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Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century: Volume II: Practices of Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler
April 21, 2025
This volume investigates the history of the parliamentary assemblies of Sweden, Poland and Hungary in the final period of the ancien régime, offering an analysis of these three representative assemblies in a systematic comparative framework for the first time. The book studies the Polish sejm, the ...
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration
1st Edition
By David Farr
April 14, 2025
This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from ...
Swedish and Finnish Historiographies of the Swedish Realm, c. 1520–1809: Shared Past, Different Interpretations?
1st Edition
Edited
By Miia Kuha, Petri Karonen
April 14, 2025
In the early modern era, two Nordic countries that are neighbours today, Sweden and Finland, formed one realm. Yet, modern history writing has largely ignored this unity, instead developing analysis and discussion in close connection to nationalistic ideas, national politics, and processes of ...
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 28, 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 ...
Houses, Families, and Cohabitation: Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Dag Lindström, Göran Tagesson
November 05, 2024
This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century....
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 ...