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subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
This book explores the history of this fundamental transformation, from the arrival of the printing press to the coming of steam.
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
A precise experimenter in the realm of “chymistry,” Newton put the riddles of alchemy to the test in his lab. He also used ideas drawn from the alchemical texts to great effect in his optical experimentation.
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper’s Garden, Vincent Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America—and a human catastrophe.
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
Set against the backdrop of early eighteenth-century London with its sewers running down the middle of the streets, its fetid rivers, its packed houses, smoke and fog, its industries and its great port, this dark tale of obsession and ...
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
The dramatization of Sir Thomas More's historic conflict with Henry VIII—a compelling portrait of a courageous man who died for his convictions and a modern classic that "challenges the mind, and, in the end, touches the heart" (New York ...
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
The editors have done a remarkable job in selecting a range of texts that offer a sweeping overview of the complexity and passion of Russian life, and their brief introductions helpfully situate the texts.
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
Major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern Enlightenment Europe.
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
This is a piece of thorough and careful research, well organized, and a quite fascinating book. * Contemporary Review ...a careful and interesting record of a unique and largely successful transatlantic experiment * Daily Telegraph London . ...
subject:"History / Europe / Great Britain / General" from books.google.com
This book is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England.