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Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography
This book aims to demonstrate how scholars in recent times have been utilizing egodocuments from various angles and providing an opening for the multivocality of the sources to be …
Crime, Disorder, and the Risorgimento
This 1994 book provides a meticulous examination of the ideology, structure, and functions of papal police as they operated in the city and province of Bologna in the period before …
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they …
Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation
Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and …
Iran and the Surrounding World
These essays examine Irans place in the world--its relations and cultural interactions with its immediate neighbors and with empires and superpowers from the beginning of the …
Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women
First published in 1988. This study can be situated within the history of women, women's education, women's rights, sport, leisure and recreation. Its aim is not to establish or …
A Pleasant and Compendious History of the First Inventers and Instituters of the Most Famous Arts, Misteries, Laws, Customs and Manners in the Whole World. Together With Many Other Rarities and Remarkable Things Rarely Known
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe Since 1500
This pioneering survey evaluates the notions of class and order throughout European history since 1500. After a general theoretical section on the concept of orders and class, the …
Sketches and Characters of the Most Eminent and Most Singular Persons now Living. By Several Hands. Vol.1
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe
National indifference is one of the most innovative notions historians have brought to the study of nationalism in recent years. The concept questions the mass character of …
Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings
Featuring a foreward by Gore Vidal, this collection offers a glimpse inside the mind of the 16th U.S. President and a snapshot of 19th-century America Ranging from finely honed …
