The world in flameS

a global history of the Seven Years' War

In the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), two European rivalries-between England and France and between Prussia and Austria-collided to spark a global conflagration. In the United States, it is known as the French and Indian War, a precursor to the Revolutionary War. In India, by contrast ...

Sails and shadows

how the Portuguese opened the Atlantic and launched the slave trade

How the early Portuguese Empire facilitated the modern slave trade. The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their colonial empire along Africa's western shores. With their dedication to developing new sailing techniques and groundbreaking new knowledge of weather patterns ...

Maria Theresa

the Habsburg empress in her time

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a ...

Law, society and political culture in late medieval and Reformation Germany

This book offers a selection of edited and translated sources that shed light on law, society and political culture in Germany between the mid-fourteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries, enabling readers to discover the tumultuous late medieval and Reformation era in the Holy Roman Empire in unprecedented ...

El queso y los gusanos

El cosmos según un molinero del siglo XVI

Una obra historiográfica clave que ahonda en el concepto de cultura y sus distintos matices. Norte de Italia, finales del siglo XVI. El Santo Oficio acusa de herejía a un molinero, Domenico Scandella, al que todos llaman Menocchio. El procesado sostiene que el mundo se ...

Historia del humanismo

El ser humano ha sido siempre el centro del pensamiento, de la cultura y de la historia; pero ¿qué significa 'humanismo'? ¿Cómo ha cambiado su sentido desde el Renacimiento hasta nuestros días? En Historia del Humanismo, José Carlos Martín de la Hoz -autor del aclamado ...

En el palacio de los astrónomos

La transformación de la ciencia en la Europa del norte del siglo XVI

Un prodigioso viaje a la época en que la ciencia y la alquimia movían juntas el mundo. En 1543, Nicolás Copérnico declaró que la Tierra giraba alrededor del Sol, revolucionando siglos de presunción escolástica. Se vislumbraba una nueva era, guiada por la observación, la tecnología ...

Empires of labor

coercion and the making of the modern world

From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations ...

La terrible historia y el juicio de Dios sobre Thomas Müntzer

Vida y época de un antiguo revolucionario alemán

Pasados ya 500 años de su muerte, la figura de Thomas Müntzer sigue siendo extremadamente controvertida. Nació seguramente hacia 1489, en la región minera del macizo del Harz. De joven estudió teología en distintas universidades alemanas, para convertirse primero en párroco y luego en predicador ...

La terrible historia y el juicio de Dios sobre Thomas Müntzer

Vida y época de un antiguo revolucionario alemán

Pasados ya 500 años de su muerte, la figura de Thomas Müntzer sigue siendo extremadamente controvertida. Nació seguramente hacia 1489, en la región minera del macizo del Harz. De joven estudió teología en distintas universidades alemanas, para convertirse primero en párroco y luego en predicador ...

The intellectual origins of American slavery

English ideas in the early modern Atlantic world

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world. The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development of slavery across the English ...

Voices of thunder

radical religious women of the seventeenth century

Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of a dozen seventeenth-century radical Protestant women, including a Colchester woman who feared that her four children would starve to death and a former maidservant from Yorkshire who was granted an audience with the sultan of the ...

Papas del Renacimiento

¿Hombres de fe o de poder? ¿Pastores de almas o estrategas de imperios? La historia de los papas del Renacimiento es un viaje a un territorio de luces deslumbrantes y ciénagas morales, donde la fe y el poder eran inseparables. Este libro se sumerge en ...

Michelangelo and the viewer in his time

In this engaging account, now in paperback, Bernadine Barnes uses new research to show how Michelangelo's art was seen in its own time. The original setting is reconstructed for works that have been moved, modified or left incomplete. Michelangelo's consideration of his audience ...

Oliver Cromwell

commander in chief

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but disagreements over ...

Mujeres, género y trabajo en la Edad Moderna

Con demasiada frecuencia se afirma como cierto que las mujeres han empezado a trabajar hace cien o ciento cincuenta años, con el capitalismo. Esta idea, que es falsa, contribuye a presentar a las mujeres del pasado como no significativas en la supervivencia, creación o consolidación ...

L'Europe des lumières

L'Europe est le grand chantier du XVIII e siècle. Diplomates, militaires, étudiants, négociants, aristocrates et aventuriers sillonnent en tous sens l'espace européen. La correspondance et la presse tissent leur toile à travers le continent, se jouant des frontières et de la censure. En ...

Land, law and empire

the origins of British territorial power in India

In this innovative exploration of British rule in India, John Marriott tackles one of the most significant and unanswered questions surrounding the East India Company's success. How and when was an English joint stock company with trading interests in the East Indies transformed into ...

Enlightenment anthropology

Defining humanity in an Era of Colonialism

In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals-including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Immanuel Kant; and Johann ...

Conflict and loyalty

Jacobitism in Europe and beyond

Jacobitism, the cause championed by the exiled Stuart royal house, endured from the Revolution of 1688-91 until 1807, fuelled by plots, propaganda and uprisings - especially in Scotland. As the movement shifted from exiled courts in France and Italy to a wider diaspora, Jacobites spread across ...