Tempos Modernos até 1918

In the late spring of 1718 near the village of Pozarevac (German Passarowitz) in northern Serbia, freshly conquered by Habsburg forces, three delegations representing the Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman …

Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial E …

Do you ever feel like you don’t know how to be a great leader? In Sheunesu E Kasiamhuru’s leadership book The Art of Decisiveness, we are taken on a blast to the past to learn key skills from the Age …

In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eas …

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers’ gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Muc …

The production of urban space in scarcely studied by scholars in historical and urban studies, the city being still predominantly seen as a frame in which activities and social relationship develop, …

Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719–20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sending …

During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images serie …

In scholarship, classical (Renaissance) humanism is usually strictly distinguished from ‘neo-humanism’, which, especially in Germany, flourished at the beginning of the 19th century. While most class …

Despite the large number of books and studies written about Metternich, there is still a period of his political career that scholars neglect to this day, the 1840s. This book offers an analysis of M …