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  • - Evolution of American State Government
    av Jon C. Teaford
    246,-

    Urban historian Jon C. Teaford explores the development of state government in the United States from the end of the 19th century to the "renaissance" of states at the end of the 20th. Refuting that the governments were lethargic until the 1980s, he shows how they continually adapted and expanded.

  • - From Its Origins to the Revolution of 1830
    av David Higgs
    544,-

    This book examines in depth the form that ultraroyalism took in Toulouse.

  • - The Practice of Inegalitarianism
    av David Higgs
    544,-

    Professor Higgs finds that French nobles changed with their century, but given their small numbers in the national population, they maintained a grossly disproportionate presence in politics, in culture, among the wealthiest landowners, and in economic life.

  • - The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
    av Dane Anthony Morrison
    369 - 431,-

    " Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale.

  • av Martin A. (Duke University) Miller
    544,-

    When, two generations later, Lenin returned to Russia after decades in Europe and made this vision a reality, his actions built on the foundation laid by his nineteenth-century predecessors.

  • av Christopher (Space Historian Gainor
    600,-

    Aimed at readers interested in the history of the Cold War and of space exploration, the book makes a major contribution to the history of rocket development and the nuclear age.

  • - Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean
    av Eric R (Brigham Young University) Dursteler
    371,-

    Moving beyond the 'clash of civilizations' model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, the author focuses on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.

  • - Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State
    av Monique O'Connell
    708,-

    In explaining the institutions and individuals that permitted this type of negotiation, O'Connell offers a historical example of an early modern empire at the height of imperial expansion.

  • - Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution
    av Lisa T. (Oregon State University) Sarasohn
    914,-

    It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution.

  • - Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750-1830
    av Morag (State University of New York at Brockport) Martin
    695,-

    Rather than disappearing along with the Old Regime, the commerce of cosmetics, reimagined and redefined, flourished in the early 19th century, as political ideals and Enlightenment philosophies radically altered popular sentiment.

  • - Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
    av Daniel R. Mandell
    449,-

    Shedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.

  • - Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean
    av Junko Therese (Assistant Professor Takeda
    797,-

    In doing so, the book highlights the conjoined history of broad transnational processes and local political change.

  • - Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing
    av Carole Collier (Southern Illinois University Frick
    383,-

    Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.

  • - Wine and the Making of a National Identity
    av Kolleen M. Guy
    386 - 557,-

    This ability to mask local interests as national concerns convinced government officials of the need, at both national and international levels, to protect champagne as a French patrimony.

  • - Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400
    av Steven A. (Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Epstein
    729,-

    Epstein reveals the modern view of cultural, ethnic, and religious purity in the early modern Mediterranean as a mirage, and he offers new insights into how present-day conceptions about creed, color, ethnicity, and language originated.

  • av Monica (Assistant Professor Chojnacka
    708,-

    On a daily basis, Venetian women worked, traveled, and contested obstacles in ways that made the city their own.

  • av Christopher E. Forth
    343 - 687,-

    Finally, he examines the relation of the Dreyfus Affair to the "culture of forcethat marked French society during the prewar years, thus accounting for the rise of the youthful athlete as a more compelling manly ideal than the bookish and sedentary intellectual.

  • - Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna
    av Nicholas Terpstra
    483,-

    Based on extensive archival research and individual stories, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance demonstrates how gender and class shaped individual orphanages in each city's network and how politics, charity, and economics intertwined in the development of the early modern state.

  • - Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614
    av Benjamin (Assistant Professor of History Ehlers
    605,-

    Ehler's sophisticated yet accessible study of the pluralist diocese of Valencia is a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic reform, moriscos, Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain, and early modern Europe.

  • - Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950
    av Seth A. Johnston
    374,-

    Students, scholars, and policy practitioners will find this a useful resource for understanding NATO, transatlantic relations, and security in Europe and North America, as well as theories about change in international institutions.

  • - Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain
    av Magdalena S. (Gettysburg College) Sanchez
    369,-

    By incorporating women into informal political networks, this work breaks new ground in the study of early modern European politics.

  • av Lu Ann (The College of William and Mary) Homza
    390,-

    Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft, and tracts on the episcopate and penance, Homza illuminates the intellectual autonomy and energy of Spain's ecclesiastics, exploring the flexibility and inconsistency in their preferences for humanism or scholasticism, preferences which have long been thought to be steadfast.

  • - Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind
    av James C. (Director Turner
    383,-

    By the turn of the century, the author demonstrates, new conceptions of human nature adn heightened sensitivity even to the plight of lower life-forms were contributing to a new understanding of man's place in nature.

  • av William (Vanderbilt University) Caferro
    657,-

    The raids, therefore, were more than an exotic nuisance, but a key factor in Siena's decision to abandon independence in 1399.

  • - Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650
    av Sara T. Nalle
    416,-

    Even as the Protestant Reformation became a permanent feature of European culture, a Catholic reformation was under way in Spain. This title presents the social history of the Spanish Counter Reformation. It explores how the people and clergy of Cuenca learned to conform to the standards of modern Catholicism.

  • - The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century
    av John D. Krugler
    383,-

    Skillfully told here, the story of the Calverts' bold experiment in advancing freedom of conscience is the story of the roots of American liberty.

  • - Theosophy and Feminism in England
    av Joy (University of British Columbia) Dixon
    720,-

    Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today.

  • - Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America
    av Wendy A. (The Library Company of Philadelphia) Woloson
    653,-

    Woloson's work offers a vivid account of this social transformation-along with the emergence of consumer culture in America.

  • - Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain
    av A. Katie (Assistant Professor Harris
    678,-

    Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity, it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.

  • - William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan
    av Kurt C. Schlichting
    410,-

    "-Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"Ably tells the story of the New York rail system's most active and visible symbol: the architectural and engineering masterpiece, with its grand public concourse, in the heart of Midtown."-New Scientist

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