(Pub. Date: 04-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Open Road Media, ISBN-13: 9798337200286)
The author of The Way of the Gladiator turns from the arenas of ancient Rome to the center of debauchery and impiety in eighteenth-century England. “Stranger, refuse, if you can, what we have to offer.” These words, engraved in Latin, wel...More info...
Conegut com el segle de les Llums, o de la Il·lustraciĂł, el XVIII va ser un segle de combat, de canvi social, de transformaciĂł de lindividu. Un segle que ho trasbalsarĂ tot, amb un impuls que batega encara avui.MartĂ DomĂnguez recull pensamen...More info...
Naturrecht ist das Recht der Vernunft, doch Menschen werden fast immer von ihren Emotionen bestimmt. Philosophie, Medizin und Theologie um 1700 haben versucht, diese genauer zu ergründen.Was ist, wenn der Mensch komplett seinen Gefühlen und Triebe...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399537834)
A fresh account of the remarkable rise of Dundee as a global industrial city - and the origins of its later demise. The background to jute, the product most closely associated with Dundee, is investigated in unprecedented depth. The role of flax and...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399537841)
A fresh account of the remarkable rise of Dundee as a global industrial city - and the origins of its later demise. The background to jute, the product most closely associated with Dundee, is investigated in unprecedented depth. The role of flax and...More info...
Der Band vereinigt Vorträge aus verschiedenen Disziplinen, die zum 250. Jubiläum des Beginns von Johann Gottfried Herders »Bückeburger Zeit« gehalten wurden.Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) kam am 27. April 1771 in Bückeburg an. Damit bega...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399526487)
Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722-1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399526494)
Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722-1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040241738)
The articles in The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 describe the activities of people living on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, generously defined, during the early modern period. Most are based, at least in part, on Portuguese materials. A broa...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040251416)
Precious metals played a key role in inter-continental trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period. An assured supply of these metal was indeed a pre-requisite to the procurement of Asian goods such as spices, textiles and raw silk. Once...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040244708)
This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furbers discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the country trade between Asian ports, played a major role in the European e...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040233948)
The articles in The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 describe the activities of people living on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, generously defined, during the early modern period. Most are based, at least in part, on Portuguese materials. A broa...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040237670)
This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furbers discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the country trade between Asian ports, played a major role in the European e...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040248393)
The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group of independent merchant shipowners, and their eclipse at the end of the period in the face...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040240069)
The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group of independent merchant shipowners, and their eclipse at the end of the period in the face...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040233108)
Precious metals played a key role in inter-continental trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period. An assured supply of these metal was indeed a pre-requisite to the procurement of Asian goods such as spices, textiles and raw silk. Once...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040234471)
From the mid-16th to the early 18th centuries the Mughal empire was the dominant power in the Indian subcontinent. Contrary to what is sometimes suggested, John Richards argues that this centralised state was dynamic and skillfully run. The studies h...More info...
