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European Encounters with the New World
For more than three centuries after Columbus's voyages to America, Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New World affected European sensibilities and …
Idea of Europe
The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do …
Mundos en guerra
LA HISTORIA DEL ENFRENTAMIENTO ENTRE DOS CONCEPCIONES DEL MUNDO DISTINTAS.Las diferencias que separan a Oriente y Occidente son muy profundas y van más allá de una "simple" …
The Pursuit of Europe: A History
The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the …
The Burdens of Empire
Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire …
The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
This volume studies the concept of a political ‘language’, of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has been widely influential on …
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony …
Worlds at War
Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been …
Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.
The Fall of Natural Man
This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to …
Peoples and Empires
Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the …
The Pursuit of Europe
The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it became possible to imagine that the …