Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe 9781409405528, 9781409405511

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of

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Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
9781409405528, 9781409405511

Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although Eur

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Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the

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The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expand

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Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But duri

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