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  • - Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614
    af Benjamin (Assistant Professor of History Ehlers
    497,95 kr.

    Ehler's sophisticated yet accessible study of the pluralist diocese of Valencia is a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic reform, moriscos, Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain, and early modern Europe.

  • - The Practice of Inegalitarianism
    af David Higgs
    498,95 kr.

    Professor Higgs finds that French nobles changed with their century, but given their small numbers in the national population, they maintained a grossly disproportionate presence in politics, in culture, among the wealthiest landowners, and in economic life.

  • af Lenard (c/o Bruce Berlanstein) Berlanstein
    345,95 kr.

    To supplement his argument, Berlanstein's integrates methods from the New Social History movement.

  • - The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941
    af Ronald H. (Georgia Institute of Technology) Bayor
    494,95 kr.

    Roosevelt, Father Charles Coughlin, and Fiorello La Guardia.

  • - Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College
    af Katherine Reynolds (University of South Carolina) Chaddock
    254,95 kr.

    Uncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.

  • - William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan
    af Kurt C. Schlichting
    329,95 kr.

    "-Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"Ably tells the story of the New York rail system's most active and visible symbol: the architectural and engineering masterpiece, with its grand public concourse, in the heart of Midtown."-New Scientist

  • - Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain
    af A. Katie (Assistant Professor Harris
    552,95 kr.

    Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity, it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.

  • - Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America
    af Wendy A. (The Library Company of Philadelphia) Woloson
    537,95 kr.

    Woloson's work offers a vivid account of this social transformation-along with the emergence of consumer culture in America.

  • - Theosophy and Feminism in England
    af Joy (University of British Columbia) Dixon
    607,95 kr.

    Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today.

  • - The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century
    af John D. Krugler
    397,95 kr.

    Skillfully told here, the story of the Calverts' bold experiment in advancing freedom of conscience is the story of the roots of American liberty.

  • - Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650
    af Sara T. Nalle
    437,95 kr.

    Even as the Protestant Reformation became a permanent feature of European culture, a Catholic reformation was under way in Spain. This title presents the social history of the Spanish Counter Reformation. It explores how the people and clergy of Cuenca learned to conform to the standards of modern Catholicism.

  • af William (Vanderbilt University) Caferro
    692,95 kr.

    The raids, therefore, were more than an exotic nuisance, but a key factor in Siena's decision to abandon independence in 1399.

  • - Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind
    af James C. (Director Turner
    397,95 kr.

    By the turn of the century, the author demonstrates, new conceptions of human nature adn heightened sensitivity even to the plight of lower life-forms were contributing to a new understanding of man's place in nature.

  • af Lu Ann (The College of William and Mary) Homza
    376,95 kr.

    Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft, and tracts on the episcopate and penance, Homza illuminates the intellectual autonomy and energy of Spain's ecclesiastics, exploring the flexibility and inconsistency in their preferences for humanism or scholasticism, preferences which have long been thought to be steadfast.

  • - Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain
    af Magdalena S. (Gettysburg College) Sanchez
    352,95 kr.

    By incorporating women into informal political networks, this work breaks new ground in the study of early modern European politics.

  • - The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
    af Dane Anthony Morrison
    282,95 - 346,95 kr.

    " Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale.

  • - Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950
    af Seth A. Johnston
    297,95 kr.

    Students, scholars, and policy practitioners will find this a useful resource for understanding NATO, transatlantic relations, and security in Europe and North America, as well as theories about change in international institutions.

  • - Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna
    af Nicholas Terpstra
    497,95 kr.

    Based on extensive archival research and individual stories, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance demonstrates how gender and class shaped individual orphanages in each city's network and how politics, charity, and economics intertwined in the development of the early modern state.

  • af Christopher E. Forth
    357,95 - 562,95 kr.

    Finally, he examines the relation of the Dreyfus Affair to the "culture of forcethat marked French society during the prewar years, thus accounting for the rise of the youthful athlete as a more compelling manly ideal than the bookish and sedentary intellectual.

  • af Monica (Assistant Professor Chojnacka
    582,95 kr.

    On a daily basis, Venetian women worked, traveled, and contested obstacles in ways that made the city their own.

  • - Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400
    af Steven A. (Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Epstein
    597,95 kr.

    Epstein reveals the modern view of cultural, ethnic, and religious purity in the early modern Mediterranean as a mirage, and he offers new insights into how present-day conceptions about creed, color, ethnicity, and language originated.

  • - Wine and the Making of a National Identity
    af Kolleen M. Guy
    358,95 - 592,95 kr.

    This ability to mask local interests as national concerns convinced government officials of the need, at both national and international levels, to protect champagne as a French patrimony.

  • - Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing
    af Carole Collier (Southern Illinois University Frick
    379,95 kr.

    Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.

  • - Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean
    af Junko Therese (Assistant Professor Takeda
    652,95 kr.

    In doing so, the book highlights the conjoined history of broad transnational processes and local political change.

  • - Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
    af Daniel R. Mandell
    472,95 kr.

    Shedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.

  • - Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750-1830
    af Morag (State University of New York at Brockport) Martin
    582,95 kr.

    Rather than disappearing along with the Old Regime, the commerce of cosmetics, reimagined and redefined, flourished in the early 19th century, as political ideals and Enlightenment philosophies radically altered popular sentiment.

  • - Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution
    af Lisa T. (Oregon State University) Sarasohn
    747,95 kr.

    It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution.

  • - Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State
    af Monique O'Connell
    582,95 kr.

    In explaining the institutions and individuals that permitted this type of negotiation, O'Connell offers a historical example of an early modern empire at the height of imperial expansion.

  • - Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean
    af Eric R (Brigham Young University) Dursteler
    382,95 kr.

    Moving beyond the 'clash of civilizations' model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, the author focuses on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.

  • af Christopher (Space Historian Gainor
    482,95 kr.

    Aimed at readers interested in the history of the Cold War and of space exploration, the book makes a major contribution to the history of rocket development and the nuclear age.

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