British Encounters with India, 1750-1830: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780230231436 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of 18th- and early 19th-century primary texts and images that represent various facets of the cross-cultural interaction between India and Britain. The anthology suggests that for a brief period - while most Europeans were involved in projects of Empire and domination - some British envisioned a convergence of cultures.
A collection of 18th- and early 19th-century primary texts and images that represent various facets of the cross-cultural interaction between India an...
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Conquering Nature in Spain and Its Empire, 1750-1850
ISBN: 9780719084935 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a serries of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in metropolitan gardens and museums. This book assesses the cultural significance of natural history, emphasising the figurative and utilitarian value with which eighteenth-century Spaniards invested natural objects, from globetrotting elephants to three-legged...
This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to surv...
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Treitschke: His Life and Works: Heinrich Von Treitschke
ISBN: 9780415685467 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in English in 1914, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Adolf Hausrath's edited collection: Treitschke: His Life and Works. Treitschke remains one of the most important German historians of the nineteenth century. He is also famous for his nationalist sentiments and political career, rising to prominence during the period of Bismarck's unification of Germany. This work begins with an introductory biography of Treitschke by theologian Adolf Hausrath. It also contains english translations of eight seminal essays by Treitschke on international relations and German...
First published in English in 1914, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Adolf Hausrath's edited collection: Treitschke: His Life and Works. Treitsc...
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The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France: Between the Ancients and the Moderns
ISBN: 9781784991371 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating...
The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century ...
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Books Between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities, 1620-1860
ISBN: 9780230285675 / Angielski / Twarda / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south.
A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ...
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Rule Britannia: The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
ISBN: 9781611790047 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The press-gang. An unmitigated evil, or the savior of a nation? You decide. Impressment was nothing new for the Royal Navy. It had been used as early as 1664 as a way of obtaining crews for warships. In many respects, impressment was inevitable. The number of trained sailors was finite, and had to be shared across both military and merchant ships. But, where the impact of an undermanned merchant fleet could be inconvenient, an undermanned navy could be disastrous. Britain was an island nation and depended on it's fleet to protect it. J. R. Hutchinson takes us on a tour of the "press-gang,"...
The press-gang. An unmitigated evil, or the savior of a nation? You decide. Impressment was nothing new for the Royal Navy. It had been used as early ...
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Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788)
ISBN: 9781849024600 / Angielski / Twarda / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after his was shipwrecked there. Although he kept a journal, it was not published on his return, unlike his contemporary, Watkin Tench. This book consists of letters to his brother in England, written in 1788, the second letter journaling the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove.
George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay ar...
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Physick and the Family: Health, Medicine and Care in Wales, 1600-1750
ISBN: 9780719085468 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.
This first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material, numerous approaches and methodologies and makes a significant contribution to debates in medical history; including economies of knowledge, domestic medicine and care, material culture and the rural medical marketplace. Drawing on sources from probates to parish records, diaries to domestic remedy collections, Withey offers new directions for... Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.
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Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture
ISBN: 9780230238770 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships both historically and culturally diverse. This book assesses the distinctive feature of settler colonialism, and discusses its political, sociological, economic and cultural consequences.
A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships b...
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The Story of Sitka the Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast (Fully Illustrated.)
ISBN: 9781849024464 / Angielski / Twarda / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An illustrated history of Sitka, Alaska, one of the most beautiful areas of the world. Beginning before the 18th Century, the story includes Russians, Spanish, English, French and Americans, who have all been part of the history recorded by C. L. Andrews. (Fully illustrated.)
An illustrated history of Sitka, Alaska, one of the most beautiful areas of the world. Beginning before the 18th Century, the story includes Russians,...
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Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann
ISBN: 9789004180079 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The field of premodern environmental history (the study of the complex and ever-changing interrelationship between human beings and the world around them prior to the Industrial Revolution) has grown vigorously over the past two decades, in no small part due to the energy and expertise of Richard C. Hoffmann (York University, Canada). In this collection, historians of medieval and early modern Europe and social scientists with a sensitivity to the use of historical information present their current research in honor of Richard C. Hoffmann's retirement from teaching. The result is a panoramic...
The field of premodern environmental history (the study of the complex and ever-changing interrelationship between human beings and the world around t...
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The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
ISBN: 9781571814470 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". a significant contribution to the vast and rich international literature on abolitionism, its causes and consequences, main events and historical processes. Well-informed and up-to-date in relation to the most pressing debates on the abolition of slave trade, ...the study provides a much-needed counterpoint (and counterbalance) to an Anglocentric leaning that overwhelmingly dominates this field of studies." - e-Journal of Portuguese History
"This book is the culmination of decades of careful research, and assumes an important place on a historiographical pitch steamrollered by an... ..". a significant contribution to the vast and rich international literature on abolitionism, its causes and consequences, main events and historical...
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Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789
ISBN: 9780230292260 / Angielski / Twarda / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between th...
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Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment: Marian Hobson
ISBN: 9780729410113 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of Marian Hobson's most important essays analysing key texts by Diderot and Rousseau.
A collection of Marian Hobson's most important essays analysing key texts by Diderot and Rousseau.
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Spicilege: Considerations Sur Les Causes De La Grandeur Ees Romains Et De Leur Decadence Et Reflexions Sur La Monarchie Universelle En Europe
ISBN: 9780729406345 / Francuski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850
ISBN: 9780754669692 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and credit, an international team of leading academics examine the ways in which state and society both advanced and responded to fundamental economic changes. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of...
This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies bet...
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Communities of Devotion: Religious Orders and Society in East Central Europe, 1450-1800
ISBN: 9780754663126 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church. Recent scholarship on medieval Europe has emphasised how mendicants exercised a significant influence on the religiosity of the laity by actually shaping their spirituality and piety. In a similar way for the early modern period, religious orders have been credited with disseminating Tridentine reform, training new clergy, gaining new converts and bringing those who had strayed back into the fold. Much about this process, however, still remains...
Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church. Recen...
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The Jewish Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780812221725 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They began to participate in secular culture and they embraced rationalism and non-Jewish education as supplements to traditional Talmudic studies. The full participation of Jews in modern Europe and... At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding domi... |
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The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursuing Wealth and Honor in Renaissance Germany
ISBN: 9780813932446 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has been available until now. The Fuggers of Augsburg offers a concise and engaging overview that builds on the latest scholarly literature and the author's own work on sixteenth-century merchant capitalism. Mark Haberlein traces the history of the family from the weaver Hans Fugger's immigration to the imperial city of Augsburg in 1367... As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other fa... |
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Wretched Faces: Famine in Wartime England 1793-1801
ISBN: 9780956482747 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1798, the Rev. T. R. Malthus published his explosive thesis arguing that population had a natural tendency to expand with the capacity of any society to feed itself. The most strident component of the Malthusian cased turned on the 'positive check' to demographic growth, a subsistence crisis generating malnutrition-induced disease and starvation, and thereby inflicting a marked drop in population. Malthus's argument was based on historical experience, but his vision was conditioned by, and conceived in, a late eighteenth-century context. Historians, while acknowledging that Tudor and...
In 1798, the Rev. T. R. Malthus published his explosive thesis arguing that population had a natural tendency to expand with the capacity of any socie...
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