переходы от античности к феодализму), выдающийся англо-американский историк Перри Андерсон рассматривает обстоятельства возникновения абсолютистских монархий из кризиса...
Ashgate, 2012. — 414 p. This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial...
University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 220 p. Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France. Many scholars have...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 432 p. Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use,...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 230 p. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states began to provide many of the public services we now take for granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis of the political origins of modern public services during this period. Ansell and Lindvall show how struggles among political parties and...
Boydell Press, 2013. — 280 p. Piracy was one of the most gendered criminal activities during the early modern period. As a form of maritime enterprise and organized criminality, it attracted thousands of male recruits whose venturing acquired a global dimension as piratical activity spread across the oceans and seas of the world. At the same time, piracy affected the lives of...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — 379 p. — (Balkan Studies Library 27). List of Illustrations and Tables. Russophobia, Free Trade and Maritime Insecurity. The Danube Question and the Making of Two River Commissions. A Quest for Authority and Autonomy. ‘Civilising and Disciplining Nature’. On Money, Tolls and Standards. Threats, Opportunities and Institutional Survival. On...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1989. — 675 p. Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1990. — 743 p. The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. The present book, fourth in the popular series, chronicles...
Red Globe Press, 2009. — 405 p. This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America, and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective. This collection of individual essays provides an accessible overview of essential themes, such as the state, empire,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 334 p. A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and China, the chapters shed new light on this...
Cassell & Co., 2001. — 226 p. Acknowledgements Map list Chronology A hunpowder revolution The new fury The first European cannon; The development of gunpowder artillery; New forms of military architecture, the artillery tower and the angle bastion; Siegecraft The project of infantry reform; The legions of Francis I of France; The Nassau family in Holland; Alviano in Venice;...
Thistle Publishing, 2015. — 438 p. In Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and Tragedy of European Monarchy 1910-1918, Theo Aronson takes a distinct approach to the end of monarchical Europe. For one, he takes a broader view, looking at roughly a dozen major and minor monarchs who sat on Europe’s thrones in the second decade of the 20th century. The second, and most notable, is that...
Ashgate, 2010. — 288 p. One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social upheavals. Why was it that the foundation and institutionalisation of secured peace and the rule of law seemed to go hand-in-hand with the proliferation of war...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 514 p. This is the first book to consider nineteenth-century businesswomen from a global perspective, moving beyond European and trans-Atlantic frameworks to include many other corners of the world. The women in these pages, who made money and business decisions for themselves rather than as employees, ran a wide variety of enterprises, from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 514 p. This is the first book to consider nineteenth-century businesswomen from a global perspective, moving beyond European and trans-Atlantic frameworks to include many other corners of the world. The women in these pages, who made money and business decisions for themselves rather than as employees, ran a wide variety of enterprises, from...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 241 p. Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century. Even as radical new ideas challenged the historicity of the Bible, biblical notions of lineage, descent and inheritance continued to inform understandings of race, nation and empire....
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 288 p. Explores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture 1917 was the moment in which a new sense of internationalism came into being under the impetus of the Russian Revolution and the formation of the League of Nations. Drawing on the responses of journalists and literary authors, David Ayers...
Brill, 2021. — 279 p. — (Library of the Written Word 88; Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World 88). This book explores the reception of foreign news during the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, shedding new light on the connections between these conflicts and demonstrating the emergence of critical news audiences.
Leuven University Press, 2011. — 284 p. The Peace of Münster, signed between the Catholic Monarchy and the United Provinces in 1648, went against the political culture of both polities. The fact that the Spanish Monarchy definitively accepted the independence of its former subjects clearly negated the policy put forward by the Monarchy during the "eighty" years that the war...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. — 422 p. In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to its current position as the most prosperous and powerful group of nations in the world. Integrating the history of armed conflict...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 488 p. In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual...
Laterza, Roma – Bari, Italia, 2007. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-88-420-3346-2. Questa introduzione alla storia contemporanea, in tutti i suoi vari aspetti, ne coglie la radicale diversità rispetto alla storia moderna, e fornisce tutte le principali chiavi di lettura per comprenderla. Geoffrey Barraclough (1908-1984) ha insegnato all'Università di Liverpool, alla London School of...
Penguin Books Ltd, 1963. — 284 p. The nature of contemporary history. Structural Change and Qualitative Difference. The impact of scientifical and technical advantage. Industrialism and Imperialism as the Catalysts of a New World. The dwarfing of Europe. The Significance of the Demographic Factor. From European balance of power to the age of world politics. The Changing...
Penguin Group USA, Inc., 2004. In 1918, a plague swept across the world virtually without warning, killing healthy young adults as well as vulnerable infants and the elderly. Hospitals and morgues were quickly overwhelmed; in Philadelphia, 4,597 people died in one week alone and bodies piled up on the streets to be carted off to mass graves. But this was not the dreaded Black...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 272 p. Conflict and competition between imperial powers has long been a feature of global history, but their co-operation has largely been a peripheral concern. Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 redresses this imbalance, providing a coherent conceptual framework for the study of inter-imperial collaboration and arguing that it deserves...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 543 p. Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 329 p. This book explores an anonymous sixteenth-century portrait of Muley al-Hassan, the Hafsid king of Tunis (ca. 1528–1550), that bears witness to relations between North Africa, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. While Muley al-Hassan appears frequently in the vast literature on Charles V Habsburg, he is overshadowed by the emperor. Here he emerges...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 328 p. This book explores an anonymous sixteenth-century portrait of Muley al-Hassan, the Hafsid king of Tunis (ca. 1528–1550), that bears witness to relations between North Africa, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. While Muley al-Hassan appears frequently in the vast literature on Charles V Habsburg, he is overshadowed by the emperor. Here he emerges...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. — XII, 255 p. — (Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds; 3) Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that...
Sourcebooks, 2022. — 400 p. A debut that combines historical nonfiction with travel books, for fans of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, In Pursuit of Jefferson is the story of an American on a journey through Europe, following the epic trail of Thomas Jefferson. A controversial founding father. A man ready for a change. And a completely unique trip through Europe. In 1784, Thomas...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. - 568 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0631236163 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780631236160 This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’ at this time than is commonly thought. Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history. Reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’, even...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 289 p. Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 495 p. This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern and western shores, the ‘Asian Mediterranean’ was for almost a century a crucible of power and an axis of economic struggle for coastal shipping...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 327 S. — (Interdisziplinäre Studien zum östlichen Europa 13). Hinter dem Schlagwort ‚historisches Litauen‘ verbirgt sich ein riesiges Forschungsfeld, das faszinierende Perspektiven bereithält – nicht nur für Geschichtswissenschaft und Baltistik, sondern auch und gerade für die Slavistik. Im Großfürstentum Litauen fanden im Mittelalter...
Springer - Red Globe Press, 2019. — 282 p. Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Western, Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe, Charles Beem explores the particular nature of the regional forms and functions of queenship - including consorts, queens regnant, dowagers and...
Chronos Verlag, 2015. — 384 p. Die Casati widerlegen mit ihrer erstaunlichen Familienkarriere ein verbreitetes Bild frühneuzeitlicher Diplomatie. Die Monografie erklärt, wie diese spanisch-mailändische Gesandtendynastie es verstand, in den höchst komplexen, von konfessionellen, sozialen und kulturellen Brüchen geprägten Beziehungsnetzen zwischen Mailand, Madrid, Wien, Luzern,...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — 352 p. In Men on Horseback, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic new interpretation of modern politics, arguing that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma, its shadow self. Bell begins with Corsica’s Pasquale Paoli, an icon of republican virtue whose exploits were once renowned...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker seek to break through the narrow views of this period with research...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 248 p. Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries. Assimilation and Empire shows that the aspiration for assimilation was not only driven by materialistic reasons, but was also motivated by ideas. The engine of assimilation was found in the combination of...
Routledge, 2015. — 202 p. The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, and yet covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting period of European history. The pinnacle of absolute...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 9780198789291; ISBN13: 978-0198789291 Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social Democracy into twentieth-century Europe's most potent political force, they were often mutually reinforcing. Workers and Nationalism...
Viella, 2011. — 305 p. Nel corso degli ultimi anni, l’universo della politica ha sperimentato una profonda mutazione, in conseguenza del conflitto scatenato contro un nemico in sé enigmatico e sfuggente come il terrorismo internazionale. La retorica stessa della guerra al terrore sembra infatti aver riportato all’interno dei sistemi di governo occidentali imperativi e logiche...
Brepols, 2010. — 344 p. — (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 16). From the English Civil War to the Fronde, from Masaniello to Robespierre, this book is one of the first attempts to create a European, transnational approach to the problems of the early modern age. It proposes a detailed reconstruction of the main interpretative tendencies that have developed around the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 752 p. — ISBN13 9780521616492. — ISBN10 0521616492. From ca. 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures,...
Akal, 2005. — 1081 p. Este es unos de los manuales de Historia Moderna más completos. Lectura obligada para los estudiantes de historia y un libro de los más interesante para aquellas personas amantes de la historia. En sus más de 1000 páginas, la obra recorre los hechos históricos más destacados acaecidos en Europa y Norte América desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XVIII....
NYU Press, 2013. — 325 p. This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions of legal pluralism in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires. In-depth analyses probe such topics as the shifting legal privileges of corporations, the intertwining of religious and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 280 p. The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 280 p. The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and...
Berghahn Books, 2019. — 418 p. The "bulwark" or antemurale myth-whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other-has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes and overlaps between sociocultural and religious formations, Rampart Nations delves...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 273 p. The complete Short Oxford History of Europe provides a concise, readable, and authoritative point of entry for the history of Europe from the Ancient Greeks to the present day in eleven volumes. In each chapter a leading expert offers focused and penetrating insights into the major themes and influences of the period. Lying between the...
Doubleday Books, 1981. — 290 p. Only those who lived before the Revolution know how sweet life can be, Talleyrand wrote, many years before the event. Those who dip into Olivier Bernier's lively pages will discover just how sweet, how deep the pleasure, how precious the privilege. For he has populated this book with real people and offers real facts about them and their...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 336 p. In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound for Georgia. Two hundred and twenty-seven passengers boarded two merchant ships accompanied by a British naval vessel and began a transformative voyage across the Atlantic that would last nearly five months. Chronicling their passage in journals, letters, and...
Routledge, 2007. — 208 p. Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel. It found, imagined and manufactured new borders for its travellers to cross. It celebrated and feared borders as places or states where meanings were charged and changed. In early modern Europe crossing a border could take many forms; sailing to the Americas, visiting a hospital or taking a trip...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 487 p. This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century, during which scholars from all over the world - academics, specialists, young...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 610 p. This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project "Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century", during which scholars from all over the world-academics, specialists, young...
London : Smith, Elder & Company, 1907. — 358 p. For most people, interest in the doings of our forefathers in India dates from our wars with the French in the middle of the eighteenth century. Before then their lives are generally supposed to have been spent in monotonous trade dealings in pepper and calico, from which large profits were earned for their masters in England,...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 272 p. (Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural diplomacy, and dialogue, to answer one...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 356 p. Emperor Ferdinand II (ruled in 1619-1637) stands out as a crucial figure in the Counter-Reformation in central Europe, a leading player in the Thirty Years War, the most important ruler in the consolidation of the Habsburg monarchy, and the emperor who reinvigorated the office after its decline under his two predecessors. This is the...
I.B. Tauris, 2004. — 203 p. Kings, Nobles and Commoners takes head-on the leading questions in the history of early modern Europe--questions vital for an understanding of the period, and now at the top of the history agenda for academics, students and general readers. Was religion the badge of identity and inspiration for the state? What was the nature of the state? Did...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2024. — 219 p. Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement. Primarily focused on the Atlantic Slave Trade, this study places slavery within a broader world context and...
Routledge, 2015. — 190 p. In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to abolition, including...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 498 p. In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T.C.W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the center to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author...
Viking, 2007. — 400 p. The Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and the dominant personalities of the age (Louis XIV, Frederick...
Modern Library, 2011. — 272 p. From the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries comes a superb, concise account of a cultural upheaval that still shapes sensibilities today. Long overshadowed by the contemporaneous American, French, and Industrial revolutions, the Romantic Revolution finally receives its due in Tim Blanning’s bold and brilliant...
Chronos Books, 2019. — 96 p. Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743 – 1787) was born the daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange, and Anne, Princess Royal and was thus the granddaughter of King George II. It was upon the King's orders that she was named after his wife, Caroline of Ansbach. She was the first of Anne and William's children to survive to adulthood. When her father was at...
Liveright Publishing, 2019. — 352 p. An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with...
Brepols, 2009. — 232 p. A continuing 'cry for the new', it is said, drives present-day consumerism. People are producing and buying new goods in ever-larger quantities. However, in the past, consumer choices for new products were paralleled and even overlapped by structurally embedded practices such as re-use, recycling and resale. Unfortunately far too little is known about...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. — 429 p. "The most amazing epoch the world has yet seen": So Jerome Blum characterizes the 1840s, the decade when the modern era began. It was the fruit of the creative endeavors of a unique generation of geniuses then reaching maturity. In 1840, Dickens was 28, Marx 22, Engels 20, Bismarck 25, Turgenev 22, Dostoyevsky 29, Darwin 31, Helmholtz 19,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 295 p. In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis unfolded. Often, these refugees of the Ottoman Empire - Christians, Muslims and Jews - found their way to new continents, forming an Ottoman diaspora that had a remarkable ability to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 354 p. This book explores the historical role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the Balkans, with consequences that are still felt...
Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. — 287 p. By 1700, the Protestants of Europe, above all the Calvinists (Reformed), felt threatened anew by Roman Catholicism. Activists, especially Huguenot émigrés, pleaded to friendly rulers to restore Protestantism in France and to protect it in the Holy Roman Empire as aims in their wars against Louis XIV. This activism peaked during the War of...
Belknap Press, 2012. — 416 p. Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 692 p. This is a study of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--a period of economic and cultural upheaval, of dramatic changes in politics, society, and religion, and of constant warring among the emergent states. Based on extensive research, this book covers such diverse themes as the Reformation, witchcraft, diplomacy,...
Brill, 2000. — 270 p. This is the first book, based on both European and Ottoman sources, to examine the commercial, military, and diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the English in the Levant in the early modern period with a special emphasis on the role played by the Ottoman officials and the local Christian dragomans or interpreters. Trade, Politics and Strategy: The...
Editors. — Future Publishing, 2021. — 148 р. — (All About History). In the 17th and 18th centuries, sailing from Europe or Africa to the Americas, or trading from India to Central America, was a risky undertaking. Ferocious storms and barely-understood diseases weren’t the only threats; ruthless pirates lurked on the horizon, craving wealth and reputation. In the All About...
Brepols, 2013. — 221 p. — (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) 30). This volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It ranges from Italy to the Parisian region and then to the greater Low Countries, home of Europe’s most powerful commercial cities of the period. Hardly inert sites on...
Brill, 2013. — 519 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 3). A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates' stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume,...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. — 336 p. Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world. It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 275 p. Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the...
Routledge, 2022. — 310 p. In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern...
Routledge, 2022. — 310 p. In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern...
Harper Colophon Books, 1973. — 478 p. This work is concerned with the quest for progress in daily life throughout the world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Braudel studies the demographic expansion that outstripped the production of goods, and the many other factors that brought about the low subsistence level of the majority of people in contrast with...
Zagreb, 1997. — 692 s. Предговори. Удио средине. Полуотоци: планине, висоравни и равнице. У срце средоземља мора и приморја. Границе или најшире Средоземље. Физичко јединство: клима и повијест. Људско јединство: путови и градови, градови и путови. Заједничке судбине и свеукупна кретања. Економије: мјерило стољећа. Привредне дјелатности: племените ковине, новац и цијене....
Zagreb, 1998. — 686 s. Заједничке судбине и свеукупна кретања. Царства. Друштва. Цивилизације. Облици рата. Умјесто закључка: конјунктура и конјунктуре. Догађаји, политика и људи. Оживљавање и крај једног свјетског рата: 1550-1559. Шест последњих година турске премоћи: 1559-1565. На извориштима Свете лиге: 1566-1570. Лепант. Шпањолско-турска примирја: 1577-1584. Средоземље...
Collins, 1972. — 647 p. The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and...
University of California Press, 1996. — 731 p. The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the...
Pen & Sword History, 2019. — 170 p. — ISBN: 1526745178, 9781526745170. On the second Monday of March 1918, the world changed forever. What seemed like a harmless cold morphed into a global pandemic that would wipe out as many as a hundred-million people - ten times as many as the Great War. German troops faltered lending the allies the winning advantage, India turned its sights...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 304 p. Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste provides the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Impey and her radical political magazine, Anti-Caste. Published monthly from 1888, Anti-Caste published articles that exposed and condemned racial prejudice across the British Empire and the United States. Editing the magazine from her home in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 273 p. Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. Adrian Brisku explores how this path of renewal and reform manifested itself: forging new...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 304 p. Europe's Restorations were characterised by their evolving dialectics. The chapters in this first volume address the key questions and controversies of Napoleonic history from a national and international perspective. From the re-ordering of the European world through the tools of intervention, occupation and diplomacy, to the creation of new...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 320 p. The second volume shines a light on the cultural and social changes that took place during the epoch of European Restorations, when the death of the Napoleonic empire existed as a crucial moment for contemporaries. Expanding the transnational approach of Volume I, the chapters focus on the transmutation of ordinary experiences of war into...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 341 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.
Bloomsbury Press, 2007. — 288 p. In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer’s dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 78 p. — (Cambridge Elements - the Renaissance). The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women connected to imperial, royal and princely...
Brill, 2012. — 224 p. — (Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib 2). Using new archival evidence, this book examines the links between Morocco and Gibraltar, focusing on the period around 1750-1850. It shows how these connections challenge existing assumptions about the perceived division between opposite sides of the Strait of Gibraltar.
Decorations and maps by Myna Myna and Lewis Browne. — New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. — 374 p. Came the Revolution From Watt to What? Suffer Little Children The Poor Shall Never Cease The Rich Shall Never Rest A Man with a Plan The Religion of Manchesterism The Black Life Spreads John Bull Takes a Ride Arise Ye Workers The Fight That Failed The Brand of Gain The Gospel...
Quercus Publishing, 2018. — 528 p. At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling...
Berghahn Books, 2020. — 325 p. In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the “Jewish question” in the Habsburg crown lands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as clerical and populist politicians emerged to denounce the Jewish assimilation and citizenship. This pioneering study investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 336 p. The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'. In this book, David Burke looks at the activities of Russian political emigres in Britain, and in particular the role of one family: the Rothsteins. He looks at the contributions of Theodore and Andrew Rothstein to British Marxism and...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 225 p. The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 272 р. Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 344 p. According to conventional wisdom, in the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal served as a model to the English for how to go about establishing colonies in the New World and Africa. By the eighteenth century, however, it was Spain and Portugal that aspired to imitate the British. Editor Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and the...
Penguin, 2010. — 512 p. De acordo com a obra, a presença do conde Maurício de Nassau no nordeste brasileiro, no início do século XVII, transformou Recife em uma cidade desenvolvida. A história do governo holandês no Nordeste brasileiro se confunde com a guerra entre Holanda e Espanha. Em 1580, quando os espanhóis incorporaram Portugal, lusitanos e holandeses já tinham uma história...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 259 p. This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and distribution in this period resulted in the development of a truly international market. The integration of the book market was facilitated by networks of printers and booksellers, who were responsible for the connection of...
Routledge, 2016. — 332 p. The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of western Europe. This book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 357 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). This book offers a detailed investigation of the influence of public opinion and national identity on the foreign policies of France, Britain and the Netherlands in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The quarter-century of upheaval and warfare in Europe between the outbreak of the French...
Ohio University Press, 2014. — 659 p. Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example, in some societies to bear the children of a master was a potential route to manumission...
Verso, 2021. — 432 p. The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of our carbon civilization - warming,...
Dipartimento Culture e Società Palermo, 2015. — 256 p. - Giuseppe Caridi, Il controverso rapporto tra Francesco di Paola e Ferrante d'Aragona. - Roberto Quirós Rosado, Hault et puissant prince, mon très cher et très aymé bon cousin et nepveu. El archiduque Carlos y la monarquía de España (1685-1700). - Paolo Calcagno, Uno dei "Tirreni" di Braudel: scambi commerciali nell'area...
Dipartimento Culture e Società Palermo, 2015. — 221 p. - Juan Hernández Franco, «Conservar lo que hasta aquí se ha hecho»: oposición de Enrique Pimentel a la reforma de los estatutos de limpieza de sangre (circa 1625). - Salvatore Bono, Da Salamanca a Varsavia: processioni di schiavi europei riscattati (1508-1830). - Gregory C. McIntosh, The Piri Reis Map of 1528: A Comparative...
Routledge, 2017. — 455 p. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female...
Captivating History, 2020. — 124 p. — (Captivating History). — ISBN 978-1647488505. For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to clothing and other finished products, has been done either solely by hand or with some help of animal power. This was the same across the eras and throughout...
Captivating History, 2020 — 124 p. – ISBN 978-1647488505 – (Captivating History) For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to clothing and other finished products, has been done either solely by hand or with some help of animal power. This was the same across the eras and throughout...
Laterza, 2010. — 380 p. Nonostante crociate e guerricciole, scorrerie di pirati, saccheggi e tratta di schiavi, nonostante Lepanto e l'assedio di Vienna, la verità è che con l'Islam abbiamo sempre commerciato bene e avuto, in sostanza, buoni rapporti. In tempi diversi si è sovrapposto un malinteso, dagli esiti spaventosi per l'una e l'altra parte. È la tesi originale di Franco...
Facts On File, 2007. — 1065 p. Day by Day: The Thirties is a unique, two-volume work that provides researchers of all ages with a complete, accessible chronology of the decade from 1930 to 1939. It documents the major events of the period as they unfolded each day, including the social, economic, political, and cultural issues that defined the decade. Comprehensive coverage is...
Facts on File, 2008. — 1238 p. Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, the period from 1920 to 1929 witnessed such momentous events as the crash of the stock market, Prohibition, the Harlem Renaissance, the Scopes "Monkey Trial," and the first feature-length motion picture with a soundtrack. Day by Day: The Twenties is a comprehensive two-volume set...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 422 p. How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? In this wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuries, John Carson tells the...
Brill, 2012. — 464 p. — (Atlantic World 25). In the last few decades the scholarship on women s roles and women s worlds in the Atlantic basin c. 1400-1850 has grown considerably. Much of this work has understandably concentrated on specific groups of women, women living in particular regions or communities, or women sharing a common status in law or experience. "Women in Port"...
Brepols, 2017. — 620 p. — (Mediterranean Nexus 1100-1700, 4). The Council of Trent (1545-1563), studied for centuries as a crucial episode in European history, was also a world event. This book highlights the importance of not only looking at Europe through the lens of the Tridentine decrees, but also of looking across the oceans where the Church - and the legislative texts...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 384 p. American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. But while crisis-centered frameworks can make sense of certain dimensions of political culture, partisan change, and governance, they also often...
Duke University Press, 2008. — 192 p. The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 512 p. The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de’ Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 512 p. The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de’ Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power...
Liverpool University Press, 2012. — 320 p. Civilians and War in Europe, 1618–1815 is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the role of civilians in early modern warfare, from the Thirty Years War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Drawing on works by scholars in art, literature, history, and political theory, the contributors to this volume explore the continuities and...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 320 p. — ISBN-13 9781526140609. — ISBN-10 1526140608. This is the first extensive analysis of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, it questions the established narrative that violence was only curbed through the rise of western-style nation...
Routledge, 2021. — 271 p. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 416 p. This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During this period, both empires struggled against a...
Counterpoint, 2012. — 384 p. The world of 1616 was a world of motion. Enormous galleons carrying silk and silver across the Pacific created the first true global economy, and the first international megacorporations were emerging as economic powers. In Europe, the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes marked the end of an era in literature, as the spirit of the Renaissance was...
Minerva Press, 1965. — 203 p. Guns, Sails and Empires is that rarity among works of history: a short book with a simple, powerful thesis that the entire book is devoted to proving. Carlo Cipolla begins with the question, "Why, after the end of the fifteenth century were the Europeans able not only to force their way through to the distant Spice Islands but also to gain control...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 374 p. Twelve essays from a team of European experts examine the struggle that broke out between secular and religious forces in late nineteenth-century Europe. They highlight the role of trans-national forces and their interaction with local conditions. This collection combines an account of the impact of secular-religious strife, at the...
Laterza, 2022. — 304 p. Da sempre, chi detiene il potere politico cerca di controllare il tempo: c’è stato chi lo ha fatto modificando il calendario, chi utilizzando gli orologi per controllare la vita dei propri sudditi, chi cambiando il fuso orario al proprio paese. Ma, soprattutto, proponendo una propria interpretazione del tempo storico. Quale che sia la forma del potere,...
Crown, 2023. — 896 p. As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our...
Routledge, 2014. — 230 p. Bringing the study of early modern Christianity into dialogue with Atlantic history, this collection provides a longue durée investigation of women and religion within a transatlantic context. Taking as its starting point the work of Natalie Zemon Davis on the effects of confessional difference among women in the age of religious reformations, the...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 423 p. This book creates a new framework for the political and intellectual relations between the British Isles and America in a momentous period which witnessed the formation of modern states on both sides of the Atlantic and the overthrow of an Anglican, aristocratic and monarchical order. Jonathan Clark integrates evidence from law and...
A&B Books, 1997. — 123 pp. ISBN10: 1881316149. ISBN13: 978-1881316145. Dr. John Henrik Clarke's study on the the African Holocaust and the devastating effect it wreaked on millions of Africans is most opportune at this time when the Euro-American world is paying homage to Christopher Columbus for his navigational error in 1492, an error which heaped horrors on the Native...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. — 375 p. This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be ‘civilized.’ Yet often they also...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1981. — 259 p. The ‘Untoward Event’: The Battle of Navarino 20 October 1827. Greek Society on the Eve of Independence. State and Society in the Ionian Islands, 1800–1830. The Greek Intelligentsia 1780–1830: A Balkan Perspective. The Greek Mercantile Bourgeoisie: ‘Progressive’ or ‘Reactionary’? A Greek Mercantile Paroikia: Odessa 1774–1829. Society in...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 350 p. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dozens of alliances asserting shared sovereignty formed in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries. Many accounts of state formation struggle to explain these leagues, since they characterize state formation as a process of internal bureaucratization within individual states. This...
Liveright, 2021. — 512 p. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises...
Routledge, 2020. — 246 p. Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the state’s role in this momentous transformation? A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe takes a comparative approach to answer these questions, demonstrating that wars, public finance and state...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 363 p. Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sending shock waves through the whole of Europe; they astonished contemporaries, and, to a large extent, they still resonate today. This volume offers new...
Cengage Learning, 1998. — 256 p. This volume brings together classic and contemporary scholarly essays on imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The text opens with an introductory essay followed by a presentation of authoritative but conflicting views, encouraging students to interpret and evaluate the issue for themselves.
London: Routledge, 2006. — 369 p. — (Routledge Companions to History). This compact and highly accessible work of reference covers the broad sweep of events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This Companion examines the centuries that saw the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the expansion of Europe and the beginnings of...
Routledge, 2005. — 635 p. The Routledge Companion to Modern European History since 1763 is a compact and highly accessible work of reference covering the broad sweep of events from the last days of the ancient regime to the ending of the Cold War, and from the reshaping of Eastern Europe to the radical expansion of the European Union in 2004. Within the broad coverage of this...
Arcadia Publishing, 2019. — 112 p. The age of pirates spanned nearly two hundred years and was considered a plague on the high seas. Even the far reaches of what was then Alta California weren't safe, and a surprising number of unexpected visitors sailed into Monterey Bay. Argentinian Hippolyte Bouchard, spurred by revolutionary fervor, attacked Monterey, the then Spanish...
Springer, 1958. — 405 p. The story of the attitude of Englishmen to the Dutch in the later seventeenth century - a story of the complex interplay of engrained hostility and growing consciousness of common interest - has already been told in some detail. With the death of the Stadtholder-King, however, the subject seems to have lost its attraction for the historian. Much has been...
Oxford University Press, 1991. — 352 p. Despite the liberalized reconfiguration of civil society and political practice in nineteenth-century Europe, the right to make foreign policy, devise alliances, wage war and negotiate peace remained essentially an executive prerogative. Citizen challenges to the exercise of this power grew slowly. Drawn from the educated middle classes,...
The History Press, 2014. — 480 p. This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural and emotional journey over the best part of two centuries. The anthology starts with the obituary of 91-year-old pioneering mathematician and...
University of California Press, 1994. — 387 p. Once seen as a dark and sinister force, the domain of monsters, the sea was associated with catastrophe and fear by many Europeans prior to the eighteenth century. Alain Corbin's engaging book reveals how attitudes toward the ocean gradually began to shift from the negative to the positive, so that by the mid-1800s our present-day...
Brill, 2021. — 699 p. — (Mediterranean Reconfigurations 3). In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles,...
University of South Carolina Press, 2017. — 375 p. While the concept of an Atlantic world has been central to the work of historians for decades, the full implications of that spatial setting for the lives of religious people have received far less attention. In Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World, John Corrigan brings together research from geographers, anthropologists,...
Wiley, 2009. — 477 p. For centuries, the major powered of the West were seduced by the allure of the countries of "the Far East". Spices, textiles, silk and tea were the staples of East- West trade. But competition between Western traders eventually caused military intervention in Asian affairs and the establishment of colonial empires. These actions have shaped the history of...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of nation-states in the Atlantic world. Much less recognized than the spread of democratic ideals was the period's growing traffic of goods, capital, and people across imperial borders and...
Routledge, 2004. — 289 p. For many generations, Guy Fawkes and his gunpowder plot, the 'Man in the Iron Mask' and the 'Devils of Loudun' have offered some of the most compelling images of the early modern period. Conspiracies, real or imagined, were an essential feature of early modern life, offering a seemingly rational and convincing explanation for patterns of political and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 402 p. The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public’s obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history—the Thirty Years’ War—resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, century-long debate over the origins and...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 222 p. The pirate attack on the British brig Morning Star, en route from Ceylon to London, near Ascension Island in 1828 was one of the most shocking episodes of piracy in the nineteenth century. Although the captain and many members of the crew were murdered by the pirates led by the notorious Benito de Soto, some survived, escaped and sailed the ship...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 221 p. The pirate attack on the British brig Morning Star, en route from Ceylon to London, near Ascension Island in 1828 was one of the most shocking episodes of piracy in the nineteenth century. Although the captain and many members of the crew were murdered by the pirates led by the notorious Benito de Soto, some survived, escaped and sailed the ship...
Éditions Odile Jacob, 2016. — 356 p. Charles Quint règne sur presque toute l’Europe, de l’Espagne aux Pays-Bas, de l’Allemagne à la Franche-Comté, de la Lombardie à la Sicile. Au-delà des mers, il conquiert les vastes territoires des Empires aztèque et inca. Mais, en quelques années, la chrétienté se divise, en proie à la sédition religieuse. C’est un portrait inattendu de...
Routledge, 2020. — 326 p. This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Remembering the Reformation traces how a complex, protracted, and unpredictable process came to be perceived, recorded, and commemorated as a transformative event. Exploring both...
Routledge, 2016. — 224 p. First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial Revolution; that with...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 310 p. This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries--the age of European empire. Through a variety of case studies, it deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, African, and...
Routledge, 2015. - 320 p.
The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.
Routledge, 2017. — 202 p. — (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures). In this book twelve eminent historians and legal experts from Spain and the United Kingdom consider the political and legal context and consequences of the War of the Spanish Succession and the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 that brought it to an end, consequences that still resonate today.
Routledge, 2018. — 248 p. The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 284 p. Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550--1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves separated, or faced...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 311 p. This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early modern Europe. It examines the rise of a virulent form of Renaissance scholarship, art, and architecture that had as its aim the revival of the cultural and political grandeur of the Roman...
Crown Publishers, 2002. — 512 p. In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon,...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 314 p. This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Genoese merchant bankers in southern Italy throughout the early modern era, when Spain and Genoa developed a symbiotic economic relationship, undergirded by a cultural and spiritual alliance. Analyzing early modern imperialism, migration, and trade, this book shows that the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 344 p. This book looks to fill the 'blue hole' in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation, development, reproduction and adaptation of knowledge across the Atlantic world. It shows how globalisation and the growth of maritime knowledge served to reinforce one another, and demonstrates how and why maritime...
Brill, 2012. — 364 p. — (History of Warfare 72). This volume examines continuities and new developments in the conduct of warfare in early modern Eastern Europe from the early sixteenth century, when Ottoman imperial expansion reached the Danube and Crimea, to the late eighteenth century, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned out of existence and Russia rolled...
Routledge, 2017. — 884 p. Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative...
Brill, 2014. — 282 p. — (Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World 39). News in Early Modern Europe – Currents and Connections, edited by Simon Davies and Puck Fletcher, presents significant new research on the production and dissemination of news in early modern Europe. Interdisciplinary in focus, and wide in geographical and chronological scope, the collection...
Hong Kong University Press, 2014. — 377 p. In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a travelling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage....
Verso, 2001. — 464 p. This book explores the impact of colonialism and the introduction of capitalism during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation related famines of 1876–1878, 1896–1897, and 1899–1902, in India, China, Brazil, Ethiopia, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and New Caledonia. It focuses on how colonialism and capitalism in British India and elsewhere increased rural...
Verso, 2001. — 464 p. This book explores the impact of colonialism and the introduction of capitalism during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation related famines of 1876–1878, 1896–1897, and 1899–1902, in India, China, Brazil, Ethiopia, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and New Caledonia. It focuses on how colonialism and capitalism in British India and elsewhere increased rural...
Verso, 2001. — 464 p. This book explores the impact of colonialism and the introduction of capitalism during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation related famines of 1876–1878, 1896–1897, and 1899–1902, in India, China, Brazil, Ethiopia, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and New Caledonia. It focuses on how colonialism and capitalism in British India and elsewhere increased rural...
Editions Jacqueline Chambon, 2006. — 343 p. Considéré comme un sujet politiquement incorrect, sous-estimé par de nombreux historiens, l'esclavage des blancs par ceux qu'on nommait alors les Maures ou les Barbaresques a bel et bien existé sur une grande échelle, durant trois siècles, avec pour principal marché Alger. L’ouvrage de ce professeur d’université, très documenté (les...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 440 p. After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. With the threat of war and revolutionary terror still looming large, the coalition launched an unprecedented experiment to re-establish European security. With over one million...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 232 p. In the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant relative to political and social transformations. The size of the workforce and the number of wage dependent people increased, due in large part to population growth, but also as a result of changes in the organization of work. The diversity of workplaces in many significant...
Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2021. — 422 p. On aurait tort de considérer le xixe siècle comme lointain ou révolu. Sur bien des points, comme l'intense politisation des sociétés européennes, la diversité des pratiques de mobilisation et de contestation, l'inventivité idéologique et culturelle, la réflexion critique sur la modernité et le progrès,...
Routledge, 2018. — 282 p. Narrating Nomadism provides an unflinching account of ethnic groups and nomadic communities across the world that were branded as ‘criminal’ during colonial times. It explores the tragic effect of the new identity imposed on them, the traumatic survival of these communities and cultures, and the creative expression of this experience in their arts and...
Verso, 2021. — 628 p. This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of terrorism was linked to the birth of modernity in Europe, Russia and the United States, rather than to Tsarist despotism in 19th century Russia or to Islam sects in Medieval Persia. Combining a highly readable historical narrative with analysis of larger issues in social and...
Transl. by Richard Dixon. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. — 690 p. Articles, Accounts of Correspondents and Reports of Congress Delegates on the Hague Congress A Correspondents' Record of a Speech Made by Karl Marx Report of the Fifth Annual General Congress of the International Working Men’s Association at the Hague Submitted by Maltman Barry, Former Member of the General...
Documents of the First International. The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2-7, 1872. Reports and Letters Transl. by Richard Dixon. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. — 690 p. Articles, Accounts of Correspondents and Reports of Congress Delegates on the Hague Congress A Correspondents' Record of a Speech Made by Karl Marx Report of the Fifth Annual General...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1974. — 472 p. This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from its foundation in 1864 up to August 1866, together with Minutes of the London Conference of September 1865, and Documents issued by...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1974. — 472 p. This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from its foundation in 1864 up to August 1866, together with Minutes of the London Conference of September 1865, and Documents issued by...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 440 p. This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from the time of the First Congress of the International in September 1866 to September 1868, together with Documents issued by the General Council in...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 440 p. This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from the time of the First Congress of the International in September 1866 to September 1868, together with Documents issued by the General Council in...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 528 p. This volume presents, for the first time in the language of the original, the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association — the First International—for the period between September 22, 1868 and July 12, 1870. They continue the 1864-68 Minutes,...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 528 p. This volume presents, for the first time in the language of the original, the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association — the First International—for the period between September 22, 1868 and July 12, 1870. They continue the 1864-68 Minutes,...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 618 p. This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from 19 July 1870 to 24 October 1871, together with documents issued by the General Council in the same period. Among the latter is The Civil War in...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 618 p. This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from 19 July 1870 to 24 October 1871, together with documents issued by the General Council in the same period. Among the latter is The Civil War in...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 616 p. This fifth and final volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from October 1871 to August 1872, together with other documents issued in the same period. It thus completes the collection of the...
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 616 p. This fifth and final volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from October 1871 to August 1872, together with other documents issued in the same period. It thus completes the collection of the...
Routledge, 2019. — 298 p. Recognised on its first publication in 1920 as a valuable and illuminating study of the beginnings of colonial rule in India, this work gives a comprehensive account of Dupleix’s rise to power in Southern India and his consequent rivalry with Clive. The author was for many years’ keeper of the records at Madras and delved deeply into the sources there,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 347 p. This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 347 p. This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western...
Ediciones Litopress, 2016. — 430 p. El «mundo del caballo» siempre ha constituido uno de los campos culturales más ricos en las distintas civilizaciones a lo largo de la Historia. La diversidad de significados y manifestaciones sociales ha permitido excelentes metáforas y representaciones en la pintura, la música, laliteratura, la espiritualidad, etc. La relación del caballo...
Routledge, 2001. — 319 p. Notes on contributors. The English model. Eyes and ears, news and plays: the argument of Ben Jonson’s Staple. The guises of dissemination in early seventeenth-century England: news in manuscript and print. News and the pamphlet culture of mid-seventeenth-century England. News, history and the construction of the present in early modern England. The...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. — 176 p. This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping's past and its...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 320 p. One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state power, particularly in international relations, as it became impossible for monarchs to stay on top of the increasingly complex demands of ruling. Encompassing a variety of cultural and...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 288 p. This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an ‘information revolution’. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were...
Courier Corporation, 1996. — 495 p. Why did men go a-pirating, or 'on the account' as the pirates called it? The sailors said it was few ships and many men, hard work and small pay, long voyages, bad food and cruel commanders. Whatever their reasons, large numbers of pirates plied the waters off the coast of New England on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, plundering...
Princeton University Press, 1993. — 324 p. To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 272 p. American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of...
Oxford University Press, 1978. — 447 p. This survey of European history covers a period of one and a half centuries which witnessed the beginnings of the contemporary world. In his account of the economic, social, intellectual, and governmental structure and development of pre-revolutionary Europe, Doyle stresses throughout the importance of economic and social trends, and...
Manchester University Press, 1999. — 302 p. Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories. ‘A grand work of noble conception’: the Victoria Memorial and imperial London. Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870–1911. Capitale du plaisir:: the remaking of imperial Paris. The Potemkin city: tourist images of late imperial Vienna....
Lublin: Redakcja Wydawnictw KUL, 1993. — 282 s. ... Pora przejść do pozytywów książki. Dowiadujemy się z niej sporo zarówno o systemie dystrybucji gazetek (drukowanych oraz rękopiśmiennych), tempie docierania informacji do redaktorów gazet i do czytelników. W połowie XVII stulecia sporo w nich pisano o różnorakich przejawach moskiewskiego okrucieństwa, walkach...
Brill Academic, 2018. — 357 p. — (Historical Materialism 175). Beyond France's own national historiography, the French Revolution was a fundamental point of reference for the nineteenth-century socialist movement. While Karl Marx never wrote his planned history of the Revolution, beginning in the 1880s the German and Austrian social-democrats did embark on such a project. This...
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. — 102 S. The Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659 ended the Franco-Spanish war that began in 1635. The conflict's history of numerous earlier futile attempts to enforce peace shows that ithe treaty was about more than an appeasement of two particularly stubborn opponents. In 1659, the tectonics of the European state system were redesigned: the...
Routledge, 2016. — 610 p. The youngest son of Emperor Maximilian II, and nephew of Philip II of Spain, Archduke Albert (1559-1621) was originally destined for the church. However, dynastic imperatives decided otherwise and in 1598, upon his marriage to Philip's daughter, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, he found himself ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands, one of the most...
Routledge, 2008. — 276 p. The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthless environment many colorful characters strode across the world stage, among...
Public Affairs, 2021. — 512 p. Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist. As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American...
W. W. Norton and Company, 1970. — 255 p. During the 130 years between 1559 and 1689, Europe passed through a tumultuous and anarchic period of civil wars and rebellions. Each upheaval had its own distinct character; each had multiple causes. The one common denominator, which constantly recurred, was Protestant-Catholic religious strife. Luther had inaugurated the ideological...
Brepols, 2008. — 259 p. The country house, 'chateau' or rural 'palazzo' set in extensive grounds may have been the ultimate badge of social pre-eminence but invariably their owners spent much of the year in the city. To this extent urban living was common to all elites worthy of the name, whatever their origin or source of wealth or power. Needless to say, though, how different...
Brill, 2013. — 290 p. — (National Cultivation of Culture 5). The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized, usually for nationalistic purposes.
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 292 p. England's response to the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568-1648) has been studied hitherto mainly in terms of government policy, yet the Dutch struggle with Habsburg Spain affected a much wider community than just the English political elite. It attracted attention across Britain and drew not just statesmen and diplomats but also soldiers,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 292 p. This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and...
Perrin, 2019. — 586 p. 13 février 1689. Réunis au palais de Whitehall, les membres du Parlement d’Angleterre procèdent à l’intronisation de Guillaume d’Orange et de son épouse Marie. Une révolution est à l’œuvre: lue devant le couple princier, la Déclaration des droits réaffirme solennellement les privilèges parlementaires menacés par les empiètements de la prérogative royale....
Pegasus Books, 2020. — 400 p. A riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great. On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe’s...
Springer, 2021. — 230 p. This book showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), one of the foremost female minds of the 17th century. Best known today for her important correspondence with the philosopher René Descartes, Elisabeth was famous in her own time for her learning, philosophical acumen, and mathematical brilliance. She was also well-connected in the...
Putnam's Sons, 1967. — 217 p. Armed with these ideas of racial and cultural superiority, Western nations expanded into Asia from the mid 1850s to the beginning of World War I. The "Age of Imperialism" was fueled by the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States, and it profoundly influenced nation-building efforts in Japan and China. As the desire to exert regional...
Wiley, 2007. — 540 p. Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following Columbus’s voyage, the Atlantic turned into a conduit for transferring these things among the four...
Routledge, 2020. — 618 p. This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice, interaction and social relations, it shows continuities and social change in European history from an interior perspective. The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 280 p. In the era of bourgeois modernity (1750-1900), the family is as valued as it is vulnerable. It constitutes a community of care, conflict, and emotion. Time and again, it is evoked as a bond of love as well as a moral institution. Yet both love and morality are fragile. A more detailed exploration reveals that domestic life during this period was much...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 280 p. In the era of bourgeois modernity (1750-1900), the family is as valued as it is vulnerable. It constitutes a community of care, conflict, and emotion. Time and again, it is evoked as a bond of love as well as a moral institution. Yet both love and morality are fragile. A more detailed exploration reveals that domestic life during this period was much...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 920 p. This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
Yale University Press, 2016. — 920 p. This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
The O'Brien Press, 2008. — 477 p. In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 345 p. When J. H. Elliott published Spain and Its World, 1500–1700 some twenty years ago, one of many enthusiasts declared, “For anyone interested in the history of empire, of Europe and of Spain, here is a book to keep within reach, to read, to study and to enjoy" (Times Literary Supplement). Since then Elliott has continued to explore the...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 345 p. When J. H. Elliott published Spain and Its World, 1500–1700 some twenty years ago, one of many enthusiasts declared, “For anyone interested in the history of empire, of Europe and of Spain, here is a book to keep within reach, to read, to study and to enjoy" (Times Literary Supplement). Since then Elliott has continued to explore the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 304 p. This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigor and realism. Professor Elton presents a lively and accessible overview of this key era in European history. The book gives full attention to religion and...
Hurst, 2024. — 560 p. Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia - the Great Game - and, towards the end of the century, East Asia. The First Cold War presents for the first time the Russian...
Hurst, 2024. — 560 p. Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia - the Great Game - and, towards the end of the century, East Asia. The First Cold War presents for the first time the Russian...
Hurst, 2024. — 560 p. Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia - the Great Game - and, towards the end of the century, East Asia. The First Cold War presents for the first time the Russian...
Brill, 2010. — 304 p. — (European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series 7). Captain John Anderson served in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as 'Pilot-Major' between 1640 and 1643. This was his fourth voyage to the Indies and the only one he chose to record. His log gives great insight into the subject of European travel in Asia in the Early Modern Period.
Enthralling History, 2022. — 648 p. — ISBN 979-8887650111. Regardless of how much has been written about it, new information continues to be discovered about the thousands of events that make up the six years that shaped the world we live in today.WWII is inextricably linked with Hitler and the Nazis; however, there is so much more to discover. In this book, learn about the...
Anadolu University, 2012. — 232 s. Önsöz. Modern Avrupa’nin Doguslu. Avrupa’da Güç Mücadelesi ve Westphalia Düzeni. XVII ve XVIII Yüzyillarda Büyük Güçlerin Küresel Rekabeti. Fransiz Devrimi. Avrupa’nin Siyasal ve Ekonomik Dönüslümü (1815-1871). Küresel Emperyalist Yarisi. Birinci Dünya Savafl (1908-1918). Uluslararasi Sistemin Yeniden Sekillendirilmesi (1919-1929).
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 472 p. The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritizing the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing interdisciplinary approaches to slave narratives; and by highlighting emerging scholarship on slave narratives, concerning both established...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 264 p. This collection of essays provides a new introduction to the European revolutions of 1848. In that year Europe's traditional order broke down dramatically across much of the continent. Here, well-known experts in the field provide both a vivid account of the events themselves and a compelling analysis of their profound impact on the...
Laterza, 2020. — 1014 p. Il secolo che va dalla battaglia di Waterloo allo scoppio della Prima guerra mondiale è stato una fase decisiva per la storia del mondo. In questi cento anni l'Europa ha allargato il proprio dominio a tutto il pianeta e ha tracciato un solco al cui interno ancora ci muoviamo: dalla nascita della civiltà industriale alla volontà di controllo sulla...
Brandeis University Press, 2013. — 155 p. A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been the stuff of parlor games, war-gaming, and science...
Penguin, 2016. — 731 p. The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 288 p. A comprehensive history of the relationship between Africa and the United States. Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tracking...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 334 p. This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides significant common ground and offers a...
Routledge, 2020. — 221 p. Chocolate is one of the most visible examples of how a deeply exotic consumer product penetrating our daily lives fascinated Europeans during the Early Modern period. Today, over fifty percent of the four million tons of cocoa produced globally come from Sub-Saharan Africa. Ecuadorian cocoa, on the other hand, is considered premium quality. Yet the...
Routledge, 2020. — 221 p. Chocolate is one of the most visible examples of how a deeply exotic consumer product penetrating our daily lives fascinated Europeans during the Early Modern period. Today, over fifty percent of the four million tons of cocoa produced globally come from Sub-Saharan Africa. Ecuadorian cocoa, on the other hand, is considered premium quality. Yet the...
Berghahn Books, 2014. — 258 p. Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its relativizing, particularist,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 302 p. This book proposes to historicize these problems by looking at the ways in which early-modern Europe responded to similar challenges brought about by the rising costs of international warfare in a period marked by the development of commercial capitalism and the rise of fiscal states. Building upon the expertise of a group of fiscal historians...
Routledge, 2025. — 234 p. The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of a powerful intellectual class. It gave the scientific revolution new methods and a new purpose by ushering in the sciences of man. At the same time, it constantly interrogated these new sciences, wary of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 353 p. This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial empires influenced each other. Chapters in the volume consider the two...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 353 p. This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial empires influenced each other. Chapters in the volume consider the two...
Reaktion Books, 2008. — 207 p. Many negative stereotypes of Muslims can be traced to the clashes between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Paula Sutter Fichtner explores here the particular dynamics between the Ottoman and Austrian Habsburg empires and chronicles the evolution of a political relationship that shifted from hatred to understanding. In...
Macmillan, 1983. — 155 p. Preface. Introduction: Colonialism in its historical and conceptual context. Colonialism as political subordination. The Economics of Colonialism. The character of an imperial economy. Agriculture and industry in a colonial environment. The Historiography of Modern Colonialism 1870-1945. Changing approaches to colonialism. A short bibliography of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 224 p. The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, opening up a world of uneasy...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 224 p. The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, opening up a world of uneasy...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 304 p. The effects of the French Revolution reached far beyond the confines of France itself. The Ottoman Empire, ancient ally and major trading partner of France, was not immune from the repercussions of the 'Age of Revolutions', especially since it was home to permanent French communities with a certain legal autonomy. French Revolutionaries...
Isis Press, 1999. — 191 p. Enlightened Despotism and Islam Under Catherine II. Muscovy and the Black Sea Slave Trade. Muscovite-Ottoman Relations in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Azov in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Sale of Slaves in the Ottoman Empire: Markets and State Taxes on Slave Sales. Chattel Slaveıy in the Ottoman Empire. Studies in Ottoman...
Routledge, 2017. — 435 p. World history conventionally ignores or underestimates the importance of Manila, the Manila galleons, and the Philippines as key stages in the development of trans-Pacific contact and of the world economy. Essays in this volume discuss Philippine-Asian exchanges prior to the entry of Europeans, and then look at European influences and the impact of...
Research Center for the Humanities - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2019. — 562 p. Интернациональный сборник из 27 статей и эссе (авторов-ученых из различных европейских стран) посвящен 70-летию известного венгерского историка и профессора Гезы Давида. Статьи данного сборника исследуют и рассматривают самые различные (военные, государственные, дипломатические, экономические,...
Crítica, 2019. — 208 p. Vivimos en un mundo en que la mayoría de los estados son democracias parlamentarias basadas en constituciones que garantizan los derechos y las libertades de todos los ciudadanos, pero donde los gobiernos elegidos cuidan sobre todo de favorecer los intereses económicos de las grandes empresas y los más ricos. Este libro quiere explicar cómo comenzó este...
Routledge, 2012. — 240 p. Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Bringing together emerging scholars and leaders in the field of indigenous law and legal history, this collection offers a long-term view of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 427 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). The years from 1770 to 1830 were scarred by war throughout the Atlantic world. These were wars about empire and global hegemony, as well as struggles of liberation and decolonization. During this era the Atlantic became a highway for exchange not only of peoples and commodities, but also of ideas and...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971. — 224 p. The Netherlands Revolution. The English Revolution. Revolts in the Spanish Monarchy. The French Fronde. Pugachev’s Rebellion. Notes on Contributors.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 368 p. The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic. Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel transformed the Atlantic into a pulsating highway,...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 414 p. How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities. Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 312 p. This book explores Russia’s contribution to the making of modern Greece during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, most notably the archives of Russian embassies and consulates, it focuses on the potent intersection of religion and politics in the shaping of Greek identity. Starting...
Berghahn Books, 2003. — 256 p. Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49. The contributors examine various aspects of their lives in exile such...
Ohio State University Press, 2011. — 340 p. The fourteen essays that comprise Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe interrogate questions posed by French, Flemish, English, and Italian collections of all sorts—libraries as a whole, anthologies and miscellanies assembled within a single manuscript or printed book, and even illustrated...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 408 p. This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern...
Routledge, 1995. — 392 p. A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious,...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 290 p. Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean focuses on a particular range of cultural, ideological, and political phenomena within...
Brill, 2007. - 303 p. - (The Northern World 28).
Focusing on print culture and links between propagandists, typographers, and northern Europe's merchant milieu, this book investigates dispersal and suppression of religious innovation in the 152s and expands the interpretative scope for Reformation studies beyond national, political, or religious contexts.
Routledge, 2021. — 296 p. This edited collection of essays focuses on the topic of protest during the Enlightenment of the long eighteenth century (roughly 1670-1833). Resistance in the eighteenth century was extensive, and the act of protest to foment meaningful societal change took on many forms from the circulation of ballads, swearing of oaths, to riots and work stoppages,...
Brill, 2004. — 414 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History 23). This volume deals with a central aspect of Charles V's empire: The emperor's policy regarding the church and the rising reform movement in the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands. The first part of the book provides a survey of the situation in the Netherlands at the beginning of Charles' reign and deals with the...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 272 p. Explore the lives of four elite women from British history who cast off society’s expectations to live life on their own terms. As the fight for women’s rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 372 p. Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. — 334 p. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel revolutionized the study of Mediterranean history on its publication in 1949. Now, 60 years "after Braudel," this book brings together work by area specialists and the latest research on the sea itself in the early modern period, the maritime trade...
Berghahn Books, 2018. — 312 p. Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europe—the nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were characterized by incredible cultural and racial-ethnic diversity. Notwithstanding their many differences, both empires faced similar administrative...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 345 p. What does the love between British imperialists and their Asian male partners reveal about orientalism's social origins? To answer this question, Humberto Garcia focuses on westward-bound Central and South Asian travel writers who have long been forgotten or dismissed by scholars. This bias has obscured how Joseph Emin, Sake Dean...
Le Félin, 2008. — 304 p. L'Alliance noue par Franois Ier avec le sultan ottoman Soliman le Magnifique fait scandale l'poque: les Turcs mnent alors la dernire et la plus dangereuse perce d'une puissance islamique au cur de l'Europe chrtienne. Encore faut-il replacer cette collusion diplomatique et militaire dans la conjoncture mouvemente propre la priode. En cette premire moiti...
Routledge, 2017. — 238 p. In recent decades there has been increasing historical interest in various aspects of local urban politics, resulting in a much better understanding of the recruitment and socio-economic characteristics of municipal leadership and the exercise of power at a local level. However, much less is known about the highly important offices and office-holders...
Brill, 2018. — 275 p. — (The Atlantic World 37). Studies of the trade between the Atlantic World and Asia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries typically focus on the exchanges between Atlantic European countries – especially Portugal, the Netherlands and England – and Asia across the Cape route. In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 408 p. In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession (sometimes known as Queen Anne's War in the Americas), culminating in the War of Jenkins'...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 304 p. In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, etc., but at the centre of most European states, there was a princely house. These ruling houses have been...
Routledge, 2021. — 291 p. This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel – whether real or imagined – in the early modern world. Until relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether initiated by religious conversion...
Routledge, 2021. — 290 p. This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel – whether real or imagined – in the early modern world. Until relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether initiated by religious conversion...
Edinburgh University Press, 1999. — 322 p. This textbook provides an ideal introduction to nineteenth-century France: a 'Century of Revolutions'. Written with the undergraduate student's needs in mind, Sharif Gemie works through the major and minor revolutions which altered the course of French history and which shaped the development of French society. Moving away from a...
University of Virginia Press, 2021. — 342 p. In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries’ supposedly unfit mothers. Imperial Educación examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in...
Routledge, 2006. — 423 p. Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific brings together key studies from across several disciplines to examine the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections and to show an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is commonly understood as a process that is propelled by...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 296 p. Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and...
McGill-Queens University Press, 1992. — 448 p. Before contact with white people, the Northwest Coast natives had traded amongst themselves and with other indigenous people farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when Russian coasters had penetrated the Gulf of Alaska and British merchantmen were frequenting Nootka Sound, trade had become the dominant economic activity in...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 544 p. This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which often combined in the early part of the century but which increasingly...
Routledge, 1992. — 295 p. The expulsion of the Jews, and later the Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula marked the beginning of a new era in the life of the Mediterranean world. The articles in this volume discuss the aftermath of the crucial historical events that took place in the Mediterranean world in 1492, focusing on the social, economic and cultural consequences of these...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 270 p. This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and ended in 1815 when the last galleon...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 280 p. Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 302 p. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East, and overextended imperial...
English edition edited by dr. Oscar Levy. — New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913. – 349 p. It has been generally thought and stated that the past century was a profoundly irreverent and irreligious age, the age of the twilight of old gods, the shattering of old idols, the ruin of an old and holy creed. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. In every department of...
Routledge, 2020. — 201 p. Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a range of revolutionary transformations, in England,...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 281 p. Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of...
Brill, 2004. — 393 p. The essays in this volume take a fresh look at the history of institutions in the early modern world. Casting a broad look across a variety of institutions, from missionary societies to guilds, from lawcourts to academies, and exploring institutions across western Europe and Britain, the volume as a whole invites a newly comparative understanding of the...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 605 p. What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal crises in creating major political crises. Goldstone shows how state breakdowns in both western monarchies and Asian empires followed the same...
Brill, 2013. — 161 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 220). Offering a systematic analysis of texts produced between the court of Burgundy in the 1470s and the court of the Austrian Habsburgs in the early 1700s, this book traces the development of the idea of successful and competent political behaviour as seen through the eyes of court historians between the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2017. — 275 p. — (Rulers & Elites 12). This book offers the first comparative overview of the faction in the most representative European courts of the 16th and 17th centuries. In A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions the contributors offer an analysis of the political groups of the most representative European courts of the sixteenth and...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. — 400 p. Baron Von Holstein The Study Of The French Revolution The Political Background Of Goethe's Life Germany's Debt To The French Revolution German Theories Of The State The Study Of Bismarck German Historical Studies Since The War The Cambridge Chair Of Modern History The Study Of Foreign Affairs Historical Novels
Routledge, 2011. — 452 p.
"The European Witch-Hunt" seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America.
Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, this book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 232 p. Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors explore how British and American interests –...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 232 p. Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors explore how British and American interests –...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. — 392 p. The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world. How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 325 p. After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe at the Congress of Vienna aimed to establish a new balance of power. The settlement established in 1815 ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. In this volume, leading historians offer new insights into the military cooperation,...
Pickering and Chatto, 2010. — 191 p. Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial south-east America. This study is the first to tell the full story of this rivalry, working it in to the...
Brill, 2019. — 584 p. — (Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World 72). Buying and Selling explores the business of books in and beyond Early Modern Europe, investigating the practices adopted by traders and customers. Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers,...
Routledge, 2005. — 244 p. In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa,...
DK Publishing, 2009. — 191 p. — ISBN 9780756651695. Slavery is a comprehensive look at the history of an abomination. Words and images reveal the story of slavery around the world and across the centuries, focusing on slavery in the United States in the 1800s. This authoritative, heavily illustrated guide looks at the escalation of the Atlantic slave trade, the African peoples...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 382 p. Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a comprehensive and incisive look at how Atlantic history...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 320 p. A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but neglected sphere of the early modern...
Harper Collins, 2006. — 352 p. In the sixteenth century, one of the world's most precious commodities was cochineal, a legendary red dye treasured by the ancient Mexicans and sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever...
Penguin Books, 2015. — 752 p. From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century. Martin Luther’s challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in ways that shook the foundations of their religion. The subsequent divisions, fed by dynastic rivalries and military changes, fundamentally...
Laterza, 2017. — 834 p. Un'epoca di sconvolgimento spirituale e culturale che travolse tutti, principi e contadini. Cinquecento anni fa la sfida di Martin Lutero all'autorità della Chiesa costrinse i cristiani a riesaminare i propri convincimenti e scosse i fondamenti della loro religione. Lo scisma successivo, incoraggiato da rivalità dinastiche e cambiamenti nell'arte della...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 345 p. Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people from the Old World to...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 315 p. This “provocative study” looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class (The New Yorker). The era didn’t just bring about misery and poverty. On the contrary, Emma Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved...
University of Virginia Press, 2015. — 288 p. Between Sovereignty and Anarchy considers the conceptual and political problem of violence in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic, charting an innovative approach to the history of the American Revolution. Its editors and contributors contend that existing scholarship on the Revolution largely ignores questions of power and downplays the...
University of Virginia Press, 2017. — 280 p. Born of clashing visions of empire in England and the colonies, the American Revolution saw men and women grappling with power-- and its absence--in dynamic ways. On both sides of the revolutionary divide, Americans viewed themselves as an imperial people. This perspective conditioned how they understood the exercise of power, how...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 412 p. Queen Elizabeth I was an iconic figure in England during her reign, with many contemporary English portraits and literary works extolling her virtue and political acumen. In Spain, however, her image was markedly different. While few Spanish fictional or historical writings focus primarily on Elizabeth, numerous works either allude...
Routledge, 2020. — 286 p. Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe’s cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern Europe. At the same time, it guides the reader through the...
LIT Verlag, 2020. — 416 p. When the scientific study of the Black Sea Region began in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, initially commissioned by adjacent powers such as the Habsburg and the Russian empires, this terra incognita was not yet considered part of Europe. The eighteen chapters of this volume show a broad range of thematic foci and theoretical approaches - the...
University of Virginia Press, 2020. — 358 p. Although commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically significant than this common conception would suggest. As the essays collected in this volume demonstrate, anti-popery is a powerful lens through which to interpret the culture and politics...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. — 308 p. This volume draws together an unusually rich body of original sources that tell the story of the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, from different vantage points. Texts range from one of the most famous early American captivity narratives, John Williams's The Redeemed Captive, to the records of French...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. — 220 p. Free trade has become a highly politicized term, but its origins, historical context, and application to policy decisions have been largely overlooked. This book examines the relationship between liberal political economy and the changing conception of empire in the eighteenth century, investigating how the doctrine of laissez-faire...
Routledge, 2022. — 328 p. Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 years, this book hints at the extent of "routine" infanticide of newborns by married parents in early modern Europe, a practice ignored by contemporary tribunals. Death Control in the West 1500–1800 examines...
I.B. Tauris, 2002. — 288 p. The economic history of Islamic societies in the Mediterranean before 1800 has lagged behind political, diplomatic, and social history of the area. The articles cover three topics: land, trades, and money. They examine the complexity of the history of property, including private property, and its links to individuals and communities by exploring the...
NYU Press, 2021. — 279 p. A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society. On the night of June 1, 1743, terror struck the schooner Rising Sun. After completing a routine smuggling voyage where the crew sold enslaved Africans in exchange for chocolate, sugar, and coffee in the Dutch colony of Suriname, the...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 208 p. Frontiers of servitude explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery in little-examined printed and archival sources, focusing on what 'made' a slave, what was unique about Caribbean labour, and what strategic approaches meant in interacting with slaves. From c. 1620-1750, authoritative discourses...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 307 p. How powerless were the powerless? These essays trace the political life of marginalized groups from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution. They show that they were capable of articulating in a public forum, but they were also often active participants in the political process themselves and taken seriously by the elites. The essays deal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 207 p. What do the visual and textual representations of the New World have to tell us about the complexity of the relationships between the major empires and the individuals who opposed and favored colonial expansion? By consulting rare manuscripts, images, maps and books, Jonathan Hart explores the relatively neglected empires of Portugal and the...
Routledge, 2017. — 449 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: The Industrial Revolution Vol. 4). — ISBN: 978-1-315-17213-2. This volume, first published in 1971, brings together eleven essays and articles on the history of the industrial revolution. Method is the central consideration, and the author discusses ways in which historians have analysed the industrial revolution,...
Madrid: Ediciones Akal, S.A., 2004. — 170 p. Qué naturaleza tienen los dispositivos de poder geopolíticos y geoeconómicos que se están poniendo a punto en la actualidad y que mediante el diseño de un nuevo imperialismo pretenden inaugurar un nuevo orden de dominación? En el presente libro, su autor, David Harvey, trata de explicar los nuevos modelos de comportamiento del...
Translated by Mrs. G. Sturge. — Edinburgh: James Gemmell, 1884. — 702 p. It is unnecessary for me to say more than a very few words in introducing this work, by the late eminent German historian, Professor Hausser, to English readers. It contains not only a spirited sketch of the history of the Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Sweden and England, but also...
Translated by Mrs. G. Sturge. — Edinburgh: James Gemmell, 1884. — 702 p. It is unnecessary for me to say more than a very few words in introducing this work, by the late eminent German historian, Professor Hausser, to English readers. It contains not only a spirited sketch of the history of the Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Sweden and England, but also...
Търново: Издание и печатъ на Х. Т. С. Фъртуновъ, 1899. — 763 с. История на Германската Реформация до Нюрнбергския договор в 1632 година. Реформацията в другите държави: в Швейцария, Дания, Швеция и Англия. Немската Реформация от Нюрнбергския договор до Аугсбургския религиозен мир. Калвинизмът и началото на католическата реставрация. Филип II в Испания и възстание на...
Переводъ подъ редакціей Виктора Михайловскаго. — М.: Типографиiя Э. Лиосиеръ и Ю. Романъ, 1881. — 724 с. Дореформенная орфография. Главные предвѣстники и предшественники реформаціи. Статья редактора. Исторія германской реформаціи до Нюренбергскаго договора 1532 г. Мартинъ Лютеръ. (10 ноября 1483—18 февраля 1646 г.) 1608—1520 г.: Приглашеніе въ Виттенбергъ (1508 г.) Послѣдніе...
Переводъ подъ редакціей Виктора Михайловскаго. — М.: Типографиiя Э. Лиосиеръ и Ю. Романъ, 1881. — 724 с. Дореформенная орфография. Главные предвѣстники и предшественники реформаціи. Статья редактора. Исторія германской реформаціи до Нюренбергскаго договора 1532 г. Мартинъ Лютеръ. (10 ноября 1483—18 февраля 1646 г.) 1608—1520 г.: Приглашеніе въ Виттенбергъ (1508 г.) Послѣдніе...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 328 p. The rise of modern public finance revolutionized political economy. As governments learned to invest tax revenue in the long-term financial resources of the market, they vastly increased their administrative power and gained the ability to use fiscal, monetary, and financial policy to manage their economies. But why did the modern fiscal...
Routledge, 2004. — 400 p. Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700 brings together a closely-focused set of essays by leading scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe, in memory of Bodo Nischan. They address what historians of the Early Modern period have recently come to define as the pre-eminent issue in the history of the Reformation, as they turn their emphases from the...
Routledge, 2019. — 200 p. The "new mobilities paradigm" which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human experience and fundamental to the formation of social and political structures. This volume breaks new ground by demonstrating the role of the journey as a key motor of human development in Russia, central...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 321 p. This book explores the assertions made by Irish nationalists of a parallel between Ireland under British rule and Poland under Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule in the long nineteenth century. Poland loomed large in the Irish nationalist imagination, despite the low level of direct contact between Ireland and Poland up to the twenty-first...
Praeger, 2004. — 296 p. This book tells the story of the scientific talent and technological prowess of two nations that joined forces to connect themselves with a communications cable that would change the world. In 1855 an American visionary named Cyrus West Field, who knew nothing about telegraphy, sought to establish a monopoly on telegraphic revenues between North America...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 344 p. Thrust into power in the midst of the bloodiest conflict Europe had ever experienced, Amalia Elisabeth fought to save her country, her Calvinist church, and her children’s inheritance. Tryntje Helfferich’s vivid portrait reveals how this unique and embattled ruler used her diplomatic gifts to play the great powers of Europe against one...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 368 p. Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 575 p. The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake....
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 344 p. In 1649, Charles I was executed before Whitehall Palace in London. This event had a major impact not only in the British Isles, but also on the continent, where British exiles, diplomats and agents waged propaganda battles to conquer the minds of foreign audiences. In the Dutch Republic, above all, their efforts had a significant...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 344 p. In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders’ scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. Looking beyond the science of race, The Science of Abolition shows how Black and white scientists and abolitionists drew upon a host of...
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003. — viii, 325 p Vecindad: Citizenship in Local Communities Vecindad: From Castile to Spanish America Naturaleza: The Community of the Kingdom Naturaleza: From Castile to Spanish America The Other: Conversos, Gypsies, Foreign Catholics, and Foreign Vassals The Crisis of an Empire Was Spain Exceptional? Conclusions and Afterthoughts
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 400 p. Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and Portuguese claims in the New and Old Worlds, Tamar Herzog reconstructs...
Brill, 2020. — 320 p. — (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 69). The Treaties of Carlowitz (1699) includes recent studies on the Lega Sacra War of 1683-1699 against the Ottoman Empire, the Peace treaties of Carlowitz (1699), and on the general impact of the conflict upon Modern Europe and the Balkans. With its contributions written by well-known international specialists in...
Harvard University Press, 1988. — 336 p. Introduction: Republicanism in France and America. Forced Community and Transcendental Individualism in America’s First Colonies. The Decay of Traditionalist Corporatism in Seventeenth-Century France. An Ideology of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America. Possessive Individualism and Universalist Illusion in Pre-revolutionary France....
Duke University Press, 2009. — 368 p. Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions in the world, faced similar ideological...
University of Illinois Press, 2002. — 344 p. Tracing the development of communication markets and the regulation of international communications from the 1840s through World War I, Jill Hills examines the political, technological, and economic forces at work during the formative century of global communication. Hills analyzes power relations within the arena of global...
London: Vintage Books, 1996. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0760701334; ISBN13: 978-0760701331. Neither textbook nor narrative, Hobsbawm's classic is an interpretive essay whose many insights, expressed in memorable style, continue to stimulate and inspire. He abandoned Stalinism long ago, and his nuanced Marxism sympathizes with workers, peasants and rebels, which still seems to provoke...
London: Vintage Books, 1996. — 368 p. Neither textbook nor narrative, Hobsbawm's classic is an interpretive essay whose many insights, expressed in memorable style, continue to stimulate and inspire. He abandoned Stalinism long ago, and his nuanced Marxism sympathizes with workers, peasants and rebels, which still seems to provoke some critics. Revolution is seen as an...
Rutgers University Press, 2018. — 159 p. What was the French Revolution? Was it the triumph of Enlightenment humanist principles, or a violent reign of terror? Did it empower the common man, or just the bourgeoisie? And was it a turning point in world history, or a mere anomaly? E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic historiographic study—written at the very moment when a new set of...
London: Vintage, 1996. — 354 p. — ISBN10: 0679772545; ISBN13: 978-0679772545. In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live. Although it...
London: Vintage, 1989. — 404 p. — ISBN10: 0679721754; ISBN13: 978-0679721758. Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century.
London: Vintage, 1989. — 404 p. — ISBN10: 0679721754; ISBN13: 978-0679721758. The third and final part of Eric Hobsbawm's monumental trilogy on the history of the 19-th century. Covering the period 1875-1914, The Age of Empire ends just before the events that radically changed the world politics at the beginning of the 20-th century.
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 264 p. Little over 200 years ago, a quarter of a century of warfare with an 'outlaw state' brought the great powers of Europe to their knees. That state was the revolutionary democracy of France. Since then, there has been a remarkable transformation in the way democracy is understood and valued - today, it is the non-democratic states that...
Louisiana State University Press, 2011. — 288 p. The children of Philip III of Spain (1578--1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584--1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided by this generation raises the question of how...
Routledge, 2019. — 380 p. Originally published in 1933, this volume covers 3 features of British history in the 40 years prior to the First World War: the inroad made by commercial and industrial Germany on the far-flung business empire of Great Britain; the British national reaction to this German rivalry and the influence of that rivalry upon the shaping of British policy...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 288 p. From the Afghan frontier with British India to the pampas of Argentina to the deserts of Arizona, nineteenth-century empires drew borders with an eye toward placing indigenous people just on the edge of the interior. They were too nomadic and communal to incorporate in the state, yet their labor was too valuable to displace entirely....
Yale University Press, 2015. — 320 p. In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism. Whereas conventional...
Routledge, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN-13 9780367204495. — ISBN-10 0367204495. Taking the religiously diverse city of Augsburg as its focus, this book explores the under-appreciated role of local clergy in mediating and interpreting the Peace of Augsburg in the decades following its 1555 enactment, focusing on the efforts of the preacher Johann Meckhart and his heirs in blunting the...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2019. — 617 p. — ISBN 978 0 19 031189 6. New South Wales' most trusted Modern History series has been updated for the 2018 Modern History Stage 6 syllabus.Key Features of Modern History 2 5E Year 12 offers complete support for teachers and their students in 2018 and beyond, providing unparalleled depth and coverage in an easy-to-read,...
Routledge, 1989. — 224 p. Departing from traditional periodization, Hsia argues that the Reformation and Counter-Reformation were structurally similar events in the long-term social transformation of early modern Europe. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in social history and religious studies.
Routledge, 2019. — 298 p. Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, and Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe, to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materials—including postage stamps, musical scores, urban parks, and psychiatric...
London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009 — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0713165316; ISBN13: 978-0713165319. This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life at the time of the...
Harvard University Press, 2002. — 274 p. In a tour de force of comparative intellectual history, Mark Hulliung sharply challenges conventional wisdom about the political nature of the sister republics, America and France. Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--illiberal to the core--is fatally misleading. In reality it...
Louisiana State University Press, 1988. — 212 p. The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians—slaves, white colonists, and free blacks—fled the upheaval and flooded southern U.S. ports—most notably New...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 704 p. After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna’s attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary movement emerged in the southern peripheries of the continent. In this groundbreaking study, Maurizio Isabella examines the historical moment in the 1820s when a series of...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 704 p. After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna’s attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary movement emerged in the southern peripheries of the continent. In this groundbreaking study, Maurizio Isabella examines the historical moment in the 1820s when a series of...
Routledge, 2009. — 348 p. While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European....
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 768 p. A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas. The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s...
Florianópolis: Labeur, GCN, CFH, UFSC, 2020. — (Cadernos Geográficos ; №38). 1949–2004: revolução, reforma e a centralidade da questão nacional na China (parte 01). 1949–2004: revolução, reforma e a centralidade da questão nacional na China (parte 02). Sucessos e desafios da construção do socialismo na China. As relações entre estatal e privado na China de hoje. A China e o...
Oxford University Press, 1991. — 320 p. Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was constitutionally constructed and logically...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 291 p. The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. — 279 p. During the early 1880s a continual interaction of events, ideas, and people in Ireland and the United States created a "Greater Ireland" spanning the Atlantic that profoundly impacted both Irish and American society. In A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic Nationalism in Gilded Age America, Ely M. Janis closely...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 236 p. The Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century sparked one of the largest refugee crises of Reformation Europe. This book explores the flight, exile and eventual return of Catholic men and women during the war. By mapping the Catholic diaspora across Europe, Geert H. Janssen explains how exile worked as a catalyst of religious radicalisation...
Dedalus, 2011. — 372 p. History of drugs and how in the space of 100 years they went from being legal to becoming illegal. As well as exploding the fantasy that a society without drugs used to exist, Jay clarifies the question of why so many of them were outlawed in the process, he tells a series of fascinating stories about the first individuals to describe their effects, and...
Indiana University Press, 1973. — 221 p. Straits Question, in European diplomacy of the 19th and 20th centuries, a recurrent controversy over restrictions on the passage of warships through the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, the strategic straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. The straits were in Turkish territory, but when...
Amsterdam University Press, 2016. — 343 p. This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in...
New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. - 1095 pgs. This hefty book is a chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world. From the terrible conflicts of this century we have learned that, in addition to the devastation they wreak, big wars can accelerate ongoing innovations in organization and material technologies that will in turn expand the scale, complexity,...
New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. - 1095 pgs. This hefty book is a chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world. From the terrible conflicts of this century we have learned that, in addition to the devastation they wreak, big wars can accelerate ongoing innovations in organization and material technologies that will in turn expand the scale, complexity,...
New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. - 1095 pgs. This hefty book is a chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world. From the terrible conflicts of this century we have learned that, in addition to the devastation they wreak, big wars can accelerate ongoing innovations in organization and material technologies that will in turn expand the scale, complexity,...
University of Georgia Press, 2021. — 327 p. In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century,...
Routledge, 2013. — 404 p. First published in 1913, this valuable and scholarly work is an account of the flow of population from the British Isles to the United States and Canada during the nineteenth century and the author's extensive researches into government reports and papers has brought together a great deal of material which gives his book an important place as an...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 400 p. This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the...
Routledge, 2016. — 330 p. Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet firearms have always been invested with a whole array of additional social and symbolical meanings. By placing these meanings at the centre of analysis, the essays presented in this volume extend the study of the gun beyond the confines...
Routledge, 2020. — 631 p. The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 259 p. This inter-disciplinary study is the first to consider how representations of pirates addressed both national political issues and the agenda of particular interest groups. Looking at a variety of well-known and neglected figures and texts, as well as canonical ones, it shows how attitudes to piracy and privateering were debated and contested...
Belknap Press, 2016. — 592 p. In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to “their empire,” while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 448 p. The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge that extended into all areas of daily life, from the economic, scientific, and political spheres to the general activities of ordinary people. So asserts Daniel Jütte in this engrossing,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 640 p. The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 288 p. From oaths and hand-kissing to coronations and baptisms, Power and Ceremony in European History considers the governing practices, courtly rituals, and expressions of power prevalent in Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the medieval age to the modern era. Bringing together political and art historical approaches to the study of power, this...
Routledge, 2021. — 225 p. Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the ‘Old...
3rd Edition. — Yale University Press, 2021. — 416 p. A new edition of a seminal work—one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to the development of science, religious reformation, and the birth of the nation state. As Europeans explored the world -...
3rd Edition. — Yale University Press, 2021. — 416 p. A new edition of a seminal work—one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to the development of science, religious reformation, and the birth of the nation state. As Europeans explored the world -...
Routledge, 2000. — 304 p. Drawing together common features of society from a range of different contexts throughout Europe, from Italy and Spain to Poland and Russia, Early Modern European Society surveys the sweeping changes affecting Europe from the end of the fifteenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. Henry Kamen includes discussion on: European...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 112 p. For over a 16th Century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement. In the second edition of this successful text, Henry Kamen asks: was the Golden Age of Spain in the sixteenth century actually an illusion? By...
London: Routledge, 2002. — 321 p. Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we know today. Henry Kamen has compiled an accessible biographical guide to Europe in this most exciting of periods - the time of the Renaissance and the Reformation, the time of da Vinci and Erasmus,...
University of California Press, 1974. — 664 p. An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty. The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable scholarship on the nationalities...
University of Washington Press, 1984. — 554 p. The systematic study of the modern history of East Central Europe outside the region itself began only in the last generation or two. Although there is worthwhile matter in all of the 'History of East Central Europe' series, I found this Volume VI by Robert Kann abd Zdenek David to be the most lucidly written of all. And perhaps...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 354 p. This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present. For many Enlightenment thinkers, discerning the relationship between commerce and peace was the central issue of modern politics. The logic of commerce seemed to require European states and empires to learn...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 314 p. This edited collection presents a pan-European history of intermediary government and administration in nineteenth-century Europe. Taking a closer look at senior government officials who represented the sovereign or state far away from the capital, the book highlights the intermediary nature of their roles, which fell somewhere between the...
Brill, 2013. — 460 p. — (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 53). The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire is the first comprehensive overview of the empire’s relationship to its various European tributaries, Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate and the Cossack Hetmanate. The volume focuses on three fundamental aspects of the empire’s...
Walter de Gruyter, 2012. — 287 p. Early modern Europe faced a host of confessional conflicts. The Reformation brought about struggles over religious rites and doctrines as well as the persecution of secret adherents and forbidden practices. So far, the issues of religious pluralisation and the divisions between Catholic and Protestant positions, among sectarian movements, or...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. — 121 p. The emergence of the racial theories of Nordicism and Anglo-Saxonism at the threshold of the twentieth century changed the cultural and political mapping of the world, and gave a new impetus to the construction of national discourses both in Europe and overseas. In its complex situation as a former colony and a rising empire,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 298 p. This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon’s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience. It is a great sweep of a story:...
Princeton University Press, 1986. — 479 p. Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes....
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 537 p. Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts―and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when,...
Brill, 2015. — 387 p. — (Studies in Global Social History 22). Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the...
Brookings Institution, 1993. — 418 p. In 1913, the young Carnegie Endowment for International Peace established a seven-member commission to investigate the 1912 and 1913 wars in the Balkans. The horrifying and gruesome information collected, and the pessimistic conclusions reached, were originally published by the Endowment in the early summer of 1914—and were quickly...
Vintage Books, 1989. — 905 p. About military and economic national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in Western Europe.
Routledge, 2014. — 297 p. The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in particular and of militarism in general, are a key focus of attention. Did the military wrest control from the civilians? Were the leaders of Europe eager for a conflict? What military commitments...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 393 p.
Работа известного американского исследователя Калифорнийской школы экономической истории. Автор вносит новаторские соображения по поводу индустриальной революции XVIII-XIX веков. В работе приводятся смелые утверждения на основе расчетов и сравнения таких параметров как зарплата, уровень производства, количество инноваций в Европе и...
Manchester University Press, 2001. — 320 p. Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism. In fresh, innovative essays from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection offers...
Brill, 2014. — 304 p. — (Costerus New Series 206). Early modern kings adopted a new style of government, Realpolitik, as spelled out in Machiavelli's writings. Tudor monarchs, well aware of their questionable right to the throne, posed as great dissimulators, similarly to the modern prince who "must learn from the fox and the lion". This book paints a portrait of a successful...
Warszawa: TRIO, 2007. — 492 s. — ISBN 978-83-7436-117-0. Oryginalny i wnikliwie napisany podręcznik dziejów XIX wieku, który w znacznej mierze przesądził o kształcie i charakterze współczesnego świata. Przejrzysty, skonstruowany na osi problemowo-chronologicznej, wykład ukazuje zagadnienia społeczno-gospodarcze, procesy i wydarzenia polityczne, wreszcie zjawiska kulturalne nie...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 416 p. In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean...
Routledge, 2018. — 295 p. Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans by North African pirates, as...
Routledge, 2018. — 295 p. Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans by North African pirates, as...
Routledge, 2018. — 295 p. Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans by North African pirates, as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 150 p. The Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 150 p. The Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The...
Brill, 2009. — 335 p. — (European Expansion and Indigenous Response 2). The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era. The book's first section deals with European migration to transatlantic and Asian destinations, the...
New York University Press, 2006. — 248 p. In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and indigenous people rioted and rebelled against their occupiers in violent pursuit of political liberty and economic opportunity, challenging time-honored social and political...
New York University Press, 2016. — 252 p. From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight...
Cornell University Press, 1971. — 332 p. Preface. Contents. Illustrations. Maps. Introduction. The Empire of Charles V in Europe. Western Europe and the Power of Spain. The European Civil War. Bibliography. Notes and References. Index.
2nd edition. — Routledge, 1999. — 560 p. This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'. It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its...
Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press, 1987. — 531 p. Introduction: The origin and consolidation of unfree labor. The masters and their bondsmen . Labor management. Planters, pomeshchiki, and paternalism. Ideals and ideology. The bondsmen and their masters . Community and culture. Patterns of resistance. Protest, unity, and disunity. Epilogue: The...
CDRSEE, 2009. — 129 p. The Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 are an event of significant importance in the 20th century history of Southeast Europe. Their long-term consequences have influenced the political, socio-economic and cultural development of the region for decades and some of their effects are still the subject of scientific and even public discussions. Historiographies of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 320 p. - Provides an innovative and ground-breaking analysis of how Russia and Russians were visually represented in European print culture from 1500 to 1650 - Demonstrates the value of visual imagery for the history of early modern European print culture and early modern Russia - Explores how images were used, disseminated, and plagiarized...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 312 p. This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. — 256 p. Unintended Affinities examines the ways in which German and Polish historians of the nineteenth-century regarded the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The book parallels how historians approached the old Reich and the Commonwealth within the framework of their national history. Kożuchowski analyzes how...
Doubleday, 2008. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-0-38551-398-2. In the midst of the Age of Discovery, the Inquisition took hold in Spain and Portugal, forcing many underground Jews to flee the peninsula. The most daring went to the New World as explorers, conquistadors, and pioneering merchants. Others became freewheeling outlaws, practicing piracy on the high seas. In ships bearing names...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 362 p. Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world. It does so through a set of original studies that examine the multi-layered nature of corruption in four different empires (Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands and...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 275 p. The production, acquisition, and use of consumer goods defines our daily lives, and yet consumerism is seen as increasingly controversial. Movements for sustainable and ethical consumerism are gaining momentum alongside an awareness of how our choices in the marketplace can affect public issues. How did we get here? This volume...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 239 p. The first Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621 was a powerfully symbolic event and not merely the pageant of abundance that we still reenact today. In these early encounters between Indians and English in North America, food was also symbolic of power: the venison brought to Plymouth by the Indians, for example, was resonant of both...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 327 p. This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era. It looks at multiple and multidirectional flows, transfers, and circulations of ideas, people, and practices as Germany and the US were embedded in, and created by, an...
Leiden, Brill, 2009. — 176 p. In urban life streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them at centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the writers here strive towards more...
Brill, 2021. — 443 p. — (Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World 92). Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the...
Routledge, 1995. — 352 p. This volume reflects the advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960, as well as the increasing number of topics covered by the historiography of the European expansion. The studies selected demonstrate the range of this material, focusing in particular on the beginnings of trans-oceanic expansion by the Iberian powers. The...
Cambridge University Press, 1969. — 578 p. The Industrial Revolution in Britain Continental emulation Closing the gap Short breath and second wind The interwar years Reconstruction and growth since I945
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2016. — 268 p. Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims....
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2016. — 268 p. Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims....
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 303 p. — (Short Oxford History Of The British Isles). This collection takes a thematic approach to eighteenth-century history, covering such topics as domestic politics (including popular political culture), religious developments and changes, social and demographic structure and growth, and culture. It presents a lively picture of an era of...
Pergamum Collection, 2014. — 464 p. Chronic wars, incompetent generals, out of touch leaders, all covered in typical 19th century Europe. A period of time not always covered in history classes. The Ottoman Empire and it's persecution of the Christians for hundreds of years was enlightening. Lots of reference to past and contemporary events outside of Russia/Turkey that effected...
Little, Brown and Company, 1950. — 288 p. Sinkiang is a Chinese province in which the overwhelming majority of the population consists of non-Chinese peoples. It stands at the back door of the old Empire of India, in which the new political, economic, and social forces of the Dominions of India and Pakistan are now at work. It stands at one of the front doors of the Soviet...
E. J. Brill, 1995. — 230 p. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to a large diaspora of French Huguenots, known as the 'Refuge'. Spreading throughout Europe, many of these Huguenots used their literary and polemical talents in the development of political ideas that would help them in their efforts to return to France, or in their adjustment to living outside of...
Berg, 2000. — 307 p. This ground-breaking, revisionist collection of essays, based on the most recent research, provides a long-needed reassessment of the legacy of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars upon the governments of Restoration Europe. Traditionally the Restoration has been regarded by historians as a period in which European governments returned to the...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 1072 p. — (Sea in History / La Mer Dans L'histoire Serie; Bilingual edition). How important has the sea been in the development of human history? Very important indeed is the conclusion of this ground-breaking four volume work. The books bring together the world's leading maritime historians, who address the question of what difference the sea has made in...
Routledge, 1984. — 324 p. Lee's book takes an analytical approach to a wide range of topics in early modern European history, from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, showing a variety of methods that can be used to present a theme or argument in an essay or exam.
New York University Press, 2011. — 305 p. The early modern period (c. 1500–1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the Russians and Ottomans in Central Asia,...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 288 p. This is a completely captivating account of the "great age of piracy" (1716-1726) and surrounding years, by an economist who loved pirates as a boy, has had an economics supply and demand diagram tattooed to his bicep since he was 17, and who proposes to his girl friend Ania in the dedication, declaring that if she turns him down, he will...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 254 p. This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever – then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain.
Brill, 2017. — 290 p. — (The Atlantic World 36). Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 makes an interdisciplinary contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of the long nineteenth century. It argues that the cultural dimensions of the political and social upheavals in Europe and the Americas were fundamentally transnational.
Routledge, 2023. — 359 p. This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea – or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation and empire – Anglo-Dutch relations shaped all aspects of life, with profound implications still...
University of North Carolina Press, 1998. — 320 p. In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the nation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a union operated to blur the line between foreign policies and domestic...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 288 p. This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways all around the world. Amy Licence has scoured the records from Europe and beyond to compile this testament to female lives and achievements, telling the...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 371 p. The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg - developed dual identities as "communities of commerce" and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c. 1648-1790). In addition to discussing the qualities that made these three cities alike, this...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 256 p. New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in...
University of Missouri Press, 2005. — 297 p. In this first book-length study of the role women played in two of the most momentous revolutions of the twentieth century, Tabea Alexa Linhard provides a comparative analysis of works on the Mexican Revolution (circa 1910–1919) and the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Linhard was inspired by the story of the “Trece Rosas,” about...
University of London Press, 1967. — 232 p. The importance of the Baltic region in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century European history is often overlooked and frequently only partly understood. The protracted struggles of the Baltic powers for supremacy, fascinating in themselves, are not fully appreciated without some insight into the way in which they were influenced by,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. — 348 p. “England Is a Trading Nation’’. The Thirteen Colonies: Trade, British Liberty, and Ibero-America. “Rich in Intentions and Projects’’: Spain and Portugal. “These Vast Provinces’’: Latin America to 1776. “We See with Other Eyes’’: The New Nation Looks at Latin America, 1776-1808. “A Species of Revolution’’ within Empire: Latin...
New York: Routledge, 2022. — 355 p. Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I’s letter to the...
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2007. — 384 p. Whilst many books have been published about war, the role of the prisoner of war has been largely ignored or paid scant attention. This book, along with the author's other title - The Arts and Crafts of Napoleonic and American Prisoners of War 1756–1816 - aims to correct this imbalance, and is the result of the author's quest over thirty...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 242 p. This book explores the trans-Atlantic history of Protestant traditions of communalism – communities of shared property. The sixteenth-century Reformation may have destroyed monasticism in northern Europe, but Protestant Christianity has not always denied common property. Between 1650 and 1850, a range of Protestant groups adopted communal goods,...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically...
Brill, 2020. — 202 p. — (Mediterranean Reconfigurations 1). The development of the Spanish Navy in the early modern Mediterranean triggered a change in the balance of political and economic power for the coastal populations of the Hispanic Monarchy. The establishment of new permanent squadrons, endowed with very broad jurisdictional powers, was the cause of many conflicts with...
Loescher, 1983. — 262 p. Tre vasti esempi di rivolta contadina - tra i meglio documentati della prima età moderna - vengono illustrati attraverso una scelta di fonti coeve ai fatti: testimonianze oculari, petizioni e manifesti popolari, cronache d'epoca. Il commento che precede ciascun testo ha lo scopo di avvicinare il lettore italiano alle motivazioni dei partecipanti alle...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 444 p. While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region's seas and controlled its ports. By contrast, for...
Routledge, 2000. — 525 p. From as early as the middle of the 16th century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantation there. From at least 1612 to 1632 they inhabited...
Routledge, 2019. — 305 p. A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning. By covering different areas of early modern life through the lens of contemporaries’ experiences, this book serves as an...
Brill, 2015. — 504 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 61). A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe analyses the history of Christianity from the 15th to the 18th centuries in the lands between the Baltic and Adriatic seas. The authors of A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe have provided an outstanding gateway to stretch the Reformation...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 244 p. Despite earlier Naval expeditions undertaken for reasons of diplomacy or trade, it wasn't until the early 1400s that European maritime explorers established sea routes through most of the globe's inhabited regions, uniting a divided earth into a single system of navigation. From the early Portuguese and Spanish quests for gold and glory, to later...
Routledge, 1994. — 268 p. This is a lucid and well-structured text dealing with key issues in international affairs from the period of German unification to the aftermath of World War I. It: - Provides excellent explanation and analysis of the central issues - Clarifies a notoriously complex period of international history - Updates traditional books in this field of 19th and...
Routledge, 2020. — 170 p. Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century. The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is contextualized not merely as a Spanish settlement connected...
Routledge, 2022. — 284 p. This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms". "Reform" today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures. "Improvement" has a more general application, emphasising the positive outcome to which...
Alianza Editorial, 2009. — 412 p. Esta obra, considerada ya un clásico en su tema, aborda la historia de Europa durante el turbulento periodo que va de los inicios del reinado de Carlos V coincidiendo con los escritos reformistas de Lucero- hasta el fi nal de la Guerra de los Treinta Años con la Paz de Westfalia en 1648. Entre uno y otro momento, se produjo la división de la...
Springer, 2021. — 227 p. The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how England’s growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed China’s...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 224 p. The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies. Sandip Hazareesingh is...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 224 p. The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies. Sandip Hazareesingh is...
Harper and Row, 1970. — 202 p. The opening of the seventeenth century found the Habsburg dominions in central Europe in a state of considerable, and unaccustomed, uncertainty. This family disunity was superimposed on a great ideological division that had come ro run through all their dominions, in consequence of rhe Reformation. He would have been a bold man who had prophesied...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 336 p. European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today’s nations were once European colonies or protectorates. Europe’s legacy is evident in the trajectory of the United States and has influenced aspiring hegemonic powers like China. For centuries, Europe was the heart and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 270 p. The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 324 p. — (Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, 31). The significance of the media and communications revolution occasioned by printmaking was profound. Less a part of the standard narrative of printmaking’s significance is recognition of the frequency with which the widespread dissemination of printed works also occurred beyond the borders...
Monthly Review Press, 1978. — 279 p. European expansion since 1763 Imperialst expansion accident and design Imperialism a historical survey Imperialism without a colonies Economic myths and imperialism The Multinational corporation and development — a contradiction? Militarism and imperialism The impact of US foreign policy on underdeveloped countries Capital, technology and...
Routledge, 2016. — 254 p. This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e.,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980. — 362 p. Civilization and madness; community and class; bureaucracy, corruption, and revolution--these essays range from social history to political history and the history of ideas. All take a strong interpretive stand in the manner of the man to whom they are dedicated. Together they make a major contribution to the scholarship on...
Yale University Press, 2006. — 372 p. This masterful comparative history traces the West’s revolutionary tradition and its culmination in the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Unique in breadth and scope, History’s Locomotives offers a new interpretation of the origins and history of socialism as well as the meanings of the Russian Revolution, the rise of the...
Routledge, 2021. — 316 p. The advent of the Europeans was crucial in transforming the contours of Maritime Asia. The commercial situation in the Indian Ocean was impacted in many ways over the longue duree from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. To offset the adverse balance of trade and to maximize profits, the Europeans imposed their own coercive and monopolistic...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 212 p. In 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, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings to buildings that resembled a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 365 p. Using detailed studies of fifteen exiled royal figures, the role of Exile in European Society and in the evolution of national cultures is examined. From the Jacobite court to the exiled Kings' of Hanover, the book provides an alternative history of monarchical power from the 16th to 20th century.
Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 340 p. This collection focuses overtly on the internal dynamics and links between art markets in the early modern period, but presupposes that art objects - here visual images - are objects of desire. During this period, however, desire changed; a great deal more of these objects came to be made for ordinary domestic consumption, including devotional...
Routledge, 2022. — 290 p. This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish–Portuguese borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or...
School for Advanced Research Press, 2015. — 416 p. This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser-known stories of slavery in North America and reveal surprising parallels among slave cultures across the continent. Although they focus on North America, these scholars also take...
London: S. Sonnenschein, 1899. — 96 p. In the Preface to "The Eastern Question," by Karl Marx, published in 1897, the Editors, Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, referred to two series of papers entitled "The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston," and "Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century," which they promised to publish at an early date. Mrs. Aveling did not...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 504 p. In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20...
Brill, 2020. — 305 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 176). The post-Lepanto Mediterranean was the scene of “small wars,” to use Fernand Braudel’s phrase, which resulted in acts of piracy and captivity. Thousands upon thousands of Europeans, Arabs, and Turks were seized into bagnios stretching from Cadiz to Valletta and from Salé to Tripoli. After returning to their...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 262 p. How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of under-governed spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United States, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he shows similar situations produce different...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 358 p. — (Short Oxford History Of The British Isles). This new eleven-volume series will span the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present. Each volume consists of essays by leading historians who focus on key issues for the period-including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture. The chapters are at once...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. — 476 p.
In essays that illuminate not only the recent past but shortcomings in today's intelligence assessments, sixteen experts show how prospective antagonists appraised each other prior to the World Wars. This cautionary tale warns that intelligence agencies can do certain things very well-but other things poorly, if at all....
Liveright, 2023. — 416 p. The untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally comes to light. Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773–1833), which―almost inexplicably―freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized...
Routledge, 2011. — 305 p. The Revolt of 1857 in India has so far largely been viewed as an event that was of interest to British and Indian scholars investigating the various consequences of British colonial rule in India. What has remained out of the focus of study during the last 150 years is the possible impact of the Revolt elsewhere, its so to say international dimension:...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 320 p. Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the emergence of population as an object of governance through a series of engagements in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England,...
Hong Kong University Press, 2015. — 362 p. This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two...
University of California Press, 2015. — 225 p. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of...
Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 400 p. This book is based on an international conference held in the capital of Hainault to celebrate the city of Mons as European Capital of Culture (2015). For the first time, through a range of interdisciplinary studies, the magnificent festivals created to honour Prince Philip of Spain as he journeyed across Europe to receive his sovereignty of...
Routledge, 1983. — 392 p. The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. Derek McKay is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. H.M. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the...
Routledge, 2014. — 378 p. The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. The rise of France. 1648-1688. The rise of Britain, 1688-1714. The emergence of Austria and Russia, 1660-1721. British diplomatic ascendancy and the...
Routledge, 2014. — 378 p. The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. The rise of France. 1648-1688. The rise of Britain, 1688-1714. The emergence of Austria and Russia, 1660-1721. British diplomatic ascendancy and the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1964. — 260 p. Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800 by the acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the...
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 264 p. In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality...
Arcadia Publishing, 2019. — 159 p. For hundreds of years, colorful characters and criminals used the myriad coves and inlets along the Treasure Coast for illicit commerce. From the early days of privateer Henry Jennings to the notorious Prohibition exploits of the Ashley Gang, these sandy shores have been a refuge for those looking to trade on the dark side of the law....
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 248 p. — ISBN 9781421438528, 1421438526. Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 248 p. — ISBN 9781421438528, 1421438526. Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 248 p. Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the opening of what historians call the...
New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. — 368p. The Economies: The Endurance of Land, Agriculture, Manufacture. The Ruling Classes: The Bourgeoisie Defers. Political Society and the Governing Classes: Linchpin of the Old Regime. Official High Cultures and the Avant-Gardes, World-View: Social Darwinism, Nietzsche, War.
Epikentro, 2019. — 282 p. This volume represents the second collective product of the Horizon 2020 Research Project on Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures in the Humanities. Europe and the Black Sea Region. The contributions included herein were initially presented and discussed at a two-day conference held in 2018 at the International Hellenic University of Thessaloniki,...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. — 608 p. During the seventeenth century Hungary's diverse population of peasants, townsmen, soldiers, and county nobles rose up against the violent imposition of the Counter-Reformation, the Habsburg military occupation, and exhorbitant war taxes. In The Habsburg Empire under Siege Georg Michels explores the little-known grassroots revolts...
Routledge, 2017. — 448 p. Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration of long-held beliefs about the role of climate in...
HarperCollins, 2021. — 432 p. The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present day. Now is the time for a new women’s history—for the famous, infamous, and unsung...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 248 p. In The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in international politics, emphasizing the importance of reliability―confidence that, based on past political actions, a country will make good on its promises―in the formation of military alliances. Challenging recent scholarship that focuses on the...
Macmillan Education, 1990. — 270 p. Most Seventeenth Century European Monarchs ruled territories which were culturally and institutionally diverse. Forced by the escalating scale of war to mobilise evermore men and money they tried to bring these territories under closer control, overriding regional and sectional liberties. This was justified by a theory stressing the monarchs...
Routledge, 2019. — 390 p. This title was first published in 2001. Focusing attention on the neglected area of relations between brothers and sisters during the early modern period, this volume explores the sibling dynamics that shaped family relations in Italy, England, France, Spain, and Germany. Using an array of feminist and cultural studies approaches, prominent scholars...
London: Wordsworth Editions, 1998. — 160 p. — Wordsworth Military Library. — ISBN: 1-85326-688-4. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was the greatest feat of English arms since the Battle of Agincourt a century and a half earlier. The poorly planned expedition with its huge galleons was ordered to join with the Spanish army in the Netherlands for an invasion of Queen...
Picador, 2016. — 261 p. Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton. The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. — 336 p. The true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco. In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of...
Boydell and Brewer, 2016. — 372 p. Written by leading younger and distinguished senior scholars, the twelve accomplished essays in this volume probe the long and interconnected histories of slavery and the slave trade and of abolition and emancipation throughout the Atlantic world. Drawing on innovative new research using quantitative and qualitative evidence and foregrounding...
Lit Verlag, 2010. — 288 p. Three powerful empires - the Habsburg, the Ottoman and the Russian - spent the 18th and the first third of the 19th centuries fighting each other for power and influence in the Balkans. This is not, however, the only significant aspect of the complicated history of the European Southeast. The intellectual and economic currents that turned the 18th...
Indiana University Press, 1992. — 257 p. The migrations, voluntary and forced, that overran the New World following the Age of Discovery and reached their high-water mark in the years before World War I make up only part of the story of European migrations. During the same period, millions of people in Western Europe were on the move as well. Moving Europeans tells the story of...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 241 p. The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and...
Routledge, 2014. — 342 p. The marriages of British peers to American rich women are examined within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the growing competitiveness for high social status in London. This book should be of interest to students of history, American studies and women's studies. The title is from a Gilded Age newspaper article, deploring...
Verso, 1991. — 216 p. This defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution reasserts the importance of basic historical materialist precepts to an understanding of the rise of European capitalism. In a wide-ranging analysis of British, French and German history—from feudalism to the system of rival capitalist states that was consolidated in the second half of the nineteenth...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 289 p. This book examines how a group of transnational British-Italian women affiliated with the exiled patriots of the Italian Left repurposed traditionally feminine activities, such as fundraising, gift-giving, maternity, and memory collection, to make a substantial contribution to Italian Unification and state-building. Through their actions, Mary...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 320 p. Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. — 295 p. When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan...
Rennes: Bibliothèque d’Histoire Rurale, 1999. — 238 p. Reference historical great bibliography (3000 titles of the books and articles) about Land and Peasants in the 17th and 18th Centuries (France and Great Britain) commented and contextualized in a widely disseminated work tool with maps ad index (with collaboration of Annie Antoine and Gerard Beaur).
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 418 p. Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain's insularity kept it spatially and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 442 p. In the eighteenth century, as wars between Britain, France, and their allies raged across the world, hundreds of thousands of people were captured, detained, or exchanged. They were shipped across oceans, marched across continents, or held in an indeterminate limbo. The Society of Prisoners challenges us to rethink the paradoxes of the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 320 p. The period 1517-1625 was crucial for the development of political thought. During this time of expanding empires, religious upheaval, and social change, new ideas about the organisation and purpose of human communities began to be debated. In particular, there was a concern to understand the political or civil community as bounded,...
Brill, 2009. — 470 р. — (Studies in the History of Christian Thought). Die Beiträge dieser Festschrift für den Zürcher Reformations historiker Emidio Campi beleuchten ausgewählte Aspekte, welche die Geschichte des reformierten Protestantismus als komplexen Prozess von Bewegung und Beharrung ausmachen.
New York University Press, 1996. — 257 p. Examines the evolution of black nationalist thought from its earliest proto-nationalistic phase in the 1700s to the Garvey movement in the 1920s. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modern black nationalist leaders such as Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X. But what of the ideological precursors to these modern leaders,...
Routledge, 2021. — 380 p. This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and more traditional society, rather than a profound transformation of the social structure. In Russia, however, the peasants attempted to overturn the rigid...
Routledge, 2021. — 380 p. This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and more traditional society, rather than a profound transformation of the social structure. In Russia, however, the peasants attempted to overturn the rigid...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 216 p. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Caribbean was rife with revolutionary fervor and political turmoil. Yet, with such upheaval came unparalleled opportunities. In this innovative and richly detailed study, Jeppe Mulich explores the interconnected nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 595 p. Historical A-Z Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation provides a comprehensive account of two chains of events_the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation_that have left an enduring imprint on Europe, America, and the world at large. This is done through a chronology, a introductory essay, a bibliography, and over...
Ashgate Publishing, 2015. — 416 p. The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the...
Routledge, 2018. — 314 p. This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation’s PALATIUM project. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, a Europe-wide group of early-career and experienced academics provides a unique account of spectacular...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 378 р. New approaches to the history of print have allowed historians of early modern Europe to re-evaluate major shifts in religious, intellectual, cultural and political life across Europe. Drawing on precise and detailed study of the contexts of different types of print, including books, pamphlets, newspapers and flysheets, combined with...
Macmillan Education, 2005. — 529 p. This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a genuinely comparative history, Thomas Munck adeptly balances Eastern and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Ottoman Empire against the better-known history of France, the British...
Anthem Press, 2021. — 244 p. Did Spanish explorers really discover the sunken city of Atlantis or one of the lost tribes of Israel in Aztec México? Did classical writers foretell the discovery of America? Were faeries and Amazons hiding in Guiana, and where was the fabled golden city, El Dorado? Who was more powerful, Apollo or Diana, and which claimant nation, Spain or...
Brill, 2005. — 452 p. — (Northern World 18). This volume deals with the development, implementation and maintenance of Scottish networks in Northern Europe from c.1600-1746. The book contains nine chapters divided into three parts of original and innovative archival research. After an introduction providing a theoretical overview of the subject, the first section focusses on...
Brill Academic, 2005. — 440 p. — (The Northern World 18). This volume deals with the development, implementation and maintenance of Scottish networks in Northern Europe from c.1600-1746. The book contains nine chapters divided into three parts of original and innovative archival research. After an introduction providing a theoretical overview of the subject, the first section...
Macmillan Education, 2004. — 200 p. — (European History in Perspective). This book considers the Reformed churches of Europe in an international and comparative context from around 1540 to 1620. Graeme Murdock discusses how Calvinism operated as an international movement by looking at links between Reformed churches, communities, and states, and then goes on to explain what...
Macmillan Education, 2004. — 200 p. — (European History in Perspective). This book considers the Reformed churches of Europe in an international and comparative context from around 1540 to 1620. Graeme Murdock discusses how Calvinism operated as an international movement by looking at links between Reformed churches, communities, and states, and then goes on to explain what...
Clarendon Press, 2000. — 375 p. The reformation was not a western European event, but historians have neglected the study of Protestantism in central and eastern Europe. This book aims to rectify this situation. It examines one of Europe's largest Protestant communities in Hungary and Transylvania. It highlights the place of the Hungarian Reformed church in the international...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 304 p. Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery—so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today’s organizations are much quieter, more social and intellectual, and far less violent, yet the coordinated defiance of authority...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 368 p. Revolutionary Europe is an original examination of radical political movements during Europe's long 19th century. It employs both national and transnational contexts, incorporating new debates in Atlantic history, empire studies and cultural history to give a comprehensive narrative of the period from 1775 to 1922. Rather than assessing...
Routledge, 2022. — 260 p. Authored by a unique combination of university academics and heritage professionals, this book offers new perspectives on journeys made by Henry VIII and other monarchs, their political and social impact and the logistics required in undertaking such trips. It explores the performance of kingship and queenship by itinerant monarchs, investigating how,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 344 p. This book provides a comparative analysis of cosmopolitan (esoteric) religious movements, such as Theosophy, Groupe Independent des Études Ésotériques, Anthroposophy, and Monism, in England, France, Germany, and India during the late nineteenth-century to the interwar years. Despite their diversity, these factions manifested a set of common...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 208 p. Did British, French and Russian gunboats pacify the notoriously corsair-infested waters of the Eastern Mediterranean? This book charts the changing rates and nature of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century. Using Ottoman, Greek and other archival sources, it shows that far from ending with the introduction European powers to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 280 p. The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary and social practices through which the early modern state was constituted. The state was defined not through the elaboration of theoretical...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 332 p. This first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force offers new interpretations of the French revolutionary tradition. Drawing together material from Europe, North...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. — 304 pgs. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a congress convened in Vienna in which the fate of Europe was to be determined. Attending were the great statesmen of the time—the wily French foreign minister, Talleyrand; his brave but misguided British counterpart, Lord Castlereagh; the conservative Austrian chancellor, Prince...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 244 p. Reflecting emerging scholarship on the entanglement of colonial histories, this book examines British and South African perspectives on, and involvement in, the genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South West Africa from 1904 to 1908. Seeking to present a transnational and trans-colonial perspective on the war imposed by Germany, the book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 241 p. Imperfect Monopolies. Rivalry for Tea: Empires and Private Trade. Popularisation of Tea: Smugglers and Different Varieties of Tea. Rivalry for Textiles: A Global Market. The Consumption of Textiles: Return Cargoes and Variety.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 272 p. Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was...
Routledge, 2016. — 239 p. This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750. An Imperial World uses a combination of primary documents and analytical essays, both tightly focused around four case studies: India, Africa, Asia, and the Americas....
Routledge, 2017. — 234 p. The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. — 305 p. John Julius Norwich—“the very model of a popular historian” (Wall Street Journal)—is acclaimed for his distinctive ability to weave together a fascinating narrative through vivid detail, colorful anecdotes, and captivating characters. Here, he has crafted a bold tapestry of Europe and the Middle East in the early sixteenth century, when four...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 195 p. In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs--notably on French wine--as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others. The book reveals that...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 434 p. Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule...
Brepols, 2007. — 344 p. The decade that gave rise to the term 'the Hungry Forties' in Europe is often regarded, and rightly so, as one of deprivation, unrest, and revolution. This book is the first to discuss the subsistence crisis of the 1840s - including the Great Irish Famine and the various political events of 1848 - in a truly comparative way. This subsistence crisis may...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 244 p. This book provides a comprehensive examination of British policy during the Ruhr occupation crisis of 1922-1924. It explores Britain's attitude to reparations and to broader questions of postwar European reconstruction and stability, revealing the dilemmas caused by Britain's underlying strategic and economic weakness after the First World...
Routledge, 2008. — 438 p. This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and modern mnemo-history.
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. — XI, 237 p. — (Studies in the history of political thought 17). This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. While scholarship on republicanism thrives, the idea of decline, which has been prominent in republican theory since antiquity, has received relatively little attention. The essays in this volume take a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 272 p. The Celtic west has long been a source of wonder and desire for generations of Christian believers. This book provides a wide-ranging series of essays examining religion as practiced during the early modern period among the main Celtic-language communities of Britain and Ireland. Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 363 p. Concentrating on the politics of the Habsburg Monarchy's self-proclaimed "cultural mission" in occupied Bosnia in the period from 1878 to the outbreak of war in 1914, Taming Balkan Nationalism addresses two related issues: the impact of "Europeanization" in a backward society and the crystallization of the identities which have since...
Phoenix, 2000. — 512 p. With wonderful accounts of the Shakespearean England from her youth to Restoration England to which she returned, this is the rags-to-riches story of Elizabeth of Bohemia. This book is about the life of the Winter Queen, daughter of James I. I have an interest in the Thirty Years War in which she was involved as the wife of Frederick, Count Palatine. The...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. — 408 p. Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 420 p. This analysis of a crucial transformation in the history of world trade reveals how London and its surroundings grew during the eighteenth century to become the first true entrepot. The city developed a new kind of commercial structure sharply distinct from that of Holland and Amsterdam during the seventeenth century.
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 1192 p. A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 1192 p. A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 1192 p. A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting...
Routledge, 2017. — 242 p. For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present. Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce public perceptions of historical events and people in collective memory. They were fairly infrequent before...
Oxford University’s Press, 2021. — 416 p. From Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers have long assumed the responsibility to bring security in the Middle East. The past two centuries have witnessed their numerous military occupations to...
Harvard University Press, 1983. — 262 p. Here is a lively study of marriage and the family during the Reformation, primarily in Germany and Switzerland, that dispels the commonly held notion of fathers as tyrannical and families as loveless. Did husbands and wives love one another in Reformation Europe? Did the home and family life matter to most people? In this wide-ranging...
Yale University Press, 1998. — 244 p. This book, the first to compare theories of empire as they emerged in, and helped to define, the great colonial powers-Spain, Britain, and France-describes the different ways and arguments these countries used to legitimate the seizure and subjugation of aboriginal lands and peoples. Learned, wide-ranging and important. Pagden`s willingness...
University of Chicago Press, 2025. — 768 p. An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age. From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian Ada Palmer. In...
University of Chicago Press, 2025. — 768 p. An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age. From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian Ada Palmer. In...
Routledge, 1996. — 376 p. Who's Who in World Politics examines the careers of those individuals who have shaped the political world since 1860. Coverage is truly global; the 700-plus entries cover the most important figures of African, Australasian, European and Latin, North and South American politics. Contemporary leaders as well as historical figures are discussed, including...
With a new foreword by David Armitage. — Princeton University Press, 2014. — 853 p. For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and...
With a new foreword by David Armitage. — Princeton University Press, 2014. — 853 p. For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French,...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. — 534 p. A History of the Modern Worldis a careful, well-written narrative of major events from the late Middle Ages to the political and religious conflicts at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It offers a wide-ranging survey that helps readers understand both the complexities of great events (e.g., the French Revolution, the First World War,...
Routledge, 2019. — 277 p. Though the participation of France in the American Revolution is well established in the historiography, the role of Spain, France's ally, is relatively understudied and underappreciated. Spain's involvement in the conflict formed part of a global struggle between empires and directly influenced the outcome of the clash between Britain and its North...
Ashgate, 2009. — 423 p. Efforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of political ideas and government policy. In order to...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 312 p. In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to examine their development, from efficacious forms of governance to coercive violence. Beginning with a narrative...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 312 p. An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship. In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 255 p. Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age is an interdisciplinary introduction to cross-cultural encounters in the early modern age (1400-1800) and their influences on the development of world societies. In the aftermath of Mongol expansion across Eurasia, the unprecedented rise of imperial states in the early modern period set in...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2005. — 325 p. — ISBN 0-415-16518-0. Several theses discussing the much debated cause of the crisis of the 17th Century and whether it actually existed. Views ranging from solely economic attributes to lack of governmental flexibility to change with the times is argued as the sole reasons for the crisis. Some center completely on Europe, showing their...
Routledge, 1997. — 325 p. Several theses discussing the much debated cause of the crisis of the 17th Century and whether it actually existed. Views ranging from solely economic attributes to lack of governmental flexibility to change with the times is argued as the sole reasons for the crisis. Some center completely on Europe, showing their ethnocentrism, while other...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 760 p. Offering the definitive account of Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of the first global empire, this is the first book to present crucial, newly rediscovered evidence about the first Holy Roman Emperor. Author Geoffrey Parker, among the top Hispanic historians in the world, found an archive unseen for a century, containing fifty-two boxes of...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 904 p. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 904 p. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished...
Collins, 1979. — 288 p. The Dutch Revolt in its European Setting. Spain, her Enemies and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1559-1648. Why Did the Dutch Revolt Last So Long? The Dutch Revolt and the Polarization of International Politics. The Military Context of the Revolt. The ‘Military Revolution, 1560-1660’ - a Myth? Mutiny and Discontent in the Spanish Army of Flanders,...
Little, Brown and Company, 1910. — 557 p. I thought Francis Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe was a brilliant story of the battle for supremacy between the British and the French of colonial America. The story was great. From George Washington's men murdering Jumonville and the surrender of Fort Neccessity to the ambush of Braddock by the French and Indians near the Mononghahela....
New York: John Benjamins, 2019. — 238 p. This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the 'long' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between theAncien Regimeand the contemporary period, with the rise of the middle classes as economic,...
Brill, 2009. — 473 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 148). This book recounts the first fifteen years, early education and marriage negotiations of the Habsburg Archduchess, Elizabeth, who grew up in the Royal and Imperial Courts of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It portrays life at the court of Elizabeth's mother, the...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2013. — 182 p. Philip II of Spain, the most powerful monarch in sixteenth-century Europe and a ferocious empire-builder, was matched against the dauntless queen of England, Elizabeth I, determined to defend her country and thwart Philip's ambitions. Philip had been king of England while married to Elizabeth's half-sister, Bloody Mary Tudor, a...
Polity Press, 2025. — 349 р. — ISBN- 13: 978- 1-5095- 6176- 6 Along with man’s inhumanity to woman, slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civiliza-tion, and its traces can be seen in archaeological fi ndings, pre- literate legends and myths, and observations of surviving hunter- gatherer societies (Biermann and Jankowiak,...
Böhlau Verlag, 2004. — 1134 p. — (Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. Ergänzungsband 44). Die Quellenkunde der Habsburgermonarchie stellt ein unverzichtbares Handbuch für die Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit dar. Seit der letzten, 1982 von Erich Zöllner herausgegebenen, überblicksartigen Zusammenstellung der "Quellen der Geschichte Österreichs" sind...
University of California Press, 1976. — 178 p. Mr. Pearson's discussion of the reaction of the rulers and merchants of Gujarat, in western India, to the trade-control measures imposed by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century makes to contributions to historical research.
Longman, 1993. — 368 p. This reference/companion reviews all aspects of European nationalism from the French Revolution through to the aftermath of World War I when the nationalist issues and problems that are coming to dominate the political history of our own time were already fully established. It provides the reader with the necessary facts and figures in a series of...
Cambridge, 2004. xx, 173 p. — ISBN: 0-521-65096-8 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History). Karl Gunnar Persson surveys a broad sweep of economic history, examining one of the most crucial markets – grain. His analysis allows him to draw more general lessons – for example, that liberalisation of markets was linked to political authoritarianism. Grain Markets in Europe,...
Routledge, 2004. — 264 p. Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 475 p. 1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a historiography for 1848 that has persisted for more than 150 years. Serial Revolutions 1848 shows how, far from being the failure that Karl Marx claimed them to be, the revolutions of 1848 were a...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 520 p. The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking “A searing survey of ‘250 years of human bondage’ in what is now the state of California......
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 340 p. The French emigration was an exilic movement triggered by the 1789 French Revolution with long-lasting social, cultural, and political impacts that continued well into the nineteenth century. At times paradoxical, the political and legal implications of being an émigré are detangled in this edited collection, thus bringing to light unexpected...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 274 p. International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they are exposed to pressures of war, economic competition and the spread of hegemonic legitimacy standards. However, historically it is heterogeneity, not homogeneity, that has most often defined international systems. Examining...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 255 p. From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European expansion, building the world’s first genuinely...
Basic Books, 1998. — 735 p. The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a hegemonic grip on the world today, while no other European power - Spain, France, Germany, or Russia - did? The answer to this, according to Phillips, lies in a close...
Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd, 2014. — 144 p. This is a highly readable and generously illustrated history of piracy and privateering in the Indian Ocean. At the beginning of the 17th century, pirates infested the Caribbean waters, harassing the major European powers, but they were eventually driven from the region. Some pirates took refuge in Madagascar, where they attempted...
Springer Nature, 2019. — 368 p. This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic...
Routledge, 1995. — 280 p. Themes in Modern European History 1780-1830 is an authoritative and lively exploration of a period dominated by events which have shaped modern Europe. In a series of articles, six leading academics present some controversial conclusions: * the east/west contrast in Europe today has more to do with responses to the French Revolution of 1789 than the...
University of Toronto Press, 2010. — 290 p. Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 345 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). The Napoleonic Empire played a crucial role in reshaping global landscapes and in realigning international power structures on a worldwide scale. When Napoleon died, the map of many areas had completely changed, making room for Russia's ascendency and Britain's rise to world power.
Yale University Press, 2015. — 371 p. Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of exciting new visions of human rights and universal freedom. This expansive history explores how the revolutionary ideas that...
Routledge, 2000. — 199 p. An A-Z of Modern Europe 1789-1999 is a comprehensive dictionary which defines modern Europe through its important events and people. It includes entries on: * key people from Napoleon Bonaparte to Hitler * key political and military events * influential political, social, cultural and economic theories. An A-Z of Modern Europe 1789-1999 offers accessible...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 340 p. This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new,...
Routledge, 2013. — 572 p. Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the...
Leiden: Brill, 2019. — 375 p. — (Intersections 66). This bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues presents a multitude of texts, from the genres beginnings (Rabelaiss satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700. Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the...
University of South Carolina Press, 2020. — 239 p. "For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity or find it transformed. Through this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry offer vivid new accounts of how individuals remapped race, gender, and...
Routledge, 2021. — 190 p. Historical research on modern dictatorship has often neglected the relevance of the nineteenth century, instead focusing on twentieth-century dictatorial rules. Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century brings together scholars of political thought, the history of ideas and gender studies in order to address this oversight. Political dictatorship is often...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 288 p. Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–31. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 342 p. Focusing on the genesis of 'constitutional monarchism' in the context of the French Restoration and its favourable reception in post-Napoleonic Germany, this study highlights the potential and limitations of a daring attempt to improve traditional forms of monarchical legitimacy by means of a modern representative constitution.
Laterza, 2021. — 320 p. Le terre dell’Adriatico orientale sono state uno dei laboratori della violenza politica del 1900: scontri di piazza, incendi, ribellioni militari come quella di D’Annunzio, squadrismo, conati rivoluzionari, stato di polizia, persecuzione delle minoranze, terrorismo, condanne del tribunale speciale fascista, pogrom antiebraici, lotta partigiana, guerra ai...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 255 p. This volume looks at how, during the age of empires (1800–1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldwide, a rite of passage everywhere with major cultural significance. While in some ways the institution of marriage became threatened – for instance through rising divorce rates in Western societies – in others it became more...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 360 p. A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade “This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade “A masterful...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 232 p. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E. A. Freeman since the publication of W. R. W. Stephens’ Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman (1895). While Freeman is often viewed by modern scholars as a panegyrist to English progress and a proponent of Aryan racial theory, this study suggests...
Duncker and Humblot, 1875. — 306 p. Die erste Koalition (1792–1797) europäischer Mächte wollte versuchen, die Französische Revolution und ihre Auswirkungen einzudämmen oder gar ganz rückgängig zu machen. Allerdings muss hierbei hervorgehoben werden, dass Frankreich den Krieg mit der Kriegserklärung vom 20. April 1792 begann. Die Koalition begann 1791 mit der Pillnitzer...
Basic Books, 2008. — 478 p. Map The Forest of Bayonets The Collapse The Springtime of Peoples The Red Summer The Counter-Revolutionary Autumn 1849: The Indian Summer of the Revolution Acknowledgements Notes
Routledge, 2021. — 298 p. This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project from as early as the sixteenth century but especially...
Beacon Press, 2001. — 442 p. Winner of the International Labor History AwardLong before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 368 p. After emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with independence and republicanism. Optimistic about the liberation movements sweeping Latin America, they were particularly eager to disrupt the Portuguese Empire. Anticipating the establishment of a...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. — 700 р. — ISBN 978-1-5266-5377-2 A tour of those farflung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times'This is the book for expanding your ancient history horizon' Tristan Hughes, host of 'The Ancients' podcastWhat was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? When Ovid was exiled from Rome to...
Routledge, 2018. — 230 p. This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas, and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. In this period, the transformation of the world economy associated with the Industrial Revolution fuelled dramatic changes in the international countryside, as landowning...
Belknap Press, 2020. — 312 p. Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation. The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I by telling the story...
Routledge, 2020. — 290 p. This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and exchanges. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds, bacteria and viruses; technological and scientific knowledge and fashions all arrived in, and moved...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. — 253 p. Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire An Empire of Trade: Commercial Reason of State in Seventeenth-Century Holland A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years’ War Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires Views from the South:...
Einaudi, 2023. — 288 p. Tra il 1350 e il 1750 il mondo atlantico fu uno spazio di comunicazione tra Europa, Africa e Americhe: l'oceano Atlantico si trasformò da area di confine e di totale separazione fra i tre continenti in uno spazio fondamentale di scambi economici e culturali. Fino al XV secolo, africani, americani ed europei non sapevano nulla dell'esistenza degli altri...
University of Texas Press, 2005. — 225 p. From the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States took ownership of the land from the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico to the Pacific Coast of Alta and Baja California—today's American Southwest. Each country faced the challenge of holding on to territory that was poorly known and...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 288 p. This book presents a modern critical edition of Henry VIII's second published work against Martin Luther. This open letter to Luther, printed at the king's command in December 1526, was in reply to a private letter addressed to him by Luther the previous year. Its particular interest lies in the fact that, unlike his better known Assertion of the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 344 p. By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haïti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prophétesse, a free black Dominican coffee farmer who dressed in women's clothes and claimed that the Virgin Mary was his godmother. Inspired by...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 288 p. Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter enemies, often at war...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 288 p. Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter enemies, often at war...
Routledge, 2019. — 480 p. Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of application. Those who sought support for their plans and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 652 p. This book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the period from the rise of the great multicultural, conquest empires in the late...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 314 p. This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 378 p. Capitalism in Chaos explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World War―the prosperity of business elites and bankers in service of the war effort during the destruction of capital and wealth by belligerent armies. This study of business life amid war and massive geopolitical changes follows industrialists and...
Routledge, 2005. — 277 p. Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized. Taking a global view,...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 301 p. This innovative book looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion--which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony--in order to explore the more human and realistic dimensions of European experiences abroad. David Ringrose argues that Early Modern Europe was relatively poor and that its...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 202 p. This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance. Using Foucault’s philosophical archaeology as method, this work argues that the European formation of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 280 p. Drawing upon Ottoman, Russian, and Bulgarian archival sources, this book explores the nexus between the environment, epidemic disease, human mobility, and the centralizing initiatives of the Ottoman and Russian states in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As part of a broader discussion on Ottoman-Russian diplomacy, this book...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 477 p. Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations. Before 1700, Scotland and Naples faced a bleak future as backward,...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. — 366 S. — (Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 71). Der Band setzt sich zum Ziel, exemplarisch transkulturelle Kommunikationsprozesse im Großfürstentum Litauen sowie in den östlichen Gebieten der polnischen Krone im späten Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit zu untersuchen. Die Beiträge richten das Augenmerk auf interkonfessionelle...
Routledge, 2021. — 361 p. Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe. Whenever there was cultural contact in the context of European colonization and empire-building,...
Brill, 2007. — viii, 428 p. — (The Atlantic World 11). The role of proprietorships or ‘private’ colonies in imperial development has not received the attention it deserves, notwithstanding recent scholarly emphasis on ‘state-building’. The continued use of these ‘private’ devices, even as early modern European nation-states grew more potent, is not only interesting, but is...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 342 p. An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance. Ricardo...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 256 p. This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. In this period, the two polities adopted constitutional arrangements different in depth and scope but based on the same...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 392 p. When encountering unfamiliar environments in India and the Philippines, the British and the Americans wrote extensively about the first taste of mango and meat spiced with cumin, the smell of excrement and coconut oil, the feel of humidity and rough cloth against skin, the sound of bells and insects, and the appearance of dark-skinned...
Routledge, 2019. — 424 p. First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines government...
Saqi Books, 2023. — 576 p. In the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire. However, by the end of the First World War in November 1918, this great civilization-once regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear-had been...
Saqi Books, 2023. — 576 p. In the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire. However, by the end of the First World War in November 1918, this great civilization-once regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear-had been...
Leiden: Brill, 2016. — XI, 274 p. — (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, vol. 5). — ISBN: 978-90-04-32335-3 The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. In the late fifteenth century and early...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. — 214 p. Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to our understanding of the cultural construction of boundaries between public and private. Historians and feminists will pursue for some time her questions about the process and consequences of excluding women from the public arena and their...
Routledge, 2021. — 332 p. Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between different...
Oxford University Press, 1959. — 211 p. The French Wars of Religion were a prolonged period of war and popular unrest between Catholics and Huguenots in the Kingdom of France between 1562 and 1598. Much of the conflict took place during the long regency of Queen Catherine de' Medici, widow of Henry II of France, for her minor sons. It also involved a dynastic power struggle...
Polity Press, 2016. — 362 p. In this latest addition to the War and Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modern period. He traces the innovative military technologies and practices that emerged around 1500, exploring the different forms of warfare including dynastic...
Routledge, 2021. — 230 p. Deposing Monarchs analyses depositions in Northern Europe between 1500 and 1700 as a type of frequent political conflict which allows to present new ideas on early modern state formation, monarchy, and the conventions of royal rulership. The book revises earlier conceptualizations of depositions as isolated, unique events that emerged in the context of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 352 p. In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the...
Verlag C.H. Beck, 2020. — 288 p. Karl V. ist der mächtigste Herrscher seiner Zeit - und der ohnmächtigste zugleich. In seinem Reich geht die Sonne nicht unter, doch nach seinem Willen formen kann er es nicht. Ebenso wenig gelingt es ihm, die große Kirchenspaltung aufzuhalten, mit der die Einheit der Christenwelt zerbricht. Heinz Schilling schildert in dieser Biographie, wie der...
Reaktion Books, 2016. — 352 p. This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those who...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 241 p. — (History of Warfare 75). The two centuries that chronologically bind the topics in this volume span a period in which Europe was in its global ascendancy. The projection of imperial powers reflected the increasing centralization of states. The ability of state institutions to control and pay for the acquisition, protection and...
McFarland, 2017. — 275 p. The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia marked the emergence of the nation-state as the dominant political entity in Europe. This book traces the development of the nation-state from its infancy as a virtual dynastic possession, through its incarnation as the embodiment of the sovereign popular will. Three sections chronicle the critical epochs of this...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 816 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198820567. This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 816 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198820567. This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 400 p. This original volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically how ‘culture’, defined in the widest sense, was exploited during the...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 409 p. A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order – and made the Industrial Revolution possible. Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch...
Verso, 2018. — 272 p. A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era. The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 352 p. From the height of 'New Imperialism' until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a 'civilising mission'. Available in paperback...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 207 p. This work of comparative history explores the array of ceremonies that the English, the Spanish, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch performed to enact their taking possession of the New World. The book develops the historic cultural contexts of these ceremonies, and tackles the implications of these histories for contemporary...
Globe Pequot, 2017. — 224 р. Tales of swashbuckling adventure, murder, treachery, and mayhem! One would be mistaken to think of pirates as roaming only the Caribbean. Pirates as famous as William Kidd and Henry Every have at various times plundered, pillaged, and murdered their way up and down the New England seaboard, striking fear among local merchants and incurring the wrath...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 352 p. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the British Empire and Black emancipation in the United States. In this age of global capital, U.S. slavery exploded to a vastness hitherto unseen, propelled forward by the outrush of...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 304 p. This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - a form of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic development, and often...
Thistle Publishing, 2013. — 314 p. Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler were two of history’s greatest dictators. In this ground-breaking study, Desmond Seward finds striking parallels between their careers and their roles in shaping the destiny of modern Europe. He also shows how Carl von Clausewitz’s classic treatise On War – a penetrating analysis of the Napoleonic campaigns...
Celadon Books, 2023. — 352 p. Flee North - A Forgotten Hero and the Flight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland by Scott Shane is a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year. A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer...
Routledge, 2019. — 214 p. Atlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chapter features primary source selections from a variety of non-traditional sources, including travel narratives from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The fully revised and expanded second edition...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 213 p. The Military Revolution and the First International System Iberian Conquistadors and Supplicants Company Sovereigns and the Empires of the East The Asian Invasion of Europe in Context Conclusion How the Europeans Won in the End (Before They Later Lost) Notes
Ashgate, 1998. — 255 p. The alliance made between Cromwell and John IV in 1654, cemented by the Articles of Marriage between Charles II and Catherine of Braganza in 1661 lasted for 156 years. Together, they provided a guarantee of Portugal’s independence and formed a framework for an expansion of trade between England, Portugal and its overseas possessions. The Inquisition had...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 416 p. A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competition. Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a “Second Hundred Years’ War.” Yet officials on both sides also...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 326 p. List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations ‘An Assertion of Liberty Incarnate’: Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America ‘The Sinn Féin of India’: The Reception of Irish Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengal ‘Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn’: The Construction of John Nicholson as a British Imperial Hero An ‘Irish Paladin’: John Nicholson as...
Routledge, 2013. — 365 p. A new and revised edition of Alan Sked’s groundbreaking book which examines how the Habsburg Empire survived the revolutionary turmoil of 1848. ‘The Year of Revolutions', saw the whole of Europe convulsed in turmoil and revolt. Yet the Habsburg Empire survived. As state after state succumbed to the violent winds of change that were sweeping the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 370 p. This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who defrauded investors of millions. The breakdown of...
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1982. — 542 p. — (PIHANS 51). Du XIVe au XVIIe siècle, l'empire ottoman s'est étendu rapidement dans le Sud-Est de l'Europe. Les principautés byzantines et slaves des Balkans tombèrent aux mains des Turcs sans pouvoir leur offrir une résistance effective, de même que les régions littorales de l'Egée, dominées dès la Quatrième...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 320 p. In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world. Sluyter shows that...
Routledge, 2014. — 304 p. Using evidence from contemporary printed images, Smith examines the attitudes of Christian Europe to the Ottoman Empire and to Islam. She also considers the relationship between text and image, placing it in the cultural context of the Reformation and beyond.
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 255 p. Today, the countries bordering the Red Sea are riven with instability. Why are the region's contemporary problems so persistent and interlinked? Through the stories of three compelling characters, Colonial Chaos sheds light on the unfurling of anarchy and violence during the colonial era. A noble Somali sultan, a cunning Yemeni militia...
Routledge, 2002. — 448 p. The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in...
Arktos Media, 2021. — 241 p. Werner Sombart's Traders and Heroes, published in 1915 during World War I, is an insightful and concise treatise on the differences in national character between the English and the Germans. The bourgeois trade mentality of the English clashes with the heroic and sacrificial one of the Germans. While the former only desire individual enrichment and...
Brill, 2012. — 344 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 47). From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender – men accused of being women and women accused of being men – or even hermaphrodites. Using new...
Routledge, 2014. — 491 p. Jonathan Sperber's Revolutionary Europe 1780-1850 is a history of Europe in the age of the French Revolution, from the end of the old regime to the outcome of the revolutions of 1848. Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides a continent-wide history of the key political events and social transformation that took place within this...
Routledge, 2021. — 198 p. This book studies the making of the bourgeoisie the Baltic Sea region in the nineteenth Century. This region was peripheral in comparison to England and France, with respect to urbanization, economic development, liberalism, and consumption. The bourgeoisie was still a class-to-be. By the end of the Century the bourgeoisie was a self-aware class...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 262 p. The emergence of the Balkan national states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been viewed through an Orientalist lens, and their birth and evolution traditionally seen by scholars as the effect of the Ottoman Empire's decline. As a result, the role played by the great European revolutions, wars and intellectual developments is often...
Central European University Press, 2021. — 290 p. The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek "Great Idea" and the Serbian "Načertaniye"). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 312 p. Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, they scattered around Europe, North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Global Refuge provides the first truly...
New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. — vii, 258 p. For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic...
Brill, 2012. — 336 p. This book shows that in Asia and Europe, 17th- early 20th century, the history of free labour is linked to that of coerced labour. Circulation of models, peoples, goods and institutions, and long-term growth contributed to increase coercion.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 188 p. This short book entitled Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants: Bondage in the Indian Ocean World attempts to complicate the understanding of the “transition” from slavery to wage labor in the “long” nineteenth century, 1750–1914. Importantly, it invites a reconsideration of free labor, slavery, and indenture as distinct labor categories and instead...
Routledge, 2016. — 190 p. In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural societies to industrial societies over the past two centuries. Putting the implications for individuals and societies in global context while simultaneously considering the limits of generalization across...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 294 p. Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the...
University of Chicago Press, 1974. — 441 p. In this work Neils Steensgaard combines an analytical economic approach with detailed historic scholarship to provide an imaginative and important analysis of a central incident in modern world history. The event is the breaking of the Portuguese monopoly on Asian trade in the seventeenth century by English and Dutch mercantile...
Purdue University Press, 2020. — 392 p. On Many Routes is about the history of human migration. With a focus on the Habsburg Empire, this innovative work presents an integrated and creative study of spatial mobilities: from short to long term, and intranational and inter-European to transatlantic. Migration was not just relegated to city folk, but likewise was the reality for...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. — 364 p. The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore from Portobelo and Veracruz on the Caribbean coast across the Atlantic to Spain in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 280 p. In Race, Nation, History, Oded Y. Steinberg examines the way a series of nineteenth-century scholars in England and Germany first constructed and then questioned the periodization of history into ancient, medieval, and modern eras, shaping the way we continue to think about the past and present of Western civilization at a...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 518 p. 1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson, examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was transformed, but...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 456 p. In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields of Ukraine--Colonel Rafael del...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 288 p. Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context of the European house. In this volume, Jon Stobart has assembled an international cast of contributors to discuss the ways in which architectural and spatial...
School for Advanced Research Press, 2007. — 448 p. The contributors to this volume critique and abandon the limiting assumption that the European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty, and the imperial state, the authors pay close...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 544 p. This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary analysis, Crane Brinton's 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history, political science, and political sociology to compare and contrast, in their successive phases, the English Revolution of 1640-1660, the...
James Currey, 2015. — 280 p. From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercial relations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic slave trade as well as the trade in ivory and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. — 295 p. Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman with leisure to read the great literature he treasured and...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 336 p. Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at these interactions, Courtly Encounters provides...
State University of New York Press, 2019. — 474 p. A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography. Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800 uses the innovative approach of “connected histories” to address...
State University of New York Press, 2019. — 474 p. A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography. Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800 uses the innovative approach of “connected histories” to address...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 415 p. When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from...
Routledge, 2022. — 279 p. Sul’s history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West. Ginseng emerged as a major international commodity in the seventeenth century, when the East India Company began trading it westward. Europeans were drawn to the...
Routledge, 2015. — 242 p. Focusing on the interconnections of the Atlantic world from 1450-1900, The Atlantic Connection examines the major themes of Atlantic history. During this period, ships, goods, diseases, human beings and ideas flowed across the ocean, tying together the Atlantic basin in a complex web of relationships. Divided into five main thematic sections while...
Royal Historical Society, 2014. — 264 p. This book provides powerful new insights into the history of Italy's long Risorgimento, by tracing the entanglements of the Mazzinian "international". This informal group of men and women crossed the boundary of the Channel and the boundary of class to speak a common language and share a radical ideal: Giuseppe Mazzini's vision of a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 482 p. This book investigates early modern women’s interventions in politics and the public sphere during times of civil war in England and France. Taking this transcultural and comparative perspective, and the period designation “early modern” expansively, Antigone’s Example identifies a canon of women’s civil-war writings; it elucidates their...
Union Square Press, 2011. — 336 p. Throughout history, behind so many de facto rulers, there can often be found a shadowy puppetmaster pulling the strings. Using examples from Machiavelli, Catherine de Medici and Alexander Hamilton to Dick Cheney, Zhou Enlai and Joseph Stalin, Kerwin Swint presents profiles of notorious “king whisperers,” spanning the globe and historical...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 408 p. Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital difficulties in the New Hampshire Gazette—a more common practice for the time and place than contemporary readers might think. John Davis began the exchange after Eunice left him, with a notice resembling...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 454 p. Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who...
Routledge, 2018. — 234 p. This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity through an analysis of otherness’ real experience of Italian travellers, Catholic missionaries and Maltese proto-journalists within Mediterranean border-spaces. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, which integrates the analysis of original and unpublished archival documentation with...
CNRS Éditions, 2014. — 289 p. 1492 : en abordant à San Salvador, Christophe Colomb inaugure la conquête du Nouveau Monde par l'Ancien. L'histoire d'un choc culturel que nous connaissons surtout du point de vue des conquistadors. Ce choc, pourtant, eut aussi lieu en Europe. Jusqu'à l'orée du XXe siècle, plusieurs milliers d'Amérindiens furent en effet conduits vers le Vieux...
Penguin Books, 2009. — 304 p. A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a heterogeneous population. First published in 1941, The Habsburg Monarchy has become indispensable to students of...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free...
Routledge, 2022. — 202 p. Modern Travel in World History uses three themes-technology, mass movements and travelers-to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-century transatlantic explorations to the impact of the global COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. This book focuses on both the evolving nature of travel, from land and sea routes in the 1500s...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 415 p. Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe presents a novel account of the origins of religious pluralism in Europe. Combining comparative historical analysis with contentious political analysis, it surveys six clusters of increasingly destructive religious wars between 1529 and 1651, analyzes the diverse settlements that...
Transl. by Richard Dixon and Alex Miller. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. — 752 p. General Council’s Resolution on the Convocation and Order of the Day of the Hague Congress The Hague Congress of the International Working Men’s Association, September 2-7, 1872 The Congress Sittings. Minutes Benjamin Le Moussu. Minutes Friedrich Sorge. Minutes Statements and proposals...
Transl. by Richard Dixon and Alex Miller. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. — 752 p. General Council’s Resolution on the Convocation and Order of the Day of the Hague Congress The Hague Congress of the International Working Men’s Association, September 2-7, 1872 The Congress Sittings. Minutes Benjamin Le Moussu. Minutes Friedrich Sorge. Minutes Statements and proposals...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 272 p. Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words used rhetoric to make their case. That rhetoric is the subject of this collection of essays exploring the arguments fought over empire in a wide variety of geographic, political, social and...
University of the West Indies Press, 2006. — 380 p. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An important part of that indelibility is marronage thatinvolved both flight from slavery and the establishment of freecommunities. This book is about the struggles of enslaved...
Boydell Press, 2006. — 287 p. Religious ideas and power-politics were strongly connected in the early eighteenth century: William III, George I and George II all took their role as defenders of the protestant faith extremely seriously, and confessional thinking was of major significance to court whiggery. This book considers the importance of this connection. It traces the...
Harvard University Press, 1975. — 354 p. Consistently provocative, thoroughly original In its methods and conclusions. The Rebellious Century: 1830–1930 questions virtually every popular or scholarly assumption about the conditions underlying collective violence. Written by a sociologist, an historian, and an economist, the study presents a comparative history of group actions...
Oxford University Press, 1974. — 448 p. The first comprehensive historical survey of a hitherto neglected and only partially known migration: the export of Indians to supply the labour needed in producing plantation crops in Mauritius, South and East Africa, Caribbean and other countries. This followed the legal ending of slavery and Professor Tinker shows the many features the...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 338 p. "Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers’ corporeality defined...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 338 p. Heirs of Flesh and Paper tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers’ corporeality defined...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 338 p. Heirs of Flesh and Paper tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers’ corporeality defined...
Random House, 2010. — 816 p. A brilliantly original account—narrated from both sides—of the love-hate relationship between Britain and France that began in the time of Louis XIV and shows no sign of abating. That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and Gallic panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the...
State University of New York Press, 2020. — 254 p. This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States, international scholars examine relations among empires,...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0521634938; ISBN13: 978-0521634939 — (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) In order to distinguish between those who may and may not enter or leave, states everywhere have developed extensive systems of identification, central to which is the passport. This innovative book argues that documents such as...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 512 p. The Political Economy of Merchant European Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1350 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organized and well-financed rivals. The volume is a companion to The Rise of Merchant Empires (1990), which dealt with changes in...
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 215 p. Theodore Roosevelt's interest in foreign affairs was no less intense than his zeal for domestic reform, as Eugene P. Trani demonstrates in this new study of the Portsmouth Conference which in 1906 brought an end to the Russo-Japanese war.Conscious of America's growing stature as a world power and concerned lest continued...
Feltrinelli Editore, 2021. — 586 p. Walter Benjamin, probabilmente, aveva appena finito di leggere la Storia della rivoluzione russa di Trockij quando paragonò le rivoluzioni alla fissione nucleare, un’esplosione capace di liberare e moltiplicare energie contenute nel passato. Le rivoluzioni sono movimenti di violenta rottura. Non riguardano singoli individui, ma sono terremoti...
Routledge, 2015. — 672 p. This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as 'modern' began to take shape. Discussing key issues of the period, The Making of Modern Europe, 1647–1780...
Routledge, 2014. — 512 p. The Industrialisation of the Continental Powers is both a broad survey of the process of European industrialisation from the late eighteenth century to the First World War, and also a closely argued comparative economic study of how this process was experienced by different great powers.
Hodder Gibson, 2023. — 241 p. The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in human history. Historians have calculated that, between 1514 and 1866, there were more than 36,000 slave voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. These voyages transported over 12 million captive people from Africa to the colonies of the Caribbean and the wider Americas. As many as 2...
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. — 468 p. Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment. Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution. The Fast Sermons of the Long Parliament. Oliver Cromwell and His...
University Of Chicago Press, 1987. — 334 p. Renaissance Essays, published in 1985, confirmed Hugh Trevor-Roper's reputation as one of the most distinguished writers of history and as an unequaled master of the historical essay. Received with critical acclaim in both England and the United States, the volume gathered wide-ranging essays on both British and European history from...
Seeker and Warburg, 1994. — 360 p. This collection is the third in a series which gathers the best historical essays of Hugh Trevor-Roper, considered by many the unequalled master of the form. The pieces here range from an account of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's mission in China in the sixteenth century to a discussion of the Anglo-Scottish Union. They include essays on medicine...
University of Chicago Press, 1985. — 320 p. Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together pieces on British and European history from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, ending with the Thirty Years War, which Trevor-Roper views as the great historical and...
Brill, 2011. — 343 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 156). The essays in this book examine the role of history and memory in shaping the transnational Huguenot diaspora. They explore the impact of Huguenot emigres on the societies in which they settled and in particular the way that Huguenot history, and collective memory of that history, shaped the...
Routledge, 2017. — 232 p. In March 1757 – early in the Seven Years’ War – a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community, which were to lay undisturbed in the British archives for the...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. — 241 p. Discovering the undefinable end of the Spanish Empire. The fall of the Spanish Empire: that period in the nineteenth century when it lost its colonies in Spanish America and the Philippines. How did it happen? What did the process of the "end of empire" look like? Empire's End considers the nation's imperial legacy beyond this period,...
Brill, 2024. — 286 p. — (Eastern Church Identities 18). This volume addresses the way in which images of Eastern Christianity are constructed in the diaries and travel descriptions of Western voyagers to the Ottoman Empire, during the second half of the sixteenth century. The articles included in the present volume aim to cover a vast geographical area, including the city of...
De Agostini, 2012. — 160 p. Sussidio didattico e di conoscenza, utile per conoscere e ricordare, questo volume si propone di fornire al lettore uno sguardo d'insieme aggiornato della storia del secolo scorso, il Novecento. Attraverso un'organizzazione chiara dei contenuti, il testo è articolato in sezioni e capitoli; le note a margine consentono la rapida individuazione dei temi,...
UPNE, 2011. — 260 p. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an eighteenth-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What’s more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project, and single handedly carried it out. By war’s end, he had supplied...
Ohio University Press, 2019. — 320 p. In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and migration that bring Germany and Prussian Poland closer to the colonial and postcolonial...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Through interdisciplinary essays covering the wide geography of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization investigates the diverse networks and multiple centers of early modern globalization that emerged in conjunction with Iberian imperialism. Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization...
Routledge, 2022. — 238 p. For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time. Much of the lives of urban dwellers in early modern Europe were played out in city streets and squares. By exploring urban...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 230 p. Of Queen Victoria’s four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses. The first to join the family of the ‘Grandmama of Europe’ was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince about to become King Christian IX of Denmark. Charming, ever sympathetic and widely...
Brill, 2019. — 276 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). The course of the French Wars of Religion, commonly portrayed as a series of civil wars, was profoundly shaped by foreign actors. Many German Protestants in particular felt compelled to intervene. In Germany and the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1572 Jonas van Tol examines how Protestant German audiences...
Routledge, 2009. — 836 p. This impressive collection offers the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350 years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton production, and the global picture from pre-industrial times through to the twentieth century. After an introduction, the first part of the book is divided into...
Brill, 2022. — 378 p. — (Mediterranean Reconfigurations 4). Scholars have long debated the use of law to settle international trade disputes in the early modern period. In this book, Tijl Vanneste uses the case study of commercial litigation before the Dutch consular court of Izmir to argue that merchants relied on a particular blend of mercantile customs, which he calls ‘the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 312 p. The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common humanity and the hierarchical language of race in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 312 p. The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common humanity and the hierarchical language of race in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 189 p. A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies.
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 256 p. For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed as treasure troves of information still useful for contemporary society. By the late seventeenth century, however, the progress of scientific discoveries and the new paradigms of rationalism and...
I.B. Tauris, 2023. — 233 p. — ISBN: 978-1-7845-3867-5 How easy and uncomplicated was it for an 18th century, medium-sized, Ottoman trade company to expand its business in the West? What were the decisions to be made and the setbacks to overcome? Which kind of resources, in terms of knowledge, information, experience, contacts and capital, could guarantee its successful passage...
Brill, 2020. — 332 p. — (Studies in Christian Mission 57). Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries) is a collection of articles analysing the interplay between economic and Catholic missions in the early modern period and in the global context of Christian expansion.
Brill, 2021. — 441 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 95). A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome investigates the lives and stories of the many groups and individuals in Rome, between 1500 and approximately 1750, who were not Roman (Latin) Catholic. It shows how early modern Catholic people and institutions in Rome were directly influenced by...
Routledge, 2018. — 305 p. Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse explores for the first time the extent to which the unusual religious diversity and tolerance of the Dutch Republic affected how its residents regarded Jews and Muslims. Analyzing an array of vernacular publications, this book reveals how Dutch writers, especially those within the nonconformist and...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 440 p. Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped especially by spatial features and by pronounced asymmetries of military organisation,...
Robinson, 2019. — 280 p. In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings - and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks that whole Atlantic world, including the Spanish Empire and...
McGill-Queen University Press, 2019. — 336 p. How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 296 p. In the seventeenth century, previously peaceful relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth deteriorated into a series of military confrontations over the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Although scholars have generally interpreted this rivalry in terms of conflicting geopolitical interests, this...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 360 p. The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from Franz I of Austria and Napoleon I in 1804, through Agustín of Mexico, Pedro I of Brazil, Napoleon III of France, Maximilian of Mexico, and Wilhelm I of Germany, to Victoria, empress of India, in 1876. These monarchs projected an imperial aura through coronations,...
University of California Press, 1998. — 248 p. As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. Shaping History shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from popular politics in sixteenth- and...
Peter Lang, 2010. — 245 p. The establishment of universal manhood suffrage and legal equality for Jews in Germany in the 1860s and 1870s gave way to the rise of political anti-Semitism to a degree not witnessed before. In Russia too, as a consequence of the reform era (1855-1881), the «Jewish Question» became one of the most hotly debated topics. In 1881 and 1882 the...
Stanford University Press, 2011. — 405 p. Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival materials, writings, and images...
Routledge, 2004. — 304 p. The nineteenth century was Europe's colonial century. At the beginning of the period, the only colonial empire that existed was the British Empire. By the end of the century the situation was completely different and Europe's colonial possessions had come to constitute a large part of the world. The French had acquired an immense colonial empire and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 340 p. In the 1880s New York-based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic public buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the people and ideas behind this spectacular new departure in revolutionary violence. Employing a transnational approach,...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 276 p. When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, and winters when even the Rio Grande froze. This period of climate change has come to be known...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 304 p. This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individuals mentioned come from...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 565 p. — Second Edition. The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 272 p. Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. — 352 p. The Shogun of Japan is cracking down on the samurai, and is obsessed with cruelty to dogs. A very young Peter the Great is just about to launch his coup d'état and transform Russia. In France, the Sun King rules over a court of unprecedented splendour and ceremonial formality. A Spanish viceroy is leaving Mexico for home, lauded in a baroque...
Pen and Sword Books, 2014. — 256 p. A social history of sea travel from the passengers perspective, encompassing all walks of life and vessels departing from a variety of UK ports. Simon Wills tells the stories of ordinary people who traveled by sea between 1600 and 1940, from early American pioneers to GI brides. Each chapter focuses on a detailed account of a single voyage...
University of California Press, 1970. — 195 p. Tensions in the Netherlands increased greatly between 1576 and 1584. Elizabeth increased her financial commitment to the cause of the Dutch rebels and hired mercenary soldiers to intervene in the conflict under the leadership of John Casimir. However, to say therefore increasing involvement was the responsibility of Elizabeth alone...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. — 608 p. — (FSG Classics). — ISBN10: 0374533458; ISBN13: 978-0374533458. Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the French Revolution up through Lenin's arrival at Finland...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 252 p. This comprehensive book traces the role of money in the creation of the state. Starting in the early modern era, Paul Wilson explores the monetary systems of empires and new states in the age of nation-building in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Spanning a wide geographical and historical range from the creation of the...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 286 p. The early modern Atlantic world, with its flows of bullion, of free and unfree labourers, of colonial produce and of manufactures from Europe and Asia, with mercantile networks and rent-seeking capital, has to date been describedalmost entirely as the preserve of the Western sea powers. More recent scholarship has rediscovered the dense...
Brill, 2017. — 244 p. — (The Atlantic World 33). In The Sun King's Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for contemporaries at the time, Africa and America were omnipresent throughout early modern France: in the textile industry, pharmaceutics,...
Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2018. — 284 p. Zum Jahreswechsel 1688/1689 fand auf den Britischen Inseln die sogenannte Glorreiche Revolution statt König Jakob II./VII. von England, Irland und Schottland und seine Familie flohen auf den Kontinent. Es war der Beginn eines königlichen Exils, das kein Ende mehr finden sollte. Die Stuarts fanden Aufnahme in Frankreich bei König Ludwig...
Berghahn Books, 2003. — 274 p. The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction of ethnic stereotypes during the "long" nineteenth...
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, no date. — 138 p. Introduction (Julian Goodare) Witchcraft! from The EuropeanWitch-Hunt by Julian Goodare Ghosts and Goblins from The Supernatural in Tudor andStuart England by Darren Oldridge The Chronology and Geography of Witch-hunting from TheWitch-Hunt in EarlyModern Europe by Brian P. Levack Angels on a Pinhead from StrangeHistoriesby...
Warszawa: PWN, 2006. — 694 s. Omawiając dzieje dwóch wieków - XVI i XVII - podręcznik opisuje kierunki rozwoju gospodarczo-społecznego Europy, warunki bytowe i codzienne życie ludności, wielkie odkrycia geograficzne, kraje prastarych cywilizacji (Chiny, Japonia, Indie, państwo Wielkiego Mongoła), podbój Ameryki przez Europejczyków, rozwój humanizmu i renesansu, walkę o...
Wyd. IV. — Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1991. — 656 s. Omawiając dzieje dwóch wieków - XVI i XVII - podręcznik opisuje kierunki rozwoju gospodarczo-społecznego Europy, warunki bytowe i codzienne życie ludności, wielkie odkrycia geograficzne, kraje prastarych cywilizacji (Chiny, Japonia, Indie, państwo Wielkiego Mongoła),podbój Ameryki przez Europejczyków, rozwój...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 677 p. This book analyzes the world of 1914 by combining the approaches of traditionalist hermeneutics and 20th century geopolitics. The juxtaposition of these two frameworks, incorporated in the principles of Sacred Geography and Sea Power, allows for a Traditionalist perspective on the choices facing the Ten Great Powers on the eve of...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 120 p. — (A History of the British Merchant Navy). Starting in 1500, the narrative begins with emergence of the Tudor navy during the Elizabethan period when England defied the might of the Spanish Empire on the world stage. It continues through to the Act of Union in 1707 when Great Britain was created and the point when the naval and mercantile...
Routledge, 2022. — 296 p. Women in Christianity in the Age of Empire (1800–1920) offers a broad view of the nineteenth century as a time of dramatic change, particularly for women, critiqued in the light of postcolonial theory. This edited volume includes important contributions from academics in the field. Overarching themes include the cult of domesticity, the changing impact...
Westport CT; London: Greenwood Press, 2008. — 304 p. — (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500–1900) — ISBN-10: 0313337691; ISBN-13: 978-0313337697. The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economy―and later the economies of Western Europe and the U.S.―from a rural, agricultural system into an industrial...
Westport CT; London: Greenwood Press, 2008. — 304 p. — (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500–1900) — ISBN 978-0313337697, 0313337691. The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economy―and later the economies of Western Europe and the U.S.―from a rural, agricultural system into an industrial society,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 384 p. In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 484 p. From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 531 p. This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political...
Reprint Services Corporation, 1993. — 236 p. This study of relations examines the close diplomatic association of Russia and the United States, both close and distant. The book deals particularly with the still vital and very timely question: the control of Manchuria. It describes in detail the struggle between Russia and America, checked and counterchecked by nearly all the...
Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 288 p. Rebels and Rulers, 1500–1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character of revolution in early modern Europe have been among the most widely discussed and...
Shepheard-Walwyn, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780856835131, 978-0856835131 Examining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit". In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassination said to have triggered it, John Zametica, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and the Balkans, re-examines the evidence. This leads to a number of radical new...
Shepheard-Walwyn, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780856835131, 978-0856835131 Examining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit". In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassination said to have triggered it, John Zametica, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and the Balkans, re-examines the evidence. This leads to a number of radical new...
Shepheard-Walwyn, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780856835131, 978-0856835131 Examining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit". In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassination said to have triggered it, John Zametica, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and the Balkans, re-examines the evidence. This leads to a number of radical new...
Endeavour Press, 2014. — 488 p. In Holy Madness, Adam Zamoyski has written a history of revolutions, and of the romantic and sometimes ridiculous revolutionaries who inspired them. But because revolution was so ubiquitous an activity in the 19th century, what he has actually produced is a comprehensive account of Western civilization from 1776 to 1871. Inspired by the American...
Basic Books, 2015. — 445 p. For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their powerand their headswere at risk. Driven by paranoia, they chose to fight back against every threat and...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 416 p. Following on from his epic 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow , bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 416 p. Following on from his epic 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow , bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 224 p. Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean investigates the long process of transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states by narrating the biographies of a group of people who were born within empires but came of age surrounded by the emerging vocabulary of nationalism, much of which they themselves created. It is the...
Routledge, 2000. — 177 p. Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300 - 1800 is an important survey of the relationship between monarchy and state in early modern European history. Spanning five centuries and covering England, France, Spain, Germany and Austria, this book considers the key themes in the formation of the modern state in Europe.The relationship of the...
Viella, 2008. — 230 p. Napoleona Elisa Baciocchi, figlia di Elisa Bonaparte, era già da bambina una miniatura dello zio Imperatore: stessi lineamenti, stesso carattere collerico e prepotente. Cresciuta nell’assoluta fedeltà al mito napoleonico, nel 1830 si fece coinvolgere in un complotto ordito dai cugini Bonaparte, che mirava ad insediare il duca di Reichstadt (il figlio di...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 415 p. In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that...
Brill, 2016. — 454 p. — (Intersections 46). How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as the silence of the illiterate are...
Pannonica Kiado, 2000. — 273 p. A könyv a 17. század történetének nagy folyamából néhány meghatározó jelenséget mutat be: a "napkeleti és napnyugoti" hatalmakkal folytatott egyensúlyozó politika mellett a központi hatalom és a rendiség évszázados küzdelmét a királyi Magyarországon és az Erdélyi Fejedelemségben, az oszmán katonai megszállást és az ellene kiépített védelmet, de...
Nordic Academic Press. 2015. — 343 p. From one point of view, political parties are an integral part of democracy as we know it today; likewise, for instance, the left–right cleavage is considered as the ‘normal’ scale along which parties are supposed to orientate themselves. From a historical point of view, however, the very idea of organizing interests in the form of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 424 p. In Age of Rogues , leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time. Rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers played central roles in the violent process of...
Wyd. VI. — Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1990. — 655 s. Omawiając lata 1789-1870 podręcznik przedstawia sprawę polską na tle wydarzeń międzynarodowych (m.in. rozbiory, powstanie styczniowe), rewolucje we Francji, okres napoleoński, układ sił w Europie w dobie Świętego Przymierza, Wiosnę Ludów (Francja, Niemcy, Austria, Włochy, Prusy, Węgry, Portugalia, Hiszpania,...
Θεσσαλονίκη: Εκδόσεις Βάνιας, 2009. — 664 σ. Ίδρυση, άνοδος και επέκταση της οθωμανικής αυτοκρατορίας. Αποσταθεροποίηση και προϊούσα παρακμή της οθωμανικής αυτοκρατορίας. Η περίοδος των μεταρρυθμίσεων στην οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία. Από τον Σελίμ Γ' στον Αβδούλ Χαμίτ Β'. Η εθνική αφύπνιση στη νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη, τα εθνικά κινήματα και η ίδρυση εθνικών κρατών μέχρι την ανατολική...
Скопје, 2011. — 205 с. Книга представляет собой сборник документов, касающийся Восточного вопроса и истории Балкан XIX - начала XX века. На македонском языке. Предговор Вовед: Балканот од 1826 до 1913 година Документи
М.: Родина, 2021. — 332 с. — (Документальный триллер) — ISBN 978-5-00180-214-3. В книге известного философа, одного из учредителей Изборского клуба представлены его новые философские и культурологические работы, а также публицистические статьи, объединенные темой национального пробуждения патриотического интеллектуального класса. Вся книга вращается вокруг цивилизационных...
М.: Родина, 2021. — 332 с. — (Документальный триллер) — ISBN 978-5-00180-214-3. В книге известного философа, одного из учредителей Изборского клуба представлены его новые философские и культурологические работы, а также публицистические статьи, объединенные темой национального пробуждения патриотического интеллектуального класса. Вся книга вращается вокруг цивилизационных...
М.: Родина, 2021. — 332 с. В книге известного философа, одного из учредителей Изборского клуба представлены его новые философские и культурологические работы, а также публицистические статьи, объединенные темой национального пробуждения патриотического интеллектуального класса.Вся книга вращается вокруг цивилизационных кодов, ключевых мифов, народных «мемов» – из чего...
М.: Книжный мир, 2014. — 470 с. — (Служить России) — ISBN 978-5-8041-0721-6. Россия явила в истории опыт правильной, жизнеспособной империи. Западный секулярный проект с его мнимыми толерантностью и гуманностью по отношению к «иным», навязывает окружающему миру совершенно ненужные ему представления, модели поведения, установки, порою не просто чуждые, а прямо кощунственные и...
М.: Книжный мир, 2014. — 470 с. — (Служить России) — ISBN 978-5-8041-0721-6. Россия явила в истории опыт правильной, жизнеспособной империи. Западный секулярный проект с его мнимыми толерантностью и гуманностью по отношению к «иным», навязывает окружающему миру совершенно ненужные ему представления, модели поведения, установки, порою не просто чуждые, а прямо кощунственные и...
М.: Экзамен, 2008. — 186 с. Настоящее пособие подготовлено в соответствии с программой курса «История Нового времени». Предложенное издание рассматривает основные и наиболее важные вопросы, необходимые как для подготовки к экзамену, так и для успешной его сдачи. Особенности периода нового времени в контексте всемирной истории. Значение периода нового времени. Открытие Америки и...
М.: Экзамен, 2008. - 186 с. В предлагаемом издании представлены модельные ответы на экзаменационные вопросы по истории нового времени. Ответы на экзаменационные вопросы даны в соответствии с программой курса. Представленные материалы помогут подготовиться и успешно сдать экзамен по истории нового времени. Содержание: Особенности периода нового времени в контексте всемирной...
СПб.: Типография Акционерного Общества "Брокгауз-Ефрон", 1902. — [6], 183 с.
Содержание:
Происхождение абсолютизма.
Ранний абсолютизм (итальянский принципат).
Испанско-Габсбургский абсолютизм.
Абсолютная монархия во Франции.
Составил профессор П.Н. Ардашев в сотрудничестве с приват-доцентом Н.И. Никифоровым и преподавателями В.Н. Евстафьевым, Б.А. Зарудским и Н.П. Руткевичем; Переводчики: Александр Германович Генкель, Н.А. Макшеева, В.С. Протопопов, Дмитрий Николаевич Егоров, А.Н. Савин. — Киев: Типография 2-й артели, 1914. — IV, 228 c. Содержание: Об уединении / Петрарка Ф.; Из сонетов: "К...
Составил профессор П.Н. Ардашев в сотрудничестве с приват-доцентом Н.И. Никифоровым и преподавателями В.Н. Евстафьевым, Б.А. Зарудским и Н.П. Руткевичем; Переводчики: Александр Германович Генкель, Н.А. Макшеева, В.С. Протопопов, Дмитрий Николаевич Егоров, А.Н. Савин. — Киев: Типография 2-й артели, 1914. — IV, 228 c.
Содержание: Об уединении / Петрарка Ф.; Из сонетов: "К...
Учебник. — Киев: Типография Киевской 2-й Артели, 1915. — 298 с. Дореволюционная орфография. Для VII кл. мужских гимназий. Предисловие Извлечение из оффициальной части "Журнала Министерства Народного Просвещения" Гуманизм Гуманизм, как возрождение классической древности. Новые люди. Гуманизм, как проявление индивидуализма. Открытие античного мира. Гуманизм в Италии. Античные...
Учебник. — Киев: Типография Киевской 2-й Артели, 1915. — 298 с. Для VII кл. мужских гимназий. Предисловие Извлечение из оффициальной части "Журнала Министерства Народного Просвещения" Гуманизм Гуманизм, как возрождение классической древности. Новые люди. Гуманизм, как проявление индивидуализма. Открытие античного мира. Гуманизм в Италии. Античные традиции. Данте. Начало...
Киев : Типография 2-ой Артели, 1915. — 255 с. Данная книга охватывает период становления Абсолютизма и Революции в Европе (Франция, Англия, Германия). В хрестоматии представлены мемуары, сочинения, записки и письма известных политических деятелей, таких как Сен-Симон, Неккер и Колберт. Также зафиксированы воспоминания и документальные хронологические свидетельства. Время...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 721 с. — (Культура повседневности). — ISBN: 978-54448-0579-4. Пятитомная «История частной жизни» — всеобъемлющее исследование, созданное в 1980-е годы группой французских, британских и американских ученых под руководством прославленных историков из Школы «Анналов» — Филиппа Арьеса и Жоржа Дюби. Пятитомник охватывает всю историю Запада с...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 721 с. — (Культура повседневности). — ISBN: 978-54448-0579-4. Пятитомная «История частной жизни» — всеобъемлющее исследование, созданное в 1980-е годы группой французских, британских и американских ученых под руководством прославленных историков из Школы «Анналов» — Филиппа Арьеса и Жоржа Дюби. Пятитомник охватывает всю историю Запада с...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 721 с. — (Культура повседневности). — ISBN: 978-54448-0579-4. Пятитомная «История частной жизни» — всеобъемлющее исследование, созданное в 1980-е годы группой французских, британских и американских ученых под руководством прославленных историков из Школы «Анналов» — Филиппа Арьеса и Жоржа Дюби. Пятитомник охватывает всю историю Запада с...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 721 с. — (Культура повседневности). — ISBN: 978-54448-0579-4. Пятитомная «История частной жизни» — всеобъемлющее исследование, созданное в 1980-е годы группой французских, британских и американских ученых под руководством прославленных историков из Школы «Анналов» — Филиппа Арьеса и Жоржа Дюби. Пятитомник охватывает всю историю Запада с...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 721 с. — (Культура повседневности). — ISBN: 978-54448-0579-4. Пятитомная «История частной жизни» — всеобъемлющее исследование, созданное в 1980-е годы группой французских, британских и американских ученых под руководством прославленных историков из Школы «Анналов» — Филиппа Арьеса и Жоржа Дюби. Пятитомник охватывает всю историю Запада с...
Перевод с английского А. И. Ромма. — М.: Красная новь, 1924. — 159 с. Настоящий учебник написан одним лицом, а затем тщательно пересмотрен и частично переработан Издательским Комитетом. Мы предполагаем придерживаться того же метода и в дальнейших книжках, которые войдут в серию учебников Лиги „Плебс", так что каждая из них будет плодом своею рода „коллективного творчества"....
Перевод с английского А. И. Ромма. — М.: Красная новь, 1924. — 159 с. Настоящий учебник написан одним лицом, а затем тщательно пересмотрен и частично переработан Издательским Комитетом. Мы предполагаем придерживаться того же метода и в дальнейших книжках, которые войдут в серию учебников Лиги „Плебс", так что каждая из них будет плодом своею рода „коллективного творчества"....
Учебное пособие. В 2-х ч. — Благовещенск: Издательство БГПУ, 2006. — 244 с. — ISBN: 5-8331-0115-8. Учебное пособие посвящено некоторым аспектам истории протестантской Реформации в Западной Европе XVI в. Главное внимание в нём уделено рассмотрению исторических условий возникновения реформационного движения и мировоззренческим основам двух наиболее значимых протестантских учений...
Учебное пособие. В 2-х ч. — Благовещенск: Издательство БГПУ, 2006. — 244 с. — ISBN: 5-8331-0115-8. Учебное пособие посвящено некоторым аспектам истории протестантской Реформации в Западной Европе XVI в. Главное внимание в нём уделено рассмотрению исторических условий возникновения реформационного движения и мировоззренческим основам двух наиболее значимых протестантских учений...
М.: Мысль, 1964. — 582 с. К столетию основания Международного товарищества рабочих. Предисловие. Исторические предпосылки образования Международного Товарищества Рабочих. Основание Международного Товарищества Рабочих. Конституирование Интернационала как массовой международной организации пролетариата (ноябрь 1864 - сентябрь 1866 г.). Утверждение социалистических принципов в...
М.: Мысль, 1964. — 582 с. К столетию основания Международного товарищества рабочих. Содержание Предисловие Исторические предпосылки образования Международного Товарищества Рабочих. Основание Международного Товарищества Рабочих. Конституирование Интернационала как массовой международной организации пролетариата (ноябрь 1864 - сентябрь 1866 г.). Утверждение социалистических...
М.: Мысль, 1964. — 632 с. К столетию основания Международного товарищества рабочих. Содержание Предисловие Интернационал и франко-прусская война 1870 - 1871 гг. Генеральный Совет в период войны Влияние Генерального Совета нв выработку интернациональной линии пролетариата Германии в войне Секции Интернационала во Франции в период войны Интернационал и Парижская Коммуна Обобщение...
М.: Мысль, 1965. — 632 с. К столетию основания Международного товарищества рабочих. ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ Предисловие Глава 1. Интернационал и франко-прусская война 1870 - 1871 гг. I. Генеральный Совет в период войны II. Влияние Генерального Совета нв выработку интернациональной линии пролетариата Германии в войне III. Секции Интернационала во Франции в период войны Глава 2. Интернационал...
М.: Мысль, 1968. — 280 с. К столетию основания Международного товарищества рабочих. Предисловие. Зарождение марксистской историографии Первого Интернационала. Истоки реформистской и анархистской историографии Первого Интернационала. Буржуазные современники о Международном Товариществе Рабочих. Различные направления в историографии Первого Интернационала в конце XIX - начале XX...
М.: Мысль, 1968. — 280 с. К столетию основания Международного товарищества рабочих. Содержание Предисловие Зарождение марксистской историографии Первого Интернационала. Истоки реформистской и анархистской историографии Первого Интернационала. Буржуазные современники о Международном Товариществе Рабочих. Различные направления в историографии Первого Интернационала в конце XIX -...
Учебное пособие. — Нижний Новгород: Нижегородский госуниверситет, 2020. — 154 с. Пособие предназначено для студентов-бакалавров 1-го курса направлений подготовки: 41.03.01 «Зарубежное регионоведение», 41.03.04 «Политология», 41.03.05 «Международные отношения», 42.03.01 «Реклама и связи с общественностью», 43.03.02 «Туризм», изучающих курс «Всемирной истории». Пособие включает...
Нови Сад: Матица српска, 2014. — 655 с. Уводна разматрања Велики краљ и мали опат (1663-1683) На истоку (1683-1688) "Између Сунца и полумесеца" (1689-1697/99) Рат за шпанско наслеђе (1701-1714) Поново на истоку (1716-1718) Државник, градитеље, поклоник уметности и науке (1718-1736) Eugene of Savoy and his times - Summary Eugen von Savoyen und seine zeit - Zusammenfassung Извори и...
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Весенняя экскурсия в город.
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СПб.: Издание и типография О.И. Бакста, 1864. — 450 с. Георг Готфрид Гервинус (Georg Gottfried Gervinus; 1805-1871) - немецкий историк, литературовед, либеральный политик. Профессор университетов в Гёттингене и Гейдельберге. Накануне и в период Революции 1848-1849 один из видных деятелей либерально-буржуазной оппозиции в Юго-Западной Германии; член Франкфуртского парламента...
СПб.: Издание и типография О.И. Бакста, 1876. — 364 с. Георг Готфрид Гервинус (Georg Gottfried Gervinus; 1805-1871) - немецкий историк, литературовед, либеральный политик. Профессор университетов в Гёттингене и Гейдельберге. Накануне и в период Революции 1848-1849 один из видных деятелей либерально-буржуазной оппозиции в Юго-Западной Германии; член Франкфуртского парламента...
СПб.: Издание и типография О.И. Бакста, 1868. — 426 с. Георг Готфрид Гервинус (Georg Gottfried Gervinus; 1805-1871) - немецкий историк, литературовед, либеральный политик. Профессор университетов в Гёттингене и Гейдельберге. Накануне и в период Революции 1848-1849 один из видных деятелей либерально-буржуазной оппозиции в Юго-Западной Германии; член Франкфуртского парламента...
СПб.: Издание О.И. Бакста, Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1888. — 508 с. Георг Готфрид Гервинус (Georg Gottfried Gervinus; 1805-1871) - немецкий историк, литературовед, либеральный политик. Профессор университетов в Гёттингене и Гейдельберге. Накануне и в период Революции 1848-1849 один из видных деятелей либерально-буржуазной оппозиции в Юго-Западной Германии; член Франкфуртского...
С биогр. заметками о Гильоме П. Кропоткина и Ф. Брупбахера; Пер. с франц. Н. А. Критской, под. ред. и с доп. Н. К. Лебедева. — Петербург; Москва: Голос труда, 1922. — 324 с. Выпуская в свет настоящее сочинение Джемса Гильома об Интернационале; мы считаем необходимым сказать по этому поводу несколько слов. Во-первых, наше издание "Интернационала" не представляет дословного...
С биогр. заметками о Гильоме П. Кропоткина и Ф. Брупбахера; Пер. с франц. Н. А. Критской, под. ред. и с доп. Н. К. Лебедева. — Петербург; Москва: Голос труда, 1922. — 324 с. Выпуская в свет настоящее сочинение Джемса Гильома об Интернационале; мы считаем необходимым сказать по этому поводу несколько слов. Во-первых, наше издание "Интернационала" не представляет дословного...
Велико Търново, 1983. — 292 с. Английската буржоазна революция - XVII век. Великата френска буржоазна революция. Франция в първата половина на XIX век. Френско-Пруска война и Парижка комуна. Франция в края на XIX век. Германия в края на XIX век. Международно работническо и социалистическо движение в края на XIX и началото на XX век. Международните отношения в края на XIX и...
Велико Търново, 1977. — 255 с. Английската буржоазна революция от XVII век. Великата френска буржоазна революция от края на XVIII век. Англия в края на XVIII и първата половина на XIX век. Френско-Пруска война и Парижка комуна. Германия в края на XIX век.
СПб: Азбука-классика, 2005. — 512 с.
Бич и Молот — два символа эпохи охоты на ведьм, прозвища, которыми награждали преследователей еретиков, истребителей тех, кого стали подозревать не просто в колдовстве, а в причастности к секте, поклонявшейся самому дьяволу. В книге собраны материалы о гонениях на ведовство во Франции, Испании, Германии, Англии, Шотландии и Новом Свете, а...
Антология. — Перевод Н.Маслова. — СПб: Азбука-классика, 2005. Бич и Молот - два символа эпохи охоты на ведьм, прозвища, которыми награждали преследователей еретиков, истребителей тех, кого стали подозревать не просто в колдовстве, а в причастности к секте, поклонявшейся самому дьяволу. В книге собраны материалы о гонениях на ведовство во Франции, Испании, Германии, Англии,...
Изд. 6-е. — СПб.: Издание Ф. Павленкова, 1892. — 388 с. Рассматривается всемирная история по периодам: 1815—1830, 1830—1848, 1848—1856, 1856—1878, 1878—1891 гг.
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Оренбург: ОГПУ, 2015. — 112 с. — ISBN 978-5-85859-603-5. Пособие содержит программу курса по истории Нового времени стран Европы и Америки для студентов, обучающихся по программам бакалавриата на исторических факультетах педвузов, задания для самостоятельной работы, тематику семинарских занятий, темы докладов и сообщений, вопросы к экзамену....
София: Дамян Яков, 2001. — 648 с. Предговор Въведение Перифериите Подвластни, но непоробени... Румънските княжества Албанските чудатости Владишката монархия Островната периферия: първи конституции и първа република на Балканите Орисани на много история Ушаковата конституция Република с Византийска конституция Конституциите от 1803 и 1806 година Поява на балкански национални...
3-е изд., испр. и доп. — Санкт-Петербург: Типография В.С. Балашева, 1885. — VIII, 727 с. Данная двухтомная хрестоматия представляет собой подборку из отрывков работ крупнейших европейских исследователей, посвященных событиям и явлениям новой и новейшей истории XVI — конца XVII вв. В первом томе рассматриваются проблемы эпохи Возрождения и развития Реформации в европейских...
2-е изд., испр. — Санкт-Петербург: Типография Министерства путей сообщения (А. Бенке), 1884. — 647 c. Данная двухтомная хрестоматия представляет собой подборку из отрывков работ крупнейших европейских исследователей, посвященных событиям и явлениям новой и новейшей истории XVI — конца XVII вв. В первом томе рассматриваются проблемы эпохи Возрождения и развития Реформации в...
М.: Прогресс, 1969. — 197 с. "Путешествия" грузинского дипломата-купца Рафаила Данибегашвили (Данибегова) издавались в Москве и Тбилиси четыре раза: в 1815 и 1961 гг. на русском и в 1950 и 1963 гг. на грузинском языках. Настоящее, пятое издание, выпускаемое, помимо русского, на языках хинди и английском, задумано как знак дружбы народов, преподносимый советскими географами...
Москва: Издание магазина "Сотрудник школ" А.К. Залесской. Типография Г. Лисснера и Д. Собко, 1910. — XII, 327 с. Учебник для женских учебных заведений, учительских семинарий, высших городских училищ по Положению 1872 г., торговых школ и других учебных заведений. Оглавление. Центры новой культуры. Шестнадцатый век. Завоевание европейцами Америки. Завоевание европейцами Америки и...
Научно-методический совет по пропаганде всеобщей истории и международных отношений; Научно-методический совет по пропаганде истории КПСС и истории СССР. — М.: Общество "Знание" РСФСР, 1964. — 60 c. — (В помощь лектору). Возникновение марксизма и «Союз коммунистов». Основание I Интернационала. Стратегия и тактика, I Интернационала. Борьба против оппортунизма. Марксизм—идейное...
Научно-методический совет по пропаганде всеобщей истории и международных отношений; Научно-методический совет по пропаганде. истории КПСС и истории СССР. — М.: Общество "Знание" РСФСР, 1964. — 60 c. Содержание . Возникновение марксизма и «Союз коммунистов». Основание I Интернационала. Стратегия и тактика, I Интернационала. Борьба против оппортунизма. Марксизм—идейное оружие...
Вильнюс: ЕГУ, 2014. — 332 с. — ISBN: 978-9955-773-75-7. Византийское наследие стоит у истоков формирования христианской и письменной культуры на землях Беларуси, Украины и Молдавии (IX—XII в.). В дальнейшем это влияние не было столь непосредственным, но как политический и геокультурный фактор продолжало воздействовать на регион между Балтийским и Чёрным морями. Так продолжалось...
М.: Политиздат, 1972. - 622 с.
В сборник включены статьи и корреспонденции делегатов пятого общего конгресса, а также относящиеся к конгрессу избранные письма деятелей Интернационала и других лиц.
Значительная часть документов публикуется либо впервые вообще, либо впервые на русском языке.
В разделе I впервые на русском языке публикуется ряд статей основоположников...
М.: Политиздат, 1972. — 622 с. Материалы данного тома непосредственно примыкают к официальным документам конгресса, опубликованным в 1970 г. в книге «Гаагский конгресс Первого Интернационала 2—7 сентября 1872 г. Протоколы и документы». Том состоит из двух разделов: I. Отчеты, корреспонденции и статьи делегатов конгресса, в том числе ряд статей К. Маркса и Ф. Энгельса. II....
М.: Политиздат, 1970. - 688 с. В сборник включены все сохранившиеся официальные документы, отражающие работу пятого общего конгресса. Подавляющая часть документов публикуется впервые по оригиналам, хранящимся в Центральном партийном архиве Института марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС. В особом разделе - "Из рукописного наследства К.Маркса и Ф.Энгельса", помещены несколько черновых...
Пер. с англ. Л.А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 383 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5090-5. Автор, историк и собиратель древностей, автор многих книг о прошлом Америки, уверен, что в морской летописи не было более черных страниц, чем те, которые рассказывают о странствиях невольничьих кораблей. Все морские суда с трюмами, набитыми чернокожими рабами, захваченными во время...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 383 с. ISBN: 978-5-9524-5090-5 Джордж Фрэнсис Доу, историк и собиратель древностей, автор многих книг о прошлом Америки, уверен, что в морской летописи не было более черных страниц, чем те, которые рассказывают о странствиях невольничьих кораблей. Все морские суда с трюмами, набитыми чернокожими рабами, захваченными во время племенных войн или...
Пер. с англ. Л.А. Игоревского. М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 383 с. с ил. ISBN: 978-5-9524-5090-5. Автор, историк и собиратель древностей, автор многих книг о прошлом Америки, уверен, что в морской летописи не было более черных страниц, чем те, которые рассказывают о странствиях невольничьих кораблей. Все морские суда с трюмами, набитыми чернокожими рабами, захваченными во время...
Пер. с англ. Л.А. Игоревского. М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 383 с. с ил. ISBN: 978-5-9524-5090-5. Автор, историк и собиратель древностей, автор многих книг о прошлом Америки, уверен, что в морской летописи не было более черных страниц, чем те, которые рассказывают о странствиях невольничьих кораблей. Все морские суда с трюмами, набитыми чернокожими рабами, захваченными во время...
М.: Работник просвещения, 1928. — 420 с. Учебник для военных школ, рабфаков и техникумов. Предлагаемая книга написана по программе для военных школ на 1927/28 учебный год. Размер каждой главы соответствует количеству часов, отведенных в программе на про-работку данной темы. Впрочем, отдельные главы («Революционное движение в России в 90-х и 900-х гг.» и «Революция 1905 — 1907...
В сб.: Россия - Индия: перспективы регионального сотрудничества. — Ред.-сост. Г.М. Кузнецова. — М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2000. Статья подробно затрагивает важнейшие аспекты оборонной концепции индийских владений Великобритании в контексте англо-русских отношений XIX века.
М.: Наука, 1982. – 368 с. (Центральная и Юго-Восточная Европа в эпоху перехода от феодализма к капитализму. Проблемы истории и культуры).
В книге впервые в советской и зарубежной историографии в сравнительно-историческом плане анализируется развитие социальных структур стран Центральной и Юго-Восточной Европы в период перехода от феодализма к капитализму, охватывающий конец XVIII...
София: Издателство на Българската работническа партия (комунисти), 1947. — 273 с. Европа и Северна Америка от края на XVIII век до началото на XIX . Европа в навечерието на буржоазната революция в Франция. Война за независимост и образуване на Съединените щати. Френската буржоазна революция през XV II век (1789—1794). Франция от 1794 до 1815 г. Англия в периода 1789 1815 г....
М.: Пётр Кондырёв, 1811. — 76 с. Участь привела его попасться в плен киргизцам, от них быть продану в Бухарию, жить там и служить несколько лет, ходить во многие окрестные страны, находясь в военной службе, наконец, бежать оттуда чрез Тибет в Индию, а из Индии морем возвратиться в Европу и увидеть уже 9-ть лет оставленное свое отечество. Описание путешествия г. Ефремова...
Оқу құралы. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2016. — 306 б. Оқу құралы студенттерге, магистранттарға Шетелдердің жаңа заман кезеңінде орын алған елеулі тарихи оқиғаларының қырлары мен сырларын жəне себептерін ашып көрсетеді. Оқу құралын даярлау барысында тарихилық пен ғылымдық қағидаттар басшылыққа алынды. Оқу құралы жоғары оқу орындарының студент терiне, магистранттарына...
М.: Бослен, 2018. — 640 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-91187-306-6. Вопреки известному утверждению, сделанному в 1972 году Председателем Госсовета КНР ‒ Чжоу Эньлаем, что еще рано говорить о последствиях Великой французской революции, историк Н. Зазулина в своей книге «Европейский пасьянс. Хроника последнего десятилетия царствования Екатерины II» на основе документов иностранных архивов...
Москва: Бослен, 2018. — 640 с. Книга Н.Н.Зазулиной "Европейский пасьянс. Хроника последнего десятилетия царствования Екатерины II" основана на уникальных документах из огромного количества различных архивов. Так к работе были привлечены материалы архива Апостольской библиотеки Ватикана, в том числе её Секретного архива, Национального Архива Великобритании, архива Министерства...
София: Университетско издателство Св. Климент Охридски, 1995. — 159 с. Въоръженият мир след френско-пруската война и подготовката на Първата световна война 1871 - 1914 година. Борба за колониално господство между големите империалистически държави 1871 - 1914 година. По-важни политически фигури и държавници през периода.
Владимир: Изд-во ВлГУ, 2022. — 468 с. Представлены важные и интересные исторические источники, отрывки из научных статей и монографий, способствующие детальному и глубокому анализу ключевых событий в истории стран Европы и Америки XVII – XVIII вв., в том числе в истории международных отношений. Предназначена для студентов бакалавриата, обучающихся по направлениям подготовки...
3-е изд. — Одесса: Типография Л.С. Шутака, 1907. — 6, 116, 1 с.
Учебное руководство по новой истории (18–19 вв.), составленное Николаем Знойко применительно к курсам женских гимназий, реальных и коммерческих училищ.
Из предисловия: "Сокращено в означенном курсе, конечно, только то, что представляет собой, хотя и не лишние, но и не существенно важные подробности, без знания...
Запорожье: Акцент Инвест-трейд, 2014. — 272 с.
Трудно найти в истории взаимоотношений между Россией и Украиной события более значимого, чем Полтавская битва. Военный триумф русского царя Петра I, ужасающее поражение шведского короля Карла XII, политическая катастрофа гетмана Ивана Мазепы вот уже более трехсот лет будоражат воображение историков, политиков, художников и...
Перевод с немецкого И. Бронштейна. — М.: Красная новь, 1923 — IV, 309 с. Основание Интернационала. От St-Martins Hall до Женевы (1864—1866 гг.). Основание Интернационала в St.-Martins Hall. Интернационал и тред-юнионы. Манифест и устав Интернационала. Первые успехи Интернационала. Лондонская конференция. Успехи в области организации. Манифест Интернационала. Конгресс в Женеве....
Перевод с немецкого И. Бронштейна. — М.: Красная новь, 1923 — IV, 309 с. Основание Интернационала. От St-Martins Hall до Женевы (1864—1866 гг.). Основание Интернационала в St.-Martins Hall. Интернационал и тред-юнионы. Манифест и устав Интернационала. Первые успехи Интернационала. Лондонская конференция. Успехи в области организации. Манифест Интернационала. Конгресс в Женеве....
М.: Наука, 1981. — 392 с. В книгу вошли неопубликованные или малоизвестные работы выдающегося советского ученого Е. В. Тарле. Широта научного кругозора и мастерство исторического повествования в полной мере проявились в очерке «Дело Бабефа», статьях и рецензиях по отечественной и всеобщей истории. Большинство рецензий было опубликовано анонимно или под псевдонимом. Значительный...
Москва: Ад Маргинем, 2013. — 274 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91103-165-7. Перед вами хроника последнего мирного года накануне Первой мировой войны, в который произошло множество событий, ставших знаковыми для культуры XX века. В 1913-м вышел роман Пруста "По направлению к Свану". Шпенглер начал работать над "Закатом Европы", состоялась скандальная парижская премьера балета "Весна...
Москва: Ад Маргинем, 2013. — 274 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91103-165-7. Перед вами хроника последнего мирного года накануне Первой мировой войны, в который произошло множество событий, ставших знаковыми для культуры XX века. В 1913-м вышел роман Пруста "По направлению к Свану". Шпенглер начал работать над "Закатом Европы", состоялась скандальная парижская премьера балета "Весна...
М. : Ад Маргинем Пресс, Музей современного искусства «Гараж», 2020. — 192 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91103-529-7. Вам бы хотелось, чтобы книга Флориана Иллиеса «1913. Лето целого века» не заканчивалась? Автор чувствовал то же самое. В течение многих лет он искал и собирал новые захватывающие истории из этого невероятного года. Результат вы держите в руках. В продолжении международного...
М. : Ад Маргинем Пресс, Музей современного искусства «Гараж», 2020. — 192 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91103-529-7. Вам бы хотелось, чтобы книга Флориана Иллиеса «1913. Лето целого века» не заканчивалась? Автор чувствовал то же самое. В течение многих лет он искал и собирал новые захватывающие истории из этого невероятного года. Результат вы держите в руках. В продолжении международного...
Шестое издание. — М.: Типография Грачева и комп., 1868. — 311 с.; с картой. Переход от Средней истории до Новой отмечен рядом событий, которые имели великое влияние на дальнейшее развитие исторических народов. Первое место между этими событиями занимают Открытие Америки и Реформация. Открытие Америки вместе с открытием других земель и морского пути в Ост-Индию чрезвычайно...
М.: Типография А. А. Карцева, 1884. — 272 с.
Дмитрий Иванович Иловайский (1832-1920 гг.) - русский историк, виднейший антинорманист XIX века. Иловайский приобрел широкую известность как автор учебников по отечественной и общей истории. Его «Руководство ко всеобщей истории» - выдержало 32 издания. «Руководство ко всеобщей истории» содержит три раздела: «Древняя история» (начиная...
София: Университетско издателство Св. Климент Охридски, 1995. — 272 с. В книгата в превод на български език са представени официални документи от XVIII до първата половина на XX век, свързани с Източният въпрос и съдбата на Балканите и Протоците според политиката на Великите сили. Представени са 154 документа.
София-Солунъ: Издание на интернационалната книжарница на Иванъ Х. Николов, 1914. — 190 с. Положението въ време на примирието Българо-турските сражения Превземането на Одринъ Гръцко-турските сражения Краятъ на сраженията око Шкодра Последните събития по море Второто примирие Прегледъ и разсъждения Причините на втората Балканската война Двете неприятелски сили въ юни 1913 год....
Монография. — Москва: Русский фонд содействия образованию и науке, 2011. — 465 с.
Монография посвящена становлению дипломатических и торговых отношений США с государствами Латинской Америки: от первых официальных контактов до дипломатического признания и подписания межгосударственных договоров. Дается оценка деятельности различных участников этих событий: политиков, военных,...
М.: Мысль, 1964. — 232 c. На страницах книги рассказывается о деятельности русских революционеров 60— 70-х годов Петра Лаврова, Германа Лопатина и др. В центре повествования — история возникновения и борьбы Русской секции Интернационала, ее связей с революционным подпольем России. В специальных разделах книги описывается влияние I Интернационала и Парижской Коммуны на...
М.: Мысль, 1964. — 232 c. На страницах книги рассказывается о деятельности русских революционеров 60— 70-х годов Петра Лаврова, Германа Лопатина и др. В центре повествования — история возникновения и борьбы Русской секции Интернационала, ее связей с революционным подпольем России. В специальных разделах книги описывается влияние I Интернационала и Парижской Коммуны на...
М.: Олма-Пресс Образование, 2003. — 319 с. ISBN: 5-94849-495-0 Серия: Мировая история. Школьная энциклопедия "Руссика" Том "Новое время. XIX век" серии "Мировая история. Школьная энциклопедия "Руссика"" содержит сведения о событиях и исторических личностях мировой истории XIX века. В издании свыше 1000 цветных и черно-белых иллюстраций, карт и схем.
Первое издание. — СПб: Типография М. М. Стасюлевича, 1900. — 346 с. С историческими картами. Один из самых популярных в России гимназических учебников по истории. Николай Иванович Кареев (1850-1931) до 1917 года был широко известен в России и за её рубежами, особенно во Франции, как ведущий исследователь новоевропейской истории стран Западной Европы, один из основателей...
Варшава: Тип. Ивана Носковского, 1881. — 90 с.
В данном издании рассмотрены следующие вопросы: католицизм и феодализм в средние века; 14 и 15 вв., как переход к новому времени; реформационный период; историческое значение протестантизма; развитие абсолютной монархии; просвещенный абсолютизм; просвещение 18 века; политические и общественные стремления нового времени;...
С.-Пб.: Тип. М.М. Стасюлевича, 1908. — 462 c. В книге известного русского историка Н. И. Кареева (1850–1931) всесторонне рассматривается западноевропейский абсолютизм, прослеживается его юридическая и идеологическая связь с институтами Римской империи и Европы раннего Средневековья. Автор стремится понять, как именно соотносились в Европе XVI–XVIII вв. историческая...
5-е изд. — СПб.: Тип. Стасюлевича, 1904. — 350 с.
Николай Иванович Кареев (1850-1931) до 1917 года был широко известен в России и за её рубежами, особенно во Франции, как ведущий исследователь новоевропейской истории стран Западной Европы, один из основателей знаменитой «Ecole russe» (Русской исторической школы), как выдающийся социолог, философ истории и общественный деятель....
6-е изд. — СПб.: Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1905. — 350 с. (8 карт в цвете, OCR-слой)
Николай Иванович Кареев (1850-1931) до 1917 года был широко известен в России и за её рубежами, особенно во Франции, как ведущий исследователь новоевропейской истории стран Западной Европы, один из основателей знаменитой «Ecole russe» (Русской исторической школы), как выдающийся социолог,...
СПб.: Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1900. — 350 с. Николай Иванович Кареев (1850-1931) до 1917 года был широко известен в России и за её рубежами, особенно во Франции, как ведущий исследователь новоевропейской истории стран Западной Европы, один из основателей знаменитой «Ecole russe» (Русской исторической школы), как выдающийся социолог, философ истории и общественный деятель....
СПб.: Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1900. — 350 с. Николай Иванович Кареев (1850-1931) до 1917 года был широко известен в России и за её рубежами, особенно во Франции, как ведущий исследователь новоевропейской истории стран Западной Европы, один из основателей знаменитой «Ecole russe» (Русской исторической школы), как выдающийся социолог, философ истории и общественный деятель....
СПб.: Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1900. — 350 с. Николай Иванович Кареев (1850-1931) до 1917 года был широко известен в России и за её рубежами, особенно во Франции, как ведущий исследователь новоевропейской истории стран Западной Европы, один из основателей знаменитой «Ecole russe» (Русской исторической школы), как выдающийся социолог, философ истории и общественный деятель....
София: Печатница на Бр. П. Спиркови, 1894 - 667 с. Падението на Наполеон и възстановяването на Бурбоните. Виенският конгрес и стодневната империя. Виенският конгрес и Виенският договор. Свещеният съюз. Вътрешното политическо и нравствено състояние на Европа след 1815 година. Франция през годините 1815 - 21. Германия през годините 1815 - 21. Италия през годините 1815 - 1830....
София: Военно издателство, 2003. — 655 с. В книгата се представя икономическото развитие и историята на военните конфликти на Великите сили от началото на XV век до началото на Втората световна война.
Кемерово: Издательство КемГУ, 2012. — 188 с. — ISBN: 9978-5-8353-1542-0. Учебное пособие посвящено фундаментальной теоретической проблеме – трансформации средневековых аграрных сословных обществ в индустриальные классовые общества Нового времени. В историографическом исследовании представлены идеи, теории и концепции разнообразных исторических, экономических и социологических...
Кемерово: Издательство КемГУ, 2012. - 188 с. - ISBN: 9978-5-8353-1542-0 Учебное пособие посвящено фундаментальной теоретической проблеме – трансформации средневековых аграрных сословных обществ в индустриальные классовые общества Нового времени. В историографическом исследовании представлены идеи, теории и концепции разнообразных исторических, экономических и социологических...
М.: Институт славяноведения и балканистики РАН, 1994. — 146 с.
В предлагаемом вниманию очерке делается попытка сопоставления основных параметров аграрных реформ переходного периода от феодализма к капитализму в этом регионе. Сопоставление аграрных реформ в Австрии, Пруссии и России позволяет показать их однотипность и раскрыть особенности аграрных преобразований, обусловленные...
Сборник научных статей. — Иркутск: Оттиск, 2020. — 300 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6045121-3-5. В сборник включены статьи, подготовленные к 60-летнему юбилею академика Б. В. Базарова. Рассматривается широкий круг проблем всемирной и отечественной истории, начиная от первобытной археологии до современных вопросов экономической интеграции на евразийском пространстве. Большое внимание...
Монография. — Москва: Книжники; 2011. — 352 с. — (Чейсовская коллекция). — ISBN: 978-5-7516-0958-0, 978-5-9953-0113-4. Переводчик: Михаэль Бородкин. Два события в европейской истории совпали по времени удивительным образом: открытие Америки и изгнание евреев из Испании. Второго августа 1492 года эскадра из трех кораблей, которой командовал Христофор Колумб, вышла в плаванье. В...
СПб.: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2013. — 364 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94380-163-1. Публикуемые в сборнике статьи и материалы дискуссии, состоявшейся в марте 2012 г. в Европейском университете в Санкт-Петербурге, посвящены феномену реформ раннего Нового времени в странах Европы — от Испании и Португалии на западе до России на востоке. Как менялось само...
Москва: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1954. — 226 с. В настоящем издании освещаются некоторые стороны борьбы США за мировое господство после первой мировой войны, показывается роль американских политиков в борьбе против Советской России, революционного движения в первые годы после Октябрьской революции. Автор доказывает, что политика США всегда была...
Новосибирск: Новосибирское книжное изд-во, 1987. — 160 с. Книга повествует о последнем парижском коммунаре Адриене Лежене, нелегкий и славный путь которого закончился во время Великой Отечественной войны в Новосибирске. Новосибирский писатель Александр Кухно в результате кропотливого поиска материалов об А. Лежене соприкоснулся с судьбами испанского писателя-революционера И....
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2016. — 256 с. — (История. География. Этнография). В книге Татьяны Лабутиной рассказывается о том, как в XVII веке готовили к взрослой жизни юных англичанок — как их воспитывали, чему обучали, какие навыки прививали, от каких опасностей предостерегали. Приводится немало сведений о частных пансионах и домашнем обучении, «женских академиях» и благотворительных...
Ин-т всеобщ. истории РАН. — М.: Наука, 2005. — 458 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009863-9. Книга посвящена проблеме взаимодействия культуры и властных структур в XVIII в. на примере Великобритании, Франции и России. На обширном историческом материале показан начальный период формирования буржуазной идеологии. Представлены исторические портреты знаменитых английских литераторов Дж. Свифта, Д....
Ин-т всеобщ. истории РАН. — М.: Наука, 2005. — 458 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009863-9. Книга посвящена проблеме взаимодействия культуры и властных структур в XVIII в. на примере Великобритании, Франции и России. На обширном историческом материале показан начальный период формирования буржуазной идеологии. Представлены исторические портреты знаменитых английских литераторов Дж. Свифта, Д....
СПб: Издание Л. Ф. Пантелеева, 1894. — 511 с. «Lectures Historiques: Histoire des temps modernes, 1610-1789» — курс лекций французского историка Жоржа Лакур-Гайе (1856-1935), впервые опубликован был в 1892 году, в дальнейшем неоднократно переиздавался. В курсе лекций рассказывалось об истории европейских стран — в первую очередь Франции — в период от убийства Генриха IV в 1610...
София: Народна просвета, 1982. — 177 с. Авторът разглежда предпоставките, развитието и резултатите от националните революции на балканските народи през миналото столетие. Основните тематични акценти са поставени върху двете сръбски въстания от началото на века. Гръцкото въстание от 1821—1829 г., движенията през 30—50-те години и националноосвободителните изяви от края на...
СПб.: Академический проект, 2000. — 1049 с. — ISBN: 5-7331-0179-2. Книга известного английского историка, специалиста по истории России, Д.Ливена посвящена судьбе аристократических кланов трех ведущих европейских стран: России, Великобритании и Германии — в переломный для судеб европейской цивилизации период, в эпоху модернизации и формирования современного индустриального...
СПб.: Академический проект, 2000. — 463 с. — ISBN: 5-7331-0179-2. Книга известного английского историка, специалиста по истории России, Д.Ливена посвящена судьбе аристократических кланов трех ведущих европейских стран: России, Великобритании и Германии — в переломный для судеб европейской цивилизации период, в эпоху модернизации и формирования современного индустриального...
Редактор: Милюков А. — Москва: АСТ, 2014. — 508 с. — (История войн и военного искусства). — ISBN: 978-5-17-085864-4. Книга выдающегося английского военного историка сэра Бэзила Лиддел Гарта - это последняя глава ненаписанного учебника европейской военной науки, итог четырех тысячелетий развития искусства войны. "Геометрия войны", "война глазами шахматиста", "стратегия как...
Худжанд: Ношир, 2017. — 140 с. В представляемой монографии рассматривается до сих пор привлекаемая и дискутируемая тема в историографии Центральной Азии – проблема нациестротельства. В ней отражается процесс поэтапного изменения исторической географии от географического до национального. Главным образом делается попытка внести новый вариант периодизации в процесс...
М.: Слово, 2004. — 607 с. В издании прослеживается эволюция основных социально- экономических и идейно-политических процессов, определивших развитие западной цивилизации в середине XVII - начале XXI вв. Особое внимание уделяется рассмотрению ключевых моментов в истории ведущих стран Западной Европы и Америки. Анализируется динамика процессов, определяющих характер международных...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 290 с. В книге рассмотрены комплексные (междисциплинарные) сравнительно-исторические и сравнительно-типологические исследования в области этногенеза, формирования наций, истории культуры и междунаррдных отношений в Центральной и Юго-Восточной Европе. В основу сборника положены материалы научной конференции "Итоги и перспективы славяноведческих и балканских...
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Женева: Издание Г.А. Куклина, 1903. — 14 с. — (Библиотека русского пролетария. № 15). «Завоевание политической власти стало, следовательно, великой обязанностью рабочего класса», — указывал Маркс. По своей численности рабочие могут рассчитывать на победу. Но численность ещё не решает дела. Чтобы добиться победы над буржуазией, рабочему классу надо объединиться и создать свою...
Монография. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 272 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91419-374-1. Предлагаемая российскому читателю монография — это фундаментальный труд, обобщающий и систематизирующий дискуссии по проблемам демократического устройства общества, которые велись в течение последних столетий: от Французской революции конца XVIII века (Шарль Монтескье) до наших дней (Норберто Боббио)....
Монография. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 272 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91419-374-1. Предлагаемая российскому читателю монография — это фундаментальный труд, обобщающий и систематизирующий дискуссии по проблемам демократического устройства общества, которые велись в течение последних столетий: от Французской революции конца XVIII века (Шарль Монтескье) до наших дней (Норберто Боббио)....
Монография. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 272 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91419-374-1. Предлагаемая российскому читателю монография — это фундаментальный труд, обобщающий и систематизирующий дискуссии по проблемам демократического устройства общества, которые велись в течение последних столетий: от Французской революции конца XVIII века (Шарль Монтескье) до наших дней (Норберто Боббио)....
Гострудиздат, 1930. — 400 с. В работе над найденными документами и подготовке их к печати мы руководствовались тем, что для печатания к настоящем томе выбирали в качестве основного тот документ, который давал наибольшую сумму сведений, остальные же документы использованы нами в примечаниях. Читатель наших материалов поэтому должен игнорировать одну постоянно встречающуюся в них...
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М.: Наука, 1976. — 351 с. В книге рассмотрено начало общественно-политической деятельности М. А. Бакунина, дана история взаимоотношений интернационалистов и бакунистов в отдельных федерациях I Интернационала — испанской, итальянской, швейцарской. Эти явления и процессы обобщены в европейском масштабе. В работе подвергнуты критике буржуазные и правосоциалистические исследования,...
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М.: ВПШ, 1949. — 19 с. Стенограмма лекции, прочитанной в Высшей партийной школе при ЦК ВКП(б). Возникновение Интернационала. Первый период в истории Первого Интернационала. Борьба с прудонизмом (1865-1868 гг.). Второй период в истории Первого Интернационала. Борьба с бакунизмом (1869-1872 гг.). Первый Интернационал во время франко-прусской войны и Парижской коммуны. Последние...
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Учебник для педагогических институтов. — Изд 2-е, доп. — М.: Просвещение, 1972. — 719 с. Отсутствуют карты, прикладывавшиеся к тому отдельным планшетом. Учебник для исторических и историко-филологических факультетов педагогических институтов охватывает основные вопросы и события новой истории зарубежных стран Европы и Америки от английской буржуазной революции XVII в. до...
М.: Владос, 1996. — 240 с. История, поданная как роман. Современный учебник для школьников и студентов. Увлекательное чтение для всех любителей истории. Книга представляет пособие популярное изложение истории эпохи Возрождения. Может использоваться как учебное пособие для школ, колледжей, лицеев. Содержание: Пролог История Запада. Солнце Пуатье Революция Абсолютная монархия Уот...
М.: Владос, 1996. — 240 с. История, поданная как роман. Современный учебник для школьников и студентов. Увлекательное чтение для всех любителей истории. Книга представляет пособие популярное изложение истории эпохи Возрождения. Может использоваться как учебное пособие для школ, колледжей, лицеев. Содержание: Пролог История Запада. Солнце Пуатье Революция Абсолютная монархия Уот...
СПб.: Типография Главного Штаба, 1910. — 457 с. Для изучающих историю России, Швеции и Финляндии и военную историю. Военно-историческое исследование, включающее разделы: Цель и политическая обстановка. Вооруженные силы сторон. Театр военных действий. Планы и подготовка сторон. Зимний поход 1808 года. Действия под крепостями. Итоги зимнего похода 1808 года. Период шведских...
Коммунистическая академия; Институт истории. — Изд. 3-е. — М.: ОГИЗ; СОЦЭКГИЗ, 1935. — XI, 407 с. : карт. Содержание Введение Английская революция XVII века Хронологическая таблица Социально-экономическое развитие Англии накануне революции Начало революции и первый период гражданской войны (1642—1647 гг.) Классовая борьба в 1647—1649 гг. и левеллеры Индепендентская республика и...
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М.: Соцэкгиз, 1935. — 432 с. Оглавление Глава пятая - революция 1848 г. Воссоединение Германии Хронологическая таблица I. Германия накануне революции A. Германия после Венского конгресса Б. Буржуазия и экономическое развитие дореволюционной Германии B. Развитие сельского хозяйства и положение крестьянства Г. Рабочее и коммунистическое движение накануне революции II. Революция и...
М.: Высший Военный Редакционный Совет. 1923. - 144 с.
Автор постарался раскрыть и обрисовать роль, которую инженеры и химики сыграли в усовершенствовании военного материала и очертить то влияние, которое производство снарядов имело на металлургическое, машинное и связанные с ними производства промышленных государств.
М.: Просвещение, 1984. — 544 с.
Учебник для студентов педагогических институтов по исторической специальности.
На рубеже 70-х гг. XIX в. капиталистический мир вступил в новый период своего исторического развития. За первые две трети прошлого века в странах Западной Европы и Америки произошли глубокие качественные изменения, охватившие экономику и политику, социальные...
М.: Просвещение, 1984. — 544 с.
Учебник для студентов педагогических институтов по исторической специальности.
На рубеже 70-х гг. XIX в. капиталистический мир вступил в новый период своего исторического развития. За первые две трети прошлого века в странах Западной Европы и Америки произошли глубокие качественные изменения, охватившие экономику и политику, социальные...
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Учебное пособие. — Москва: МПГУ, 2017. — 132 с. В предлагаемом учебном пособии доктора исторических наук, профессора А. А. Орлова содержится большой фактический материал по истории поиска подходов к решению важнейшей для человечества проблемы справедливого порядка в европейских проектах «вечного мира» периода Нового времени. Анализ некоторых выдающихся проектов «вечного мира»,...
СПб.: Типография братьев Пантелеевых, 1900. — 221 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный.
Всемирная выставка 1900 года проводилась в Париже (Франция). Проходила с 15 апреля по 12 ноября 1900 года. Свои экспозиции в 18 тематических отделах представили 35 стран. Особенно значительно было участие Российской империи — ближайшего в тот момент союзника Франции.
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Луганск: ЛНПУ, 2004. — 186 с. Цель исследования – на основе анализа малоизвестных источников, учитывая результаты изучения проблемы отечественными и зарубежными историками, исследовать процесс формирования и развития юго-восточного направления внешней политики Польши в условиях османской экспансии в Юго-Восточной Европе в последней четверти XV – начале XVI веков, определить...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 361 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914 год. Объединяя политическую, экономическую, социальную,...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 361 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914 год. Объединяя политическую, экономическую, социальную,...
Перевод с немецкого А. Ананьевой, К. Левинсона, Д. Сдвижкова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 656 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914...
Перевод с немецкого А. Ананьевой, К. Левинсона, Д. Сдвижкова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 656 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914...
Перевод с немецкого А. Ананьевой, К. Левинсона, Д. Сдвижкова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 576 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 314 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914 год. Объединяя политическую, экономическую, социальную,...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 314 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914 год. Объединяя политическую, экономическую, социальную,...
Перевод с немецкого А. Ананьевой, К. Левинсона, Д. Сдвижкова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 576 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914...
Перевод с немецкого А. Ананьевой, К. Левинсона, Д. Сдвижкова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 680 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 373 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914 год. Объединяя политическую, экономическую, социальную,...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 373 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914 год. Объединяя политическую, экономическую, социальную,...
Перевод с немецкого А. Ананьевой, К. Левинсона, Д. Сдвижкова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2010. — 680 с. — (Historia mundi). Обзорный труд Юргена Остерхаммеля — известного историка Нового и Новейшего времени, специалиста по истории идей, межкультурных отношений, а также истории Китая — это масштабный портрет длинного XIX века, включающего период с 1770 по 1914...
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Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 989 с. Книга представляет собой эксперимент по написанию насыщенного и подробного, но структурированного, нетривиального и не схематичного рассказа о важнейшем периоде в истории человечества. Предисловие. Аппараты . Память и самонаблюдение. Время. Космос. Panoramas . Mobilities. Уровень...
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М.: Высшая школа, 1985. — 320 с. В пособии собраны преимущественно документы официального характера,прежде всего программы, декларации, уставы социалистических партий и рабочих организаций стран Европы и США, решения партийных съездов и конференций по коренным вопросам стратегии и тактики в период с 1870 по 1914 г. Документы показывают положение рабочего класса, уровень стачечного...
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М.: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 447 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5394-4 (Серия "Всемирная история"). Известный британский ученый профессор Джон Перри представляет историю европейских географических исследований и открытий, развития торговли и поселений за пределами Европы с начала XV до конца XVII века. Это была эра, когда Европа открывала для себя мир за пределами своей территории. Она...
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София: Народна просвета, 1986. — 256 с. Предговор. Преход от феодализъм към капитализъм (XVII - началото на XIX век). Утвърждаване и развитие на капитализма 1815 - 1870 година. Поява и развитие на империята 1871 - 1918.
М.: АСТ, 2017. — 928 с. — (История в одном томе). — ISBN 978-5-17-101157-4. Стивен Пинкус, анализируя перемены, которые принесла «Славная революция» не только Великобритании, ее заокеанским колониям, но и всей Европе, приходит к неожиданному выводу: именно эта первая современная революция положила начало обществу либерализма, терпимости, торжества закона, экономической и...
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Харьков: Фолио, 05 октября 2018 — 350 с.: 114 ил. — (Большой научный проект). — ISBN 978-966-03-8091-2. Вопрос об истинных исторических корнях современных украинцев и россиян является темой досконального исследования С. Плохия в книге «Происхождение славянских наций. Домодерные идентичности в Украине и России». Опираясь на достоверные источники, автор изучает коллизии борьбы за...
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М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-во «Наука», 1977. — 254 с. В книге публикуются материалы Всесоюзной научной конференции (27—28 августа 1975 г.), посвященной 30-летию победы Советского Союза в войне с милитаристской Японией. В конференции, организованной Институтом марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС, Институтом Дальнего Востока, Институтом востоковедения. Институтом...
М.: Дело, 2017. — 592 с. сВеликое расхождение» nозволяет nо-новому взглянуть на один из классических воnросов истории: nочеиу стабитьности nромышленного развития удалось добиться именно в Северо-Заnадной Европе, несмотря на удивительную схожесть ситуаций , наблюдавихся в наиболее развитых регионах Европы и Восточной Азии? Кеннет Померанц nоказывает, что еще о середине XVIII в....
Учебное пособие для исторических факультетов. — М.: Госполитиздат, 1951. — 472 с. Настоящее издание рассчитано на студентов и преподавателей высших учебных заведений. При отсутствии по многим вопросам новой истории специальных марксистско-ленинских работ, к которым можно было бы отослать учащихся, авторы книги считали целесообразным излагать материал в сравнительно большом...
М.: Мысль, 1964. — 568 с. Учебник для исторических факультетов университетов. Основные черты развития капитализма во второй половине XVII и в XVIII в. Первый раздел новой истории. Мануфактурная стадия капитализма. Так называемое первоначальное накопление. Предпролетариат. Буржуазия. Аграрное развитие в условиях генезиса капитализма. Колониальная система....
Учебное пособие для госуниверситетов и пединститутов. — М.: Соцэкономиздат, 1958. — 848 с. Настоящий учебник «Новой истории», охватывающий период с 1789 по 1870 г., является продолжением изданного в 1953 г. учебного пособия для исторических факультетов государственных университетов и педагогических институтов «Новая история, том первый, 1640—1789». Великая Французская...
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М.: Академии Наук СССР, 1952. — 871 с. Данный коллективный труд, освещающий буржуазные и буржуазно-демократические революции 1848 ‒ 1849 гг., национально-буржуазные движения этого времени и первую попытку пролетарской революции ‒ восстание парижских рабочих в июне 1848 г., представляет одну из книг серии «Библиотека Всемирной истории», подготовляемой Институтом истории и...
М.: Академии Наук СССР, 1952. — 644 с. Данный коллективный труд, освещающий буржуазные и буржуазно-демократические революции 1848 ‒ 1849 гг., национально-буржуазные движения этого времени и первую попытку пролетарской революции ‒ восстание парижских рабочих в июне 1848 г., представляет одну из книг серии «Библиотека Всемирной истории», подготовляемой Институтом истории и...
М.: Академии Наук СССР, 1952. — 644 с. Данный коллективный труд, освещающий буржуазные и буржуазно-демократические революции 1848 ‒ 1849 гг., национально-буржуазные движения этого времени и первую попытку пролетарской революции ‒ восстание парижских рабочих в июне 1848 г., представляет одну из книг серии «Библиотека Всемирной истории», подготовляемой Институтом истории и...
СПб.: Издание Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1912. — 6, 464 с., 62 л. ил.
Перевод с дополнениями под ред. проф. Н.И. Кареева и С.Г. Лозинского. Отдел русской истории написан Н.П. Василенко.
Фундаментальный исторический труд по истории Нового и Новейшего времени, издание предназначено для широкого круга читателей, написано легким и понятным языком.
Самое полное издание по всемирной истории в...
СПб.: Издание Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1910. — 6, 308 с., 43 л. ил. Перевод с дополнениями под ред. проф. Н.И. Кареева и С.Г. Лозинского. Отдел русской истории написан А.А. Корниловым. Фундаментальный исторический труд по истории Нового и Новейшего времени, издание предназначено для широкого круга читателей, написано легким и понятным языком. Самое полное издание по всемирной истории в...
СПб.: Издание Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1910. — 4, 308-816 с., 40 л. ил. Фундаментальный исторический труд по истории Нового и Новейшего времени, издание предназначено для широкого круга читателей, написано легким и понятным языком. Монументальное, редко встречающееся издание под редакцией И. Пфлуг-Гартунга, является коллективным и важным историческим трудом многих историков Европы,...
СПб.: Издание Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1911. — 6, 478 с., 69 л. ил. Перевод с дополнениями под ред. Проф. Н.И. Карьева и С.Г. Лозинского. Отдел русской истории написан Н.П. Василенко.
Фундаментальный исторический труд по истории Нового и Новейшего времени, издание предназначено для широкого круга читателей, написано легким и понятным языком.
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Новосибирск: ИДМИ, 2001. — 113 с.
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М.: Государственное социально-экономическое издательство, 1940. Учебник «Новая история колониальных и зависимых стран» предназначен для студентов вузов и может быть использован учителями средней школы, а также служит целям самообразования. Первый том охватывает период с 1789 по 1918 г. Научный аппарат учебника распределен по томам следующим образом: специально разработанные для...
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М.: Астрель, 2003. — 544 с. — (Историческая библиотека). Работа замечательного историка XIX века Сергея Соловьева посвящена новой истории Западной и Центральной Европы. Исключительная эрудиция историка и обстоятельность изложения исторических событий делают книгу полезной и привлекательной для всех интересующихся историей. В книге частично сохранены орфография и пунктуация автора.
М.: Астрель, 2003. — 544 с. — (Историческая библиотека). Работа замечательного историка XIX века Сергея Соловьева посвящена новой истории Западной и Центральной Европы. Исключительная эрудиция историка и обстоятельность изложения исторических событий делают книгу полезной и привлекательной для всех интересующихся историей. В книге частично сохранены орфография и пунктуация автора.
М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2003. - 544 с. (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN: 5-17-017710-0, 5-271-05804-2.
Работа замечательного историка XIX века Сергея Соловьева посвящена новой истории Западной и Центральной Европы.
Исключительная эрудиция историка и обстоятельность изложения исторических событий делают книгу полезной и привлекательной для всех интересующихся историей.
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М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2003. - 544 с. (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN: 5-17-017710-0, 5-271-05804-2.
Работа замечательного историка XIX века Сергея Соловьева посвящена новой истории Западной и Центральной Европы.
Исключительная эрудиция историка и обстоятельность изложения исторических событий делают книгу полезной и привлекательной для всех интересующихся историей.
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В настоящем издании предметом изучения ученого являются в первой части: эпоха Возрождения; Реформация и ее следствия; история владений Габсбургского дома, Австрии и Испании до тридцатилетней войны; Англия при Тюдорах; Франция при последних Валуа и первых Бурбонах до принятия ею участия в Тридцатилетней войне;...
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В настоящем издании предметом изучения ученого являются в первой части: эпоха Возрождения; Реформация и ее следствия; история владений Габсбургского дома, Австрии и Испании до тридцатилетней войны; Англия при Тюдорах; Франция при последних Валуа и первых Бурбонах до принятия ею участия в Тридцатилетней войне;...
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М.: Мысль, 1964. — 422 с. Настоящий сборник представляет собой первую более или менее развернутую публикацию документов по истории Союза коммунистов. Основные материалы данной книги впервые публикуются на русском языке, а значительная часть их вообще печатается впервые. Сборник подготовлен сотрудниками Института марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС Н. У. Белоусовой, М. А. Кочетковой,...
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М.: Мысль, 1977. — 368 с. Материалы сборника раскрывают борьбу К. Маркса и Ф. Энгельса и их ближайших соратников за создание первой международной организации пролетариата, против влияния буржуазной идеологии на рабочий класс. В работе также показана деятельность Союза коммунистов и его руководителей в период германской буржуазно-демократической революции 1848—1849 гг.
М.: Мысль, 1977. — 368 с. Материалы сборника раскрывают борьбу К. Маркса и Ф. Энгельса и их ближайших соратников за создание первой международной организации пролетариата, против влияния буржуазной идеологии на рабочий класс. В работе также показана деятельность Союза коммунистов и его руководителей в период германской буржуазно-демократической революции 1848—1849 гг.
М.: Красная Новь, 1923. - 230 с. И. Степанов. 1848—1898—1923 гг. Ю. Стеклов. Революция 1848 года во Франции М. Покровский. Ламартин, Кавеньяк и Николай I (страничка из истории февральской республики 1848 г.) Ф. Ротштейн. Сорок восьмой год в Англии М. Бэр. Германская революция 1848—1849 гг. Н. Варга. Венгерская революция 1848 — 1849 гг. Ю. Мархлевский. Польский вопрос во время...
София: Наука и изкуство, 1958. — 484 с. В книгата в превод на български са дадени повечето от договорите и документите от официален характер за отношенията между Великите сили в периода от Вестфалския мир 1648 година до Първата световна война.
София: Одри, 2000. — 128 с. Увод. Един монах в търсене на спасението. Лутеранската реформа. Реформите на Цвингли и Бусер. Реформацията на Калвин. Англиканската реформация. Заключение. Библиография.
М. — Л.: Наука, 1965. — 435 с. Перед нами неопубликованная работа известного советского историка академика Е. В. Тарле – «Очерки по истории колониальной политики западноевропейских государств». Содержание этой работы несколько шире её названия и включает историю колониализма. В течение нескольких лет автор собирал материал из самых разнообразных по содержанию и языку...
М.: Эксмо-Пресс, 2001. — 799 с. — (Антология мысли). Колониальная политика европейских держав. Торговая конкуренция Испании и Португалии. Продвижение конкистадоров в Новом Свете. Завоевание Мексики и Перу испанцами и Бразилии португальцами. Влияние колонизации на экономику Испании. Причины падения колониального могущества Португалии. Социальный состав и хозяйство испанских...
М.: ОГИЗ Госполитиздат, 1943. — 364 с. Сборник статей под редакцией академика Е. В. Тарле. О партизанах разных наций, боровшихся со своими поработителями с оружием в руках в годы опасности для их родины за последние несколько столетий в Западной Европе и Америке, и рассказывает эта книга. Интересен год издания этой книги 1943 - время, когда партизанской борьбой с...
М.; Берлин: Директ-Медиа, 2015. — 1106 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4475-5449-1. Работа «Европа в эпоху империализма 1871-1919 гг.» была издана в 1927 году, но до сих пор продолжает оставаться одним из лучших исследований по данной теме. Книга посвящена истории внешней политики этого времени, причинам возникновения Первой мировой войны, ходу военных действий, последствиям.
М.: Изд. Академии Наук СССР, 1958. — 430 с.
Заглавие книги шире ее содержания. Это не изложение общей истории Европы в эпоху империализма, а преимущественно история внешней политики этого времени, написанная на широком историческом фоне. Фундаментальный труд Академика Е.В.Тарле, посвящен причинам возникновения, ходу и последствиям Первой мировой войны. Написанный в 1927 году он...
М.: Изд. Академии Наук СССР, 1958. — 430 с. Заглавие книги шире ее содержания. Это не изложение общей истории Европы в эпоху империализма, а преимущественно история внешней политики этого времени, написанная на широком историческом фоне. Фундаментальный труд Академика Е.В.Тарле, посвящен причинам возникновения, ходу и последствиям Первой мировой войны. Написанный в 1927 году он...
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Предлагаемая работа Академика Е.В.Тарле рассчитана главным образом на тех, кто хотел бы ознакомиться с основными фактами истории колониальной политики западноевропейских держав в эпоху первоначального накопления, а также в начальный период Нового времени. Интересующий нас отрезок времени начинается с поисков морского пути в Индию, с так называемой...
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Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 1999 г. - 1502 с. О трилогии и ее авторе: Эрик Хобсбаум родился в Александрии в 1917г. Получил образование в Вене, Берлине, Лондоне и Кембридже. Член Британской Академии и Американской Академии Искусств и Наук, обладатель почетных степеней университетов ряда стран. До пенсии работал в Бирбекском Колледже Лондонского университета, а затем в Новой школе...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 1999 г. - 1502 с. О трилогии и ее авторе: Эрик Хобсбаум родился в Александрии в 1917г. Получил образование в Вене, Берлине, Лондоне и Кембридже. Член Британской Академии и Американской Академии Искусств и Наук, обладатель почетных степеней университетов ряда стран. До пенсии работал в Бирбекском Колледже Лондонского университета, а затем в Новой школе...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 1999 г. - 1502 с. О трилогии и ее авторе: Эрик Хобсбаум родился в Александрии в 1917 г. Получил образование в Вене, Берлине, Лондоне и Кембридже. Член Британской Академии и Американской Академии Искусств и Наук, обладатель почетных степеней университетов ряда стран. До пенсии работал в Бирбекском Колледже Лондонского университета, а затем в Новой школе...
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