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Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750

General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army (Hardcover): John Childs General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army (Hardcover)
John Childs
R4,639 Discovery Miles 46 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery nearly resulted in the city's fall and he was made to look ridiculous when the blockade was eventually lifted by a few sailors in a rowing boat. Yet Kirke was closely involved in some of the most important events in British and Irish history. He served as the last governor of the colony of Tangier; played a central role in facilitating the Glorious Revolution of 1688; and fought in the majority of the principal actions and campaigns undertaken by the newly-formed standing armies in England, Ireland and Scotland, especially the Battle of the Boyne and the first Siege of Limerick in 1689. With the aid of his own earlier work in the field, additional primary sources and a recently-rediscovered letter book, John Childs looks beyond the fictionalisation of Kirke, most notably by R. D. Blackmore in Lorna Doone, to investigate the historical reality of his career, character, professional competence, politics and religion. As well as offering fresh, detailed narratives of such episodes as Monmouth's Rebellion, the conspiracies in 1688 and the Siege of Londonderry, this pioneering biography also presents insights into contemporary military personnel, patronage, cliques and procedures.

Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) (Hardcover, Critical... Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) (Hardcover, Critical Editions and Studies)
Anke Timmermann
R5,447 Discovery Miles 54 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association with each other until the mid-seventeenth century, when a number of them appeared in Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. These editions are the first to make this previously unidentified corpus available to researchers. The accompanying studies discover the complex histories of these alchemica, in plain and illuminated manuscripts, as anonyma and in attribution to famous authors, and in private and institutional, medical and academic book collections. Together, they offer novel insights into the role of alchemy and poetry in late medieval and early modern England.

Turncoats and Renegadoes - Changing Sides during the English Civil Wars (Hardcover): Andrew Hopper Turncoats and Renegadoes - Changing Sides during the English Civil Wars (Hardcover)
Andrew Hopper
R3,386 Discovery Miles 33 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Turncoats and Renegadoes is the first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. It examines the extent and significance of side-changing in England and Wales but also includes comparative material from Scotland and Ireland. The first half identifies side-changers among peers, MPs, army officers, and common soldiers, before reconstructing the chronological and regional patterns to their defections. The second half delivers a cultural history of treachery, by adopting a thematic approach to explore the social and cultural implications of defections, and demonstrating how notions of what constituted a turncoat were culturally constructed. Side-changing came to dominate strategy on both sides at the highest levels. Both sides reviled, yet sought to take advantage of the practice, whilst allegations of treachery came to dominate the internal politics of royalists and parliamentarians alike. The language applied to 'turncoats and renegadoes' in contemporary print is discussed and contrasted with the self-justifications of the side-changers themselves as they sought to shape an honourable self-image for their families and posterity. Andrew Hopper investigates the implementation of military justice, along with the theatre of retribution surrounding the trial and execution of turncoats. He concludes by arguing that, far from side-changing being the dubious practice of a handful of aberrant individuals, it became a necessary survival strategy for thousands as they navigated their way through such rapidly changing events. He reveals how side-changing shaped the course of the English Revolution, even contributing to the regicide itself, and remained an important political legacy to the English speaking peoples thereafter.

The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Hardcover): Jacob Burckhardt The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Hardcover)
Jacob Burckhardt
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Counter-case Presented on the Part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to the Tribunal of Arbitration Constituted Under... Counter-case Presented on the Part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to the Tribunal of Arbitration Constituted Under Article 1 of the Treaty Concluded at Washington on the 29th February, 1892 Between Her Britannic Majesty and the United... (Hardcover)
Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, Great Britain
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Soul of the North - A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries,1700-1940 (Paperback, New... The Soul of the North - A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries,1700-1940 (Paperback, New edition)
Neil Kent
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The social and cultural history of the Nordic region (including Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Greenland), as well as that of outlying former provinces such as Swedish Pomerania and the erstwhile Caribbean colonies, is examined in this unique study. Religious and spiritual values, family life and sexuality, health and hygiene, town and country and slavery in the tropical colonies are amongst the topics dealt with in some depth. At the same time, Neil Kent also provides an architectural and artistic history of the region.

Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire - Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era (Hardcover): Suraiya Faroqhi Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire - Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era (Hardcover)
Suraiya Faroqhi
R4,645 Discovery Miles 46 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However, Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that this was not the case; pious men from all walks of life went on pilgrimage to Mecca, slaves fled from their masters and craftspeople travelled in search of work. Most travellers in the Ottoman era headed for Istanbul in search of better prospects and even in peacetime the Ottoman administration recruited artisans to repair fortresses and sent them far away from their home towns. In this book, Suraiya Faroqhi provides a revisionist study of those artisans who chose - or were obliged - to travel and those who stayed predominantly in their home localities. She considers the occasions and conditions which triggered travel among the artisans, and the knowledge that they had of the capital as a spatial entity. She shows that even those craftsmen who did not travel extensively had some level of mobility and that the Ottoman sultans and viziers, who spent so much effort in attempting to control the movements of their subjects, could often only do so within very narrow limits. Challenging existing historiography and providing an important new revisionist perspective, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Ottoman history.

The Book of the Courtier (Hardcover): Baldesar Castiglione The Book of the Courtier (Hardcover)
Baldesar Castiglione; Translated by Hoby Thomas
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano), describing the behaviour of the ideal courtier (and court lady) was one of the most widely distributed books in the 16th century. It remains the definitive account of Renaissance court life. This edition, Thomas Hoby's 1561 English translation, greatly influenced the English ideal of the "gentleman." Baldesar Castiglione was a courtier at the court of Urbino, at that time the most refined and elegant of the Italian courts. Practising his principles, he counted many of the leading figures of his time as friends, and was employed on important diplomatic missions. He was a close personal friend of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, who painted the sensitive portrait of Castiglione on the cover of this edition.

Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Hardcover): Jacob Burkhardt Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Hardcover)
Jacob Burkhardt
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Witches - Salem, 1692 (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Stacy Schiff The Witches - Salem, 1692 (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Stacy Schiff
R1,353 R1,203 Discovery Miles 12 030 Save R150 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Bradford'S History Of Plimoth Plantation From The Original Manuscript With A Report Of The Proceedings Incident To The... Bradford'S History Of Plimoth Plantation From The Original Manuscript With A Report Of The Proceedings Incident To The Return Of The Return Of The Manuscript To Massachusetts. (Hardcover)
William Bradford
R1,183 R1,066 Discovery Miles 10 660 Save R117 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Transformations of Tragedy - Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern (Hardcover): Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning,... The Transformations of Tragedy - Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern (Hardcover)
Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning, Erik Tonning, Jolyon Mitchell
R5,338 Discovery Miles 53 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern explores the influence of Christian theology and culture upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy. The volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and contemporary. This series of essays by established and emergent scholars offers a sustained study of Christianity's creative influence upon experimental forms of Western tragic drama. Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity's diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition towards modernity.

Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814 - Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel (Hardcover): Eloy Martin-Corrales Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814 - Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel (Hardcover)
Eloy Martin-Corrales
R4,973 Discovery Miles 49 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martin-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles, merchants, converts, and travelers. Their negotiating strategies, and the necessary support they found on both shores of the Mediterranean prove that relations between Spaniards and Muslims were based on reasons of state and on a pragmatism that generated intense political and economic ties.These increased enormously after the peace treaties that Spain signed with Muslim countries between 1767 and 1791.

The Boxer Codex - Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the... The Boxer Codex - Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-east and East Asia (Hardcover)
George Bryan Souza, Jeffrey Scott Turley
R8,127 Discovery Miles 81 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.

Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (c.1600-1911) - Metals, Transport, Trade and Society (Hardcover): Ulrich... Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (c.1600-1911) - Metals, Transport, Trade and Society (Hardcover)
Ulrich Theobald, Jin Cao
R5,708 Discovery Miles 57 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important "export" product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.

The 'Book' of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700 (Hardcover): Palmira Brummett The 'Book' of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700 (Hardcover)
Palmira Brummett
R4,700 Discovery Miles 47 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.

Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World - A Plea for Ego? (Hardcover): Christine Zabel Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World - A Plea for Ego? (Hardcover)
Christine Zabel
R4,507 Discovery Miles 45 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith's theories is considered a central component of economic theory. Having in the twentieth century become one of the key-features of rational choice models, and thus is seen as an idealized trait of human behavior, self-interest has, despite Albert O. Hirschman's pivotal analysis of self-interest, only marginally been historicized. A historicization(s) of self-interest, however, offers new insights into the concept by asking why, when, for what reason and in which contexts the notion was discussed or referred to, how it was employed by contemporaries, and how the different usages developed and changed over time. This helps us to appreciate the various transformations in the perception of the notion, and also to explore how and in what ways different people at different times and in different regions reflected on or realized the act of considering what was in their best interest. The volume focuses on those different usages, knowledges, and practices concerned with self-interest in the modern Atlantic World from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, by using different approaches, including political and economic theory, actuarial science, anthropology, or the history of emotions. Offering a new perspective on a key component of Western capitalism, this is the ideal resource for researches and scholars of intellectual, political and economic history in the modern Atlantic World.

The Parish Registers of Thomas Crockford 1561-1633 (Hardcover): John Chandler The Parish Registers of Thomas Crockford 1561-1633 (Hardcover)
John Chandler; Translated by Christpher Newbury, Steven Hobbs
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany - Sub-assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned... Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany - Sub-assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U.S. Colored Troops (Hardcover)
Frank A Rollin
R921 Discovery Miles 9 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader (Hardcover): Helen L. Parish Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader (Hardcover)
Helen L. Parish; Edited by Helen L. Parish
R5,303 Discovery Miles 53 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the history of magic and religion in its own right, while together they demonstrate how debates over the topic have evolved over time, providing invaluable intellectual, historical, and socio-political context for readers approaching the subject for the first time. The essays are organised around five key themes and areas of controversy. Part One tackles superstition; Part Two, the tension between miracles and magic; Part Three, ghosts and apparitions; Part Four, witchcraft and witch trials; and Part Five, the gradual disintegration of the 'magical universe' in the face of scientific, religious and practical opposition. Each part is prefaced by an introduction that provides an outline of the historiography and engages with recent scholarship and debate, setting the context for the essays that follow and providing a foundation for further study. This collection is an invaluable toolkit for students of early modern Europe, providing both a focused overview and a springboard for broader thinking about the underlying continuities and discontinuities that make the study of magic and superstition a perennially fascinating topic.

The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia - Amasya 1576-1643 (English, Turkish, Hardcover): Oktay OEzel The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia - Amasya 1576-1643 (English, Turkish, Hardcover)
Oktay OEzel
R4,705 Discovery Miles 47 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Did the 'seventeenth-century crisis' visit the Ottoman Empire? How can we situate the explosion of rural violence and the rebellions of the turn of the seventeenth century in the Anatolian countryside? The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia provides the reader with a fresh and innovative perspective on the long scholarly debate over the question of 'decline' in early modern Ottoman history. It offers a new agenda, new type of source material, and a new methodology for the study of demographic crisis. Through a systematic examination of little-known detailed avariz registers, Oktay OEzel demonstrates in detail the mass desertion of rural settlements, the destruction of agricultural economy, and the resulting collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance - Reception, Legacy, Transformation (Hardcover): Pietro Daniel Omodeo Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance - Reception, Legacy, Transformation (Hardcover)
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
R6,563 Discovery Miles 65 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus's astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1616. Relying on a detailed investigation of early modern sources, the author systematically examines a series of issues ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics. In addition to offering a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective on post-Copernican astronomy, the study goes beyond purely cosmological and geometrical issues and engages in a wide-ranging discussion of how Copernicus's legacy interacted with European culture and how his image and theories evolved as a result.

Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors; v.5 (Hardcover): Walter 1844-1899 Hamilton Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors; v.5 (Hardcover)
Walter 1844-1899 Hamilton
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 (Hardcover): Elena Carrera Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 (Hardcover)
Elena Carrera
R4,738 Discovery Miles 47 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 examines the Aristotelian and Galenic understandings of the 'passions' or 'accidents of the soul' as alterations of both mind and body across a wide range of medieval and early modern cultural discourses: Aquinas's Summa, canonization inquests, medical and natural philosophical texts, drama, and the London Bills of Mortality. The essays in this collection focus on notions such as death from sorrow, physiological explanations of fear, physicians' advice on the harmful and beneficial effects of anger and of sex, medical and philosophical constructions of the melancholic subject, and theological and medical discussions on the impact of music in moderating the passions and maintaining health. Contributors include: Nicole Archambeau, Elena Carrera, Penelope Gouk, Angus Gowland, Nicholas E. Lombardo, William F. MacLehose, Michael R. Solomon and Erin Sullivan.

Empire of the Senses - Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America (Hardcover): Daniela Hacke, Paul Musselwhite Empire of the Senses - Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America (Hardcover)
Daniela Hacke, Paul Musselwhite
R4,721 Discovery Miles 47 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Empire of the Senses brings together pathbreaking scholarship on the role the five senses played in early America. With perspectives from across the hemisphere, exploring individual senses and multi-sensory frameworks, the volume explores how sensory perception helped frame cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships. From early French interpretations of intercultural touch, to English plans to restructure the scent of Jamaica, these essays elucidate different ways the expansion of rival European empires across the Americas involved a vast interconnected range of sensory experiences and practices. Empire of the Senses offers a new comparative perspective on the way European imperialism was constructed, operated, implemented and, sometimes, counteracted by rich and complex new sensory frameworks in the diverse contexts of early America. This book has been listed on the Books of Note section on the website of Sensory Studies, which is dedicated to highlighting the top books in sensory studies: www.sensorystudies.org/books-of-note

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