A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen
Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her ...
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen
Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her ...
Geographically and linguistically diverse, by 1789 the Habsburg monarchy had laid the groundwork for a single European polity capable of transcending its unique cultural and historic heritage. Challenging the conventional notion of the Habsburg state and society as peculiarly backward, Charles W. Ingrao traces its ...
Geographically and linguistically diverse, by 1789 the Habsburg monarchy had laid the groundwork for a single European polity capable of transcending its unique cultural and historic heritage. Challenging the conventional notion of the Habsburg state and society as peculiarly backward, Charles W. Ingrao traces its ...
From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the ...
From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the ...
Coincidiendo con el Día de Todos los Santos en 1548, el joven descendiente de Carlos V navegó desde el Golfo de Roses hasta Génova. Fue la primera etapa de su viaje a través de los dominios de los reinos de su padre, según el Felicíssimo ...
Coincidiendo con el Día de Todos los Santos en 1548, el joven descendiente de Carlos V navegó desde el Golfo de Roses hasta Génova. Fue la primera etapa de su viaje a través de los dominios de los reinos de su padre, según el Felicíssimo ...
En «El poder europeo en el mundo, 1450-1750» Ringrose plantea una tesis novedosa y no exenta de polémica sobre el relato de la expansión europea que se inicia con la colonización de África y América. Huyendo de las historias deudoras de los nacionalismos de los ...
En «El poder europeo en el mundo, 1450-1750» Ringrose plantea una tesis novedosa y no exenta de polémica sobre el relato de la expansión europea que se inicia con la colonización de África y América. Huyendo de las historias deudoras de los nacionalismos de los ...
Las ocho investigaciones sobre la historia del trabajo (siglos XVI al XIX) que se recogen en esta obra constituyen un gran avance en el estudio de los gremios. Sus autores han hecho un minucioso examen de diferentes fuentes documentales, obteniendo una visión que va mucho ...
Las ocho investigaciones sobre la historia del trabajo (siglos XVI al XIX) que se recogen en esta obra constituyen un gran avance en el estudio de los gremios. Sus autores han hecho un minucioso examen de diferentes fuentes documentales, obteniendo una visión que va mucho ...
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory ...
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory ...
At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe.
Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it ...
At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe.
Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it ...
The proportion of wartime soldiers dying of disease as against combat injury, ran at about 70-75 percent in armies campaigning in Europe in the century and a half (1648-1789) between the end of the Thirty Years War and the French Revolution. During this time, field ...
The proportion of wartime soldiers dying of disease as against combat injury, ran at about 70-75 percent in armies campaigning in Europe in the century and a half (1648-1789) between the end of the Thirty Years War and the French Revolution. During this time, field ...
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and ...
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and ...
This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history ...
This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history ...
En 1518, un cuarto de siglo después de Cristóbal Colón, un exiliado portugués, Magallanes, logró convencer al rey de España, Carlos I, de que le proporcionara una flota con el fin de explorar el mar que separaba Asia de América, el continente descubierto por Colón ...
En 1518, un cuarto de siglo después de Cristóbal Colón, un exiliado portugués, Magallanes, logró convencer al rey de España, Carlos I, de que le proporcionara una flota con el fin de explorar el mar que separaba Asia de América, el continente descubierto por Colón ...
Partiendo de una posición crítica con la imagen excepcionalista, celebrativa y autocomplaciente que suele asociarse al imperio portugués, los casos de estudio aquí reunidos problematizan los mecanismos de dominio, racismo y violencia que conllevó su expansión desde el Renacimiento hasta la era revolucionaria, sin renunciar ...
Partiendo de una posición crítica con la imagen excepcionalista, celebrativa y autocomplaciente que suele asociarse al imperio portugués, los casos de estudio aquí reunidos problematizan los mecanismos de dominio, racismo y violencia que conllevó su expansión desde el Renacimiento hasta la era revolucionaria, sin renunciar ...
Ensayo de historia comparada entre dos personajes que destacaron en los gobiernos francés y español en el siglo XVII y XVIII, respectivamente. Patiño es considerado por varios historiadores como el Colbert español, dada la similitud en sus trayectorias y en las políticas adoptadas. Entre sus ...
Ensayo de historia comparada entre dos personajes que destacaron en los gobiernos francés y español en el siglo XVII y XVIII, respectivamente. Patiño es considerado por varios historiadores como el Colbert español, dada la similitud en sus trayectorias y en las políticas adoptadas. Entre sus ...
Se trata de un estudio plural y transversal, proveniente del “XVIII Encuentro de la Ilustración al Romanticismo: España, Europa y América (1750-1850)”, que aborda el análisis del territorio en busca de las representaciones que lo conforman en el entresiglos. Desde la teórica, la estética y ...
Se trata de un estudio plural y transversal, proveniente del “XVIII Encuentro de la Ilustración al Romanticismo: España, Europa y América (1750-1850)”, que aborda el análisis del territorio en busca de las representaciones que lo conforman en el entresiglos. Desde la teórica, la estética y ...
'If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.' So commented The Times in 1978 on the 500th anniversary of More ...
'If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.' So commented The Times in 1978 on the 500th anniversary of More ...
Leonardo da Vinci, un recuerdo de infancia es una historia psicosexual y la única biografía que escribió Sigmund Freud. Contiene, de hecho, la primera explicación completa del concepto de narcisismo y desarrolla las teorías sobre la homosexualidad elaboradas por el gran psicoanalista. Aunque está basado ...
Leonardo da Vinci, un recuerdo de infancia es una historia psicosexual y la única biografía que escribió Sigmund Freud. Contiene, de hecho, la primera explicación completa del concepto de narcisismo y desarrolla las teorías sobre la homosexualidad elaboradas por el gran psicoanalista. Aunque está basado ...
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was ...
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was ...
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered ...
A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered ...
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