Eating the Empire

food and society in Eighteenth-Century britain

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In ...

Ideas of monarchical reform

Fénelon, Jacobitism, and the political works of the Chevalier Ramsay

This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of ...

The persian mirror

french reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France

The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's ...

The death of the French Atlantic

trade, war, and slavery in the Age of Revolution

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war ...

A Renaissance marriage

the political and personal alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519

The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early modern period. A Renaissance Marriage ...

Benjamin Franklin and the ends of Empire

Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of independence from Britain that became his hallmark ...

El ingeniero militar Sebastián van der Borcht

de Flandes a Sevilla

Investigación que viene a contribuir a la revalorización de la labor de los ingenieros militares pertenecientes al Real Cuerpo, profesionales de una esmerada formación científica demostrada en la proyección de numerosos edificios militares, civiles y religiosos, entre los que ocupa un lugar destacado el ingeniero ...

The English Reformation

a very brief history

'There is no such thing as "the English Reformation". A "Reformation" is a composite event which is only made visible by being framed the right way. It is like a "war": a label we put onto a particular set of events, while we decide that ...

Washington

la ciudad del barro y los esclavos

La ciudad de Washington fue fundada en 1790 sobre tierras de labranza con el fin de dar a la república de los Estados Unidos una capital digna del proyecto de país diseñado por los llamados ?Padres Fundadores?. Durante los cincuenta primeros años de andadura, Washington ...

Liberty against the Law

some Seventeenth-Century controversies

A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of 17th century England In 17th Century England, the law was not an instrument of justice - it was an instrument of oppression. The enclosures of common land, loss of many traditional rights and draconian punishments ...

Milton and the English Revolution

Remarkable reinterpretation of Milton and his poetry by one of the most famous historians of the 17th Century In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as ...

The Braganzas

the rise and fall of the ruling dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640-1910

For two hundred and seventy years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbors and saved the monarchy and ...

A cold welcome

the little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America

When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, and winters when even the Rio Grande ...

Conflict and Enlightenment

print and political culture in Europe, 1635-1795

New approaches to the history of print have allowed historians of early modern Europe to re-evaluate major shifts in religious, intellectual, cultural and political life across Europe. Drawing on precise and detailed study of the contexts of different types of print, including books, pamphlets, newspapers ...

Arte y Nobleza

el diletantismo artístico en la Edad Moderna

Este libro está formado por una reunión de trabajos con un tema común: la cultura nobiliaria y el diletantismo artístico en la Edad Moderna por parte de las clases privilegiadas laicas. La colaboración de los distintos autores pretende ofrecer un acercamiento a este objeto de ...

La condesa sangrienta

Esta es la historia real de Erzsébet Báthory, apodada «la condesa sangrienta» o también «la alimaña». Mujer fascinante y de belleza magnética, su fijación por la juventud, la brujería y un sadismo fuera de toda medida la llevaron a convertirse en una de las mayores ...

La invención de la Naturaleza

el Nuevo Mundo de Alexander von Humboldt

La invención de la naturaleza revela la extraordinaria vida del visionario naturalista alemán Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) y cómo creó una nueva forma de entender la naturaleza. Humboldt fue un intrépido explorador y el científico más famoso de su época. Su agitada vida estuvo repleta ...

Tacky's Revolt

the story of an Atlantic Slave War

A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an uprising that laid bare the interconnectedness of Europe, Africa, and America, shook the foundations of empire, and reshaped ideas of race and popular belonging. In the second half of the ...

Cuatro príncipes

Enrique VIII, Francisco I, Carlos V, Solimán el Magnífico: y las obsesiones que forjaron la Europa Moderna

Cuatro grandes príncipes nacieron en el curso de una década: Enrique VIII de Inglaterra, Francisco I de Francia, Carlos V de Alemania y I de España y Solimán el Magnífico. Todos ellos dejaron una profunda huella en la historia de sus reinos. No podrían haber ...

El contagio sagrado

Historia natural de la superstición

El contagio sagrado forma parte de las obras del primer período de Holbach, el que va desde sus contribuciones a la Encyclopédie (más de 400 entradas, sobre todo de química) hasta la publicación del Sistema de la naturaleza en 1770. Son libros de virulenta polémica ...