Author: A. Roberta Carli
Publisher: Universal Publisher
Keywords: fica, abbreviaturas, espa, olas, paleogr, una, guide, spanish, abbreviations, paleographic
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1581125712
ISBN-13: 9781581125719

A Paleographic Guide to Spanish Abbreviations 1500-1700 is a powerful tool for correctly identifying hundreds of abbreviations found in the hand written documents of the Spanish colonial period. The Guide is concise, easy to use and of a very manageable size. All of the abbreviations were scanned from photo copies of extant Spanish documents written between the years 1500 and 1700 and are presented in their original handwriting. Together with each abbreviation is a printed display of the letters represented, the full spelling of the word or words in early modern Spanish and the current Spanish

Author: Anthony Bryant
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: warrior, samurai
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1994-05-26
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1855323451
ISBN-13: 9781855323452

This title details the culture, weapons, armour and training of the elite samurai warrior class in the fascinating Age of Battles period (1550-1600). This was a period of vital importance not only because of the political effects of the chaos but also due to the changes in warfare that occurred. In 1542 the Portuguese introduced the matchlock musket into Japanese warfare, and this book traces the effect that this important innovation had on the samurai. Life outside the field of battle is also examined, making this an unmissable book for those interested in this brave warrior caste.

Author: Peter C. Mancall
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: virginia, world, atlantic
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2007-09-03
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 080785848X
ISBN-13: 9780807858486

The 18 essays in this volume provide a fresh perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. The collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that i

Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: china, science, terms, own
Number of Pages: 606
Published: 2005-04-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0674016858
ISBN-13: 9780674016859

In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivati

Author: Stephen Turnbull
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: men, armies, samurai
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1979-03-22
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 085045302X
ISBN-13: 9780850453027

Author: Kevin Reilly
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’
Keywords: comparative, reader, one, volume, history, worlds
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-01-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 031244687X
ISBN-13: 9780312446871

Assembled by award-winning community college teacher and distinguished world historian Kevin Reilly, the documents in the best-selling Worlds of History bring history alive for students. Students read voices from the distant and more recent past that address topics and issues -- like patriarchy, love and marriage, and imperialism -- of enduring interest and relevance. Ranging widely across regions and cultures, each chapter takes up a major theme and asks students to examine it in the context of two or more cultures, encouraging them to make cross-cultural connections and comparisons. The flex

Author: J Sharpe
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: history, social, england, modern
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-08-29
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0340577525
ISBN-13: 9780340577523

Widely praised and consistently popular since its first publication in 1987, Early Modern England now reflects in this new edition the invigorating and substantial changes that have swept the field over the past decade and more. It combines consideration of more traditional concerns of social history with investigation of the newer items on the agenda of historians. community firmly part of the analysis. The result is a masterly study, providing the only up-to-date interpretation available for the period.