Cibus Indicus

alimentos americanos en las artes y ciencias de la Edad Moderna europea (siglos XVI- XVIII)

El encuentro y conquista de América fue, sin lugar a duda, uno de los acontecimientos más relevantes de la Edad Moderna europea. Sus consecuencias alcanzaron en mayor o menor medida a todas las regiones y a todas las capas de la sociedad. Uno de los ...

The Gift

How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism

The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent ...

Convoys

the British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America

The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars-showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain's warships. These were wars of ...

Sexuality in premodern Europe

a social and cultural history from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age

How did sexual relationships work before, in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era? What problems did contraception and sexually transmitted diseases pose? How did people deal with prostitution and pornography back then? What were the possibilities for same-sex and queer desire and practice ...

El poeta y el archivero

una nueva épica de la expansión Ibérica en pleno Renacimiento

Una nueva épica de la expansión ibérica en pleno renacimiento 30 de enero de 1574. El cuerpo sin vida del Archivero del Estado, Damião de Góis, fue hallado en las calles de Lisboa. Pronto su fallecimiento se rodeó de incógnitas: ¿cómo murió y qué secretos ...

Comment la confiance vient aux princes

Les rencontres princières en Europe 1494-1788

Fondé sur une enquête européenne inventoriant 3 440 rencontres au sommet, ce livre montre comment, à la Renaissance, les puissants se voient sans se recevoir car la méfiance règne : le terme "rencontre" a une signification militaire et baigne dans l'incertain et le risque. Le ...

Guerras plebeyas

Luchas políticas en la Germanía, 1519-1522

La Germanía de Valencia (1519-1522), el conflicto sociopolítico más relevante de la historia valenciana, es analizado desde el campo temático de las revueltas y revoluciones medievales y modernas centrando la mirada en un momento particular de esta: la dramática etapa originada a partir de su ...

La saga des Farnèse

Des Farnèse, on retient le faste, la grandeur, mais aussi l'ascension extraordinaire. Enracinée au Moyen Age dans la région du lac de Bolsena, au nord de Rome, cette famille de condottieri prend son élan au XVe siècle. Alexandre, devenu le pape Paul III en ...

Traders in men

merchants and the transformation of the transatlantic slave trade

During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the eve of the American Revolution, grown into a transatlantic system through which fifty thousand men, women, and children were enslaved every year ...

The last witches of England

a tragedy of sorcery and superstition

On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird ...

The whole economy

work and gender in early modern Europe

Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments ...

Friends of freedom

the rise of social movements in the age of Atlantic revolutions

From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish patriots, French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of a common, interrelated pattern. In this new transnational history, Micah Alpaugh demonstrates the connections ...

American slavers

merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865

The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to ...

The age of Atlantic Revolution

the fall and rise of a connected world

The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and ...

The project-state and its rivals

a new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic ...

The Georgians

the deeds and misdeeds of 18th-century britain

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world ...

Tudor England

a history

A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England Dozens of volumes about the Tudors roll onto the shelves every year. Few are this serious, this readable and this full of fun. - Dan Jones, The Times When Henry VII landed in ...

El descubrimiento de Europa

indígenas y mestizos en el Viejo Mundo

Esta nueva obra de Esteban Mira Caballos desmonta el viejo tópico que sostenía que la presencia de indígenas americanos en el Viejo Mundo se limitó a un puñado de ellos que trajeron algunos descubridores, como Cristóbal Colón, pero la realidad es que hubo un tráfico ...

El niño y la vida familiar en el Antiguo Régimen

La familia y la escuela retiraron al niño de la sociedad de los adultos. La escuela encerró a una infancia antiguamente libre en un régimen disciplinario cada vez más estricto. La demanda de la familia, de la Iglesia, de los moralistas y de los administradores ...

Decapitadas

Tres mujeres en la Italia del Renacimiento

Entre 1391 y 1425, tres mujeres fueron decapitadas por orden de sus maridos. Las esposas de tres de los más grandes señores de la Italia renacentista —Mantua, Milán, Ferrara—, Agnese Visconti, Beatrice de Tende y Parisina Malatesta, fueron ejecutadas por adulterio. Sin embargo, ninguna mujer ...