Author: Carl Jacob BurckhardtPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
His rise to power, translated and abridged by E. and W. Muir. v.2. Assertion of power and cold war, translated by B. Hoy.-v.3. Power politics and the cardinal's death, translated by B. Hoy
Author: Carl Jacob BurckhardtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Richelieu and His Age
Author: Carl Jacob BurckhardtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Leviathan
Author: Thomas HobbesPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048612214X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
On Their Own Terms
Author: Benjamin A. ElmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
American Slavery as it is
Author: The Green Web
Author: Martin HoldgatePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134189370
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
Courtier and the King
Author: James M. BoydenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520414268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and chief minister of Philip II. From the scattered surviving sources James Boyden weaves a vivid, compelling narrative: one that breathes life not only into Ruy Gómez, but into the court, the era, and the enigmatic character of Phillip II as well. Elegantly written and highly readable, this book discovers in the career of Gómez the techniques, aspirations, and mentality of an accomplished courtier in the age of Castiglione. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Author: Friedrich A. KittlerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804732338
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
On history of communication