War, State and development

fiscal-military States in the Eighteenth Century

The traditional historical picture painted of the Modern Period depicts a predatory, voracious state that managed to meet its essential war-waging objective by dint of coercion and rifling society of its human and economic resources. This oversimplified image belies the real historical situation. The fact ...

Construction de l'espace au Moyen Âge

pratiques et représentations. XXXVIIe Congrès de la SHMES (Mulhouse, 2-4 juin 2006)

La notion d'espace au Moyen Age n'est pas une réalité naturelle mais une construction sociale, un véritable produit de la société médiévale. Des spécialistes s'interrogent sur les liens multiformes entre les pratiques et les représentations de l'espace, sur l'espace comme ...

Vie di terra e d'acqua

infrastructture viarie e sistemi di relazioni in area alpina

Sentieri, strade romane, carrozzabili, mulattiere, zattere, traghetti: il sistema della viabilità rappresenta un mondo vitale alla ricerca della comunicazione attraverso la circolazione. E' uno degli elementi visibili del processo di evoluzione dell'umanità. Ma come nasce una strada, come si afferma, come vive e come ...

Studi di storia ereticale del cinquecento

Ampia panoramica della maggiore produzione scientifica di Antonio Rotondò sul tema del non conformismo religioso nell'Europa del XVI secolo. Un quadro vasto e innovativo di aspetti e figure del movimento ereticale cinquecentesco, a tutt'oggi fondamentale per il rigore e la lucidità dell'indagine ...

Catálogo de Jetones de Nuremberg y de los Países Bajos en el Museo de las Ferias

la Guerra de los Ochenta Años en 'imágenes acuñadas'

Los jetones o 'gitones' son piezas de metal de aspecto similar al de una moneda pero, a diferencia de ésta, sin expresión de valor numerario. Su función primordial es la de ficha de cuenta, especialmente en el cómputo manual de operaciones de valores y en ...

Siervos libres

una propuesta antiesclavista a finales del siglo XVII

Con la publicación de esta obra unida a la anterior "Resolución sobre la libertad de los negros y sus originarios, en estado de paganos y después ya cristianos" de Francisco José de Jaca el CSIC ha realizado una contribución decisiva y única a la ciencia ...

Travellers and cosmographers

studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology

Joan-Pau Rubies brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great ...

Ghost Empire

how the french almost conquered North America

After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, Rene- Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. But the vast land he claimed for France in 1682 could have ...

Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800

A unique overview of Portuguese oceanic expansion between 1400 and 1800, the essays treat a wide range of subjects - economy and society, politics and institutions, cultural configurations and comparative dimensions - and radically update data and interpretations on the economic and financial trends of the Portuguese ...

Slavery, freedom, and the Law in the atlantic world

a brief history with documents

During the era of revolution, independence, and emancipation in the north Atlantic, 'slavery' and 'freedom' were fluid and contested concepts. Individuals and groups turned to courts of law to define and enforce the status of indigenous Americans, forcibly imported Africans, and colonizing Europeans - and their ...

Empire, the sea and global history

britain's maritime world, c. 1763-c. 1840

Between the end of the Seven Years war in 1763, and the abolition of slavery within its Empire in 1833, Britain's maritime engagement with the wider world was transformed. The period was characterized by the contradictory and competing forces of revolution and reaction, 'liberty ...

Diario del gran asedio de Malta, 1565

Jornada tras jornada, durante cuatro meses infernales, Francisco Balbi de Correggio, soldado italiano españolizado que participó en los hechos, escribió este diario del asedio a que sometieron los turcos a la isla de Malta, cuyo dominio era crucial para detener el avance otomano en el ...

Le voyage de Magellan (1519-1522)

la relation d'Antonio Pigafetta au autres témoignanes

Magellan est le plus célèbre des navigateurs, mais jamais l'ensemble des sources cartographiques et narratives se référant à son incroyable épopée n'a été rendu accessible au grand public. C'est l'ambition des deux tomes de cet ouvrage. Le premier offre une nouvelle ...

Handbook to life in Renaissance Europe

The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminated in England in the early 17th century. Emphasis on the ...

A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance

The idea of the Renaissance as a period of European cultural triumph in which great men flourished has been largely demolished in the last fifty years. This provocative volume brings together some of the most exciting scholars who led this attack, to suggest different ways ...

Roma del Rinascimento

Quando, nel 1420, papa Martino V poté finalmente prendere possesso del trono di Pietro, entrò in una Roma che le cronache descrivono spopolata e degradata, i maggiori edifici monumentali in rovina. Con il suo pontificato prese avvio un grandioso, quanto ambiguo, processo di rinascita: rinascita ...

Renaissances italiennes

Au mythe de la " Renaissance " et aux débats qui s'y attachent, à la figuration célébrée d'un présent fécondé par une restitution des sagesses de l'Antiquité, à l'imaginaire humaniste d'un recommencement, Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan préfère substituer l'horizon des Renaissances italiennes. Le ...

Epistolario privado

las cartas que nos desvelan el pensamiento y la personalidad de uno de los intelectuales más importantes del Renacimiento

Juan Manuel Forte ha sabido sacar a la luz los diferentes aspectos que cobran vida en esta correspondencia: la pasión por el análisis de la coyuntura política e histórica; la experiencia de un periodo de crisis para los estados italianos; la propia vivencia, por parte ...

Conversaciones con Miguel Ángel

Los más ilustres personajes de la historia tendrían mucho que decirnos si, gracias a un milagroso viaje en el tiempo, pudiéramos estar con ellos una hora... Las biografías de la colección Conversaciones con... ponen a nuestro alcance precisamente eso: una relajada charla con importantes hombres ...

Approaching the italian Renaissance interior

sources, methodologies, debates

The Renaissance interior is increasingly becoming a focus of historical debate. This volume brings together recent research drawing on the perspectives of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiques. Through a shared interest in domestic practice, the collection expands ...