Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th - 19th Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Koldo Trapaga Monchet, Álvaro Aragón-Ruano, Cristina Joanaz de Melo
December 18, 2024
This book sheds light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term ...
The Episteme of the Gallic Past: French Historical Research in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Lisa Regazzoni
December 02, 2024
This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the “Gallic past” in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to ...
Establishment Eschatology in England’s Reformation: Evidence from the Doctrinally-Binding Formularies of Faith, 1534–1571
1st Edition
By Tim Patrick
November 28, 2024
Exploring what the early English Protestants came to believe about the afterlife, and how they arrived at their positions, this much-needed book fills a gap in the scholarly literature. In surveying the authorised doctrinal works of the English church through the Reformation period, the progress of...
Images of Change: Visual Representations of Papal Power in Rome Following the Council of Trent
1st Edition
By Teresa Delgado-Jermann
November 27, 2024
Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery, in response to Protestant criticism. This volume examines how different ...
A Genlis Education and Enlightenment Values: Mrs Chinnery (1766–1840) and her Children
1st Edition
By Denise Yim
October 09, 2024
Offering a unique approach to the study of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century education, this book explores the life and motivations of a strong-minded, self-educated and enlightened English gentlewoman, Mrs Margaret Chinnery, who put Madame de Genlis’s educational ideas into practice...
Children at the Birth of Empire: British Law, Liberty, and the Global Migration of Destitute Children, c. 1607–1760
1st Edition
By Kristen McCabe Lashua
October 09, 2024
This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law. Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute ...
Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Bellavitis, Valentina Sapienza
August 26, 2024
Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe. The organization, evolution and purpose of apprenticeship in Southern Europe ...
Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriella Erdélyi, András Péter Szabó
August 26, 2024
Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of Western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life between ...
Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece
1st Edition
By Artemis Yagou
August 05, 2024
This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources. A printed book, a wine jug, an ecclesiastical embroidery, and a pocket watch are used as entry points to examine the consumer ...
Interdisciplinary Edo: Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua Schlachet, William C. Hedberg
July 11, 2024
Interdisciplinary Edo brings together scholars from across the methodological spectrum to explore new approaches to innovative humanistic research on early modern Japan (1603–1868). It makes an intervention in the field by thinking across conventional disciplinary boundaries toward a holistic and ...
Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714–1746
1st Edition
By Jonathan Oates
May 27, 2024
In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuart claimant. This book examines the responses of those loyal to the Hanoverian dynasty, whose efforts have been ignored or disparaged ...
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century: Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation
1st Edition
Edited
By István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler
May 27, 2024
This volume investigates the history of the representative assemblies of Sweden (the riksdag), Poland (the sejm) and Hungary (the diaeta) in the final period of the ancien régime. It concentrates on the practices and ideas of parliamentarism and constitutionalism, and examines the ideologies that ...