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  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    by John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tesla: A Portrait with Masks

    A Novel

    by Vladimir Pistalo ...
    Translated by Bogdan Rakic, John Jeffries ...
    An electric novel of the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and colorful inventorsNikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to his tumultuous years in New York City, where his heated rivalry with Thomas Edison yielded triumphs and failures, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Beautiful Ending

    The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World

    by John Jeffries Martin ...
    An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations“A masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on a global stage. Martin’s book illuminates one of the enduring themes that shaped the medieval and early modern world.”—Paula E. Findlen, Stanford ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy

    Contexts and Contestations

    Edited by Ronald K. Delph, Michelle M. Fontaine, John Jeffries Martin ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Leading scholars from Italy and the United States offer a fresh and nuanced image of the religious reform movements on the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. United in their conviction that religious ideas can only be fully understood in relation to the particular social, cultural, and political contexts in which they develop, these scholars explore a wide range of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797

    Edited by John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Renaissance World

    Edited by John Jeffries Martin ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.Collating thirty ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • A Third Term for FDR

    The Election of 1940

    by John Jeffries ...
    Series series American Presidential Elections
    In 1940, for the first time since America’s founding, a sitting president sought a third term in office. But this was only one remarkable aspect of that year’s election, which was, as John Jeffries makes clear in his new book, one of the most interesting and important elections in American history.Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to pack the Supreme Court had failed; in the wake of a recent recession, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    by Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Dante

    A Life

    by Alessandro Barbero ...
    Translated by Allan Cameron ...
    Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing.Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edited by Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    by Josephine Jungic ...
    Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici ... Read more

    $36.89 USD