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  • World History For Dummiesby Peter Haugen

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 19.99

    Now updated! Your personal tour guide to the history of the world Want to know more about global history? This concise guide explains in clear detail all the major players and events that have made the world what it is today. Covering the entirety of human history, this comprehensive resource highlights important developments in everything from religion and science to art and war — giving you an understanding of how the 21st-century world came to be. Begin to connect with the past — label the eras as you meet the Neanderthals, home in on Homer, raise Atlantis, and preserve Pharaohs Find strength in numbers — trace the growth from ancient civilizations to today's global community and discover what makes societies succeed... more...

  • Europe and England in the Sixteenth Centuryby T.A. Morris

    Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95

    A 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...

  • Aspects Of European History 1494-1789by Stephen J. Lee

    Taylor & Francis 1984; US$ 37.95

    Lee's book takes an analytical approach to a wide range of topics in early modern European history, from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, showing a variety of methods that can be used to present a theme or argument in an essay or exam. more...

  • Events That Changed the World Through the Sixteenth Centuryby Frank W. Thackeray; John E. Findling

    Greenwood Publishing Group 2001; US$ 55.00

    The period from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth century witnessed some of the most significant developments in the history of the world. These events and their impact have been carefully described and analyzed in this student resource. more...

  • The Monstrous Regiment of Womenby Sharon L. Jansen

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00

    This title explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through to Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. more...

  • Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europeby S. Jansen

    Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 90.00

    This book explores the resulting 'gynecocracy' debate and the larger humanist response to the challenge posed by female sovereignty. more...

  • The Sixteenth Centuryby Euan Cameron

    Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 16.00

    This new volume in the Short Oxford History of Europe series looks at the sixteenth century - one of the most tumultuous and dramatic periods of social and cultural transformation in European history. Six leading experts consider this period from a variety of perspectives, including political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual history, and subject traditional explanations of all these areas to revision in light of the most modern scholarship. - ;The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and culture. Population growth strained the old fabric of community and economic relations. New supplies of precious metals from east and west re-wrote the rules of finance... more...

  • Conflicts of Empiresby Jonathan Israel

    Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 170.00

    The period between the late sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries was one of tremendous, and ultimately decisive, shifts in the balance of political, military and economic power in both Europe and the wider world. Spain's overwhelming dominance in the 1580s seemed unassailable, yet by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 its greatness had been eclipsed, leaving supremacy to Britain, France and, in the commercial sphere, the Dutch. In these essays (five of which are previously unpublished) Jonathan Israel argues that Spain's efforts to maintain her hegemony continued to be centred on the Low Countries. One should not readily assume that Spain's order of priorities was misconceived: at times she appeared to be close to succeeding.... more...

  • Defenders of the Faithby James Reston Jr.

    Penguin Group Inc. 2009; US$ 13.99

    A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God , James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the present-day conflict. With his unwavering eye for detail, Reston now weaves a captivating narrative that examines a pivotal period in that centuries- long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This saga of colliding worlds is propelled by two astonishing young sovereigns-the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the Turkish sultan Suleyman the Magnificent-and is supported by a wide range of larger-than-life characters,... more...

  • Political Space in Pre-industrial Europeby Beat Kümin

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95

    This collection examines the potential and limitations of spatial approaches for the political history of preindustrial Europe. Adopting a broad definition of 'political', the volume concentrates on two key questions: Where did political exchange take place? And how did spatial dimensions affect political life in different periods and contexts?Taken together, the essays demonstrate that premodern Europeans made use of a much wider range of political spaces than is usually assumed, and that spatial dimensions provided key variables in political life. In so doing the volume offers a timely and critical engagement with the 'spatial turn', by bridging the usual gaps between periods and disciplines, to discuss the wider implications... more...