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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli; W. K. Marriott
The Floating Press 1908; US$ 4.50Il Principe ( The Prince ) is the famous text by Florentine public servant Niccolo Machiavelli, in which he outlines the best strategy by which a prince can acquire, maintain and protect his state. Published posthumously, the text departs from his previous works, but is that for which he is remembered, and which has produced the adjective "Machiavellian". Machiavelli directives for maintaining a secure state are direct and at times brutal... more...
Mosquito Empiresby J. R. McNeill
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 20.00This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. more...
Europe and England in the Sixteenth Centuryby T.A. Morris
Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95A unique integrated survey of European and English history in the sixteenth century. Morris presents in a highly readable format the key elements of narrative and debate which will be essential reading for all students of early modern history. more...
Rewriting the Selfby Roy Porter
Routledge 1996; US$ 42.95A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the Western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity from a variety of perspectives. more...
English Renaissanceby Kate Aughterson
Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95This comprehensive anthology collects together primary texts and documents relevant to the literature, culture, and intellectual life in England between 1550 and 1660. more...
Donne, Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtlinessby Peter DeSa Wiggins
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 27.95Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of CourtlinessPeter DeSa Wiggins The influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of John Donne. John Donne has been described as a "poet of ambition," who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of that era's most influential court text -- Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier -- has never been fully explored. Courtier was Elizabethan England's approved repository of the complex social codes that governed the behavior of those desiring advancement at... more...
Columbus in the Americasby William Least Heat-Moon
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 19.95A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold." With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that Columbus's subsequent dealings with the cultures he encountered not only did considerable immediate harm, but also set the pattern of behavior for those who followed... more...
Renaissance Womanby Kate Aughterson
Routledge 1995; US$ 41.95An invaluable collection of primary sources on women and femininity in early modern England, including medical documents, political pamphlets, sermons and literary sources. Sources are accompanied by a clear introduction and notes. more...
Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissanceby Anna Abulafia
Routledge 1995; US$ 150.00Anna Sapir Abulafia examines the way Europe was transformed in the central middle ages, a period which has come to be known as the `twelfth century renaissance.' She reveals the consequences for the only non-Christian minority in Europe: the Jews. more...
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuartsby Vaughan Hart
Routledge 1994; US$ 152.00Examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art in the context of the first Stuart Court. Here artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart King's Divine Right, and later of their policy of Absolutism. more...









