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Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780393324433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
Author: Stuart Sherman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780226752761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1134877498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Robert S. Lopez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1976-03-26
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521290463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoman and barbarian precedents The growth of self-centered agriculture The take-off of the commerical revolution The uneven diffusion of commercialization Between crafts and industry The response of the agricultural society.
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780897450713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuns, Sails and Empires is that rarity among works of history: a short book with a simple, powerful thesis that the entire book is devoted to proving. Carlo Cipolla begins with the question, "Why, after the end of the fifteenth century were the Europeans able not only to force their way through to the distant Spice Islands but also to gain control of all the major sea-routes and to establish overseas empires?" (19) He quickly dismisses motive as a causal factor: motive to circumvent the "Moslem blockade" had existed in earlier centuries as well, but motive without means is empty. Cipolla identifies two developments that provided the means for Europeans to finally succeed beyond their wildest dreams: ships seaworthy enough to reach distant seas; and powerful cannon that could be carried by these ships.
Author: Giles Constable
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1040231616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe studies in the present selection of Giles Constable's work concentrate on culture and spirituality in the 11th and 12th centuries, though they also touch on the early and late Middle Ages. The cultural articles are concerned respectively with perceptions of time and the past, forgery (seen as a reflection of social and religious concerns), entry to religious life, preaching, and letters and letter-writing. The articles on spirituality deal with the themes of suffering and attitudes towards the self, especially the growing concentration on the individual in the religious life of the 12th century.
Author: Bryan S. Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1317015312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking a thematic approach, Bryan S. Turner draws together his writings which explore the relationship between Islam and the ideas of Western social thinkers. Turner engages with the broad categories of capitalism, orientalism, modernity, gender, and citizenship among others, as he examines how Muslims adapt to changing times and how Islam has come to be managed by those in power.
Author: Christine McCourt
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0857455427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice. The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time, and about reproduction.
Author: Dan Edelstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 022670601X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
