European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Abacus and Mah Jong

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  • Author: M. Carter
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  • This case study of Chinese settlement in Mauritius investigates the complexities of colonial diasporas and sets the construction of a mythology of migration against the realities of the processes of negotiation and communication with the larger society.

• Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 (4 vols.)

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  • Author: R.J. Barendse
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  • Drawing on a vast range of sources Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 is as much a sweeping overview as a detailed examination of the maritime world of the western Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century. It deals with the various states, economies and societies there and with the impact of the early phase of European colonialism on them.

• Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe

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  • Editors Th. Marius Leeuwen; Keith D. Stanglin; Marijke Tolsma
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  • The name of Arminius (1559/60 - 1609) is connected with a specific variant of the Reformed tradition: more rational and humanistic than mainstream Calvinism. This book gives an impression of the current research into his work. The focus is on the influence of Arminianism all over Europe, mainly in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. An extensive survey of the portraits of Arminius and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings complete this book.

• The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini

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  • This book describes and analyses, for the first time, the astronomical tables of Giovanni Bianchini of Ferrara (d. after 1469), explains their context, inserts them into an astronomical tradition that began in Toledo, and addresses their diffusion.

• Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology

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  • Editors Christoph Grellard; Aurélien Robert
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  • Drawing a new portrait of late medieval conflicts between atomists and anti-atomists, this book offers a new outlook on the fourteenth century's development of sciences.

• Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality

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  • Author: V. Guillin
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  • Drawing on a detailed analysis of their correspondence, this books offers a new intepretation of the relation between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, which focuses on their controvery over sexual equality.

• Bastions and Barbed Wire

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  • Author: Tony Pollard
  • Editors Tony Pollard; Iain Banks
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  • A collection of the latest work in Conflict Archaeology. General theme is confinement, with concentration camps and siege sites, and defensive structures covered. Also includes other papers on battlefield archaeology and conflict studies.

• Beda Mayr, Vertheidigung der katholischen Religion (1789)

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  • Author: U. Lehner
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  • Despite the importance the monks had as carriers of programmatic Enlightenment ideas, few of their original texts are available in modern editions. This edition contributes to filling this lacuna by publishing Dom Beda Mayr’s (1742–1794) ecumenical Catholic theology.

• Between Betrothal and Bedding

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  • Author: M.M. Korpiola
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  • Investigating the interaction and tension between Swedish and canonical marriage formation, and the later Lutheran influence, the book offers a case study of marriage formation as a process and the mechanisms of legal reception in medieval and Reformation Sweden.

• Bewegung und Beharrung: Aspekte des reformierten Protestantismus, 1520-1650

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  • Editors Peter Opitz; Christian Moser
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  • Die Beiträge dieser Festschrift für den Zürcher Reformationshistoriker Emidio Campi beleuchten ausgewählte Aspekte, welche die Geschichte des reformierten Protestantismus als komplexen Prozess von Bewegung und Beharrung ausmachen.

• Beyond the Catch

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  • Editors Louis Sicking; Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
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  • Drawing on archaeological and written sources, this collection of essays presents fascinating new interpretations in the history of the fisheries by highlighting the consequences of the northern fisheries through interdisciplinary approaches to various themes, including the environment, economy, politics, and society in the medieval and early modern periods.

• Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands

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  • Editors Benjamin Kaplan; Marybeth Carlson; Laura Cruz
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  • Drawing on a growing interest in the theoretical concept of boundaries, the contributors to this volume seek to understand the process of drawing boundaries, both real and imagined, and the consequences of these processes in the history of the Low Countries.

• Chains of Gold

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  • Author: M.J. Borges
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  • Using a systems approach, this book examines how transatlantic labor migrations were linked to European circuits of geographic mobility, and explores the development of social networks that were crucial in Portuguese migrants’ socioeconomic adaptation in the Argentine pampas and Patagonia.

• Child of the Enlightenment

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  • Authors: J.A. Baggerman; R.M. Dekker
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  • A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s provides the basis for a panoramic view of the Age of Enlightenment and democratic revolution in Europe, highlighting the emergence of new ideas on education, nature, time, space, religion and politics.

• Christian Humanism

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  • Editors Alasdair A. MacDonald; Z.R.W.M. Martels; Jan Veenstra
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  • This collection of new essays throws light on aspects of Christianity and Humanism and their mutual relations. The central focus is on the age of Renaissance and Reformation, and the contributions treat aspects of religion, history, philosophy, literature and education.

• Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland

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  • Author: A.M. Godfrey
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  • Drawing on archival research into jurisdictional change, litigation and dispute settlement, this book provides a fundamental reassessment of the origins of a central court in Scotland, arguing for the overriding significance of the foundation of the College of Justice in 1532.

• Communities and Crisis

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  • Author: S. Kelly Wray
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  • Based on testaments and notarial contracts, this examination of the Black Death of 1348 argues for social resilience in Bologna. The notarial record demonstrates that notaries, officials, medical practitioners, and clergy served the populace, while families remained intact and the populace resisted flight.

• A Companion to Paul in the Reformation

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  • Author: R.W. Holder
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  • The reception and interpretation of the writings of St Paul in the early modern period forms the subject of this volume. Written by experts in the field, the articles offer a critical overview of current research, and introduce the major themes in Pauline interpretation in the Reformation.

• A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli

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  • Editors W.J.T. Kirby; Emidio Campi; Frank A. James III
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  • Peter Martyr Vermigli's distinctive blend of humanism, hebraism, and scholasticism constitutes a unique contribution to the scriptural hermeneutics of the Reformation. The Companion consists of 24 essays addressing the reformer’s international career, exegetical method, biblical commentaries, major theological topics, and later influence.

• A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)

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  • Editors Joelle Rollo-Koster; Thomas Izbicki
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  • This collection presents the broadest range of experiences faced during the Schism, center and periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim, theology, including exegesis of Scripture, diplomacy, French literature, reform, art, and finance.

• A Companion to Ælfric

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  • Editors Hugh Magennis; Mary Swan
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  • This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England.

• Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond

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  • Editor Kevin Ingram
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  • Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late medieval Spain. Converso and Moriscos Studies examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.

• Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture

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  • Editors Horst Nowacki; Wolfgang Lefèvre
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  • The design, construction and fabrication of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in civil and naval architecture have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. This volume presents a comparative knowledge history in these two distinct branches of construction engineering.

• Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets

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  • Editors Riitta Laitinen; Thomas Cohen
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  • Six essays explore the evolving cultural and material life of the early modern European street, a contested place of shaded meanings where public met private space, and state and society vied for control of urban form.

• Cultural Tourism in Latin America

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  • Cultural tourism has become an important source of revenue for Latin American countries, especially in the Andes and Meso-America. This book analyses its effects and the processes of cultural change it provokes in local societies.

• Culture and Power

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  • Author: J. Davies
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  • Challenging absolutist interpretations, this study uses the universities of Pisa and Siena to reveal the contradictions and the tensions as well as the innovations and the traditions which characterised the grand duchy of Tuscany and its cultural politics.

• Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life

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  • Editors Michael Cusato; G. Geltner
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  • The essays in this volume present a fresh approach to the different and shifting ways that the Franciscan Order and its apostlolic activities were perceived - positively and negatively - by men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

• Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

• Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin

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  • Author: E.L. Furdell
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  • Using unpublished and published sources, this book examines the history of diabetes in Britain from the perspective of healer and sufferer alike, focusing on medieval treatments, Renaissance-era diabetology, and the centuries-long debate among specialists over the site and cure of the disease.

• Has Latin America Always Been Unequal?

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  • Author: E.H.P. Frankema
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  • Employing comparative and quantitative historical methods Frankema explores long run trends of asset and income distribution in Latin America, arguing that there is little reason to regard the yawning gap between rich and poor as the persistent result of a colonial heritage.

• Herod and Augustus

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  • Editors David Jacobson; Nikos Kokkinos
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  • Nineteen studies illuminating Herod's role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable achievements, as expressed in his extensive building programme. Josephus' record is examined here in the light of the available documentary and archaeological evidence.

• Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf

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  • Author: S. Gwara
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  • In exploring the identities of foreign fighters seeking glory abroad, this revisionist book challenges the traditional view of Beowulf as a "hero." Beowulf emphasizes the obligations attending excellence and the temptation of power, both personal and civic.

• History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle

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  • Author: R. Bonfil
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  • In this book Robert Bonfil provides a detailed historical introduction and new English translation of the family chronicle of Ahima'az, one of the most important sources of medieval Jewish life in Western Europe composed in Capua, Italy in 1054.

• How India Clothed the World

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  • Editors Giorgio Riello; Tirthankar Roy
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  • Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.

• Humanism in an Age of Science

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  • Author: D.K.W. Van Miert
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  • Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, despite the revolutionary debates of the time, and despite the intellectual liberalism characteristic of Amsterdam, remained traditional in its teaching.

• The Idea of Creativity

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  • Editors Karen Bardsley; Denis Dutton; Michael Krausz
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  • Seventeen philosophical thinkers ask: What is creativity? What are the criteria of creativity? Should we assign logical priority to creative persons, processes, or products? How do various forms of creativity relate to different domains of human activity?

• The Image of Edessa

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  • Author: M. Guscin
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  • This book provides critical editions with previously unpublished versions of all related texts, translations of all texts into English and a detailed analysis of the origins, known history, possible fate and exact nature of the Image of Edessa.

• Institutio Oratoria: Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza

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  • Author: J. Rothkamm
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  • Bringing together four eminent Seventeenth century philosophers and investigating educational background, preferred language(s), reading habits as well as writing strategies, this book offers a vivid illustration of the important part played by Rhetoric in the making of Early Enlightenment Philosophy.

• James of Viterbo: De regimine Christiano

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  • Author: R.W. Dyson
  • Editor Bob R.W. Dyson
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  • De regimine Christiano, produced at the height of the great conflict of 1296-1303 between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair of France, is a detailed and rigorous defence of the papacy’s claim to supremacy even in temporal matters.

• The Jewish Body

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  • Editors Maria Diemling; Giuseppe Veltri
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  • This volume explores perceptions of the "Jewish body" in variety of early modern Jewish sources. It discusses, among other topics, ideas of the ideal body in normative sources, the influence of Kabbalistic ideas on Jewish-Christian discourse and the link between melancholy and exile.

• Jewish Theatre: A Global View

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  • Editor Edna Nahshon

• The Jews in Sicily, Volume 15 Notaries of Trapani

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  • Author: S. Simonsohn
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  • This volume documents the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It illustrates the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes while the introduction will appear at the end of the series.

• The Jews in Sicily, Volume 16 Notaries of Trapani (end), Erice (Monte San Giuliano), Mazara, Termini Imerese, Corleone and Sciacca

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  • Author: S. Simonsohn
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  • This volume documents the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It illustrates the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes while the introduction will appear at the end of the series.

• The Jews of Iran in the Nineteenth Century (paperback)

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  • Author: D. Yeroushalmi
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  • Dealing with some of the main aspects of general history among the Jews of nineteenth-century Iran, this book provides the reader with over 40 selected archival and published sources. Analyzed and annotated in detail, the sources shed light on the general history, community, culture, and religion among Iran's widely scattered Jewish communities.

• Just Wars and Moral Victories

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  • Author: D. Whetham
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  • By exploring the moral and legal context of medieval strategic thinking, this work explains how the use of surprise and deception could, in certain circumstances, be reconciled with the practise of chivalric warfare.

• The Karaites of Galicia

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  • Author: M. Kizilov
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  • Drawing on sources in original languages, the book offers the first comprehensive study of the history, ethnography and convoluted ethnic identity of the Galician Karaites, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority of Jewish scripturalists.

• King's Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network (2 vols)

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  • Author: A. Reid
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  • This study establishes the existence of a network of reformers led by the French king’s sister, Marguerite of Navarre, and traces their monumental, and ultimately stymied, attempt from 1520 to 1550 to renew the French church along evangelical (Protestant) lines.