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Diversity and Empires - Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity (Hardcover): Elisabeth... Diversity and Empires - Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity (Hardcover)
Elisabeth Heijmans, Sophie Rose
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed the questions of how to manage diversity. These questions range from the local to the supra-regional, and from the management of people to that of political and judicial systems. Taking an intersectional approach incorporating categories such as race, religion, subjecthood and social and legal status, the contributions of the volume show how old and new modes of creating social difference took shape in an increasingly early modern globalized world, and what contemporary legacies these 'diversity formations' left behind. This volume show diversity and imperial projects to be both contentious and mutually constitutive: one the one hand, the conditions of empire created divisions between people through official categorizations (such as racial classifications and designations of subjecthood) and through discriminately applied extractive policies, from taxation to slavery. On the other hand, imperial subjects, communities, and polities within and adjacent to empire asserted themselves through a diverse range of affiliations and identities that challenged any notion of a unilateral, universal imperial authority. This book highlights the multidimensionality and interconnectedness of diversity in imperial settings and will be useful reading to students and scholars of the history of colonial Empires, global history, and race.

Cresheim Farm - 400 Years of History at an American Farm (Hardcover): Antje Ulrike Mattheus Cresheim Farm - 400 Years of History at an American Farm (Hardcover)
Antje Ulrike Mattheus
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book is a work of political archaeology: it focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania. The peoples' and farm's stories provide a micro and macro view of economic, social, demographic, and agro-ecological change. Cresheim Farm shows how one mostly unknown but strategically placed piece of land - home to an extraordinary array of people, including anti-slavery and anti-Nazi activists, the first woman editor of the Saturday Evening Post and a robber baron - can tell, affect and reflect the history of a nation. The writing is historically grounded and academic, future-oriented, deeply researched, and immediate. Cresheim Farm serves as a lens through which to observe and magnify social forces, such as the launching point of freedom and democracy movements, white privilege, slavery, and genocidal westward expansion. The past lives on in all of us.

Rebellion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover): Monika Barget, David De Boer, Malte Griesse Rebellion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Monika Barget, David De Boer, Malte Griesse
R4,053 Discovery Miles 40 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the seventeenth century, riots, rebellions, and revolts flared around Europe. Concerned about their internal stability, many states responded by closely observing the violent upheavals that plagued their neighbours. Rebellion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe investigates how in this struggle for intelligence about internal discord, diplomats emerged as key information brokers and interpreters of Europe's tumultuous political landscape. The contributions in this volume uncover how diplomatic actors interacted with rulers, opposition leaders, informers, media entrepreneurs, and different audiences in their efforts to understand, communicate, and draw lessons from the insurrections in their time. Rebellion and Diplomacy also examines how diplomats actively tried to shape the course of internal conflicts by managing the spread news, supporting political factions at their court of residence, and even instigating violence. Covering different European regions from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia and from the British Isles to the Carpathian Basin, the book will appeal to all students and researchers interested in early modern diplomacy, politics, and news cultures.

The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 (Hardcover, 2nd edition): David Arnold The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
David Arnold
R3,897 Discovery Miles 38 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


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Within Her Power - Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (Hardcover): Linda Sturtz Within Her Power - Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (Hardcover)
Linda Sturtz
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


An engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 16th century. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed, the roles they played in the family business, their roles in the later, Trans-Atlantic trading framework, and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived, making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history historians.

Thomas Cromwell - The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant (Paperback): Tracy Borman Thomas Cromwell - The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant (Paperback)
Tracy Borman
R554 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R87 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of his second wife, Anne Boleyn; and was fatally accused of trying to usurp the king himself. But in this engrossing new biography, acclaimed British historian Tracy Borman reveals a different side to one of history's most notorious characters: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely loyal servant and friend, and a revolutionary who was key in transforming medieval England into a modern state. Born in the mid-1480s to a lowly blacksmith, Cromwell left home at eighteen to make his fortune abroad. He served as a mercenary in the French army, worked for a powerful merchant banker in Florence at the height of the Italian Renaissance, and became a promising young cloth merchant in the Netherlands, then the mercantile capital of the world. But Cromwell decided to return to England and there built a flourishing legal practice. It wasn't long before Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was the Archbishop of York and the King's closest confidant, took note of Cromwell's immense intelligence, resourcefulness, and wit, turning him into his protege. When Wolsey was put under arrest for overstepping his bounds, Cromwell both protected his mentor and supplanted him. And he accomplished what Wolsey never could: Henry's divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon and a revolution in Britain's religious life. As Henry's top aide, Cromwell was at the heart of the most momentous event of his time--from funding the translation and dissemination of the first vernacular Bible to legitimizing Anne Boleyn as queen--and wielded immense power over both church and state. The impact of his seismic political, religious, and social reforms can still be felt today. Grounded in excellent primary source research, Thomas Cromwell gives an inside look at a monarchy that has captured the Western imagination for centuries and tells the story of a controversial and enigmatic man who forever changed the shape of his country.

History - An Introduction to Theory and Method (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Peter Claus, John Marriott History - An Introduction to Theory and Method (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Peter Claus, John Marriott
R3,796 Discovery Miles 37 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time. Global in scope, it explores historical perspectives not only from historiography itself, but from related areas such as literature, sociology, geography and anthropology which have entered into productive dialogues with history. Clearly written and accessible, this third edition is fully revised with an updated structure and new areas of historical enquiry and themes added, including the history of emotions, video history and global pandemics. In all of this, the authors have attempted to think beyond the boundaries of the West and consider varied approaches to history. They do so by engaging with theoretical perspectives and methodologies that have provided the foundation for good historical practice. The authors analyse how historians can improve their skills by learning about the discipline of historiography, that is, how historians go about the task of exploring the past and determining where the line separating history from other disciplines, such as sociology or geography, runs. History: An Introduction to Theory and Method 3ed is an essential resource for students of historical theory and method working at both an introductory and more advanced level.

Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre - Shifting Paradigms in Early... Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre - Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Hardcover)
Philip Butterworth; Edited by Peter Harrop
R3,846 Discovery Miles 38 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both 'pageant vehicle' and 'theatre-in-the-round' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters. All these operators also functioned to promote the closely aligned disciplines of pyrotechnics and magic (legerdemain or sleight of hand) which also influence the nature of the presented theatre. The sixteen chapters form four clearly identified parts-staging, playing, pyrotechnics and magic-and drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Butterworth encourages the reader to rediscover and reappreciate the actors, magicians, wainwrights and wheelwrights, pyrotechnists, and (in modern terms) the special effects people and event managers who brought these early texts to theatrical life on busy city streets and across open arenas. The chapters variously explore and analyse the important backwaters of material culture that enabled, facilitated and shaped performance yet have received scant scholarly attention. It is here, among the itemised payments to carpenters and chemists, the noted requirements of mechanics and wheelwrights, or tucked away among the marginalia of suppliers of staging and ingenious devices that Butterworth has made his stamping ground. This is a fascinating introduction to the very 'nuts and bolts' of early theatre. Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre is a closely argued celebration of stagecraft that will appeal to academics and students of performance, theatre history and medieval studies as well as history and literature more broadly. It constitutes the eighth volume in the Routledge series Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies and continues the valuable work of that series (of which Butterworth is a general editor) in bringing significant and expert research articles to a wider audience.

The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 (Paperback): Anne Dunan-Page The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 (Paperback)
Anne Dunan-Page
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the history of the Huguenots, and new research has increased our understanding of their role in shaping the early-modern world. Yet while much has been written about the Huguenots during the sixteenth-century wars of religion, much less is known about their history in the following centuries. The ten essays in this collection provide the first broad overview of Huguenot religious culture from the Restoration of Charles II to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Dealing primarily with the experiences of Huguenots in England and Ireland, the volume explores issues of conformity and nonconformity, the perceptions of 'refuge', and Huguenot attitudes towards education, social reform and religious tolerance. Taken together they offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Huguenot religious identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500-1540 (Paperback): Jose M. Escribano-Paez Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500-1540 (Paperback)
Jose M. Escribano-Paez
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Contrary to many studies on this topic, this book neither focuses on a specific frontier nor attempts to provide an overview of all the imperial frontiers. Instead, it focuses on a specific individual: Juan Rena (1480-1539). This Venetian clergyman spent 40 years serving the king in several capacities while travelling from the Maghreb to northern Spain, from the Pyrenees to the western fringes of the Ottoman Empire. By focusing on his activities, the book offers an account of the Spanish Empire's frontiers as a vibrant political space where a multiplicity of figures interacted to shape power relations from below. Furthermore, it describes how merchants, military officers, nobles, local elites and royal agents forged a specific political culture in the empire's liminal spaces. Through their negotiations and cooperation, but also through their competition and clashes, they created practices and norms in areas like cross-cultural diplomacy, the making of the social fabric, the definition of new jurisdictions, and the mobilization of resources for war.

Temple Places - Excavating cultural sustainability in prehistoric Malta (Hardcover): Caroline Malone Temple Places - Excavating cultural sustainability in prehistoric Malta (Hardcover)
Caroline Malone
R1,737 Discovery Miles 17 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Journalism United States   Pt1 (Hardcover): Frederic Hudson Journalism United States Pt1 (Hardcover)
Frederic Hudson
R8,618 Discovery Miles 86 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government, than in a country with a government but without newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson. This is the first volume in a set traces the development of American journalism from its early beginnings in the 17th century up until 1940. Together the books outline the enormous changes which the industry underwent, from the production techniques to journalistic practices and changes in distribution methods. Media historians considered Hudson's history, "Journalism in the United States, from 1600-1872 (1873)", to be the authoritative text for the study of the development of American journalism, a subject previously neglected by American historians. The work has remained an important source for modern day scholars. Hudson (1819-75) became known as "the father of journalism" for his innovative news-gathering practices and was managing editor of the New York Herald, which by the outbreak of the Civil War was the most widely read newspaper in the United States. Alfred McClung Lee's "The Daily Newspaper in America. The Evolution of a Social Instrument" is an extensive examination of the newspaper industry from 1710 to 1936, from a

American Journalism        Pt2 (Hardcover): Frank Luther Mott American Journalism Pt2 (Hardcover)
Frank Luther Mott
R6,557 Discovery Miles 65 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government, than in a country with a government but without newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson. This is the sixth volume in a set traces the development of American journalism from its early beginnings in the 17th century up until 1940. Together the books outline the enormous changes which the industry underwent, from the production techniques to journalistic practices and changes in distribution methods. Media historians considered Hudson's history, "Journalism in the United States, from 1600-1872 (1873)", to be the authoritative text for the study of the development of American journalism, a subject previously neglected by American historians. The work has remained an important source for modern day scholars. Hudson (1819-75) became known as "the father of journalism" for his innovative news-gathering practices and was managing editor of the New York Herald, which by the outbreak of the Civil War was the most widely read newspaper in the United States. Alfred McClung Lee's "The Daily Newspaper in America. The Evolution of a Social Instrument" is an extensive examination of the newspaper industry from 1710 to 1936, from a

American Journalism        Pt1 (Hardcover): Frank Luther Mott American Journalism Pt1 (Hardcover)
Frank Luther Mott
R6,122 Discovery Miles 61 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government, than in a country with a government but without newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson. This is the fifth volume in a set traces the development of American journalism from its early beginnings in the 17th century up until 1940. Together the books outline the enormous changes which the industry underwent, from the production techniques to journalistic practices and changes in distribution methods. Media historians considered Hudson's history, "Journalism in the United States, from 1600-1872 (1873)", to be the authoritative text for the study of the development of American journalism, a subject previously neglected by American historians. The work has remained an important source for modern day scholars. Hudson (1819-75) became known as "the father of journalism" for his innovative news-gathering practices and was managing editor of the New York Herald, which by the outbreak of the Civil War was the most widely read newspaper in the United States. Alfred McClung Lee's "The Daily Newspaper in America. The Evolution of a Social Instrument" is an extensive examination of the newspaper industry from 1710 to 1936, from a

Daily Newspaper America    Pt2 (Hardcover): Alfred McClung Lee Daily Newspaper America Pt2 (Hardcover)
Alfred McClung Lee
R5,681 Discovery Miles 56 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government, than in a country with a government but without newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson. This is the fourth volume in a set traces the development of American journalism from its early beginnings in the 17th century up until 1940. Together the books outline the enormous changes which the industry underwent, from the production techniques to journalistic practices and changes in distribution methods. Media historians considered Hudson's history, "Journalism in the United States, from 1600-1872 (1873)", to be the authoritative text for the study of the development of American journalism, a subject previously neglected by American historians. The work has remained an important source for modern day scholars. Hudson (1819-75) became known as "the father of journalism" for his innovative news-gathering practices and was managing editor of the New York Herald, which by the outbreak of the Civil War was the most widely read newspaper in the United States. Alfred McClung Lee's "The Daily Newspaper in America. The Evolution of a Social Instrument" is an extensive examination of the newspaper industry from 1710 to 1936, from

Journalism United States   Pt2 (Hardcover): Frederic Hudson Journalism United States Pt2 (Hardcover)
Frederic Hudson
R5,388 Discovery Miles 53 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government, than in a country with a government but without newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson. This is the second volume in a set traces the development of American journalism from its early beginnings in the 17th century up until 1940. Together the books outline the enormous changes which the industry underwent, from the production techniques to journalistic practices and changes in distribution methods. Media historians considered Hudson's history, "Journalism in the United States, from 1600-1872 (1873)", to be the authoritative text for the study of the development of American journalism, a subject previously neglected by American historians. The work has remained an important source for modern day scholars. Hudson (1819-75) became known as "the father of journalism" for his innovative news-gathering practices and was managing editor of the New York Herald, which by the outbreak of the Civil War was the most widely read newspaper in the United States. Alfred McClung Lee's "The Daily Newspaper in America. The Evolution of a Social Instrument" is an extensive examination of the newspaper industry from 1710 to 1936, from

Early Modern Italy - A Social History (Paperback): Christopher. Black Early Modern Italy - A Social History (Paperback)
Christopher. Black
R1,189 Discovery Miles 11 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Early Modern Italy is a fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Covering the whole of the Peninsula from the Venetian Republic, to Florence, through to Naples it shows how the huge economic, cultural and social divides of the period still affect the stability of present day united Italy.
This is an essential guide to one of the most vibrant yet tempestuous periods of Italian history.

The Reformation World (Hardcover): Andrew Pettegree The Reformation World (Hardcover)
Andrew Pettegree
R6,313 Discovery Miles 63 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led to the expansion of the subject both thematically and geographically. The strength of The Reformation World is its breadth and originality, with material drawn from many different countries, including archival material only recently made available to scholars in central Europe.

Topics included are:

* the Church before the Reformation
* Luther and Germany
* the Reformation outside Germany
* Calvinism and the Second Reformation
* the Reformation and society
* arts and architecture
* the printed book and visual media.

Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England - A Sourcebook (Paperback): Patricia Crawford, Laura Gowing Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England - A Sourcebook (Paperback)
Patricia Crawford, Laura Gowing
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, from Deborah Brackley, a poor Devon servant, to Katharine Whitstone, Oliver Cromwells sister, and Queen Anne. Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, Womens Worlds explores the everyday lives of ordinary early modern women, including their:
* experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood
* beliefs and spirituality
* political activities
* relationships
* mental worlds
In a time when few women could write, this book reveals the multitude of ways in which their voices and experiences leave traces in the written record, and deepens and challenges our understanding of womens lives in the past.

Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin - Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Hardcover): Ian... Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin - Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Hardcover)
Ian Campbell, Floris Verhaart
R3,568 Discovery Miles 35 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare. Nevertheless, it is too often assumed that Reformed political thought did not develop beyond John Calvin's Institutes of 1559. This book remedies this problem, presenting extracts from major Reformed theologians and intellectuals (including Peter Martyr Vermigli, Guillaume de Buc, David Pareus, Lambert Daneau, and Bartholomaus Keckermann) which demonstrate both continuity and change in Reformed political argument. These men taught in France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Low Countries, and England, between the 1540s and 1660s, but they were read in universities throughout the North Atlantic world into the eighteenth century. Should all political action be subject to God's direct command? Were humans capable of using their own God-given reason to tell right from wrong? Was it ever just to resist tyrants? Was religious difference enough by itself to justify war? Their political doctrines often aroused the greatest controversy in their own time; this is generally the first time that these extracts from their works have been translated into English. These texts and translations are accompanied by an introduction placing these authors in the context of the great European religious wars, advice on further reading, and a full bibliography.

Stuart England (Hardcover): Angus Stroud Stuart England (Hardcover)
Angus Stroud
R3,923 Discovery Miles 39 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An introduction to the political, religious and social history of 17th-century England. The text provides a wide-ranging account of core events, drawing on both contemporary sources and interpretations by modern historians. Starting with the legacy of Elizabeth I, and ending with the reign of James II, the book covers all aspects of the monarchy, high and low politics and the culture of the people. Key topics include: English society and religion; ideas of monarchy and government; finance and parliament; and foreign policy. With comprehensive questions and analysis exercises, diagrams and maps, the text should prove a useful guide to English history of the 17th century.

Valois Tapestries (Hardcover): F.A. Yates Valois Tapestries (Hardcover)
F.A. Yates
R5,379 Discovery Miles 53 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad (Hardcover): Frances A. Yates Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad (Hardcover)
Frances A. Yates
R8,355 Discovery Miles 83 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Astraea - Yates (Hardcover): Frances A. Yates Astraea - Yates (Hardcover)
Frances A. Yates
R5,980 Discovery Miles 59 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Hardcover): Frances Yates The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Hardcover)
Frances Yates
R8,612 Discovery Miles 86 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set "Frances Yeats: Selected Works"

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