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What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of
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"There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl abo
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Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the
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This volume offers a unique exploration into the cultural history of the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period by exa
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From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, Chin
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This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agen
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