Khublai Khan

his life and times

Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. This ...

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire presents the untold story of Mongolia and its people, utilizing the latest results of research in archaeology, forensics, history, art, and literature. The book's clear prose, beautiful design, and wide-ranging illustrations will fascinate general readers as well as ...

Pour en finir avec la Croisade

mythes et réalités de la lutte contre les Turcs aux XVI et XVII siècles

Enquête sur les conflits qui opposent les Turcs et les Européens tout au long de cette période. Si la confrontation semble d'abord de mise et l'affrontement inévitable, les difficultés de la papauté à mobiliser les souverains européens entraînent peu à peu vers une ...

The sultan´s admiral

Barbarossa - pirate and empire-builder

Foreword by John Freely. Conten illustrations. In this definitive biography, Ernle Bradford has brilliantly recreated Barbarossa#s remarkable life alongside a vivid portrayal of the Ottoman and Mediterranean worlds at this thrilling moment in history. Admiral, naval hero, pirate, warrior and empire-builder, Kheir ed-Din or ...

The english civil war

conflict and contexts, 1640-49

Ed., John Adamson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Adamson provides a new synthesis of current research on the political crisis that engulfed England in the 1640s. Drawing on new archival findings and challenging current orthodoxies, these essays by leading historians offer a variety of original perspectives, locating English events ...

The earl and his butler in Constantinople

the secret diary of an english servant among ottomans

Content illustration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had been imprisoned for his Jacobite sympathies and almost bankrupted by his involvement in the South Sea Bubble, Lord Kinnoull had no previous diplomatic experience when he was unexpectedly ...

Los hermanos de la costa

piratería libertaria en el Caribe

Es este, un libro apasionado -nos dice su autor en el prólogo-. No es un trabajo histórico porque en el tema de los piratas libertarios son pocos los documentos que existen y muchas las leyendas. Intenta ser lógico y fiel a las ideas más que ...

Leer a Saint-Simon

el mejor cronista del siglo de Luis XIV y el gran escritor de su tiempo

Louis de Rouvroy, duque de Saint-Simon, (1675-1755) fue testigo directo y apasionado de unos años cruciales en la historia de Francia y de Europa, los últimos del fascinante reinado de Luis XIV y los del gran cambio del período de la Regencia. Sus Memorias, publicadas ...

Breve historia de la conquista del oeste

1783. Las Trece Colonias norteamericanas se independizan de Gran Bretaña y se constituyen como país independiente. Sus más indómitos ciudadanos, siguiendo las huellas de pioneros como Daniel Boone, colonizaron los extensos valles de Ohio, los Grandes Lagos y la zona de los Apalaches, un inmenso ...

The british atlantic world, 1500-1800

Eds., David Armitage, Michael J. Braddick The eleven papers of this volume were originally presented at a workshop held in September 2001 by the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard U. in Cambridge, Mass. The contributors are senior scholars (including ...

The european world 1500-1800

an introduction to early modern history

Edited by Beat Kümin. The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own right ...

A russian merchant´s tale

the life and adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov, based on his diary

Based on the rare diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, A Russian Merchant's Tale presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. By recording his daily contacts with a wide array of individuals from lords to labourers for more than 40 ...

Propaganda e información en tiempos de guerra

España y América (1700-1714)

Este estudio forma parte de una línea de investigación novedosa que analiza la mentalidad ante la guerra, los comportamientos humanos y lso dicursos propagandísticos poniendo de manifiesto los mecanismos y procesos de comunicación social utilizados por el poder para persuadir, convencer, manipular y aunar voluntades ...

A social and cultural history of early modern France

A magisterial new history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world#s leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern ...

Religious transformations in the early modern world

a brief history with documents

The early modern period witnessed sometimes startling, sometimes subtle transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe. For reasons that varied widely, leaders and thinkers from Mexico to the Ottoman Empire and from China to the Indian subcontinent sought to reform ...

Turcs et turqueries. (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

L'étude des relations diplomatiques et des récits de voyageurs du XVI au XVIII siècle atteste la réalité de regards croisés entre deux civilisations, l'Occident chrétien et l'empire du " Turc ". L'esquisse d'une Europe ottomane naît de ce dialogue. Dans le même ...

Histoire de la nuit. XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle

Dans l'Europe des Temps modernes, la nuit, c'est une absence de lumière qui a (très) partiellement partie liée avec l'horloge biologique. En effet, c'est surtout en s'ajustant à nos rythmes internes que le jour s'apparente à la veille et ...

Fires of faith

catholic England under Mary Tudor

The reign of Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII) has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women ...

The struggle for power in early modern Europe

religious conflict, dynastic empires and international change

Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms ...

Community and identity

the making of modern Gibraltar since 1704

Foreword by Martin Blinkhorn. This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a ...