Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 17th Century

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 historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s. Parker also deploys...

Die interdisziplinar ausgerichteten und kulturhistorisch perspektivierten Studie widmet sich der intellektuellen Biographie des Journalisten, Ubersetzers und Lieddichters Georg Greflinger (um 1617-1677), eines faszinierenden und in vieler Hinsicht exemplarischen Autors der deutschen Literatur- und Musikgeschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Auf eine umfassenden Darstellung seiner Laufbahn, seines Wirkens in verschiedenen kulturellen Zentren des Alten Reiches, seines sozialen Netzwerks sowie seines Gesamtwerks folgt in einem zweiten Komplex Greflingers Lieddichtung - jener Bereich, in dem der...

This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households among the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V. The authors trace the connections between these courtly communities regardless of their standing or composition, exposing the underlying network they formed. By cutting across the traditional division in the historiography between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs and also examining the roles played by the courts and households of lesser known members of the dynasty, this volume determines to what degree...

A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres.

This book considers a comprehensive range of topics ranging from children's health, mental disorders and the influence of pharmaceutical companies to the systems of twentieth century healthcare in Britain, Eastern Europe and South Africa. Covering a broad chronological, thematic and global scope,...