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Thomas Harriot(2019) ARIANRHOD, ROBYN (ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, MONASH UNIVERSITY)A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the RenaissanceVezava: Trda53,21 € -
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Cause(2021) ELLIS, JOSEPH J., PH.D.A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.Vezava: Trda39,90 € -
Ephemeral City(2016) SALZBERG, ROSAExplores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
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Gentleman's Mistress(2019) THORNTON, TIM,CARLTON, KATHARINEThis book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of ProtestanVezava: Trda77,52 € -
Lives of Tudor Women(2017) NORTON, ELIZABETHA lively and insightful study of the many roles played by women in the Tudor era, from queens to wet-nurses and countesses to serving maids.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe(2021) DOVER, PAUL M. (KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, GEORGIA)This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, especially through the use of paper, had a transformative impVezava: Mehka47,52 € -
Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots(2022) MAYHEW, MICKEYA witty, informative narrative of one of history's most fascinating, enigmatic monarchsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ladies of the Manor(2014) HORN, PAMELAThe real lives of women in Britain's country houses.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Dutch Light(2021) ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, HUGHHugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age – a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation – in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Jamestown Brides(2019) POTTER, JENNIFERThe extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New Colony.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Rough Crossings(2009) SCHAMA, SIMON, CBERough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World(2014) RICHARDSON, KRISTINA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)A revealing portrait of Medieval Arab notions of physical difference, this book uses close analysis of primary sources to bring to light cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.Vezava: Mehka46,32 € -
John Aubrey(2016) SCURR, RUTH'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
On Exile(2013) FILELFO, FRANCESCOFrancesco Filelfo’s On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile—poverty and loss of reputation—and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complVezava: Trda47,68 €











