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  • Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries

    Inequality and Community

    par Daniel R. Curtis ...
    Collections series Disaster Studies
    In this book, evidence from a long-run history of epidemic-society interaction in the Low Countries shows that most recurring outbreaks were accommodated by communities, and most reactions, responses, and changes seen were the product of frequent and incremental adaptations, sometimes in periods outside of epidemics.Epidemics blur the distinction between the normal and the sub-normal. Accordingly, ... En savoir plus

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  • Black Death

    par Robert S. Gottfried ...
    A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Plague

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Paul Slack ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the 'Plague of Justinian' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. In the 21st century Coronavirus pandemics have served as a ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    par David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... En savoir plus

    $29.69 CAD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $39.19 CAD

  • A History of Childhood

    par Colin Heywood ...
    Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread.This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most recent research, and in particular revises and expands the sections on theoretical developments in the 'new social studies of childhood', on medieval ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

    Volume I: Peoples and Place

    Modifié par Hamish Scott ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Medieval Bruges

    c. 850–1550

    Modifié par Andrew Brown, Jan Dumolyn ...
    Bruges was undoubtedly one of the most important cities in medieval Europe. Bringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this 'total' history presents an integrated view of the city's history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors' analysis of its commercial growth, industrial ... En savoir plus

    $166.99 CAD

  • Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe

    par Wayne P. Te Brake ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe presents a novel account of the origins of religious pluralism in Europe. Combining comparative historical analysis with contentious political analysis, it surveys six clusters of increasingly destructive religious wars between 1529 and 1651, analyzes the diverse settlements that brought these wars to an end, and describes the complex ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Famine in European History

    Modifié par Guido Alfani, Cormac Ó Gráda ...
    This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly in size, duration and context; in many cases the damage wrought by poor harvests was confounded ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The University

    A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood

    par William Whyte ...
    A sweeping history of the buildings and materials that have shaped nine centuries of university life, from parchments and silk robes to glass atriums and sprawling parking lots.We often idealize the university as a sanctuary for disinterested reason, where material concerns are set aside in favor of higher principles. Yet when we remember our own college experiences, what springs to mind are not ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • Outdoor Learning: Past And Present

    par Rosaleen Joyce ...
    This book places outdoor learning in a theoretical, historical and social context of constructions of children, childhood and the use of the outdoors. ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD