University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 220 p. Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France. Many scholars have...
Cassell & Co., 2001. — 226 p. Chronology A hunpowder revolution The new fury The first European cannon; The development of gunpowder artillery; New forms of military architecture, the artillery tower and the angle bastion; Siegecraft The project of infantry reform; The legions of Francis I of France; The Nassau family in Holland; Alviano in Venice; Machiavelli; The Swiss; The...
Ashgate, 2010. — 288 p. One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social upheavals. Why was it that the foundation and institutionalisation of secured peace and the rule of law seemed to go hand-in-hand with the proliferation of...
Laterza, Roma – Bari, Italia, 2007. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-88-420-3346-2. Questa introduzione alla storia contemporanea, in tutti i suoi vari aspetti, ne coglie la radicale diversità rispetto alla storia moderna, e fornisce tutte le principali chiavi di lettura per comprenderla. Geoffrey Barraclough (1908-1984) ha insegnato all'Università di Liverpool, alla London School of...
Penguin Books Ltd, 1963. — 284 p. The nature of contemporary history. Structural Change and Qualitative Difference. The impact of scientifical and technical advantage. Industrialism and Imperialism as the Catalysts of a New World. The dwarfing of Europe. The Significance of the Demographic Factor. From European balance of power to the age of world politics. The Changing...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. - 568 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0631236163 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780631236160 This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’ at this time than is commonly thought. Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history. Reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’, even...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 9780198789291; ISBN13: 978-0198789291 Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social Democracy into twentieth-century Europe's most potent political force, they were often mutually reinforcing. Workers and Nationalism...
Akal, 2005. — 1081 p. Este es unos de los manuales de Historia Moderna más completos. Lectura obligada para los estudiantes de historia y un libro de los más interesante para aquellas personas amantes de la historia. En sus más de 1000 páginas, la obra recorre los hechos históricos más destacados acaecidos en Europa y Norte América desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XVIII....
London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1907. — 358 p. For most people, interest in the doings of our forefathers in India dates from our wars with the French in the middle of the eighteenth century. Before then their lives are generally supposed to have been spent in monotonous trade dealings in pepper and calico, from which large profits were earned for their masters in England,...
I.B. Tauris, 2004. — 203 p. Kings, Nobles and Commoners takes head-on the leading questions in the history of early modern Europe--questions vital for an understanding of the period, and now at the top of the history agenda for academics, students and general readers. Was religion the badge of identity and inspiration for the state? What was the nature of the state? Did...
Chronos Books, 2019. — 96 p. Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743 – 1787) was born the daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange, and Anne, Princess Royal and was thus the granddaughter of King George II. It was upon the King's orders that she was named after his wife, Caroline of Ansbach. She was the first of Anne and William's children to survive to adulthood. When her father was...
Liveright Publishing, 2019. — 352 p. An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. — 336 p. Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world. It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 341 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.
Decorations and maps by Myna Myna and Lewis Browne. — New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. — 374 p. Came the Revolution From Watt to What? Suffer Little Children The Poor Shall Never Cease The Rich Shall Never Rest A Man with a Plan The Religion of Manchesterism The Black Life Spreads John Bull Takes a Ride Arise Ye Workers The Fight That Failed The Brand of Gain The Gospel...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 357 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). This book offers a detailed investigation of the influence of public opinion and national identity on the foreign policies of France, Britain and the Netherlands in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The quarter-century of upheaval and warfare in Europe between the outbreak of the...
Greenwood Press, 2001. — 417 p. Covering the period comprising the Renaissance and Reformation, this volume introduces a unique set of interdisciplinary biographical dictionaries providing basic information on the people who have contributed significantly to the culture of Western civilization. Unlike general dictionaries which focus on political and military figures, this book...
A&B Books, 1997. — 123 p. ISBN10: 1881316149. ISBN13: 978-1881316145. Dr. John Henrik Clarke's study on the the African Holocaust and the devastating effect it wreaked on millions of Africans is most opportune at this time when the Euro-American world is paying homage to Christopher Columbus for his navigational error in 1492, an error which heaped horrors on the Native...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 369 p. — (Routledge Companions to History). This compact and highly accessible work of reference covers the broad sweep of events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This Companion examines the centuries that saw the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the expansion of Europe and the beginnings of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 402 p. The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public’s obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history — the Thirty Years’ War — resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, century-long debate over the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 310 p. This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries--the age of European empire. Through a variety of case studies, it deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, African, and...
Routledge, 2015. - 320 p. The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.
Brill, 2012. — 364 p. This volume examines continuities and new developments in the conduct of warfare in early modern Eastern Europe from the early sixteenth century, when Ottoman imperial expansion reached the Danube and Crimea, to the late eighteenth century, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned out of existence and Russia rolled back Ottoman power from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 347 p. This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 347 p. This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western...
Routledge, 2001. — 319 p. Notes on contributors. The English model. Eyes and ears, news and plays: the argument of Ben Jonson’s Staple. The guises of dissemination in early seventeenth-century England: news in manuscript and print. News and the pamphlet culture of mid-seventeenth-century England. News, history and the construction of the present in early modern England. The...
Routledge, 2008. — 276 p. The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthless environment many colorful characters strode across the world stage, among...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 920 p. This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
Anadolu University, 2012. — 232 s. Içindekiler Önsöz Modern Avrupa’nin Doguslu Avrupa’da Güç Mücadelesi ve Westphalia Düzeni XVII. ve XVIII. Yüzyillarda Büyük Güçlerin Küresel Rekabeti Fransiz Devrimi Avrupa’nin Siyasal ve Ekonomik Dönüslümü (1815-1871) Küresel Emperyalist Yarisi Birinci Dünya Savafl› (1908-1918) Uluslararasi Sistemin Yeniden Sekillendirilmesi (1919-1929)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 353 p. This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial empires influenced each other. Chapters in the volume consider the two...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 353 p. This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial empires influenced each other. Chapters in the volume consider the two...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 427 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). The years from 1770 to 1830 were scarred by war throughout the Atlantic world. These were wars about empire and global hegemony, as well as struggles of liberation and decolonization. During this era the Atlantic became a highway for exchange not only of peoples and commodities, but also of ideas and...
Brill, 2007. - 303 p. - (The Northern World 28). Focusing on print culture and links between propagandists, typographers, and northern Europe's merchant milieu, this book investigates dispersal and suppression of religious innovation in the 152s and expands the interpretative scope for Reformation studies beyond national, political, or religious contexts.
Edinburgh University Press, 1999. — 322 p. This textbook provides an ideal introduction to nineteenth-century France: a 'Century of Revolutions'. Written with the undergraduate student's needs in mind, Sharif Gemie works through the major and minor revolutions which altered the course of French history and which shaped the development of French society. Moving away from a...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 270 p. This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and ended in 1815 when the last...
English edition edited by dr. Oscar Levy. — New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913. – 349 p. It has been generally thought and stated that the past century was a profoundly irreverent and irreligious age, the age of the twilight of old gods, the shattering of old idols, the ruin of an old and holy creed. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. In every department of...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 605 p. What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal crises in creating major political crises. Goldstone shows how state breakdowns in both western monarchies and Asian empires followed the same...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. — 400 p. Baron Von Holstein The Study Of The French Revolution The Political Background Of Goethe's Life Germany's Debt To The French Revolution German Theories Of The State The Study Of Bismarck German Historical Studies Since The War The Cambridge Chair Of Modern History The Study Of Foreign Affairs Historical Novels
Routledge, 2011. — 452 p. "The European Witch-Hunt" seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America. Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, this book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 232 p. Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors explore how British and American interests –...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 232 p. Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors explore how British and American interests –...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 307 p. How powerless were the powerless? These essays trace the political life of marginalized groups from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution. They show that they were capable of articulating in a public forum, but they were also often active participants in the political process themselves and taken seriously by the elites. The essays deal...
Routledge, 2017. — 449 p. This volume, first published in 1971, brings together eleven essays and articles on the history of the industrial revolution. Method is the central consideration, and the author discusses ways in which historians have analysed the industrial revolution, demonstrates inconsistency and bias in their interpretations, and suggests an appropriate framework...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 321 p. This book explores the assertions made by Irish nationalists of a parallel between Ireland under British rule and Poland under Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule in the long nineteenth century. Poland loomed large in the Irish nationalist imagination, despite the low level of direct contact between Ireland and Poland up to the twenty-first...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 344 p. Thrust into power in the midst of the bloodiest conflict Europe had ever experienced, Amalia Elisabeth fought to save her country, her Calvinist church, and her children’s inheritance. Tryntje Helfferich’s vivid portrait reveals how this unique and embattled ruler used her diplomatic gifts to play the great powers of Europe against one...
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003. — viii, 325 p Vecindad: Citizenship in Local Communities Vecindad: From Castile to Spanish America Naturaleza: The Community of the Kingdom Naturaleza: From Castile to Spanish America The Other: Conversos, Gypsies, Foreign Catholics, and Foreign Vassals The Crisis of an Empire Was Spain Exceptional? Conclusions and Afterthoughts
London: Vintage Books, 1996. — 368 p. Neither textbook nor narrative, Hobsbawm's classic is an interpretive essay whose many insights, expressed in memorable style, continue to stimulate and inspire. He abandoned Stalinism long ago, and his nuanced Marxism sympathizes with workers, peasants and rebels, which still seems to provoke some critics. Revolution is seen as an...
London: Vintage, 1996. — 354 p. — ISBN10: 0679772545; ISBN13: 978-0679772545. In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live. Although it...
London: Vintage, 1989. — 404 p. — ISBN10: 0679721754; ISBN13: 978-0679721758. The third and final part of Eric Hobsbawm's monumental trilogy on the history of the 19-th century. Covering the period 1875-1914, The Age of Empire ends just before the events that radically changed the world politics at the beginning of the 20-th century.
London: Vintage, 1989. — 404 p. — ISBN10: 0679721754; ISBN13: 978-0679721758. Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century.
London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009 — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0713165316; ISBN13: 978-0713165319. This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life at the time of the...
Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 506 p. In this dictionary, Inglis (past director of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives and the Vancouver Maritime Museum) reviews the exploits of Britain, France, Russia, Spain, and the U.S. in Northwest North America from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. About 65 percent of the 410 or so entries are biographical, covering artists,...
New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. - 1095 pgs. This hefty book is a chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world. From the terrible conflicts of this century we have learned that, in addition to the devastation they wreak, big wars can accelerate ongoing innovations in organization and material technologies that will in turn expand the scale, complexity,...
New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. - 1095 pgs. This hefty book is a chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world. From the terrible conflicts of this century we have learned that, in addition to the devastation they wreak, big wars can accelerate ongoing innovations in organization and material technologies that will in turn expand the scale, complexity,...
New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. - 1095 pgs. This hefty book is a chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world. From the terrible conflicts of this century we have learned that, in addition to the devastation they wreak, big wars can accelerate ongoing innovations in organization and material technologies that will in turn expand the scale, complexity,...
Belknap Press, 2016. — 592 p. In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to “their empire,” while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 112 p. For over a 16th Century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement. In the second edition of this successful text, Henry Kamen asks: was the Golden Age of Spain in the sixteenth century actually an illusion? By...
London: Routledge, 2002. — 321 p. Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we know today. Henry Kamen has compiled an accessible biographical guide to Europe in this most exciting of periods - the time of the Renaissance and the Reformation, the time of da Vinci and Erasmus,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 298 p. This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon’s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience. It is a great sweep of a...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 1999. — 560 p. This best-selling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'. It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its...
Doubleday, 2008. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-0-38551-398-2. In the midst of the Age of Discovery, the Inquisition took hold in Spain and Portugal, forcing many underground Jews to flee the peninsula. The most daring went to the New World as explorers, conquistadors, and pioneering merchants. Others became freewheeling outlaws, practicing piracy on the high seas. In ships bearing names...
Leiden, Brill, 2009. — 176 p. In urban life streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them at centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the writers here strive towards more...
Cambridge University Press, 1969. — 578 p. The Industrial Revolution in Britain Continental emulation Closing the gap Short breath and second wind The interwar years Reconstruction and growth since I945
New York University Press, 2011. — 305 p. The early modern period (c. 1500–1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the Russians and Ottomans in Central Asia,...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 244 p. Despite earlier Naval expeditions undertaken for reasons of diplomacy or trade, it wasn't until the early 1400s that European maritime explorers established sea routes through most of the globe's inhabited regions, uniting a divided earth into a single system of navigation. From the early Portuguese and Spanish quests for gold and glory, to later...
Routledge, 1994. — 268 p. This is a lucid and well-structured text dealing with key issues in international affairs from the period of German unification to the aftermath of World War I. It: - Provides excellent explanation and analysis of the central issues - Clarifies a notoriously complex period of international history - Updates traditional books in this field of 19th and...
Monthly Review Press, 1978. — 279 p. European expansion since 1763 Imperialst expansion accident and design Imperialism a historical survey Imperialism without a colonies Economic myths and imperialism The Multinational corporation and development — a contradiction? Militarism and imperialism The impact of US foreign policy on underdeveloped countries Capital, technology and...
London: S. Sonnenschein, 1899. — 96 p. In the Preface to "The Eastern Question," by Karl Marx, published in 1897, the Editors, Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, referred to two series of papers entitled "The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston," and "Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century," which they promised to publish at an early date. Mrs. Aveling did...
Independently published, 2020, 138 p., ISBN-13: 979-8640097542 Did you know that in 1938, the year before WWII, Hitler was Time Magazine’s Man of The Year? Did you know that at one point during the war, a horse's life was considered more valuable than a human's life? Did you know that British soldiers drank so much tea during WWI, that at some point the military enforced...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. — 476 p. In essays that illuminate not only the recent past but shortcomings in today's intelligence assessments, sixteen experts show how prospective antagonists appraised each other prior to the World Wars. This cautionary tale warns that intelligence agencies can do certain things very well-but other things poorly, if at all....
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 264 p. In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality...
London: Wordsworth Editions, 1998. — 160 p. — Wordsworth Military Library. — ISBN: 1-85326-688-4. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was the greatest feat of English arms since the Battle of Agincourt a century and a half earlier. The poorly planned expedition with its huge galleons was ordered to join with the Spanish army in the Netherlands for an invasion of Queen...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 595 p. Historical A-Z Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation provides a comprehensive account of two chains of events_the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation_that have left an enduring imprint on Europe, America, and the world at large. This is done through a chronology, a introductory essay, a bibliography, and...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. — 304 pgs. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a congress convened in Vienna in which the fate of Europe was to be determined. Attending were the great statesmen of the time — the wily French foreign minister, Talleyrand; his brave but misguided British counterpart, Lord Castlereagh; the conservative Austrian chancellor, Prince...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. — 305 p. John Julius Norwich — “the very model of a popular historian” (Wall Street Journal)—is acclaimed for his distinctive ability to weave together a fascinating narrative through vivid detail, colorful anecdotes, and captivating characters. Here, he has crafted a bold tapestry of Europe and the Middle East in the early sixteenth century, when...
Routledge, 1996. — 376 p. Who's Who in World Politics examines the careers of those individuals who have shaped the political world since 1860. Coverage is truly global; the 700-plus entries cover the most important figures of African, Australasian, European and Latin, North and South American politics. Contemporary leaders as well as historical figures are discussed, including...
With a new foreword by David Armitage. — Princeton University Press, 2014. — 853 p. For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French,...
With a new foreword by David Armitage. — Princeton University Press, 2014. — 853 p. For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French,...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. — 534 p. A History of the Modern Worldis a careful, well-written narrative of major events from the late Middle Ages to the political and religious conflicts at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It offers a wide-ranging survey that helps readers understand both the complexities of great events (e.g., the French Revolution, the First World...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 312 p. 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 centuries. He draws on recent...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 255 p. Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age is an interdisciplinary introduction to cross-cultural encounters in the early modern age (1400-1800) and their influences on the development of world societies. In the aftermath of Mongol expansion across Eurasia, the unprecedented rise of imperial states in the early modern period set in...
New York: John Benjamins, 2019. — 238 p. This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the 'long' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between theAncien Regimeand the contemporary period, with the rise of the middle classes as economic,...
University of California Press, 1976. — 178 p. Mr. Pearson's discussion of the reaction of the rulers and merchants of Gujarat, in western India, to the trade-control measures imposed by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century makes to contributions to historical research.
Cambridge, 2004. xx, 173 p. — ISBN 0 521 65096 8 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History). Karl Gunnar Persson surveys a broad sweep of economic history, examining one of the most crucial markets – grain. His analysis allows him to draw more general lessons – for example, that liberalisation of markets was linked to political authoritarianism. Grain Markets in Europe,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 345 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). The Napoleonic Empire played a crucial role in reshaping global landscapes and in realigning international power structures on a worldwide scale. When Napoleon died, the map of many areas had completely changed, making room for Russia's ascendency and Britain's rise to world power.
Routledge, 2000. — 199 p. An A-Z of Modern Europe 1789-1999 is a comprehensive dictionary which defines modern Europe through its important events and people. It includes entries on: * key people from Napoleon Bonaparte to Hitler * key political and military events * influential political, social, cultural and economic theories. An A-Z of Modern Europe 1789-1999 offers...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 288 p. Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–31. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores...
Basic Books, 2008. — 478 p. Map The Forest of Bayonets The Collapse The Springtime of Peoples The Red Summer The Counter-Revolutionary Autumn 1849: The Indian Summer of the Revolution
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 342 p. An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance....
Leiden: Brill, 2016. — XI, 274 p. — (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, vol. 5). — ISBN: 978-90-04-32335-3 The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. In the late fifteenth century and early...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 241 p. The two centuries that chronologically bind the topics in this volume span a period in which Europe was in its global ascendancy. The projection of imperial powers reflected the increasing centralization of states. The ability of state institutions to control and pay for the acquisition, protection and maintenance of empires could only...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 213 p. The Military Revolution and the First International System Iberian Conquistadors and Supplicants Company Sovereigns and the Empires of the East The Asian Invasion of Europe in Context Conclusion How the Europeans Won in the End (Before They Later Lost)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 326 p. ‘An Assertion of Liberty Incarnate’: Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America ‘The Sinn Féin of India’: The Reception of Irish Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengal ‘Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn’: The Construction of John Nicholson as a British Imperial Hero An ‘Irish Paladin’: John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish Imperial Hero ‘The...
New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. — vii, 258 p. For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0521634938; ISBN13: 978-0521634939 — (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) In order to distinguish between those who may and may not enter or leave, states everywhere have developed extensive systems of identification, central to which is the passport. This innovative book argues that documents such as...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 512 p. The Political Economy of Merchant European Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1350 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organized and well-financed rivals. The volume is a companion to The Rise of Merchant Empires (1990), which dealt with changes...
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. — 468 p. Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment. Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution. The Fast Sermons of the Long Parliament. Oliver Cromwell and His...
De Agostini, 2012. — 160 p. Sussidio didattico e di conoscenza, utile per conoscere e ricordare, questo volume si propone di fornire al lettore uno sguardo d'insieme aggiornato della storia del secolo scorso, il Novecento. Attraverso un'organizzazione chiara dei contenuti, il testo è articolato in sezioni e capitoli; le note a margine consentono la rapida individuazione dei...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. — 352 p. The Shogun of Japan is cracking down on the samurai, and is obsessed with cruelty to dogs. A very young Peter the Great is just about to launch his coup d'état and transform Russia. In France, the Sun King rules over a court of unprecedented splendour and ceremonial formality. A Spanish viceroy is leaving Mexico for home, lauded in a...
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, no date. — 138 p. Introduction (Julian Goodare) Witchcraft! from The EuropeanWitch-Hunt by Julian Goodare Ghosts and Goblins from The Supernatural in Tudor andStuart England by Darren Oldridge The Chronology and Geography of Witch-hunting from TheWitch-Hunt in EarlyModern Europe by Brian P. Levack Angels on a Pinhead from StrangeHistoriesby...
Westport CT; London: Greenwood Press, 2008. — 304 p. — (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500–1900) — ISBN10: 0313337691; ISBN13: 978-0313337697. The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economy — and later the economies of Western Europe and the U.S.―from a rural, agricultural system into an industrial...
Shepheard-Walwyn, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780856835131, 978-0856835131 Examining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit". In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassination said to have triggered it, John Zametica, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and the Balkans, re-examines the evidence. This leads to a number of radical new...
Shepheard-Walwyn, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780856835131, 978-0856835131 Examining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit". In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassination said to have triggered it, John Zametica, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and the Balkans, re-examines the evidence. This leads to a number of radical new...
Shepheard-Walwyn, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780856835131, 978-0856835131 Examining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit". In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassination said to have triggered it, John Zametica, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and the Balkans, re-examines the evidence. This leads to a number of radical new...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 416 p. Following on from his epic 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow , bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 416 p. Following on from his epic 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow , bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his...
Nordic Academic Press. 2015. — 343 p. From one point of view, political parties are an integral part of democracy as we know it today; likewise, for instance, the left–right cleavage is considered as the ‘normal’ scale along which parties are supposed to orientate themselves. From a historical point of view, however, the very idea of organizing interests in the form of...
Երևան: Ամարաս, 2013. — 612 էջ. Translation of the book into Armenian Y. Auron, The Banality of indifference. Zionism and the Armenian Genocide. New Brunswick - London,Transaction Publishers, 2000.
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