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One of the world's leading cultural historians on writing about history in early modern Europe.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521874351
One of the world's leading cultural historians on writing about history in early modern Europe.
Author : William Russell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2018-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780428523015
Excerpt from The History of Modern Europe Henry earl of Richmond disputes the kingdom with him 49 1485 Richard Is defeated and slain at Bosworth a) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521845434
New illustrated and abridged edition surveys the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.
Author : D. Richards
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN : 9780582341067
Author : Carlton J. H. Hayes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2018-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780331589108
Excerpt from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe, Vol. 1 This book represents an attempt on the part of the author to satisfy a very real need of a textbook which will reach far enough back to afford secure foundations for a college course in modern European history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674049284
Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza. Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.
Author : G. P. Gooch
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780265435625
Excerpt from History of Modern Europe, 1878-1919 It is impossible within the limits of a single volume to do justice to a period crowded with events, fermenting with new ideas, and enriched by the triumphs of invention and discovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Roswell Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History, Modern
ISBN :
Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0191570850
First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves as a succinct and enlightening overview of the development of European society as a whole over the last millennium. From the Norsemen and the world of the medieval knights, through to the industrialized mass warfare of the twentieth century, Michael Howard illuminates the way in which warfare has shaped the history of the Continent, its effect on social and political institutions, and the ways in which technological and social change have in turn shaped the way in which wars are fought. This new edition includes a fully updated further reading and a new final chapter bringing the story into the twenty-first century, including the invasion of Iraq and the so-called 'War against Terror'.
Author : Katharina N. Piechocki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022664121X
Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries. What is “Europe,” and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term “Europe” circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.