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New Approaches to Naples c.1500-c.1800
The Power of Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate target of attempts, by Catholic missionaries and others, to ’civilize’ the city. Historiographically bypassed in favour of Venice, Florence and Rome,...
by Fernando Checa Cremades, Laura Fernández–González
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing academic interest in festivals this volume focuses on the early modern...
A History of County Galway
A comprehensive study of Galway’s history, culture and people
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Peadar O’Dowd’s A History of County Galway is an enjoyable, accessible and informative study of Galway’s history. A comprehensive book that begins with Galway’s geological formation, O’Dowd’s study of Ireland’s second largest county progresses up to the present day and is the ideal book...
War Dog Fighting Other People's Wars-The Modern Mercenary In Combat
Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today's freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog Al Venter examines the latter...
Gustavus Adolphus
A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many...
Debating Modern Revolution
The Evolution of Revolutionary Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this notion...
Demonic Possession and Exorcism
In Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France.
Catholics at the time believed that the Devil was everywhere present, in the rise of the heretics, in the activities...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of scholars working in the medieval and early modern periods. Collectively they explore both the assumptions and strategies of those in authority dealing with...
by Louis Dupre
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Modern European intellectual history is thriving as never before. It has recovered from an era in which other trends like social and cultural history threatened to marginalize it. But in spite of enjoying a contemporary renaissance, the field has lost touch with the tradition of debating why and how...
Philosophy in the Modern World
A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries...
Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle
Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays adds to a rich corpus of literature on Renaissance and early modern historiography, bringing a unique approach to several of the problems currently...
by Ben Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Exam Board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018
An OCR endorsed textbook
Trust Ben Walsh to guide you through the new specification and motivate your students to excel with his trademark mix of engaging narrative and fascinating contemporary...
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful...