The zenith of european monarchy and its elites

the politics of culture, 1650-1750

By the mid-seventeenth century, several major European monarchies were collapsing. Battered by incessant war and religious rebellion, rulers clashed with landowners and clergy on whom they relied for territorial and spiritual support. Nicholas Henshall argues that from this crisis emerged a new deal. Monarchs reasserted ...

Conocimiento, educación y espiritualidad durante los s. XVI-XVII

breve selección de textos

En estos fragmentos quedan de manifiesto planteamientos comunes sobre la observación de la naturaleza y el conocimiento, pautas y orientaciones de carácter pedagógico, criterios para la organización del cuerpo social, visión de la evangelización y adoctrinamiento de americanos.

Frederick the Great's Allies 1756-63

Ils. Gerry and Sam Embleton. The Seven Years' War in Germany was characterised by an increasing use of 'light' troops in conjunction with regular infantry and cavalry as part of an ongoing evolution in military tactics. This book draws attention to these tactical developments and ...

Revolución en el tiempo

el reloj y la formación del mundo moderno

Revolución en el tiempo es tal vez el mejor de los libros de David S. Landes, autor de La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones y de Dinastías. Ésta es la historia de los esfuerzos del hombre por controlar el tiempo, desde el reloj ...

The Virgin Queen

a personal history of Elizabeth I

The years of Elizabeth's childhood were troubled - fraught with danger and beset with the political and religious plots of those around her. At the age of two her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded by her father, Henry VIII; Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and banished ...

Patriarca o El poder natural de los reyes

Formidable defensor de la Monarquía Absoluta o de Derecho Divino, ROBERT FILMER (1588-1653) escribió el ameno panfleto político titulado PATRIARCA O EL PODER NATURAL DE LOS REYES con el objeto de combatir a dos «ladrones» que querían crucificar a la monarquía: el Papa y el ...

Christianity and sexuality on the Early Modern World

regulating desire, reforming practice

The book surveys the ways in which Christian ideas and institutions shaped sexual norms and conduct from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson. It is global in scope and geographic in organization, with chapters on Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Europe ...

El moderno sistema mundial

Tomo II: El mercantilismo y la consolidación de la economía-mundo europea, 1600-1750

La publicación de El moderno sistema mundial supuso el comienzo de una verdadera revolución en la historiografía y un fuerte impulso al renacimiento de la sociología histórica. Más allá de las discrepancias y las polémicas a las que ha dado origen, esta obra es ya ...

Guerra, diplomática y etiqueta en la Corte de los Papas

(siglos XVI y XVII)

Mientras que la recepción en Francia de los escritos de los discípulos de Ernst H. Kantorowicz ha suscitado un rico debate --que ha contribuido a crear el campo teórico y metodológico de la investigación sobre el ceremonial y la etiqueta--, en la historiografía española los ...

El Príncipe

Nicolás Maquiavelo

No ha habido hombre poderoso del que no se haya dicho que leía secretamente el Príncipe para inspirar su conducta política. Esta edición alterna el texto de Maquiavelo con los comentarios de Napoleón Bonaparte ante su lectura, tan interesantes como el propio texto. Nicolás Maquiavelo ...

Peso de todo el mundo (1622)

discurso sobre el aumento de esta monarquía (1625)

Dirigido a fines de 1622 a quien estaba llamado a 'gobernar el viaje del gran bajel del imperio', 'al solo maestro que guía todas las cuerdas de este gran relox', "Peso de todo el mundo", de Sir Anthony Sherley, fue uno de los textos que ...

Últimas cartas (1532-1535)

Introducción, notas y traducción del inglés y del Latín de Álvaro Silva. Em mayo de 1532, Tomás Moro dimitió de su puesto como lord canciller de Inglaterra. Esperaba así apartarse del conflicto político y religioso para disfrutar el resto de susu días en su casa ...

So great a profit

how the East Indies trade trasnformed anglo-american capitalism

In a work of sweep and ambition, James Fichter explores how American trade proved pivotal to the evolution of capitalism in the United States and helped to shape the course of the British Empire. Before the American Revolution, colonial merchants were part of a trading ...

The capital and the colonies

London and the atlantic economy 1660-1700

Between 1660 and 1700, London established itself as the capital and commercial hub of a thriving Atlantic empire, accounting for three quarters of the nation's colonial trade, and playing a vital coordinating role in an increasingly coherent Atlantic system. Nuala Zahedieh's unique study ...

The troubled Empire

China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer ...

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

a sourcebook

Eds. Francis D. Cogliano, Kirsten E. Phimister. "Revolutionary America, 1763--1815: A Sourcebook" is a collection of dynamic primary sources intended to accompany the second edition of "Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History". While the structure of the collection parallels the textbook, either can be used ...

An unlikely prince

the life and times of Machiavelli

Acclaimed scholar Niccolo Capponi - a direct descendant of Machiavelli - analyses the famous political theorist in the context of his own times, revealing the many sides of the man behind the political genius and explaining his inability to capitalise on his own theories. In his compelling ...

Braudel revisited

the Mediterranean World, 1600-1800

Eds. Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Geoffrey Symcox. Fernand Braudel (1912- 1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales ...

Lost girls

sex and death in Renaissance Florence

In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 walked out alive. Struck by the ...

The making of Nwe World slavery

from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch. "The Making of New World Slavery" argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state ...