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Dressing Renaissance Florence
Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing
Häftad, 2005
425 kr
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As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in …
Bomb and America's Missile Age
Inbunden, 2018
504 kr
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How nuclear weapons helped drive the United States into the missile age.The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into …
Crisis in an Atlantic Empire
Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810
Av Barbara H. Stein, Stanley J. Stein
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called "the age of revolutions." The study examines …
Fathers of the Towns
Leadership and Community Structure in Eighteenth-Century New England
Häftad, 1976
362 kr
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Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, Edward M. Cook, Jr., examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New England colonies between 1700 and 1785. In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists …
Erin's Daughters in America
Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1983
455 kr
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"The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience."— Labor History
Liberty in Absolutist Spain
The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990
Av Helen Nader
Häftad, 1993
425 kr
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Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended these seizures to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold …
Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena
Inbunden, 1998
787 kr
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Among the most dramatic problems faced on the Italian peninsula in the fourteenth century were the raids of marauding mercenary companies. These companies, known locally as Companies of Adventure and more generally as Free Companies, were private armies, composed of professional soldiers and …
World of the Paris Café
Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914
Häftad, 1998
402 kr
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"[Haine] invites the reader of The World of the Paris Cafe to step up to the serving counter of a nineteenth-century Parisian cafe to eavesdrop on the conversations and to observe the dynamics of this unique working-class establishment ...These cafes were far more than places to eat and drink to …
Reckoning with the Beast
Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind
Häftad, 2000
468 kr
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Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged the support of the rich and the powerful, of church dignitaries, peers and ministers, and the queen …
When Champagne Became French
Wine and the Making of a National Identity
Inbunden, 2003
670 kr
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Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the nature of French national identity but also …
Empress, the Queen, and the Nun
Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain
Häftad, 2003
402 kr
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In the early seventeenth-century, when Spanish interests often competed with those of the House of Austria, three women in the court of Philip III of Spain-Empress Maria, Philip's grandmother; Margaret of Austria, Philip's wife; and Margaret of the Cross, Philip's aunt-worked behind the scenes to …
Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance
Av Lu Ann Homza
Häftad, 2004
455 kr
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In Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance, Lu Ann Homza rejects the traditional view of the Spanish Renaissance as a battle of strict opposites in favor of a more nuanced history. Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft, and tracts on the …
Juana the Mad
Sovereignty and Dynasty in Renaissance Europe
Av Bethany Aram
Inbunden, 2005
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613 kr
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Born to Isabel and Ferdinand, the Catholic Monarchs whose marriage united the realms of Castile and Aragon, Juana "the Mad" (1479-1555) is one of the most infamous but least studied monarchs of the Renaissance. Conventional accounts of Juana portray her as a sullen woman prone to depression, a …
Between Christians and Moriscos
Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568–1614
Inbunden, 2006
660 kr
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In early modern Spain the monarchy's universal policy to convert all of its subjects to Christianity did not end distinctions among ethnic religious groups, but rather made relations between them more contentious. Old Christians, those whose families had always been Christian, defined themselves in …
Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
Häftad, 2006
418 kr
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In 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. The ensuing scandal has often been studied for what it reveals about French anti-Semitism and tensions between republicanism and conservatism under the Third Republic. But …
Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal
Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City
Häftad, 2007
386 kr
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The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men …
When Champagne Became French
Wine and the Making of a National Identity
Häftad, 2007
452 kr
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Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the nature of French national identity but also …
God in La Mancha
Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500–1650
Häftad, 2008
487 kr
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This title is the winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.Even as the Protestant Reformation became a permanent feature of European culture, a Catholic reformation was under way in Spain. In this acclaimed social history of the Spanish Counter Reformation, …
Hunting and Fishing in the New South
Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War
Inbunden, 2009
804 kr
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This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post-Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing …
English and Catholic
The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century
Häftad, 2008
483 kr
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to be English and Catholic was to face persecution, financial penalties, and sometimes death. Yet some English Catholics prospered, reconciling their faith and loyalty to their country. Among the most prominent was George Calvert, a talented and ambitious …
Venetians in Constantinople
Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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The introduction to this book is dazzling ...The Venetian community in Constantinople provides an excellent site for exploration of issues of nation and identity ...[Dursteler's] overall intention-to demonstrate cultural diversity in a place and era that has been commonly assumed to lack it-remains …
Selling Beauty
Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830
Av Morag Martin
Inbunden, 2009
720 kr
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Morag Martin's history of the cosmetic industry in France examines the evolution of popular tastes and standards of beauty during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As the French citizenry rebelled against the excesses of the aristocracy, there was a parallel shift in consumer beauty …
Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution
Inbunden, 2010
930 kr
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, led a remarkable-and controversial-life, writing poetry and prose and philosophizing on the natural world at a time when women were denied any means of a formal education. Lisa T. Sarasohn acutely examines the brilliant work of this untrained mind and …
Tribe, Race, History
Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880
Häftad, 2011
544 kr
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Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region's socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing …
Expert Cook in Enlightenment France
Av Sean Takats
Inbunden, 2012
782 kr
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In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of these cooks as they sought to improve their position …
Savant and the State
Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Robert Fox
Inbunden, 2012
782 kr
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There has been a tendency to view science in nineteenth-century France as the exclusive territory of the nation's leading academic centers and the powerful Paris-based administrators who controlled them. Ministries and the great savants and institutions of the capital seem to have defined the …
Genoa and the Sea
Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684
Häftad, 2013
477 kr
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Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and prosperous one, making it one of the most important financial centers in Europe. When Spanish influence in …
Grand Central's Engineer
William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan
Häftad, 2013
433 kr
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Few people have had as profound an impact on the history of New York City as William J. Wilgus. As chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, Wilgus conceived the Grand Central Terminal, the city's magnificent monument to America's Railway Age. Kurt C. Schlichting here examines the remarkable …
True Yankees
The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
Inbunden, 2015
456 kr
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With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and …
Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia
Häftad, 2016
340 kr
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During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians-Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks-perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsar's World War I draft. In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women, and …
