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Exceptionalism and Industrialisation : Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815
Leandro Prados de La Escosura
Hardcover - $201.95
Leading historians examine why Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with European rivals in a position of dominance within the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capa ...
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome De Las Casas
Paperback - $21.95
In 1542, after years of witnessing Indian suffering and slavery, Bartolome de Las Casas wrote this indictment against European exploitation and mistreatment of the native peoples of the New World. The document was dedicated to Prince Philip of Spain ...
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
Warren Dean
Paperback - $82.95
An environmental explanation of Brazil??'s repeated failures to re-establish itself as a leading rubber producer.
Istanbul Households : Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880-1940
Alan Duben
Paperback - $86.95
Istanbul Households is a social history of marriage, the family and population in Istanbul during the turbulent period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Istanbul was th ...
Venetians in Constantinople : Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Eric Dursteler
Hardcover - $107.95
Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the interse ...
The Renaissance in Europe : An Anthology
Peter Elmer
Paperback - $54.95
This series of three course texts and two anthologies, published in association with the Open University, under the title The Renaissance: A Cultural Enquiry, explores the Renaissance from the perspectives of history, literature, drama, religion, the ...
El Renacimiento
Julio Escribano Hernandez
Hardcover - $17.95
Reflecting on the daily life of people in history, this series examines the culture of ancient civilizations and their time in history. They provide the reader with a glimpse of how each culture lived, worked, related to one another, and worshipped, ...
Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice
Joanne Marie Ferraro
Paperback - $60.95
Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spo ...
Platonic Theology, Volume 6 : Books XVII-XVIII
Marsilio Ficino
Hardcover - $68.95
The "Platonic Theology" is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic scho ...