Hakutulokset: modern history
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From Madrid to Purgatory
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. In sixteenth-century Spain, the social and economic debts of …
The Other Prussia
This book considers the phenomenon of nation-building before the age of modern nationalism. It focuses on royal (Polish) Prussia - the ‘other’ Prussia - a province of the …
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, …
Those who Stayed Behind
Hal Barron reconstructs the social and economic history of Chelsea, Vermont.
Filippo Strozzi and the Medici
Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life.
Cradle of the Middle Class
Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.
After the Deluge
The Swedish invasion of 1655, known to Poles ever since as the ‘Swedish deluge’, provoked the political and military collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the …
Old World and the New 1492-1650
The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 2, The Reformation, 1520–1559
This is the second, amended and enlarged edition of a familiar standard work, first published in 1958. Like its predecessor, it describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from …
Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War
This stylish and highly entertaining account of the origins of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672.