African Perspectives on Colonialism

A Adu Boahen

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 15
• This history deals with the twenty-year period between 1880 and 1900, when virtually all of Africa was seized and occupied by the Imperial Powers of E... Lees meer

Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence

F W Kent

• Hardcover | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 24
• In the past half century scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492), called "the Magnificent," as a patron of the art... Lees meer

Saint Jerome in the Renaissance

Eugene F Rice

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 13
• Winner of the Award for Excellence from the American Academy of ReligionWinner of the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church HistoryW... Lees meer

The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion 1440-1770

C R Boxer

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
• The distinguished historian C. R. Boxer devoted years of research and reflection on European expansion overseas into the Americas and Asia. In The Chu... Lees meer

Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence

F W Kent

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 24
• In the past half century scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492), called "the Magnificent," as a patron of the art... Lees meer

Western Attitudes Toward Death

Philippe Ariès

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 3
• Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times. Lees meer

Women in Public

Mary P Ryan

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 16
• On May 15, 1862, U.S. General Benjamin Butler, commander of occupied New Orleans, ordered that any women who publicly insulted Union soldiers be subje... Lees meer

The French Book

Henri-Jean Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 22
• The book as the subject of a distinct historical discipline dates from the landmark publication of L'Apparition du livre by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Je... Lees meer

Neither Slave Nor Free

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 3
• "The ten essays deal with colonial Spanish America, Surinam and Curacao, colonial Brazil, the French Antilles, Saint Domingue, Jamaica, Barbados, the ... Lees meer

Medieval Marriage

Georges Duby

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History | nr. 11
• Eminent French social historian Georges Duby idenitifies the twelfth century as a cruical turning point in the development of the institution of marri... Lees meer