Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 18th Century

Eugenio principe di Savoia-Carignano, conte di Soissons. Generale a soli 24 anni, Feldmaresciallo a 27, Eugenio E stato il piU grande comandante della storia dell'esercito di Casa d'Austria e dalle cancellerie europee, per l'abilitA dimostrata anche in diplomazia, fu considerato 'l'imperatore segreto'. Dopo il rifiuto da parte di Luigi XIV al suo ingresso nell'esercito, il principe fuggI in Austria e in quel paese iniziO la sua sfolgorante carriera, culminata con l'ascesa ai vertici della macchina militare asburgica, condotta nella duplice veste di combattente e instancabile riformatore....

Eugenio principe di Savoia-Carignano, conte di Soissons. Generale a soli 24 anni, Feldmaresciallo a 27, Eugenio E stato il piU grande comandante della storia dell'esercito di Casa d'Austria e dalle cancellerie europee, per l'abilitA dimostrata anche in diplomazia, fu considerato 'l'imperatore segreto'. Dopo il rifiuto da parte di Luigi XIV al suo ingresso nell'esercito, il principe fuggI in Austria e in quel paese iniziO la sua sfolgorante carriera, culminata con l'ascesa ai vertici della macchina militare asburgica, condotta nella duplice veste di combattente e instancabile riformatore....

Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe explores those political practices and values that could be termed 'cultures of voting' and how they shaped intra- and inter-communal relationships. The book explores this across different contexts of voting, including both elections and methods of reaching collective political decisions. It combines traditional constitutional history with social and cultural history, the history of material culture and of political thought. It excavates the influence of ancient models and traditions on medieval and early modern polities and questions how far...

This critically-commented source edition contains the commercial directions, merchant diary and naval log of four East India Company ships, which sailed from London to Canton, China in 1723, as well as the travelogue of another contemporary trader who sailed from Ostend. It highlights the roles of cooperation and competition in shaping the relations between these and other European companies as well as the everyday lives of European merchants and mariners. The edition thus sheds new light on the history of the East Indies trade during the eighteenth century and its role in encouraging...

Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense.

As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years,...

This book describes the exciting adventures of Bonnie Prince Charlie over five months after his defeat at the battle of Culloden in 1746. On the run from his Hanoverian enemies, he desperately sought a ship in which to escape from Scotland. In the process, he and a few companions secretly trekked for five hundred miles over remote mountainous areas of the Western Isles and the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Eventually, he was rescued by friends, and taken to France.

The author has thoroughly researched the story from contemporary accounts. Over ten years, he has also walked and...

Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of -taxation without representation- was to reject Great Britain as master of the American economy and government. But tea played a longer and far more complicated role in American economic history than the events at Boston suggest.

In The Trouble with Tea, historian Jane T. Merritt explores tea as a central component of...

In der deutschen Preuen- und Aufklarungsforschung wurde der polnisch-preuische Kulturtransfer des 18. Jahrhunderts bislang kaum thematisiert. Am Beispiel des polnischen Preuenbildes in der Zeit der Aufklarung untersucht die Autorin, wie sich das gegenseitige Verhaltnis angesichts der repressiven Polen-Politik des benachbarten Preuen gestaltete. Folgerichtig stehen die vergessenen bzw. vernachlassigten Interferenzen des Kulturellen mit dem Politischen im Mittelpunkt der Analyse, die sich ihrerseits auf die Korrelation zwischen der historischen Entwicklung und ihrer Deutung anhand einer...

Those researching the history of political democracy in Scotland will inevitably find that one name stands out from the crowd, namely that of Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765-1799). He was one of several people tried in Scottish courts during the 1790s for the alleged crime of 'Sedition', and four of the others (Thomas Fyshe Palmer, William Skirving, Maurice Margarot and Joseph Gerrald) share commemoration with him on a large monument in Edinburgh; but somehow Muir seems special. The way he used his trial as a platform to promote the logic of 'an equal representation of the People in the...