This book explores the history of this fundamental transformation, from the arrival of the printing press to the coming of steam.
In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s.
But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines—from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from their royal lives—few know the true story of Harry ...
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.
This book is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England.
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 ...
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture.
An interdisciplinary and intercontinental study, this book examines the political satiric poetry and political graphic prints of Britain and Colonial America during the late Georgian period--a tumultuous era that witnessed the American and ...
Magic is something unauthorised, an alternative perhaps, even a deliberate cultivation of dark, evil powers.