Frontiers of Ottoman studies

state, province and the west

The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural ...

Contesting empires

opposition, promotion and slavery

Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery ...

Dressed to rule

royal and court costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II

Throughout history rulers have used clothes as a form of legitimization and propaganda. While palaces, pictures, and jewels might reflect the choice of a monarch’s predecessors or advisers, clothes reflected the preferences of the monarch himself. Being both personal and visible, the right costume ...

Autunno della stregoneria

maleficio e magia nell'Italia moderna

Chi erano le streghe in Italia? Attentavano alla salute e alla vita delle persone, ne distruggevano i beni, minavano la potenza sessuale degli amanti, causavano tempeste devastatrici? E dove attingevano tanto potere? Da un patto stretto con il demonio, omaggiato nel corso di sfrenati sabba ...

Forme di governo delle democrazie nascenti

1689-1799

Le forme di governo, in cui la democrazia fu colata, non nacquero parlamentari. Imperniate tutte sul sovrastante potere legislativo del parlamento, le prime costituzioni non presupponevano che, per la permanenza in carica, i ministri ne dipendessero. La monarchia costituzionale, imposta nel 1689 in Inghilterra dalla ...

Piratas, corsarios, bucaneros y filibusteros

Piratas, corsarios, bucaneros y filibusteros recoge una síntesis de las distintas modalidades piratas en América desde su nacimiento en 1521 hasta su extinción en 1722, resaltando esta gran modalidad aventurera en la que se hicieron acciones depredadoras heroicas y crueles para destruir el monopolio español ...

Correspondances de Marie-Antoinette (1770-1793)

Mai 1770. L'archiduchesse d'Autriche arrive en France pour épouser le dauphin, qui deviendra roi sous le nom de Louis XVI. Octobre 1793. Marie-Antoinette, veuve Capet, est conduite à la guillotine. Pendant vingt-trois ans, elle a correspondu avec sa mère, ses frères, ses amis ...

De la traite et de l'esclavage des noirs

Henri Grégoire (1750-1831), évêque et membre de la Convention, professeur, agronome, ethnographe, bâtisseur d'écoles et d'universités, passionnément révolutionnaire et sincèrement chrétien, demeure aujourd'hui encore une figure marquante de l'histoire de France. Son combat sans concession pour l'égalité de tous les ...

Seventeenth-Century Europe

State, conflict and the social order in Europe, 1598-1700

This is a fully-revised edition of a well-established synthesis of the period from the Thirty Years War to the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the landowning society of the ancien régime. Thematically organised, the book covers all of Europe, from Britain and Scandinavia to Spain ...

Sobre la propiedad

el concepto de propiedad en la Edad Moderna

Este libro intenta reconstruir la historia del concepto de propiedad desde la última Escolástica a Adam Smith con objeto de descubrir su génesis y evolución. Las ganancias de eficiencia derivadas de la propiedad privada, el alcance de su exclusividad, la capacidad fiscalizadora del Estado o ...

Les dernières noces de la Monarchie

Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette

Depuis les origines, les reines jouent en France les seconds rôles ; les régences féminines se comptent sur les doigts d'une main et la loi salique donne tout juste à l'épouse du roi le droit d'apporter en dot une province nouvelle ou une ...

Splendurs et misères du XVIIe siècle

Mazarin, Louis XIV et vingt millions de français

C#est Pierre Goubert qui, en 1963, a mis fin à l#expression voltairienne de « siècle de Louis XIV » : ne sous-entendait-elle pas, en effet, que ce monarque seul # au demeurant roi de plein exercice à partir de 1662 seulement # a édifié un monument équivalent à ...

Crisis, absolutism, revolution

Europe and the world 1648-1789

Table of Contents: Pt. I An age of crisis and discovery (1648-1715/26) Ch. 1 The people, the land, and the state Ch. 2 The age of mercantilism Ch. 3 Crisis and resolution : the West Ch. 4 Crisis and resolution : the Center and the East ...

Gender and poverty in Nineteenth-Century

This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute FROM ENGLAND TO RUSSIA, paying particular attention to the ...

Possession et sorcellerie au XVIIIe siècle

La publication de ces textes inédits, dix ans après Magistrats et sorciers dans la France du XVIIe siècle, a relancé le débat sur le véritable rôle des poursuites intentées aux sorcières dans l'ancienne France. Ceux qui y prennent la parole viennent de tous les ...

The world of Catholic Renewal

1540-1770

The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth ...

La Roma de los Borgia

Desde su aparición en la "Bibliothèque des Curieux" en 1913, La Roma de los Borgia ha sido calificada indistintamente como blasfema, pornográfica, antirreligiosa, etc. Sin embargo, la obra de Apollinaire intenta reflejar a modo de fresco la atmósfera del crimen, crueldad y terror de una ...

Los alumbres españoles

un índice de la coyuntura económica europea en el siglo XVI

INDICE: Introducción. Bajo el signo de la regresión renacentista. Las vacilaciones iniciales del siglo XVI. La ascensión económica registrada entre 1535 y 1555. Exponentes de la culminación del capitalismo que conjuga dinero y mercaderías. Fugacidad de la buena época y capitalismo financiero. Primeras manifestaciones de ...

Women in Italy 1350-1650

ideals and realities: a sourcebook

Fills a gap in the still burgeoning literature on all aspects of women's lives in this period; A broad range of material is used, most of which has never been translated before; The three sections of the book provide a comprehensive account of all ...

Nationalism

history and theory

Nations and nationalism have shaped the world we know today, and yet they have consistently confounded attempts at systematic analysis. Lawrence examines the historiography of nationalism from 1850 to the present day to discover why the almost ubiquitous phenomena of nations and nationalism have proved ...