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  • A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul

    by Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet ...
    Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly by natural disasters and by the turmoil of sultanic politics and violent revolt. Its inhabitants, entertained by ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 2, The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453–1603

    Edited by Suraiya N. Faroqhi, Kate Fleet ...
    Series series Cambridge History of Turkey
    Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603. During this period, the Ottoman Empire moved into a new phase of expansion, emerging in the sixteenth century as a dominant political player on the world scene. With territory stretching around the Mediterranean from the Adriatic Sea to Morocco, and from ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

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  • Dogs of God

    Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

    by James Reston Jr. ...
    From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort to consolidate its own burgeoning power by throwing off the yoke of the Vatican. By waging war on ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of Brazil

    by Boris Fausto, Sergio Fausto ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Fausto, a prominent ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Genoa and the Sea

    Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684

    by Thomas Allison Kirk ...
    Series Book 123 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and prosperous one, making it one of the most important financial centers in Europe. When Spanish influence in the Mediterranean world began to decline, Genoa, its prosperity closely linked with Spain's, again ... Read more

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  • Subaltern Lives

    Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920

    by Clare Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature ... Read more

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  • The Renaissance Ethics of Music

    Singing, Contemplation and Musica Humana

    by Hyun-Ah Kim ...
    Series series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    In early modern Europe, music – particularly singing – was the arena where body and soul came together, embodied in the notion of musica humana. Kim uses this concept to examine the framework within which music and song were used to promote moral education and addresses Renaissance ideas of religion, education and music. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • John Dee's Natural Philosophy

    Between Science and Religion

    by Nicholas Clulee ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy
    This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career. Originally published in 1988, this interpretation is far more detailed than any that came before and is an authoritative account for anyone interested in the history, literature and scientific developments of the Renaissance, or the occult.John Dee has fascinated successive generations. Mathematician, scientist, astrologer and ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Seeking Sanctuary

    Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550

    by Shannon McSheffrey ...
    Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Looking anew at this subject challenges the prevailing assumptions in the ... Read more

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  • Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome

    The Rise of the Resident Ambassador

    by Catherine Fletcher ...
    Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length study of this subject for sixty years, Catherine Fletcher substantially enhances our understanding of the envoy's role during this pivotal period for the development of diplomacy. Uniting rich but hitherto unexploited archival sources with recent insights from social and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Hilaire Kallendorf ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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