European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: I. Keul
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  • Navigating along multiple narrative tracks and treating the religious history of an entire region in a polyfocal way, this book offers an insight into the intense dynamics of the overlapping political, ethnic, and denominational constellations in Reformation and post-Reformation Transylvania.

• Em nome de Deus: The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, 1497-1499

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: G.J. Ames
  • Editor Glenn Ames
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  • Based on historiographical changes over the last century, this new edited edition of the Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1497-1499) provides the first English translation of this important expedition in more than a century.

• The Empire of Cnut the Great

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: T. Bolton
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  • Drawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the ‘empire’ built by King Cnut (1016–1035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion.

• European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Giorgio Strano; Stephen Johnston; Mara Miniati; Alison D. Morrison-Low
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  • These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely ‘wunderkammern’, delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.