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  • The Smoke of London

    Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City

    par William M. Cavert ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
    The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution. By 1600, London was a fossil-fuelled city, its high-sulfur coal a basic necessity for the poor and a source of cheap energy for its growing manufacturing sector. The resulting smoke was found ugly and dangerous throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, leading to challenges ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

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  • Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII

    Mistress to Henry VIII

    par Elizabeth Norton ...
    The earliest known and longest lasting mistress of Henry VIII, Bessie Blount was the kings first love. More beautiful that Anne Boleyn or any of Henrys other wives or concubines, Bessies beauty and other charms ensured that she turned heads, winning a place at court as one of Catherine of Aragons ladies. Within months she was partnering the king in dancing and she rose to be the woman with the ... En savoir plus

    $14.19 CAD

  • Making Haste from Babylon

    The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History

    par Nick Bunker ...
    At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $11.99 CAD

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  • Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Cesare Borgia

    par Charles River Editors ...
    *Analyzes Cesare's legacy and how it endured over the centuries.*Examines the legends and rumors surrounding Cesare's life in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.*Includes pictures depicting Cesare and other important people in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; nonetheless, that cruelty united Romagna and ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Appearance of Witchcraft

    par Charles Zika ...
    Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award.For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika’s groundbreaking study investigates how the visual image of the witch was created in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. He charts the development of the witch as a new visual subject, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $83.99 CAD Maintenant $74.19 CAD

  • Environmental Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Andrew Dobson ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation. In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Dobson offers a lively and ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Shadows on the Gulf

    A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland

    par Rowan Jacobsen ...
    In the spring of 2010, we watched oil gushing unstoppably into thewaters of the Gulf of Mexico. But as bad as the spill was, it isonly the latest chapter in a century-long story of destruction.Atthe height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each daymerely equaled the amount of dispersant that washes down the Mississippifrom the Heartland's dishwashers and washing machines. Coastal ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Chevalier Bayard

    A Study in Fading Chivalry

    par Samuel Shellabarger ...
    A Study in Fading Chivalry by a Professor of History at Princeton University.Pierre Bayard belonged to a generation of men so fully absorbed in the sport of war that decades of their lives were often spent in battle following the whims of kings whom they believed acted on their behalf in an evil world. Their ideals were few and clear: duty, the service of honor, and the responsibility of noblesse ... En savoir plus

    $9.36 CAD

  • Waterloo

    The Decisive Victory

    Modifié par Colonel Nick Lipscombe ...
    Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this lavishly illustrated volume looks at all the different aspects of the 100-day campaign which has become synonymous with the Napoleonic Wars and saw the eventual defeat of Napoleon's French forces.Ten articles by internationally renowned historians examine the battle from different angles, from the microcosm of the ... En savoir plus

    $32.49 CAD

  • Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

    The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600

    par Nükhet Varlik ...
    This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

    Modifié par Melanie Pichler, Cornelia Staritz, Karin Küblböck, Christina Plank, Werner Raza, Fernando Ruiz Peyré ...
    Collections series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    As demand for natural resources increases due to the rise in world population and living standards, conflicts over their access and control are becoming more prevalent. This book critically assesses different approaches to and conceptualizations of resource fairness and justice and applies them to the analysis of resource conflicts.Approaches addressed include cosmopolitan liberalism, political ... En savoir plus

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  • The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

    par Steven Gunn ...
    Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign play in the long-term transformation of England's military capabilities? The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII searches for ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD