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  • The Material Atlantic

    Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800

    In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between the mid-seventeenth ... Leer más

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  • Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

    Economies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 – c. 1820

    Series Libro 60 - New Approaches to European History
    Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe narrates and analyses the diverse trends that greatly enlarged European commerce, ... Leer más

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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

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    Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man’s perceptions—and the course of Western history.In 1502, ... Leer más

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    In this sequel to Babylon's Banskters. The banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked Constantinople, destroyed rival Florence, waged war, burned "heretics" and suppressed hidden secrets threatening their financial supremacy... until Giordano Bruno and Christopher Columbus, broke the banking cartel's ... Leer más

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  • Love, Madness, and Scandal

    The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

    The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her determination to ignore convention contributed in no small measure to a life of high drama, one which encompassed kidnappings, secret rendezvous, an ... Leer más

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  • Margaret of York

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    The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'The menace of the Tudors'. This alluring and resourceful woman was Henry VII's 'diabolical duchess'. Safe across the Channel in modern-day Belgium and supported by the ... Leer más

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