A Cultural History of the Modern Age: The Crisis of the European Soul
ISBN: 9781412811712 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume Three of A Cultural History of the Modern Age finishes a journey that begins with Descartes in the first volume and ends with Freud and the psychoanalytical movement in the third volume. Friedell describes the contents of these books as a series of performances, starting with the birth of the man of the Modern Age, followed by flowering of this epoch, and concludes with the death of the Modern Age. This huge landscape provides an intertwining of the material and the cultural, the civil and the military, from the high points of creative flowering in Europe to death and emptiness. The...
Volume Three of A Cultural History of the Modern Age finishes a journey that begins with Descartes in the first volume and ends with Freud and the psy...
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Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment
ISBN: 9780415886444 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disability is a burgeoning area of historical research. Historians of disability -- largely looking back at the period from a modern perspective -- have identified the eighteenth century as a key period of transition. In materialist histories of disability, the stirrings of industrialisation and economic change in this period is taken to herald the emergence of new modes of economic rationality that served to marginalise and devalue people with impairments as they were excluded from the mode of production. In other accounts, the period is one in which the dominant cultural paradigm for...
Disability is a burgeoning area of historical research. Historians of disability -- largely looking back at the period from a modern perspective -- ha...
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Revelation Restored: The Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781843836131 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revelation Restored is a study of apocalyptic thought in the later seventeenth century in England. It explores an under-examined aspect of early modern British history: despite the prominence of millenarian beliefs in historians' explanations of the early modern English church and state up to 1660, little has been said about these convictions in the years following the Restoration. The examination of applications of prophetic language and interpretation to explain the events in England from 1660 to 1700 illustrates their continued capacity to comprehend ecclesiastical and political...
Revelation Restored is a study of apocalyptic thought in the later seventeenth century in England. It explores an under-examined aspect of early moder...
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Der Pyrenaenfriede 1659: Vorgeschichte, Widerhall, Rezeptionsgeschichte
ISBN: 9783525100981 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English summary: 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 French hegemony began and the glorious Siglo de Oro of Spain ended. This volume brings together contributions from Spanish, French, Russian and German authors who trace the long road to peace and its reception in European scientific cultures. German...
English summary: The Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659 ended the Franco-Spanish war that began in 1635. The conflict's history of numerous earlier futile...
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Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails & Encounters in the Early Modern World
ISBN: 9781584659921 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian" prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose writings reveal a surprisingly nimble understanding of realpolitik in the emerging world of the early seventeenth century; and Nicolo Manuzzi, an insightful Venetian chronicler of the Mughal Empire in the...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditio...
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Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800
ISBN: 9781783271832 / Angielski / Twarda / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians increasingly emphasise that, in order to understand the industrial revolution fully as an economic, social and political process, the subject is best viewed from a regional, rather than a national, perspective. This book applies such an approach to the north-east of England in the early modern period, when, it is argued, the region experienced an early industrial revolution. Putting forward many new research findings and much new thinking, and covering many aspects of the economy of north-east England in the period, the book shows how rich and varied it was, and how vital the...
Historians increasingly emphasise that, in order to understand the industrial revolution fully as an economic, social and political process, the subje...
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The Letters of George Davenport, 1651-1677
ISBN: 9780854440702 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an edition of the letters of George Davenport, an Anglican clergyman in the north of England whose adult career covered the period of the Interregnum and the Restoration. Many of the letters are to his former Cambridge tutor, William Sancroft, beginning from 1651 after Sancroft had been expelled from Cambridge, and continuing after the Restoration when Davenport replaced Sancroft as chaplain to John Cosin, bishop of Durham, later becoming Rector of Houghton-le Spring, Durham. They were written to keep Sancroft supplied with information about Durham, where he was a...
This book provides an edition of the letters of George Davenport, an Anglican clergyman in the north of England whose adult career covered the period ...
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253,37 zł |
Treasure, Treason and the Tower: El Dorado and the Murder of Sir Walter Raleigh
ISBN: 9781409420255 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch correspondence found in a Swedish archive. Following an exciting paper-trail through Jacobean history to modern-day Venezuela, Professor Sellin makes a convincing case for Raleigh's innocence of the charges that led him to the block in 1618. Spurred on by these documents, Sellin undertook two excursions up the Orinoco river in Raleigh's wake, using Raleigh's 1596 book The Discoverie of Guiana as a guide. These trips convinced him that, far from being a...
In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch correspo...
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456,00 zł |
The Travels of John Sanderson in the Levant,1584-1602: With His Autobiography and Selections from His Correspondence
ISBN: 9781409414346 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1931.
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1931.
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The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India, Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D.: With a Continuation, by Another Hand, Up
ISBN: 9781409414353 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Continued from Second Series 53. Translated from the Icelandic edition of SigfAs BlAndal. This volume covers his life and travels, 1618-1679: Denmark, England, The Cape, Madagascar, Comoro Is., Coromandel Coast, Tranquebar, St Helena, Ascension Is., Ireland, Iceland This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1932.
Continued from Second Series 53. Translated from the Icelandic edition of SigfAs BlAndal. This volume covers his life and travels, 1618-1679: Denmark,...
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177,30 zł |
The Prester John of the Indies: A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, Being the Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, W
ISBN: 9781409414803 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Regiment for the Sea, and Other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, C.1535-1582
ISBN: 9781409414872 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City
ISBN: 9781848931855 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new research using documentary evidence from local and national archives from across Europe.
Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven ...
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Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 16th-18th Centuries
ISBN: 9780754659310 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16tha 18th centuries. They range from the evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace on the one hand, to notions of domesticity and organization of the private sphere on the other, and deal with the provinces, in both the Balkans and in Asia, as much as with Istanbul. At the same time the volume aims to illuminate Ottoman imperial institutional forms and norms as they existed in the high imperial era before the rapid change...
The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16tha...
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709,42 zł |
Negotiating the Jacobean Printed Book
ISBN: 9780754666332 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By examining the spaces where authors, printers and readers interact, Negotiating the Jacobean Printed Book highlights the manner in which contemporary culture and canon not only co-existed but mutually nourished and affected one another. An international group of book history scholars look beyond the traditional literary and canonical texts to explore, amongst other things, the physical nature of books and their place in Jacobean society. The contributors interrogate not just the texts themselves, but the habits, proclamations, letters and problems encountered by authors, printers and...
By examining the spaces where authors, printers and readers interact, Negotiating the Jacobean Printed Book highlights the manner in which contemporar...
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New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period
ISBN: 9780754666479 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to contemporary travel narratives, with which they shared interests in physical and metaphorical journeys, processes of exploration and discovery, encounters with new peoples, and exchange between cultures. Travel writers, too, turned to utopian discourses to describe the new worlds and societies they encountered. Both utopia and travel writing came to involve a process of reflection upon their authors'...
Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516...
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Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
ISBN: 9780820338675 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish governor... Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's... |
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Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
ISBN: 9780820338682 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish governor... Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's... |
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189,12 zł |
Creolization and Contraband: Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780820343051 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When CuraCao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and CuraCao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island's main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new... When CuraCao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of inc... |
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Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780820343068 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When CuraCao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and CuraCao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island's main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new... When CuraCao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of inc... |
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189,12 zł |