Author: French Colonial Historical Society. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society
Author: French Colonial Historical Society. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In Search of Empire
Author: James PritchardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521827423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Elusive Empire is the first full account of how during 1670 and 1730 French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with Amerindians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, the author explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies, without precedent in France, interacted with the growing international violence in the Atlantic world in order to present a fresh perspective of the multifarious French colonizing experience in the Americas.
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions
Author: Luke ClosseyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139472895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing example of religious globalization. Luke Clossey shows how the vast distances separating missions led to logistical problems of transportation and communication incompatible with traditional views of the Society as a tightly centralized military machine. In fact, connections unmediated by Rome sprung up between the missions throughout the seventeenth century. He follows trails of personnel, money, relics and information between missions in seventeenth-century China, Germany and Mexico, and explores how Jesuits understood space and time and visualized universal mission and salvation. This pioneering study demonstrates that a global perspective is essential to understanding the Jesuits and will be required reading for historians of Catholicism and the early-modern world.
Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047429818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an “imaginary line” but a tool for thinking about how to separate any two elements, whether ideas, events, etc., into categories by which they become comprehensible and distinct. The scholar contributors seek not simply to discern the boundaries, but, and perhaps more importantly, to understand the process of delination, and its consequences. With its maverick history and grass-root political traditions, the Netherlands provides an auspicious setting to examine the historical function of boundaries both real and imagined.
Index of Conference Proceedings
Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
French Colonial History
Author: The William and Mary Quarterly
Author: Mona Lisa's Escort
Author: Herman LebovicsPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801435652
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Traveling in a First-Class Cabin on the luxury liner France early in 1963, the Western world's most famous painting sailed across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to the United States. The goodwill generated by the loan eased U.S.-French relations, which had soured over tensions stemming from the cold war. The mastermind behind the Mona Lisa's triumphant tour was France's newly appointed minister of cultural affairs, Andre Malraux. In this book, Herman Lebovics recounts how Malraux's brilliant foray into the realm of diplomacy was but one example of his efforts to employ France's cultural heritage in the service of a renewed national grandeur.
Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
Historical Abstracts
Author: Eric H. BoehmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description