Author: John BancksPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The History of the Life and Reign of William III. King of England, Prince of Orange, and Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Provinces
Author: John BancksPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The History of the Life and Reign of William III. King of England, Prince of Orange, and Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Provinces. Containing, A Series of Memorable Efforts, Military and Political, Made from the Year 1672 to the End of 1701, for Maintaining the Liberties of Europe, Particularly of His Native Country, and the British Monarchy, Against the Encroachments of Popery and Arbitrary Power, Under the Banners of France. Introduced with A Brief Account of the History and Genealogy of His Family. By the Author of the Critical Review of the Life of Oliver Cromwell
Author: John BancksPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650-1750)
Author: Gijs RommelsePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317118995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The years 1650 to 1750 - sandwiched between an age of 'wars of religion' and an age of 'revolutionary wars' - have often been characterized as a 'de-ideologized' period. However, the essays in this collection contend that this is a mistaken assumption. For whilst international relations during this time may lack the obvious polarization between Catholic and Protestant visible in the proceeding hundred years, or the highly charged contest between monarchies and republics of the late eighteenth century, it is forcibly argued that ideology had a fundamental part to play in this crucial transformative stage of European history. Many early modernists have paid little attention to international relations theory, often taking a 'Realist' approach that emphasizes the anarchism, materialism and power-political nature of international relations. In contrast, this volume provides alternative perspectives, viewing international relations as socially constructed and influenced by ideas, ideology and identities. Building on such theoretical developments, allows international relations after 1648 to be fundamentally reconsidered, by putting political and economic ideology firmly back into the picture. By engaging with, and building upon, recent theoretical developments, this collection treads new terrain. Not only does it integrate cultural history with high politics and foreign policy, it also engages directly with themes discussed by political scientists and international relations theorists. As such it offers a fresh, and genuinely interdisciplinary approach to this complex and fundamental period in Europe's development.
Hereditary Genius
Author: Sir Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Lectures on Modern History
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives
Author: Martha Moffitt PeacockPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004432159
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.
A Popular History of England
Author: Guizot (M., François)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Republican Alternative
Author: André HolensteinPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089640053
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
The Currency of Empire
Author: Jonathan BarthPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501755781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Urban World History
Author: Luc-Normand TellierPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030248429
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
This book seeks to deepen readers’ understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis. The theoretical framework of the approach stems directly from space-economy, and, more generally, from location theory and the theory of urban systems. The author explores a certain logic to be found in world history, and argues that this logic is spatial (in terms of spatial inertia, spatial trends, attractive and repulsive forces, vector fields, etc.) rather than geographical (in terms of climate, precipitation, hydrography). Accordingly, the book puts forward a truly original vision of urban world history, one that will benefit economists, historians, regional scientists, and anyone with a healthy curiosity.
