Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In the Middle Ages Italy was occupied by a vast number of political communities, some large, others very small, some self-governing, some under despotic rule. These small states were forever contending with each other, often to the death, for independence, or increase of territory,...
Gender and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Queen Louisa Ulrika (1720-1782)
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book retraces the life and experience of Princess Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720-1782), who became queen of Sweden, with a particular emphasis on her political role and activities. As crown princess (1744-1751), queen (1751-1771) and then queen dowager (1771-1782) of Sweden, Louisa Ulrika took...
Being Elizabethan
Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare’s age.
Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and rejuvenation as the impacts of...
Fiume Bojaccia
Delitti e misteri romani sul Tevere
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2015
L'Autrice prende in esame undici famosi delitti avvenuti con la "complicità" od anche solo con la "testimonianza" del Tevere nella Roma antica, in quella medievale, nella rinascimentale e nell'umbertina; quindi nella Roma del fascismo, del dopo guerra ed in quella contemporanea....
Alien Albion
Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how...
Arbella Stuart
The Uncrowned Queen
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII’s children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The queen was to recover, but the issue remained: if the queen did not produce an heir, who was next in line to succeed? Lady Arbella Stuart was cousin to...
by Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
eBook Interactivo. Hemos querido presentar en esta serie las primeras obras que van a sentar las bases del Renacimiento y que, como es bien sabido, se produjeron en Italia a finales de la Baja Edad Media. Se trata de un pequeño grupo de genios que comprenden la profundidad de la transformación socioeconómica...
by Toby Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
How did the Protestants gain a monopoly over the running of Ireland and replace the Catholics as rulers and landowners? To answer this question, Toby Barnard:
- examines the Catholics' attempt to regain control over their own affairs, first in the 1640s and then between 1689 and 1691
- outlines...
Women of Fortune
Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Women of Fortune tells the compelling story of mercantile wealth, arranged marriages, and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder. Following three generations of the Bennet and Morewood families, who made their fortune in Crown finance, the East Indies,...
The English Civil War
Conflict and Contexts, 1640-49
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
John Adamson provides a new synthesis of current research on the political crisis that engulfed England in the 1640s. Drawing on new archival findings and challenging current orthodoxies, these essays by leading historians offer a variety of original perspectives, locating English events firmly within a 'three kingdoms' context.
Imperial Boundaries
Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were transformed...
The Business of War
Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation of military...
Colonial Relations
The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant...
by Daniele Lucchini
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2014
La parabola di Mantova, oggi borgo con il rango di capoluogo di provincia, già capitale di un piccolo stato sovrano protagonista sullo scenario internazionale rinascimentale, che durante la prima metà del Cinquecento dettava il gusto alle corti d'Europa e ne fu una delle capitali culturali, rispecchia...