Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Lexington Books
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 26 March 2015

This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London.

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 42,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 October 2022

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation, embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long nineteenth century. It focuses on

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 08 May 2024

Describes how assumptions about the nature of war have shaped our understanding of the modern world and the role of war within it.

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 31,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 November 2018

This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges

• Publisher : Olsokhagen
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 January 2022

This guide provides an overview of the thematic areas, analytical aspects, and avenues of research which, together, form a broader conversation around doing spatial history. Spatial history is not a

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2017

What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 30,5 Mb
• Release Date : 28 September 2021

This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings’, Charles II and James

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• File Size : 35,7 Mb
• Release Date : 13 April 2018

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 29,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 December 2019

The early 17th century was a time of great literature the era of Cervantes and Shakespeare but also of international tension and heightened diplomacy. This book looks at the relations

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 43,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2016

Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on