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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the …

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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

This volume contains eighteen papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. It showcases rigorously-reviewed contemporary scholarship on an interesting…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the …

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Lucy Rayfield
Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Latin; it was also judged to be a canny means of enriching…

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Giovanna Montenegro
German Conquistadors in Venezuela

"Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the strangest and often-ignored episodes in the conquest and colonization of the Americas--the governance of the Province of Venezuela by the Welsers, a German ban…

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Helen Pfeifer
Empire of Salons

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth …

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Chloe L. Ireton
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercely contested and claimed. It recreates the worlds o…

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Andrea Ballesteros - Danel
Pre-Columbian Contact between the Americas and Oceania

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pa…

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Terry Kirby
The Newsmongers

"... unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed "Strange Newes" sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today's digital age. The narrative weaves from Regency…

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Walter Roy Laird
The Renaissance of Mechanics

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time…

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Patricia Emison
The Long Picturesque, or Unraveling the Rules of Art

This book provides a Renaissance art historian s view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape …

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Tafel E 'Orient' in Archduke Ferdinand's Portrait Collection

Ottomania - Band 16

This volume presents a study of the thirty-four portraits in panel E 'Orient' in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. In this multi-faced object potentates from south-eastern Europe and Ottoman, Persian and…

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Joanne Paul
Thomas More

The definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More. Born into the era of the Wars of the Roses, educated during the …

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Thomas Levenson
So Very Small

"Two out of three soldiers who perished in the Civil War died of infected wounds, typhoid, and other infectious diseases. But no doctor truly understood what was happening to their patients. Twenty years …

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Manu S Pillai
Gods, Guns and Missionaries

When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: a worship of devils and monst…

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Joanne Paul
Thomas More

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Harry Turtledove
The Wages of Sin

Nominee for Sidewise Award. The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year. A terrifying tale about HIV spreadin…

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Sara Caputo
Tracks on the Ocean

"Tracks on the Ocean is a sweeping history of how we have understood and accounted for routes of travel over the ocean. Focusing on the representation of sea journeys in the Western world from the early s…

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Shah Tahmasp I,
The Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I

"A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary source …

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