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Полный вариант заголовка: «The works of Wm. Robertson : Vol. 5. Charles the Fifth / vol. 3 : in 8 volumes».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The works of Wm. Robertson : Vol. 6. History of America / vol. 1 : in 8 volumes».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The works of Wm. Robertson : Vol. 7. History of America / vol. 2 : in 8 volumes».

This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. From medieval vendettas to stylised d…

The Reformation Movement in Germany provides readers with a strong narrative overview of the most recent work on the Reformation in the German lands.

The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language – a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years. Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses the…

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of different s…

The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic history. New expanded edition of a classic book, originally published to great critical acclaim from Ray…

Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society – when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony – revealing a fuller, more complex picture of this fascinating period. Pres…

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disr…

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

Полный вариант заголовка: «History of the commonwealth of England : Vol. 1. The Civil war : from its commencement, to the restoration of Charles the Second / by William Godwin».

This book brings together eight of the most influential recent articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum. Brings together seminal articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum. Illuminates the personality of Cromwell and his achievements. Inc…

Полный вариант заголовка: «An epitome of the history of Algiers : from the first settlement of the Moors in those parts, after their expulsion from Granada by the Spaniards, tо the time they rendered themselves independent of the Ottoman porte : as e…

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The present state of Colombia : An account of the principal events of its revolutionary war; the expeditions fitted out in England to assist in its emamcipation : its contitution; financial and commercial; revenue expeditur…

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting m…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa : compiled from authentic memoirs : with an introduction and notes / by Archibald Dalzel».