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  • General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business

    Edited by Maria Fusaro, Andrea Addobbati, Luisa Piccinno ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book explores the history of risk management in medieval and early modern European maritime business, focusing particularly on 'General Average' – a mechanism by which extraordinary expenses regarding ship or cargo, incurred during a voyage to save the venture, are shared between all participants to protect equity. This volume traces the history of this risk management tool from ... Read more

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  • Before the Industrial Revolution

    European Society and Economy 1000-1700

    by Carlo M. Cipolla ...
    First published in 1993. In this classic textbook, Cipolla explores the slow but complex process of development that transformed Europe from its relatively weak position in AD 1000 into the highly dynamic and powerful society of 1700. The book is: * Interdisciplinary - blending the economist's and the historian's approach * Full of sources and commentary derived not only from social and economic ... Read more

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  • Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528

    by Steven A. Epstein ...
    Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe’s major centers of trade and commerce. In Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528, Steven Epstein has written the first comprehensive history of the city that traces its transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving ... Read more

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  • Before the Industrial Revolution

    by Carlo M. Cipolla ...
    The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international ... Read more

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  • The Art of Conversion

    Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

    by Cécile Fromont ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cécile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    by Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Read more

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  • Brokering Empire

    Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

    by E. Natalie Rothman ...
    In Brokering Empire**, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and diplomatic interpreters.** In their sustained interactions across linguistic, religious, and political lines these trans-imperial subjects helped ... Read more

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  • Early Modern Habsburg Women

    Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

    Edited by Anne J. Cruz, Maria Galli Stampino ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations across early modern national borders. The essays in this volume investigate the lives of six ... Read more

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  • Genoa and the Sea

    Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684

    by Thomas Allison Kirk ...
    Series Book 123 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    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 the Mediterranean world began to decline, Genoa, its prosperity closely linked with Spain's, again ... Read more

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  • Braudel Revisited

    The Mediterranean World 1600-1800

    by Gabriel Piterberg, Geoffrey Symcox, Teofilo Ruiz ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    by Surekha Davies ...
    Series Book 24 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues ... Read more

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  • The Shaping of Africa

    Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    by Francesc Relaño ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge through travel and exploration, and its representation within a discourse which also includes previously ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD