This seat of mars

war and the British Isles 1485-1746

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often - and most bloodily - against ...

A revolution of the mind

radical enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern Democracy

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no ...

Mary I

england's catholic Queen

The life story of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the burning of Protestants ...

La trata de esclavos cristianos

un tráfico de seres humanos en el Meditteráneo durante la Edad Media

Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), célebre filósofo holandés de origen sefardí portugués, solía mencionar a sus simpatizantes que ante los hechos humanos no había que reír, llorar o detestarlos, sino comprenderlos. Las páginas de este libro constituyen un esfuerzo serio y sincero por persistir en esta ...

Pirate

the Golden Age

This book describes the life of a pirate in the early 18th century, the ‘Golden Age of Piracy’. It charts the way these men (and a few women) were recruited, how they operated, what they looked like and what prospects their lives held. In the ...

Lepanto

La batalla de los tres imperios

El 7 de octubre de 1571 las galeras de la flota pontificia, veneciana y española se enfrentaron a la armada otomana en una batalla ciclópea que concluyó con la apasionante victoria cristiana sobre el Turco. ¿Se habría apoderado de Europa el Islam de no haber ...

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was Queen of England for almost forty-five years. The daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, as an infant she was briefly accepted as her father’s heir. After her mother was executed at her father’s command she was declared illegitimate and led a ...

Religión, política y tolerancia en la Europa Moderna

Esta obra contiene la materia de una asignatura que hemos impartido a gran número de jóvenes universitarios durante más de quince años. Con todo, no se trata de simples apuntes de clase, procedentes de diferentes monografías elaboradas sobre los distintos temas tratados, sino que constituye el ...

Religión, política y tolerancia en la Europa Moderna

Esta obra contiene la materia de una asignatura que hemos impartido a gran número de jóvenes universitarios durante más de quince años. Con todo, no se trata de simples apuntes de clase, procedentes de diferentes monografías elaboradas sobre los distintos temas tratados, sino que constituye el ...

Antiguos tratados de esgrima (siglo XVII)

El primer tratado de este libro lo constituye la famosa obra de Luis Pacheco de Narváez acerca del Modo fácil de examinarse los maestros en la destreza de las armas (1625). El autor consiguió del rey la merced de ser nombrado examinador de todos los ...

Empires and indigenes

intercultural alliance, imperial expansion, and warfare in the Early Modern World

The early modern period (c. 1500-1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the ...

Trouver sa place

individus et communautés dans l'Europe moderne

Alors que le discours public analyse de plus en plus les réalités sociales au prisme des « communautés », cette notion fait aujourd'hui pour l'historien, l'objet d'un renouveau. Cet ouvrage traite des communautés qui constituent le tissu social de l'Europe moderne. Plus ...

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans

from global imperial power to absolutist States

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal 'res publica Christiana' and 'dar-es Islam'. However, both lost supreme ...

Deterrence through strength

British Naval power and foreign policy under Pax Britannica

The notion of a Pax Britannicaoa concept implying that Britain's overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon's defeat in 1815o largely ended with the British Empire itself. Although most historians still view this period as a departure from ...

Missions d'évangélisation et circulation des savoirs

XVIe-XVIIIe siècle

Quels furent les savoirs utilisés, diffusés et produits par les missionnaires catholiques, à partir du milieu du XVIe siècle, aussi bien en Europe, qu'en Amérique, en Asie et en Afrique ? Dans quelle mesure l'entreprise d'évangélisation des âmes, jugées par les missionnaires comme ...

An account of Denmark

with Francogallia and some considerations for the promoting of agriculture and employing the poor

This Liberty Fund edition of "An Account of Denmark", with its related texts, is the first modern edition of Molesworth's writings. This volume presents not only "An Account", a text that for most of the eighteenth century was recognized as one of the canonical ...

Les sociétés de frontière

de la Méditerranée à l'Atlantique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)

Au moment où se crée un espace européen sans frontières intérieures, au sein d'un monde globalisé, il est temps de renouveler l'histoire des confins en les considérant comme des espaces vécus et non plus seulement comme des lieux de construction des États. Cet ...

Matteo Ricci

a jesuit in the Ming Court

Matteo Ricci (1552D1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential ...

Micaela Villegas

"La Perricholi"

La extraordinaria vida de una criolla plebeya y sus amores con el virrey del Perú, en el inicio del crepúsculo imperial español en América. Micaela Villegas, “La Perricholi”, es una figura singular y apasionante del Perú colonial que ha inspirado toda suerte de creaciones artísticas ...

This great struggle

America's Civil War

Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, 'We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth.' Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only ...