Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.
This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards.
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.
First published in 1930, Tudor Geography discusses the men and the geographical concepts that enabled world-famous voyages by the British with the aim of circumventing Spanish and Portuguese monopoly of the direct routes to the Spice Islands.
Según el 'Diccionario de la Real Academia Española', 'por menor' significa "menudamente", "por partes", "por extenso", y cuando se mercadea de ese modo, las ventas se hacen "en pequeñas cantidades".
The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco Lopez de Gomara in 1552, was "e;the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it.
This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution.
This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South.
"e;Aryan,"e; a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India.
During World War II, it quickly became apparent that the physical and tactical demands placed upon paratroopers required men of exceptional stamina, courage and intelligence.
In this compelling account of the "e;peasants' revolt"e; of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.
Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "e;rash assault,"e; to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides.
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825 - 1855 developed from a much more modest interest in Uvarov's doctrine of "e;Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality.
The question of the "e;dramatic principle"e; in the Canterbury Tales, of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucer's work.
During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned for their rebellious and often hostile behavior.
Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.
Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "e;civilized"e; and "e;uncivilized"e; world, Europe and the People Without History deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization.
The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930.
This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards.
This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context.
This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context.
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.
The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today.
These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy.
This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history.
The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today.
These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy.
