Focusing attention on the impulses behind the surge in public and private documentation in Europe between 1500 and 1800, the contributors to this volume place the processes by which individual, collective and institutional records were ...

This collection of essays seeks to offer new insights and approaches to the relationship and significance of religion and violence as well as paying tribute to the immense contribution made in this field by the writings of Natalie Zemon ...

This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond.

Inspired by a conference entitled: Gender, religion, poverty and revolution, held at oxford on July 9, 2004, to honor Olwen Hufton.

This comprehensive two-volume history of the Mexican Revolution presents a new interpretation of one of the world's most important revolutions.

In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the long eighteenth century (circa 1660–1837), when such foreign goods as coffee, tea, and sugar went from rare luxuries to some ...

... 1477-464X ( online ) ; 0031-2746 ( print ) . Partial contents : " His and Hers : Gender , Consump- tion and Household Accounting in Eighteenth - Century England , " by Amanda Vickery ; " Gender and Welfare in Modern Europe , " by Jane ...

This book is about the economy of the Carolingian empire (753 877), which extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers.

This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior.