The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800
Author: William Hardy McNeill
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13:
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European Warfare, 1453-1815
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780312221171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book provides an excellent resource on the nature of European warfare from the outbreak of the Valois-Habsburg wars to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650
Author: Jan Glete
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1134610785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarfare at Sea, 1500-1650 is the first truly international study of warfare at sea in this period. Commencing in the late fifteenth century with the introduction of gunpowder in naval warfare and the rapid transformation of maritime trade, Warfare at Sea focuses on the scope and limitations of war before the advent of the big battle fleets from the middle of the seventeenth century. The book also compares the social history of seamen and the early officer corps in several European countries and includes discussion on Spain, Portugal, France, Venice, the Ottoman Empire and the Baltic states.
The Problem of Slavery as History
Author: Joseph C. Miller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0300113153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did slavery—an accepted evil for thousands of years—suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution. Tracing the global history of slaving over thousands of years, Miller reveals the shortcomings of Western narratives that define slavery by the same structures and power relations regardless of places and times, concluding instead that slaving is a process which can be understood fully only as imbedded in changing circumstances.
Slavery and the Catholic Church
Author: John Francis Maxwell
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen in the Portuguese Colonial Empire
Author: Clara Sarmento
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1443807141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: The Theatre of Shadows compiles an extensive collection of essays on the status of women throughout the vast Portuguese colonial space, from Brazil to the Far East, crossing Europe, Africa and India, between the 16th and the 20th century. Absent or mystified, silenced or victimized, women in the History of Portugal and its colonial venture are the living example of the part historiographical discourse, ideology and popular memory have played in the construction of identities, their practices and representations. The production and critical consumption of History have long revealed countless gaps and silences within its own discourse. This book questions the reason for such gaps and silences and wonders about the real role of all those who do not or have never had access to power and to the perpetuating word, those whose voices have been systematically erased from sources and documents because of past or present attending interests. Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: The Theatre of Shadows congregates a wide assortment of disciplines so as to provide multiple independent viewpoints, sources and methodologies. By bringing authors from around the world together, this work ensures that the various cultures and memories that are part of the global saga, as well as the various versions of the history of the Portuguese colonial empire, may be heard.
The Renaissance at War (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
Author: Thomas Arnold
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006-05-02
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780060891954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Renaissance at War Toward the end of the fifteenth century, modern artillery and portable firearms became the signature weapons of European armies, radically altering the nature of warfare. The new arms transformed society, too, as cities were built and rebuilt to limit the effects of bombardment by cannon. This book follows these far-reaching changes in comprehensive and fascinating detail and demonstrates how the innovations of the Renaissance paved the way to further changes in warfare. An in-depth technical look at the weaponry of the age and the tactical drills that honed the skills of Renaissance soldiers The epic wars abroad between Western Christians and the Muslim Turks Civil strife at home between despotic rulers and rebellious forces Kingly duels that play out on an international stage
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Author: Derek Massarella
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-01-28
Total Pages: 697
ISBN-13: 140947223X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. The present edition is the first complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the subsequent reception of the book.
Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
Author: W. G. Clarence-Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780195221510
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Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico
Author: Tatiana Seijas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1139952854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain's colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos' complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity of the slave experience in the Americas.
