Author: Jane SquirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A Proposal for Discovering Our Longitude. By Jane Squire
Author: Jane SquireA Proposal for Discovering Our Longitude
Author: Jane SquirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Longitude
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment
Author: Rebecca MessbargerPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442624752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a comprehensive assessment of Benedict's engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture.
A Catalogue of English Books. Printed before 1801. Held by the University Library at Göttingen
Author: Graham P. Jefcoate M.A.Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 3487156172
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Keine Angaben
A World at Sea
Author: Lauren BentonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship between maritime and terrestrial processes at the center of the field and to analyze the links between global maritime practices and major transformations in world history. A World at Sea consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of practices and processes across the land-sea divide and the way they influenced global change. The first section highlights the regulatory order of the seas as shaped by strategies of land-based polities and their agents and by conflicts at sea. The second section studies documentary practices that aggregated and conveyed information about sea voyages and encounters, and it traces the wide-ranging impact of the explosion of new information about the maritime world. Probing the political symbolism of the land-sea divide as a threshold of power, the last section features essays that examine the relationship between littoral geographies and sociolegal practices spanning land and sea. Maritime history, the contributors show, matters because the oceans were key sites of experimentation, innovation, and disruption that reflected and sparked wide-ranging global change. Contributors: Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, Xing Hang, David Igler, Jeppe Mulich, Lisa Norling, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Carla Rahn Phillips, Catherine Phipps, Matthew Raffety, Margaret Schotte.
Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library of the Royal Society
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World
Author: Ambrogio A. CaianiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 180024049X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Despite its many crises, especially in Western Europe, there are 1.3 billion Catholics in the world today. The Church remains a powerful but controversial institution. In Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World, Ambrogio A. Caiani explores the epic history of the Roman Catholic Church. Throughout the early modern period, the Pope was a secular prince in central Italy. Catholicism was not merely a religion but also a political force to be reckoned with. After the French Revolution, the Church retreated into a fortress of unreason and denounced almost every aspect of modern life. The Pope proclaimed his infallibility; the cult of the Virgin Mary and her apparitions became articles of faith; the Vatican refused all accommodation with the modern state, until a disastrous series of concordats with fascist states in the 1930s. These dark days threatened the very existence of the Church. But as Catholicism lost its temporal power, it made significant spiritual strides and expanded across continents. Between 1700 and 1903, it lost a kingdom but gained the world. Ambitious and authoritative, this is an account of the Church's fraught encounter with modernity in all its forms: from liberalism, socialism and democracy, to science, literature and the rise of secular culture.
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdCatalogue ... 1807-1871
Author: Boston Mass, Athenaeum, librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description