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English Unlimited Elementary Self-Study Pack (Workbook With Dvd-Rom)

by Chris Cavey, Maggie Baigent e Nick Robinson

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 English Unlimited is a six-level goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication.
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The Emergence Of The Eastern Powers, 1756â€“1775

by H. M. (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Scott

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 During the later eighteenth century, the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Prussia and Russia, and by the later 1770s Russia was emerging as the leading continental state. This study, based on sources in six countries, provides an analysis of these crucial events.
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The Dynastic State And The Army Under Louis Xiv - Royal Service And Private Interest 1661â€“1701

by Guy (Newnham College, Cambridge) Rowlands

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 This book presents a new interpretation of the development of the French army during the 'personal rule' of Louis XIV. Based on massive archival research, it examines the army not just as a military institution but also as a living political, social and economic organism.
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The Emperor And His Chancellor - A Study Of The Imperial Chancellery Under Gattinara

by John M. Headley

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 This study examines a significant development within late medieval and early modern European government, set in the context of the tense relations between the young Emperor Charles V and his ageing chancellor Mercurino de Gattrina. It focuses upon an important transformation in the administrative reorganisation of European monarchies.
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The Nobility Of Holland - From Knights To Regents, 1500â€“1650

by H. F. K. (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Nierop

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 This book is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain. In the late medieval county of Holland the nobility played a significant role, but in the seventeenth century it appears to have been obliterated by bourgeois merchants and urban regents.
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Defiled Trades And Social Outcasts - Honor And Ritual Pollution In Early Modern Germany

by Kathy (University Of California, Davis) Stuart

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 A social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute). This book examines an outcast group in early modern Germany which included executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within 'honourable' society.
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Calvinist Preaching And Iconoclasm In The Netherlands 1544â€“1569

by Phyllis Mack (Professor Of History And Women'S Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey) Crew

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 This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and social behaviour. Professor Crew analyses the attitudes and characters of the Calvinist ministers who preached in the Netherlands in the mid-sixteenth century and their effect on the popular religious upheavals which occurred during the summer of 1566.
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Filippo Strozzi And The Medici - Favor And Finance In Sixteenth-Century Florence And Rome

by Melissa Meriam Bullard

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 Filippo Strozzi (1489â€"1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life. Forced into exile, he became an outspoken defender of the last Florentine Republic against the tyranny of the city's new dukes.
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Chronicle Into History - An Essay On The Interpretation Of History In Florentine Fourteenth-Century Chronicles

by Louis Green

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 In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the essentially medieval values of the age of Dante were transformed into the intellectual attitudes characteristic of the early Renaissance. Mr Green examines this change as it was reflected in the works of the city's vernacular chroniclers.
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The Kingdom Of Valencia In The Seventeenth Century

by James Casey

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 Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources James Casey explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos (heavily concentrated in Valencia in the early seventeenth century), and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost control over its peripheral provinces.
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Reform And Revolution In Mainz 1743â€“1803

by T. C. W. Blanning

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 On one level a history of the Electorate of Mainz in the eighteenth century, this book also seeks to illuminate a much wider area. In particular it is intended to be a contribution to the debate on the 'German Problem' - the growing cultural and political divergence between Germany and Western Europe in the modern period.
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The Changing Face Of Empire - Charles V, Phililp Ii And Habsburg Authority, 1551â€“1559

by M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado

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 Using a vast range of primary sources, this substantial and important volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the division and near-collapse of Habsburg authority during the 1550s.
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The State, War And Peace - Spanish Political Thought In The Renaissance 1516â€“1559

by J. A. Fernandez-Santamaria

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 This is a comprehensive study in English of political thought in Spain during the Renaissance. In the early sixteenth century Castile experienced two major constitutional crises caused by the accession of a Habsburg ruler (shortly to become Holy Roman Emperor) to her throne, and by the discovery and conquest of America.
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French Finances 1770â€“1795 - From Business To Bureaucracy

by J. F. Bosher

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 The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful.
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France And The Estates General Of 1614

by J. Michael Hayden

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 In 1614 the French Estates General met for the last time before the Revolution of 1789. The meeting marks the beginning of the political career of Cardinal Richelieu and provides an opportunity for studying the regency of Marie de Medicis.
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Monarchies, States Generals And Parliaments - The Netherlands In The Fifteenth And Sixteenth Centuries

by H. G. (King'S College London) Koenigsberger

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 This 2001 book tells in detail the history of the States General of the Netherlands and its relations with the monarchy, first the dukes of Burgundy then the Spanish Habsburgs, in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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The Emergence Of The Eastern Powers, 1756â€“1775

by H. M. (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Scott

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 During the later eighteenth century, the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Prussia and Russia, and by the later 1770s Russia was emerging as the leading continental state. This study, based on sources in six countries, provides an analysis of these crucial events.
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The Limits Of Royal Authority - Resistance And Obedience In Seventeenth-Century Castile

by Ruth Mackay

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 In what is sometimes called the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and towns, were to a considerable degree able to resist and shape royal commands. This is a study of one such form of resistance: the opposition to military levies in the 1630s and 1640s.
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The Military Organisation Of A Renaissance State - Venice C.1400 To 1617

by J. R. (University College London) Hale e M. E. (University Of Warwick) Mallett

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 This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby only the naval forces of Venice have been studied seriously.
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Defiled Trades And Social Outcasts - Honor And Ritual Pollution In Early Modern Germany

by Kathy (University Of California, Davis) Stuart

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 A social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute). This book examines an outcast group in early modern Germany which included executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within 'honourable' society.
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The Other Prussia - Royal Prussia, Poland And Liberty, 1569â€“1772

by Karin (University College London) Friedrich

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 This book focuses on the history of Royal Prussia - the 'other Prussia' - which was part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793. Analysing the rivalry between the multi national, constitutionalist Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its dynastic neighbour Brandenburg-Prussia, it contributes to our understanding of nation-building and the formation of national identity.
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The Armada Of Flanders - Spanish Maritime Policy And European War, 1568â€“1668

by R. A. (University Of Wales College Of Cardiff) Stradling

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 A history of the Flanders armada and its contribution to the tenacious survival of Spanish hegemony. A narrative of its fighting record in the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic is presented, with constant reference to the strategic-logistical context and analysis of policymaking in Madrid.
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The Quest For Compromise - Peacemakers In Counter-Reformation Vienna

by Howard (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Louthan

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 This is an interdisciplinary study of the imperial court in late sixteenth-century Vienna, and a detailed examination of a fascinating moment of religious moderation. It investigates the rise and fall of an irenic movement through four individuals who sought peace and accommodation through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and political activity.
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After The Deluge - Poland-Lithuania And The Second Northern War, 1655â€“1660

by Robert I. (King'S College London) Frost

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 The Swedish invasion of 1655 provoked the political and military collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the second-largest state in Europe. Robert Frost examines the reasons for Poland's fall and the conduct of the war by the Polish government. In particular he addresses the crucial question of why attempts at political reform failed.
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