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A collection of 6 essays by leading scholars attempt to construct rudimentary chronologies of the fundamental shifts in the modes of expression and content of various national consciousnesses in Europe int eh period 1500-1800.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered purple cloth (top edge lightly spotted - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 269 (no inscriptions).

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men. A friend of Pope Urban VIII and Galileo, of Peter-Paul Rubens and Hugo Grotius, of Tommaso Campanella and Marin Mersenne, Peiresc played an important...

The "defeat" of the Spanish Armada by the Royal Navy in 1588 is a story every schoolchild knows. Linked in British history with the beginning of England's naval supremacy, it has been presented for years as a David-and-Goliath showdown in which the...

The French historian takes an anti-ethnocentric look at the broad, continuing sweep of the history of civilization since the eighth century. By the author of The Structures of Everyday Life.

Study in British customs, folkways, and family structure for the stated 300 year history 1500-1800.

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COPE, E. S.: POLITICS WITHOUT PARLIAMENTS, 1629-1640 [HARDBACK]. MAIDSTONE, KENT, 1987, xiii 252 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Book by Roethke, Theodore