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China and Historical Capitalism
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 53.00Collaborative volume aimed at correcting the view of China as a failed version of the West. more...
The Economic Development of Japan 18681941
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 23.00Concise overview of Japanese economic history between 1868 and 1941, with a comprehensive guide to further reading (now updated to 1994). more...
The Last Judgment
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 15.99Painted 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 Travels
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 18.99An 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 poder
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 95.00La 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 novohispanos
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 95.00El 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'Medici
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57The magnificent, alluring and ultimately tragic life of Isabella, the most brilliant woman of the Medici. more...
Mary Boleyn
Random House Group Ltd 2011; US$ 13.34Sister 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 England
Random House 2012; US$ 13.34The 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 Fiction
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 90.00Davis'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...









