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  • Tolerance, regulation and rescue

    Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300–1800

    by Brian Pullan ...
    Looking at Catholic charity and social policy in past times, this book focuses on 'unrespectable' women and children in Italy, and their treatment at the hands of charities and the law. It looks at prostitutes and women engaged in sexual relationships outside formal marriage, and foundlings, many of whom were abandoned because they were born out of wedlock.A wide-ranging synoptic survey, this ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • A History of the University of Manchester, 1973–90

    by Brian Pullan ...
    Frank and entertaining account of the University of Manchester's struggle to meet the Government’s demands for the rapid expansion of higher education in the 1950s and the 1960s. Looks at the University's ambitious building program: the controversial attempts to reform its constitution and improve its communications amid demands for greater democracy in the workplace, the struggle to retain its ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • With Us Always

    A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare

    by Thomas M. Adams, Anthony Brundage, E Wayne Carp, Elizabeth McKeown, Kathryn Norberg, James T. Patterson, Brian Pullan, Ellis W. Hawley, Alice O'Connor ...
    Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare. The prominent historians in this collection demonstrate how ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    Edited by Brian Pullan ...
    Series series Economic History
    The decline of Venice remains one of the classic episodes in the economic development of modern Europe. Its contrasts are familiar enough: the wealthiest commercial power in fifteenth-century Europe, the strongest western colonial power in the eastern Mediterranean, found its principal fame three centuries later in carnival and the arts. This metamorphosis from commercial hegemony to fashionable ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling

    by Ross King ...
    In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted.Nevertheless, for the next four years he and a hand-picked team of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • April Blood

    Florence and the Plot against the Medici

    by Lauro Martines ...
    One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • April Blood

    by Lauro Martines ...
    In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Death in Florence

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. In Savonarola, an ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1100-1600: Medieval to Renaissance

    Edited by Kim W. Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Britain Really Works

    Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation

    by Stig Abell ...
    'Absorbing . . . an intelligent and clear-eyed account of much that goes on in our country' Sunday TimesGetting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects immigration but is dependent on it, is getting older but less healthy, is more demanding of public services but less willing to pay for them, is tired of intervention abroad but wants to remain a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The People

    The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

    by Selina Todd ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD