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  • Walter Ralegh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance

    de Nicholas Popper ...
    Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The American Revolution

    Essays on the Founding Era

    de Johann N. Neem ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives of men and women throughout the colonies. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, they reinvented their lives, their communities, and their vision of the world.Drawing from the pathbreaking scholarship published by the Omohundro Institute over the past fifty years, these essays ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Specter of the Archive

    Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain

    de Nicholas Popper ...
    An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive, Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much information at their ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship

    Edición de Ann Blair, Nicholas Popper ...
    An illuminating exploration of the new frontiers—and unsettled geographical, temporal, and thematic borders—of early modern European history.The study of early modern Europe has long been the source of some of the most creative and influential movements in historical scholarship. New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship explores recent developments in historiography both to exhibit the ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare

    Edición de R. Malcolm Smuts ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies currently used in ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    de Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • History

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John H. Arnold ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    de Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    de Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Woman Reader

    de Belinda Jack ...
    This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Tudor England

    An Encyclopedia

    Edición de Arthur F. Kinney, Eugene D. Hill, William A. Long, David W. Swain ...
    This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays.Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux fami ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • King James and the History of Homosexuality

    de Michael Young ...
    James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that question. More broadly, he shows that James's favourites had a negative impact within the royal family, at ... Leer más

    $13.41 USD