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subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
The Dutch army is central to all discussions about the tactical, strategic and organisational military revolution of the early modern period, but this is the first substantial work on the subject in English.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Alchemy, the Noble Art, conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
"If Age of the Cathedrals has a fault, it is that Professor Duby knows too much, has too many new ideas and takes such a delight in setting them out. . . insights whiz to and fro like meteorites."—John Russell, New York Times Book Review
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Interpretative study of the Hitler state now available in English. An important contribution to the study of totalitarian states.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
"A kind of archaeological analysis of Soviet life during the momentous years of Stalinist industrialization."—Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
He displays everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens "Peter Green's The Year of Salamis is deservedly famous, combining scholarship and imagination with the ability to tell a stirring tale."—J.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
This 1997 book discusses the shift to quantitative perception which made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such ...