Early Modern History 1500-1750

Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, Cities Beyond Borders explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another...

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the interplay and dynamic exchange of languages in the Italian peninsula, from the early fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it examin..

At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. It is an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension that forms the basis of this study, which reconstructs the..

Civil Wars in Peru, The war of Las Salinas, by Pedro de Cieza de León..

Civil Wars of Peru, by Pedro de Cieza de León (Part IV, Book II): The War of Chupas..

Clarendon Reconsidered is a lively new account of a major figure in seventeenth-century British history, politics and literature. It reappraises the life and career of the foremost statesman of the Caroline court and the author of the History of the Rebellion, then and for long afterwards the most s..

While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors...

The volume consists of ten essays (five by British and five by Dutch scholars) based on papers originally delivered to the Fourteenth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, 2000. The essays are arranged into five themes which take a strongly comparative approach to explore the development of the British..

Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 1623-1667..

Through an exploration of the unique Polish tradition of child commemoration, this book raises issues beyond the monuments themselves, about Polish social life and family structuring in the early modern period, including attitudes to children and the position of women, as well as the transmission an..

With the playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this study sheds new light on his oeuvre, times, and Venetian patrician supporters by embedding the Venetian aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place politically, economically, socially, and artistically. Linda C..

Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution demonstrates the centrality of the Revolution and its aftermath to the lives of country people through a detailed analysis of legislative attempts to privatize common land in southern France, and the socio-economic and agricultural ramifications of this pr..