Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War
Author: James D. Tracy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-11-14
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521814317
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The Myth of Religious Violence
Author: William T Cavanaugh
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2009-09-03
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0195385047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.
Witness of the Body
Author: Michael L. Budde
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-04-12
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0802862586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Beginning with the persecution of early Christians by the Roman Empire, Witness of the Body explores the place of martyrdom in the church through all ages -- and into the future. Throughout, it reminds readers that Christian martyrdom is neither a quick ticket to heaven nor a cheap political ploy, but rather the firm and faithful witness of Christ's church in a hostile world."--From publisher description.
The Verge
Author: Patrick Wyman
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1538701170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term. As told through the lives of ten real people—from famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain—The Verge illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future. Over an intense forty-year period, the seeds for the so-called "Great Divergence" between Western Europe and the rest of the globe would be planted. From Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luther's sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being. For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the West's rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As The Verge presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced.
A/AS Level History for AQA Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598 Student Book
Author: Max von Habsburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 110758728X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History. Written for the AQA A/AS Level History specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book covers the Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469-1598 Breadth component. Completely matched to the new AQA specification, this full-colour Student Book provides valuable background information to contextualise the period of study. Supporting students in developing their critical thinking, research and written communication skills, it also encourages them to make links between different time periods, topics and historical themes.
The Early Modern Ottomans
Author: Virginia H. Aksan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-07-26
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0521817641
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European War and Diplomacy, 1337-1815
Author: William Young
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0595298745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of international relations and warfare of early modern Europe has gained popularity in recent years. This bibliography provides a valuable listing of books, dissertations, and journal articles in the English language for scholars and general readers interested in diplomatic relations and warfare from the Hundred Years' War to the Napoleonic Wars.
Charles V and the Castilian Assembly of the Clergy
Author: Sean Perrone
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-09-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9047424476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Castilian Assembly of the Clergy has been overlooked in the scholarship on church-state relations and representative institutions in the early modern period. This oversight has distorted our understanding of political practice, royal finance, and church-state relations in sixteenth-century Castile. By examining the negotiations for subsidies between the crown and the Assembly, this book illuminates the dynamics between church and state and the limits of royal control over the church, and it challenges long-held conventions about the monolithic structure of the Spanish church and its subservience to the crown. The negotiations for subsidies also demonstrate the importance of consensus in the political process and how the Assembly sustained itself and its privileges for centuries through collaboration with the crown.
Warriors for a Living
Author: Idan Sherer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-05
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9004337725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Warriors for a Living, Idan Sherer explores the experience of the Spanish infantry during the long and bloody conflict between Spain and France during the Italian Wars.
The Allure of Battle
Author: Cathal Nolan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-01-02
Total Pages: 709
ISBN-13: 0199910995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.
