Download or read book A History of Europe written by Arthur James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aspects of European History 1494 1789 written by Stephen J. Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book A History of Europe from 1494 to 1610 written by Arthur James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom written by Donald W. Treadgold and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A worldwide trend toward democracy is surely one of the more remarkable phenomena of our times, even if the movement twoard that goal may often be haphazard and elusive. Past history will provide a healthy skepticism concerning the likelihood of democracy being reached in the near future in many parts of the world, as well as a preparedness for the possibility that many countries apparently close to the "institutional divide" are going to slip back rather than cross it soon. Nevertheless, the past 2600 years, or even 5000, yield the reassuring message that during that long period freedom has improved its extent significantly, with respect both to geographical breadth and institutional depth. This book is the first to attempt to describe the history of the growth of freedom on a world scale within one single set of covers. It sets out not to redefine freedom nor to discvoer freedom where no one else has, nor to argue that freedom is the proud possession of one country or tradition or people. Its purpose instead is to show how certain elements of free society made their appearance in an amazing variety of places, from ancient Sumeria and China to medieval Japan, modern Czechoslovakia and Costa Rica, in areas both inside and outside of the Western European and North American tradition that will probably be familiar to most readers of the English language edition of this book. The whole story, with its fits and starts, triumphs and tragedies, deserves the thoughtful reflection of everyone who in the wish to establish and protect freedom would avoid needless disappointment and despair and desires to act intelligently to attain the attainable. But even for the quietest, the person who has no faith in human action to improve man's lot, the story is worth pondering, for along with failure and misery it holds much that is noble and uplifting, tells of much gain for humanity through patient suffering and self-sacrifice, and catches a vision of liberty for all in the present an dpossible future that was inconceivable at the dawn of history.
Download or read book Movements in European History written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated novelist and poet presents a vivid history of Europe from Ancient Rome to the early 20thcentury in this restored, authoritative edition. Though D. H. Lawrence was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, his works were severely corrupted by the stringent house-styling of printers and the intrusive editing of timid publishers. A team of scholars at Cambridge University Press has worked for more than thirty years to restore the definitive texts of D. H. Lawrence in The Cambridge Editions. In 1918, a publisher at Oxford University Press approached D.H. Lawrence with the proposition of writing a textbook on European history. A great lover of history, Lawrence presents a lively narrative of European civilizations from the fall of Ancient Rome to the unification of Germany in the early twentieth century. This edition restores Lawrence’s original text, which had been censored before publication. It also identifies and analyzes Lawrence’s methods of using the sourcebooks on which his writing was based.
Download or read book The Onset of World War Routledge Revivals written by Manus I. Midlarsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this historical and quantitative analysis of war defines systemic world wars as conflicts of wide scope and intensity, which leave profound historical legacies in their wake. Manus Midlarsky examines various possible explanations for the onset of such past wars as the Peloponnesian War, the Thirty Years’ War, and World Wars I and II. Midlarsky develops his basic theory of systemic war, outlining the reasons for the absence of wars of this magnitude and describing the violations of certain structural conditions that are associated with the onset of world war. A timely and relevant reissue, this insightful analysis will be of particular value to those with an interest in International Relations, War and Peace Studies, Military History, and Security Studies.
Download or read book The Age of Recovery written by Jerah Johnson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise narrative offers a comprehensive introduction to the important developments—economic, social, religious, intellectual, and artistic—that took place in both western and eastern Europe during a crucial century. Besides describing the revival in the arts and the achievements of the new monarchs and the Italian despots, the book treats the remarkable economic recovery from the great depression of the late Middle Ages and the incorporation of eastern Europe into the western orbit.
Download or read book A History of Europe from 1494 to 1610 written by Arthur James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Turkes written by Matthew Dimmock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern England was obsessed with the 'turke'. Following the first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529 the printing presses brought endless prayer sheets, pamphlets and books concerning this 'infidel' threat before the public in the vernacular for the first time. As this body of knowledge increased, stimulated by a potent combination of domestic politics, further Ottoman incursions and trade, English notions of Islam and of the 'turke' became nuanced in a way that begins to question the rigid assumptions of traditional critical enquiry. New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England explores the ways in which print culture helped define and promulgate a European construction of 'Turkishness' that was nebulous and ever shifting. By placing in context the developing encounters between the Ottoman and Christian worlds, it shows how ongoing engagements reflected the nature of the 'Turke' in sixteenth century English literature. By offering readings of texts by artists, poets and playwrights - especially canonical figures like Kyd, Marlowe and Shakespeare - a bewildering variety of approaches to Islam and the 'turke' is revealed fundamentally questioning any dominant, defining narrative of 'otherness'. In so doing, this book demonstrates how continuing English encounters, both real and fictional, with Muslims complicated the notion of the 'Turke'. It also shows how the Anglo-Ottoman relationship - which was at its peak in the mid-1590s - was viewed with suspicion by Catholic Europe, particularly the apparent ritual and devotional similarities between England's reformed church and Islam. That the 'new turkes' were not Ottoman Muslims, but English Protestants, serves as a timely riposte to the decisive rhetoric of contemporary conflicts and modern scholarly assumption.
Download or read book Francis I and Sixteenth Century France written by Robert J. Knecht and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reputation of Francis I, king of France (1515-47 ) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as ’noble’ and ’great’ in the sixteenth century, he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourbon kings and the republic. But, in the twentieth century, research based on archival material has restored his standing as one of the most important rulers of his age. The present volume brings together seventeen articles by Robert Knecht published over several decades on particular aspects of the reign, with three specially translated from French into English. They examine the period in more depth than was possible in the author's 1994 biography of Francis I, and include studies of the Concordat of 1516 with the papacy, the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520, the lit-de-justice of 1527, and the visit to France of the Emperor Charles V in 1540. Other articles consider the king’s attitude to the Reformation, his court, his relations with Paris and visits to Aquitaine, his patronage of architecture as demonstrated by his building of the château of Fontainebleau, and his relations with his mother, Louise of Savoy, and sister, Marguerite d’Angoulême. The king’s love of books and the political advice he received from scholars are also considered as well as the extent of his ’absolutism’. Two articles compare the English and French Reformations and the nobilities of the two countries. The volume is intended as a contribution to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Francis I’s accession.
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origins of the Modern European State System 1494 1618 written by M.S. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the early years of the post-medieval European states and the growth of a recognisably 'modern' system for handling their international relations. M S Anderson gives much of his space to France, Spain and England and to the state of the relations between them, as their various power plays rolled over Italy and the Low countries, but, he also incorporates the Northern and Eastern states including Russia, Poland and the Baltic world into the main European political arena. He provides a broad narrative of European politics and its impact on diplomacy including the Italian Wars 1494-1559, the French Wars of Religion, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and the relations of Christendom and Islam with the advance of the Ottoman empire. He also gives considerable attention to the influence of military and economic factors on international relations.
Download or read book A D H Lawrence Chronology written by P. Preston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Peter Preston has written and made thoroughly accessible to its readers a book which no-one working on Lawrence can now afford to have far from their work-table. How ever did we live without it? It has become, at a stroke, indispensable.' - John Worthen, D H Lawrence Society's Newsletter 'It creates a most absorbing chronological sequence out of materials brought together from an extremely wide variety of sources, in a very effective and professional way.' - Nicola Ceramella This volume traces the progress of Lawrence's life from its beginnings in the English Midlands through his world-wide travelling until his death in 1930. Details of the composition of his works in many forms and of the controversies that often followed their publication are included. Drawing on information from recent scholarly editions of his letters and works, it also offers details of his wide reading, and his relationships with figures as varied as E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Katherine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morell and Aldous Huxley.
Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Reader s Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books about 50 000 in Every Department of Science Art Literature with the Dates of the First Last Editions the Price Size Publisher s Name of Each Book written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Reader s Guide to Contemporary Literature written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Corporate Finance written by Jonathan Barron Baskin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the role of institutions and organisations in the development of corporate finance.
