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Michael S. Springer - Restoring Christ's Church (2 007).pdf

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Nancy Marie Brown - The Abacus and the Cross; The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages (2010).jpg

All History - Nancy Marie Brown - The Abacus and the Cross The Stor...ho Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages 2010.jpg

The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages—in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called “The Scientist Pope,” Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, traitor, kingmaker, and visionary, Gerbert is the first Christian known to teach math using the nine Arabic numerals and zero.
In The Abacus and the Cross, Nancy Marie Brown skillfully explores the new learning Gerbert brought to Europe. A fascinating narrative of one remarkable math teacher, The Abacus and the Cross will captivate readers of history, science, and religion alike.

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Nancy Marie Brown - The Abacus and the Cross; The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages (2010).pdf

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D. M. Loades - The life and career of William Paul et (c.1475-1572), Lord Treasurer and first Marquis of Winchester (2008).jpg

All History - D. M. Loades - The life and career of William Paulet ..., Lord Treasurer and first Marquis of Winchester 2008.jpg

Despite his remarkable, long, life at the centre of the Tudor court politics and English political life, this is the first full-length biography of Sir William Paulet. Born in Wiltshire in 1475, he lived to the advanced age of 97, during which time he held the posts of Lord Treasurer, Master of the King's Wards, Comptroller of the Household, Lord Chamberlain and President of the Council. His intimate involvement with royal government under three successive monarchs makes Paulet one of the most influential men of his age, and a fascinating subject with which to explore the economic, political and ecclesiastical landscape of Tudor England. William Paulet, 1st Marquis of Winchester, was one of the most remarkable and influential men of sixteenth century England. Born in Wiltshire in 1475, he lived to the advanced age of 97, during which time he held the posts of Lord Treasurer, Master of the King's Wards, Comptroller of the Household, Lord Chamberlain, Speaker of the House of Lords, and President of the Council. In recognition of his services, Edward VI promoted him to the Marquisate of Winchester in 1551, cementing his position amongst the nation's elite. Providing for the first time a full length account of Paulet's life and his extended role at the heart of Tudor government, this book will be welcomed by scholars of sixteenth century England as an invaluable aid to better understanding the period. Taking a broadly chronological approach, the book presents the main features of his life, against the turbulent background of mid-sixteenth century history. As well as demonstrating how he managed to hold office under three monarchs - Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I - with radically different religious policies, this book considers Paulet's considerable impact on the economic, political and ecclesiastical landscape of Tudor England.

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D. M. Loades - The life and career of William Paul et (c.1475-1572), Lord Treasurer and first Marquis of Winchester (2008).pdf

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Dennis Low - The Literary Protegees of the Lake Po ets (2006).jpg

Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenth-century's greatest champions of women's writing. Together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, Low argues, Southey tried to end what he perceived to be the cultural decline of literature by nurturing the creative talents of many exceptional women writers. Drawing on 3,000 unpublished manuscripts in England, Scotland and the United States, Low examines the lives and works of four of the Lake Poets' literary protegees: Caroline Bowles, Maria Gowen Brooks, Sara Coleridge and Maria Jane Jewsbury. Though diverse in terms of their literary production, these women were united in their defiant efforts to write against an increasingly stagnant cultural milieu and their negotiation, wholeheartedly encouraged by their mentors, of contemporary publishing mores. This scrupulously researched book is a valuable contribution to the study of little-known women writers and to our understanding of the literary and publishing environment of Britain in the 1820s and 1830s.

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Dennis Low - The Literary Protegees of the Lake Po ets (2006).pdf

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Kathy Lynn Emerson - How to Write Killer Historica l Mysteries; The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Th rough the Past (2008).jpg

All History - Kathy Lynn Emerson - How to Write Killer Historical M...Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past 2008.jpg

The core of the book is Emerson’s personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries, but it also includes contributions from over forty other historical mystery writers —practical advice, anecdotes, and suggestions for research—and input from assorted editors, booksellers, and reviewers. For both historical mystery writers and readers.

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“...a comprehensive guide, full of seasoned advice and rich examples.” -- Hallie Ephron, author of Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel

“I can’t imagine a question about historical mysteries that isn’t answered here. Do not start writing your historical mystery without this book!” -- Carolyn Wheat, author of How To Write Killer Fiction

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Kathy Lynn Emerson - How to Write Killer Historica l Mysteries; The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Th rough the Past (2008).pdf

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Virginia Lunsford - Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands (2005).jpg

This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth century. The young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic preeminence, and many of its seamen also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. A story almost entirely untold until now, Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.
We tend to think of pirates as being either British (Blackbeard) or French (Lafitte). It turns out thought that the Dutch, who were building an overseas empire that would rival that of the British also issued letters of marque (Dutch - commissie van retorsie) that gave their ships the right to act as privateers to attack the ships of eneny countries. And as was the custom with the British and French privateers, some of them found that their weren't enough enemy ships so they broadened their range to become outright pirates.
In this book, Virginia Lunsford, a professor of history at the United States Naval Acadamy describes the story of Dutch piracy and privateering in an excellent bit of original research.

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Virginia Lunsford - Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands (2005).pdf

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DK Eye Wonder - Pirate (2005).jpg

An introduction to the most feared men (and women) on the seas from a safe distance! Sail the seven seas with pirates and privateers, recognize a Jolly Roger, uncover treasure, and learn about the most famous pirate of them all, Blackbeard. Exciting photography brings this legendary subject to life.

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Peter T. Leeson - The Invisible Hook; The Hidden E conomics of Pirates (2009).jpg

The Invisible Hook looks at legendary pirate captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer remarkable and forward-thinking practices. Pirates understood the advantages of constitutional democracy--a model they adopted more than fifty years before the United States did so. Pirates also initiated an early system of workers' compensation, regulated drinking and smoking, and in some cases practiced racial tolerance and equality. Leeson contends that pirates exemplified the virtues of vice--their self-seeking interests generated socially desirable effects and their greedy criminality secured social order. Pirates proved that anarchy could be organized.

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Jon Cohen, Giovanni Federico - The Growth of the I talian Economy, 1820-1960 (2001).jpg

Italy was a poor, backward country compared with its neighbors to the north and west in 1861. Most of its people were farmers relying on traditional techniques and ancient forms of organization to survive. Few would have believed that within a century, the country would become one of the largest industrial powerhouses, and its people among the wealthiest in the world. This book provides a brief, up-to-date account of the literature that chronicles Italy's remarkable growth and structural change, emphasizing new views on old issues.

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Jon Cohen, Giovanni Federico - The Growth of the I talian Economy, 1820-1960 (2001).pdf

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Albrecht Classen - Sexuality in the Middle Ages an d Early Modern Times; New Approaches to a Fundamen tal Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropologic al Theme (2008).jpg

All History - Albrecht Classen - Sexuality in the Middle Ages and E...l-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme 2008.jpg

Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.

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Albrecht Classen - Sexuality in the Middle Ages an d Early Modern Times; New Approaches to a Fundamen tal Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropologic al Theme (2008).pdf

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Edward P. Cheyney - An Introduction to the Industr ial and Social History of England (1916).jpg

This is a college and high-school history textbook. It covers growth of the nation to the middle of the fourteenth century, rural life and organization, town life and organization, medieval trade and commerce, the black death and the peasants' rebellion, the breaking up of the medieval system, the expansion of England, the period of the industrial revolution, the extension of government control, the extension of voluntary association.

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Edward P. Cheyney - An Introduction to the Industr ial and Social History of England (1916).pdf

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Emil Male - The Gothic Image; Religious Art in Fra nce of the Thirteenth Century (1973).jpg

Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in the cathedrals of France. Fully illustrated with many footnotes it acts as a useful guide for the student of Western culture.

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Emil Male - The Gothic Image; Religious Art in Fra nce of the Thirteenth Century (1973).rar

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Suzannah Biernoff - Sight and Embodiment in the Mi ddle Ages; Ocular Desires (2002).jpg

Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading or scholars of art, science, or spirituality in the medieval period.

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Catherine Gallagher - The Body Economic; Life, Dea th, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Vic torian Novel (2008).jpg

All History - Catherine Gallagher - The Body Economic Life, Death, ...on in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel 2008.jpg

The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises.
The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.

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Caroline Alexander - The Bounty; The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (2003).jpg

The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty -- the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend.

Caroline Alexander focusses on the court martial of the ten mutineers captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in Portsmouth. Each figure emerges as a richly drawn character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. With enormous scholarship and exquisitely drawn characters, The Bounty is a tour de force.

About the Author
Caroline Alexander was born in Florida, of British parents, and has lived in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. She studied Philosophy and Theology at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and has a doctorate in Classics from Columbia University. She is the author of the bestselling The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition which has been translated into thirteen languages. She writes frequently for The New Yorker and The National Geographic, and she is the author of four other books, including Mr Chippy's Last Expedition, the journal of the Endurance's ship's cat.

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Alison Bashford - Contagion; Historical and Cultur al Studies (2001).jpg

This timely book explores cultural responses to infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the last two centuries. These essays, covering the fields of cultural studies, biomedical history, and critical sociology, examine the geographies, policies, and identities which have been produced in the massive social effort to contain diseases.

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Alison Bashford - Contagion; Historical and Cultur al Studies (2001).pdf

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Matthew Glozier - Scottish Soldiers in France in t he Reign of the Sun King; Nursery for Men of Honou r (2004).jpg

This study of Scottish soldiers in France in the age of the Sun King provides fascinating information about the visicitudes suffered by the brave personnel of the regiment of George Douglas, Earl of Dumbarton. Hardly the heirs of an `auld' alliance amity, they became the playthings of a king intent on transforming the nature of war in his era.

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Matthew Glozier - Scottish Soldiers in France in t he Reign of the Sun King; Nursery for Men of Honou r (2004).pdf

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Klaus Hentschel - The Mentality of German Physicis ts 1945-1949 (2007).jpg

Few scientific communities have been more thoroughly studied than 20th-century German physicists. Yet their behaviour and patterns of thinking immediately after the war remains puzzling. During the first five post war years they suspended their internecine battles and a strange solidarity emerged. Former enemies were suddenly willing to exonerate each other blindly and even morally upright physicists began to write tirades against the 'denazification mischief' or the 'export of scientists'. Personal idiosyncrasies melded into a strangely uniform pattern of rejection or resistance to the Allied occupiers, with attendant repressed feelings and self-pity. Politics was once again perceived as remote, dirty business. It was feared that the least concession of guilt would bring down even more severe sanctions on their discipline. Using tools from the history of mentality, such as analysis of serial publications, these tendencies are examined. The perspective of emigre physicists, as reflected in their private letters and reports, embellish this portrait.

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Klaus Hentschel - The Mentality of German Physicis ts 1945-1949 (2007).pdf

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