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“martha c howell”

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  • Making Merchants

    The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany

    by Martha C. Howell ...
    Using a rare collection of personal narratives written by successful merchants in early modern German-speaking Europe, this study examines how such men understood their role in commerce and in society more generally. As they told it, their honor was based not just on riches won in long-distance trade but, more fundamentally, on their comportment both in and outside the marketplace. As these men ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Rereading Huizinga

    Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later

    Edited by Peter Arnade, Martha Howell, Anton van der Lem ...
    Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later explores the legacy and historiographical impact of Johan Huizinga's 1919 masterwork a century after its publication. Often considered one of the most successful books in medieval European history, its reception has varied over the last hundred years, popular with non-academic readers, and appraised more critically by fellow historians ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Optimizing K-12 Education through Online and Blended Learning

    Edited by Nathaniel Ostashewski, Jennifer Howell, Martha Cleveland-Innes ...
    The integration of information and communication technologies in education is unavoidable, as an increasing percentage of educators embrace modern technology, others are faced with the decision to reevaluate their own pedagogical practices or become obsolete. To meet the needs of students, one must first define what stipulates a successful K-12 student, the best practices of online classrooms, the ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

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    An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

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    In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the ... Read more

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  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms

    Edited by Thomas F.X. Noble ...
    Series series Rewriting Histories
    This prestigious collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from the Roman Empire to Barbarian Europe happened.Presenting the most current work including newly-available material such as translations of French and German essays, From Roman Provinces to Medieval ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Making of Medieval History

    by Graham Loud, Joep Leerssen, Martial Staub, Michael Borgolte, Patrick Geary, Professor Peter Biller, Richard Hitchcock, Bastian Schlütter, Bernhard Jussen0, Christian Lübke1, Christine Ames2, Professor Ian Nicholas Wood3, Janet L Nelson4 ...
    A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection will be essential reading for all medievalists. John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Summer of Fire and Blood

    The German Peasants' War

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    Winner of the Cundill PrizeFrom a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.**“A balanced, comprehensive survey of the uprising, gripping in its narrative and perceptive in its assessments, making it easily the most accessible study in English for a general readership.” -**Financial TimesThe German Peasants’ War was the greatest ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    by Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Before Boas

    The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

    by Han F. Vermeulen ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD