In 1789, a year of revolution was crowned with 2 documents drafted at almost the same time -the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the American Bill of Rights. These texts gave the world a new political language and foreshadowed change even in Britain. Andress explains how these events unfolded and how the men who led them -Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes, and George Washington- stood at the threshold of the modern world.Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2008; 439 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 30,00 Voor/Our Price € 12,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
Examining literary, historical and theological texts, the essays in Ambiguous Realities illuminate a number of important issues about women in Middle Ages and the Renaissance.Wayne State Univ.; 263 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pbVan/List Price € 23,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains 3 component parts -value, consent, and community. A provocative contribution to our understanding of medieval life and thought, this book implies a need to reconsider the genealogy of economics as a way of thinking about the world.Cornell Univ., 2005; 235 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 45,95 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 63 %
This book examines the relationship between the production of objects and the production of memory and history in 15th-century Florence. Recent studies of historians have resulted in extensive knowledge of family life in this period.Cambridge, 2000; 316 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 110,00 Voor/Our Price € 34,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 68 %
Classicist Waterfield traces the life and history of the city of Athens in this lively narrative, from the golden age of Pericles to the present day. The rise and fall of Athens' and how it has become more than just a symbol of democracy and civilization.Basic Books, 2004; 362 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 29,50 Voor/Our Price € 9,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 68 %
Het bruisende en trendy karakter van het hedendaagse Barcelona vindt zijn oorsprong in de periode rond 1900. De essays in dit boek schetsen een beeld van Barcelona uit zijn gouden periode, aangevuld met een selectie poezie en literatuur van die tijd. Mercatorfonds, 2007; 215 pp.; NL; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 39,95 Voor/Our Price € 15,00Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Als er iets is dat ons de laatste jaren bezighoudt is het terrorisme. Het is van het grootste belang het terrorisme tot in zijn diepste wezen te doorgronden, vooral psychologisch. Burleigh legt de complexe geest van de terrorist genadeloos bloot.Bezige Bij, 2009; 652 pp.; NL; pbpb € 39,90
Blood transfusion today is a routine medical procedure. Yet in the 17th century the idea of giving somebody blood rather than blood letting was dangerously unconventional. French mathematician Jean-Baptiste Denis, who had an interest in medicine was the first person to perform a blood transfusion on a human being. This fascinating tale of madness, corruption and intrigue roams from Classical Greece to 17th-century London and Paris.Wiley, 2003; 223 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 27,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
Drawing on a priceless trove of letters, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the lives of the 15th-century Paston family, who worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry during the War of the Roses.Faber and Faber, 2004; 347 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 30,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 67 %
William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. This is the story of a remarkable man and his extraordinary household.Bloomsbury, 2007; 332 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 29,95 Voor/Our Price € 12,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
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