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  • The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution

    The Making of Humanitarianism

    by Dr David de Boer ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. For victims of persecution around the world, attracting international media attention for their plight is often a matter of life and death. This study takes us back to the ... Read more

    $77.39 CAD

  • Rebellion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Monika Barget, David de Boer, Malte Griesse ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    In the seventeenth century, riots, rebellions, and revolts flared around Europe. Concerned about their internal stability, many states responded by closely observing the violent upheavals that plagued their neighbors. Rebellion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe investigates how in this struggle for intelligence about internal discord, diplomats emerged as key information brokers and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Higher Education Policy and Governance

    Edited by Manuel Souto-Otero, Jeroen Huisman, David D. Dill, Harry de Boer ...
    This state-of-the-art reference collection addresses the major themes, theories and key concepts related to higher education policy and governance on an international scale in one accessible volume.Mapping the field and showcasing current research and theorizations from diverse perspectives and authoritative scholars, this essential guide will assist readers in navigating the myriad concepts and ... Read more

    $370.19 CAD

  • Sensing a Life through Stages of Thinking

    by David Boers ...
    Sensing a Life through Stages of Thinking presents random examples of sometimes connected and sometimes disconnected thoughts and perceptions over a lifetime of attempting to sense every moment. Within them exist joy, sorrow, trepidation, confidence, insecurity, disappointment, resolve, failure, doubt, love, shock, excitement, fear, anger, fun, apathy, and other, common to all, emotions of life. ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncovering Black Heroes

    Lesser-Known Stories of Liberty and Civil Rights

    by David Boers ...
    Series Book 37 - Counterpoints Primers
    Uncovering Black Heroes: Lesser-Known Stories of Liberty and Civil Rights is a series of stories regarding real people who are not so well known in the mainstream of American freedom and civil rights discussions. These people have made a difference by the events of their lives and by the deliberate contributions they made. In some chapters depictions of fugitive slaves create awareness of the ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Birth of the Leviathan

    Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    by Thomas Ertman ...
    For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Medieval Scholarship

    Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: History

    Edited by Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil ...
    Series series Garland Library of Medieval Literature
    Surveying the development of medieval scholarship through biography, this volume contains 23 original essays on scholars whose work shaped medieval historiography for the past 300 years. Their subject was Europe between 500 and 1500, and they labored to define that protean and multinational culture. Each of them pioneered or revolutionized traditional views on fields such as diplomatics (Mabillon) ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe

    Rulers, Aristocrats and the Formation of Identities

    Edited by Liesbeth Geevers, Mirella Marini ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians has increasingly questioned the dominant role of ruling families in state formation, underlining instead the continued importance and independence of individuals. In order to take a fresh look at the subject, this volume provides a broad ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vanished Kingdoms

    The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

    by Norman Davies ...
    'The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet the past differs from the present in many unfamiliar ways and historical memory is extraordinarily imperfect. The degree to which we think of the European past as the history of France, Germany, Britain, Russia and so on, actually obstructs our view of former reality, and blunts our sensitivity to the ever-changing political landscape. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD