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  • Life on the Tyne

    Water Trades on the Lower River Tyne in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, a Reappraisal

    par Peter D. Wright ...
    Whilst the early modern period has long been recognized as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority of studies to date have tended to focus upon London and southern England. In order to provide a more balanced understanding of the dynamics at work on a national level, this book explores the local economy and waterborne trades of Newcastle and the River Tyne, in North East England ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Civil War

    The History of England Volume III

    par Peter Ackroyd ...
    Collections Livre 3 - The History of England
    Step into the tumultuous age of Stuart England with Peter Ackroyd's enlightening Civil War. Beginning with James I, the first Scottish king of England, it tracks an era of massive upheaval, ending with the dramatic flight of his grandson, James II, into exile.Civil War transports you to the heart of the 17th-century Britain, where you meet figures like James I with his shrewd perspectives on ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    par Stephen Porter ...
    Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw the development of English opera and the first public concerts. Pepys lived through a time of ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Restoration London

    Everyday Life in the 1660s

    par Liza Picard ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Life of London
    How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life in London was really lived in an age of Samuel Pepys, the libertine court of Charles II and the Great Fire of London. The topics covered include houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets

    par Mark A. Waddell ...
    Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott - tackled the problem of occult or insensible causation in the seventeenth century. The search for hidden causes lay at the heart of the early modern study of nature, and included phenomena such as the activity of the magnet, the ... En savoir plus

    $82.99 CAD

  • The Dasmari�ases, Early Governors of the Spanish Philippines

    par John Newsome Crossley ...
    Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book ('Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age') this new work further expands our understanding of the Spanish Philippines by looking at Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas and his son Luis, successive governors from 1589. Drawing upon a rich selection of documents from the official Spanish archives (principally the Archivo General de Indias, ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Wealth of Communities

    War, Resources and Cooperation in Renaissance Lombardy

    par Matteo Di Tullio ...
    The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control. Nowhere was this more true than the area contested by Milan and Venice, that was constantly crossed and occupied by rival armies. Investigating the impact of successive crises upon the inhabitants of the Po Valley, this book challenges many ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Atlantic in Global History

    1500-2000

    Modifié par Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Erik R Seeman ...
    The Atlantic in Global History is a collection of original essays by leading authors that both introduce the main themes of Atlantic history and expand the category of the Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically.Moving away from the nation-state focused model of Atlantic history, this book emphasizes the comparisons among national experiences of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, by ... En savoir plus

    $96.99 CAD

  • Treasure, Treason and the Tower

    El Dorado and the Murder of Sir Walter Raleigh

    par Paul R. Sellin ...
    In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch correspondence found in a Swedish archive. Following an exciting paper-trail through Jacobean history to modern-day Venezuela, Professor Sellin makes a convincing case for Raleigh's innocence of the charges that led him to the block in 1618. Spurred on by ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Catholic Renewal and Protestant Resistance in Marian England

    Modifié par Vivienne Westbrook, Elizabeth Evenden ...
    Collections series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to revive an old statute against heresy. The efforts to renew Catholic worship and to revive Catholic ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • England's Fortress

    New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

    par Andrew Hopper, Philip Major ...
    Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the restoration of his son ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

    Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives

    par Deborah Simonton ...
    The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be ... En savoir plus

    $100.30 CAD