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Renaissance

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  • China and Historical Capitalismby Timothy Brook; Gregory Blue

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 53.00

    Collaborative volume aimed at correcting the view of China as a failed version of the West. more...

  • The Economic Development of Japan 1868–1941by W. J. Macpherson

    Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 23.00

    Concise overview of Japanese economic history between 1868 and 1941, with a comprehensive guide to further reading (now updated to 1994). more...

  • The Last Judgmentby James A. Connor

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 15.99

    Painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, 28 years after Michelangelo completed the glorious and hopeful ceiling, The Last Judgment is full of stark images depicting the End of Days. James Connor uses the famous fresco as the lens by which to view the end of the Renaissance, arguing that Michelangelo's imagery and composition reflect the... more...

  • Trickster Travelsby Natalie Zemon Davis

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 18.99

    An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published... more...

  • Alegorías del poderby Antonio Carreño-Rodríguez

    Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 95.00

    La presente monografía analiza las obras dramáticas de Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina y Calderón de la Barca como reacción a la inestabilidad política y social de España en la primera mitad del siglo XVII. En contra de la interpretación que presenta la 'co more...

  • El discurso colonial en textos novohispanosby Sergio Rivera-Ayala

    Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 95.00

    El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos se apoya en trabajos recientes sobre el análisis del discurso y la crítica de la representación que se están desarrollando en áreas como antropología, historia, y geografía cultural. Al analizar una gran varieda more...

  • Isabella de'Mediciby Caroline P. Murphy

    Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57

    The magnificent, alluring and ultimately tragic life of Isabella, the most brilliant woman of the Medici. more...

  • Mary Boleynby Alison Weir

    Random House Group Ltd 2011; US$ 13.34

    Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret. In this, the first full-length biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir explodes much of the... more...

  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan Englandby Ian Mortimer

    Random House 2012; US$ 13.34

    The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have... more...

  • Renaissance Historical Fictionby Alex Davis

    Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 90.00

    Davis's study could scarcely be more timely or invigorating. SEAN KEILEN, College of William and Mary. Williamsburg VAA majority of the fiction composed in England in the second half of the sixteenth century was set in the past. All the major prose write more...