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Foreigners, Furs and Faith, Muscovy's Expansion Into Western Siberia, 1581-1649
Author: Foreigners, Furs and Faith
Author: Peter Christopher Bruce ArmstrongPublisher:
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The World the Plague Made
Author: James BelichPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691219168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe’s global expansion. James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand—and plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new “crew culture” of “disposable males” emerged to man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.
Orthodox Russia in Crisis
Author: Isaiah GruberPublisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501757385
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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A pivotal period in Russian history, the Time of Troubles in the early seventeenth century has taken on new resonance in the country's post-Soviet search for new national narratives. The historical role of the Orthodox Church has emerged as a key theme in contemporary remembrances of this time—but what precisely was that role? The first comprehensive study of the Church during the Troubles, Orthodox Russia in Crisis reconstructs this tumultuous time, offering new interpretations of familiar episodes while delving deep into the archives to uncover a much fuller picture of the era. Analyzing these sources, Isaiah Gruber argues that the business activity of monasteries played a significant role in the origins and course of the Troubles and that frequent changes in power forced Church ideologues to innovate politically, for example inventing new justifications for power to be granted to the people and to royal women. These new ideas, Gruber contends, ultimately helped bring about a new age in Russian spiritual life and a crystallization of the national mentality.
Victorian Faith in Crisis
Author: Richard J HelmstadterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349109746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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Fur Seal Arbitration
Author: Bering Sea Tribunal of ArbitrationPublisher:
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Category : Bering Sea controversy
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Proceedings of the ... Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Author: Daughters of the American RevolutionPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Author: Simon Browne
Author: Simon Browne