Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
10 best books like Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks): True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, Art in Renaissance Italy: 1350-1500, Selected Writings, The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry, Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent, Soul of the Samurai: Modern Translations of Three Classic Works of Zen Bushido, Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past, The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950 - 1250
| Author | Farhad Manjoo |
| ISBN | 0470050101 |
Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they’ve been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and propaganda seem...
| Author | Ted Nace |
| ISBN | 1576753190 |
The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state.
After selling his successful computer book publishing...
Art in Renaissance Italy: 1350-1500
The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo created some of the world's most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Here, Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture...
| Author | Meister Eckhart |
| ISBN | 0140433430 |
Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart...
| Author | Jahan Ramazani |
| ISBN | 0393977919 |
Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry now available in two paperback volumes...
| Author | Mary Laven |
| ISBN | 0142004014 |
Venice in the late Renaissance was a city of fabulous wealth, reckless creativity, and growing social unrest. It was also a city of walls and secrets, ghettos and cloisters. In this captivating book, Cambridge historian Mary Laven uncovers the long-hidden stories of the “Virgins of Venice” and...
| Author | Thomas Cleary |
| ISBN | 4805312912 |
Soul of the Samurai contains modern translations of three classic works of Zen & Bushido.
In Soul of the Samurai, bestselling author and respected translator Thomas Cleary reveals the true essence of the Bushido code or Zen warrior teachings according to 17th-century Japanese samurai...
| Author | Daniel L. Schacter |
| ISBN | 0465075525 |
Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical level, psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according to Daniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished...
| Author | Brendan Simms |
| ISBN | 0465064825 |
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe—Napoleon's forces...
| Author | R.I. Moore |
| ISBN | 0631171452 |
The 10th to the 13th centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition, expropriation and mass murder of Jews, the foundation of leper hospitals in large numbers and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy. These have...
| Author | Natalie Zemon Davis |
| ISBN | 0674955218 |
As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though...
| Author | John K. Thornton |
| ISBN | 0521627249 |
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World, this book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Author John Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European...
| Author | Giovanni della Casa |
Il "Galateo ovvero de' costumi", trattato nel quale, sotto la persona di un vecchio idiota ammaestrante un suo giovanetto, si ragiona de' modi che si debbono tenere o schifare nella comune conversazione, così precisa il sottotitolo, fu pubblicato nel 1558 da monsignor Della Casa, nunzio pontificio...
| Author | Elizabeth L. Eisenstein |
| ISBN | 0521607744 |
What difference did printing make? Although the importance of the advent of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject....
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks...
| Author | Robin Briggs |
| ISBN | 0140144382 |
Witches and Neighbors is a remarkable interpretation of the course and causes of the fear and persecution of witches that bedeviled Europe for centuries. Robin Briggs draws on the latest research into the local realities underlying the phenomenon. In particular, he employs his own extensive work...
| Author | Leslie P. Peirce |
| ISBN | 0195086775 |
The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed...
| Author | Emmanuelle Walter |
| ISBN | 1443445185 |
In 2014, the nation was rocked by the brutal violence against young Aboriginal women Loretta Saunders, Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper. But tragically, they were not the only Aboriginal women to suffer that year. In fact, an official report revealed that since 1980, 1,200 Canadian Aboriginal women...
Craze: Gin and Debauchery in An Age of Reason
| Author | Jessica Warner |
| ISBN | 0812968999 |
Rotgut gin—cheap, widely available, and remarkably potent—was the overwhelming drug of choice among London’s working poor in the early 1700s. Sold for pennies in taverns and squalid gin shops, on street corners and even in jails, gin was the original opiate of the masses, plunging England’s...
| Author | Annette Gordon-Reed |
| ISBN | 0813918332 |
When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. The publication...
| Author | Mark Powell |
| ISBN | 1507203373 |
With writing that is both devastating and tender, Mark Powell (The Sheltering) brings his acclaimed eye to an American marriage on the verge of rupture, spinning an all-too-current tale of the world we live in and the world we fear—and how we may not be able to tell the two apart—perfect for fans of...
The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner
| Author | Jay Rayner |
| ISBN | 0805086692 |
An astronomical gastronomical undertaking —one of the world’s preeminent restaurant critics takes on the giants of haute cuisine, one tasting menu at a time
Like the luxury fashion companies Gucci and Chanel, high-end dining has gone global, and Jay Rayner has watched,...
John Law, notorious for killing a man in a duel and acquiring a huge fortune from gambling, found a more congenial atmosphere for pursuing his financial visions in the bankrupt court of France's Louis XV. His idea of establishing a bank to issue paper money with credit revived the French economy and earned...
| Author | Julian T. Jackson |
| ISBN | 0192805509 |
The Fall of France in 1940 is one of the pivotal moments of the twentieth century. If the German invasion of France had failed, it is arguable that the war might have ended right there. But the French suffered instead a dramatic and humiliating defeat, a loss that ultimately drew the whole world into war....
Medieval Europe: A Short History
| Author | Judith M. Bennett |
| ISBN | 0072955155 |
This book is easy to read, includes relevant and interesting information, and covers medieval Europe on a broad scale rather than focus on one or two countries/empires. In addition, the style of writing is well-paced and engaging. Best of all, the book reiterates the sentiment that the "Dark Ages"...
