Author: Erik Odegard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book explores the careers of Dutch colonial governors in the 17th century with a focus on two case-studies: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, governor of Dutch Brazil (1636-1644) and Rijckloff Volckertsz van Goens, Governor-General in Batavia in the 1670s.
Patronage, Patrimonialism, and Governors’ Careers in the Dutch Chartered Companies, 1630–1681
Author: Erik Odegard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book explores the careers of Dutch colonial governors in the 17th century with a focus on two case-studies: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, governor of Dutch Brazil (1636-1644) and Rijckloff Volckertsz van Goens, Governor-General in Batavia in the 1670s.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book explores the careers of Dutch colonial governors in the 17th century with a focus on two case-studies: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, governor of Dutch Brazil (1636-1644) and Rijckloff Volckertsz van Goens, Governor-General in Batavia in the 1670s.
Faith and Fraternity
Author: Laura Branch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004330704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In Faith and Fraternity Laura Branch provides the first sustained comparative analysis of London’s livery companies during the Reformation, and demonstrates how they retained a vibrant religious culture despite their confessionally mixed membership.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004330704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In Faith and Fraternity Laura Branch provides the first sustained comparative analysis of London’s livery companies during the Reformation, and demonstrates how they retained a vibrant religious culture despite their confessionally mixed membership.
Venetian Shipping from the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453–1571
Author: Renard Gluzman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004398171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive picture of Venice’s shipping industry from the days of glory to its definitive decline, challenging the accepted hierarchy of the political, economic, and environmental factors impacting the history of the maritime republic.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004398171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive picture of Venice’s shipping industry from the days of glory to its definitive decline, challenging the accepted hierarchy of the political, economic, and environmental factors impacting the history of the maritime republic.
Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
Author: Linda Levy Peck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134870426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134870426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.
Property and Dispossession
Author: Allan Greer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107160642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107160642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
Africans
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107198321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107198321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
A General History of the Burr Family
Author: Charles Burr Todd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Walled Towns and the Shaping of France
Author: M. Wolfe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life.
The Present State of Germany
Author: Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
Publisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780865974920
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Present State of Germany, one of Samuel Pufendorf's earliest and most important works, was first published in 1667 under the pseudonym Severinus de Monzambano. Its blunt, colorful, and unapologetic challenge to mainstream German constitutional law made it enormously controversial as soon as it appeared, and its author was both vilified and exalted in the acrimonious debate that followed. It became one of the most reprinted books of the late seventeenth century.
Publisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780865974920
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Present State of Germany, one of Samuel Pufendorf's earliest and most important works, was first published in 1667 under the pseudonym Severinus de Monzambano. Its blunt, colorful, and unapologetic challenge to mainstream German constitutional law made it enormously controversial as soon as it appeared, and its author was both vilified and exalted in the acrimonious debate that followed. It became one of the most reprinted books of the late seventeenth century.
Louis XIV and Absolution
Author: Ragnhild Marie Hatton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description