The business of war

military enterprise and military revolution in Early Modern Europe

This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation ...

God's jury

the Inquisition and the making of the Modern World

For centuries states have used their power to censor information, to conduct surveillance, to impose belief, to manipulate and to punish. Cullen Murphy's extraordinary, provocative new book explores the idea that the Inquisition - the Catholic body that existed in Europe (and beyond) for over ...

Armas y Letras

la conquista de Italia (1405-1625)

Si pudiésemos concebir una obra que por su originalidad y claridad representara, por sí sola, la prueba del influjo del arte, la literatura y la cultura italiana allende los Alpes, ésta sería "Et in Arcadia Ego" de Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), pintor francés que, llegado a ...

Ética protestante y el espíritu del capitalismo

¿Cómo ha sido posible que la técnica racional y el cálculo sistemático, puestos al servicio de una búsqueda incesante de la rentabilidad y la eficiencia, hayan devenido un fin en sí, un valor absoluto, hasta convertir la sociedad y el mismo mundo en un orden ...

The Tudors

history of a Dinasty

This title offers a new and comprehensive overview of the complete Tudor dynasty taking in the most recent scholarship. David Loades provides a masterful overview of this formative period of British history. Exploring the reign of each monarch within the framework of the dynasty, he ...

Economic development in the Americas since 1500

endowments and institutions

This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how ...

La Guerra de Flandes

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 1, año 2012)

· Los orígenes de la Guerra de Flandes por Davide Maffi (Universidad de Pavía). Felipe II heredó un territorio donde la autoridad real era cada día puesta en duda por parte de los órganos representativos. Un “país” que había padecido enormemente por las continuas guerras del ...

El estallido de la Guerra de Secesión

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 2, año 2012)

· La última guerra antigua, la primera guerra moderna por Peter Cozzens. La Guerra de Secesión es un conflicto bisagra en el que las tácticas empleadas, de herencia napoleónica, tenían ya difícil encaje en un contexto de tropas inexperimentadas, armamento cada vez más eficaz y unos ...

La Corte estense nel primo Seicento

diplomazia e mecenatismo artistico

Dalla perdita di Ferrara (1598) alla pace dei Pirenei (1659), la dinastia estense vive una fase particolarmente significativa e tumultuosa della sua storia, che culmina nelle imprese militari di Francesco I, alleato della Francia, ai danni della Lombardia spagnola. Sono i decenni segnati dalla necessità ...

The return of Hans Staden

a go-between in the Atlantic World

Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account known as The True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and ...

Le Code Noir ou le calvaire de Canaan

Le Code Noir raconte une très longue histoire qui commence à Versailles à la Cour du Roi Soleil, en mars 1685 et se termine à Paris en avril 1848 sous Arago, au début de l'éphémère IIe république. En très peu de pages, avec l ...

Ammazonia

l'impero dell'acqua 1500-1800

Avvenne così che l’Amazzonia fosse sconvolta da un pugno di europei e di meticci, poche centinaia a metà del Seicento, qualche migliaio un secolo più tardi. Un impero dell’acqua conteso – spagnoli da ovest, portoghesi da est – e sopraffatto da dure genti di guerra ...

The italian wars, 1494-1559

War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe

The Italian Wars of 1494-1559 had a major impact on the whole of Renaissance Europe. In this important text, Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw place the conflict within the political and economic context of the wars. Emphasising the gap between aims and strategies of the ...

Vasa

a swedish warship

Vasa was the most modern warship imaginable in 1628. Her ability for fast and aggressive sailing, the multiple gun deck and the heavy, custom-made guns were innovations. She was meant to be a key asset for Sweden in a bid for power in Northern Europe ...

Esculturas para la guerra

la creación y evolución de la artillería hasta el S.XVII

El diseño clásico del cañón de artillería se alcanzó tras doscientos cincuenta años de sucesivo perfeccionamiento. Desde el sencillo perfil de florero utilizado en los albores del siglo XIV hasta las suaves formas redondas y bien proporcionadas empleadas a finales del siglo XVII, los primitivos ...

María Antonieta

María Antonieta nació en Viena en 1755, hija del emperador austríaco Francisco I y de María Teresa. En mayo de 1770 contrajo matrimonio, cuando tenía catorce años, con Luis XVI de Francia. De nuevo la destreza de Stefan Zweig para el retrato y su finísima ...

The rise of female kings in Europe, 1300-1800

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs - the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the ...

Trent

what happened at the Council

The Council of Trent (1545--1563), the Catholic Church's attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. Now, in this first full one-volume history in modern times, John W ...

Habsburg communication in the Dutch Revolt

The rebels of the Dutch Revolt, their political thoughts and the media they used to express them, have long been a focus of historical attention. This book, however, focuses on the largely untold story of what the other side, the Habsburg regime and its local ...

The serpent and the lamb

Cranach, Luther and the making of the Reformation

This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb). Contemporaries and friends (each ...