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Camillo Agrippa's widely influential "Treatise on the Science of Arms" was a turning point in the history of fencing. The author - an... The medieval guild is deconstructed into political theory and social commentary in this contemporary look at one of the most important...
Chinese encounters with the British were more than merely those between two great powers. There was the larger canvas of the Empire and... This book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the making of modern Japan. L. M. Cullen...
Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal... Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the...
International financial centres have come to represent a major economic stake. Yet no historical study has been devoted to them.... This unique book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to...
In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material... This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern...
During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first... A ground-breaking study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early...
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes... This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna....
Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard... Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice....
Between Utopia and Dystopia offers a new interpretation of Erasmian humanism. It argues that Erasmian humanism created the identity of... "Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the...
As Thomas F. Mayer demonstrates in this first study of the Roman Inquisition as an institution, the Inquisition underwent constant... "This is a major work. Shuger deals with the rules of appropriate language use in early modern Europe, making an argument about...
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