"The majority of the printed works featured in China on Paper were instigated by European religious missions and trade embassies but shaped their authors' contact with Chinese literati, court officials, and emperors. These books and images targeted different audiences in two dis…
This collection of twelve essays explores the role of women and gender in a range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and peti…
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.
Since the 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing new challenges: the 1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and Eastward enlargement, and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism perspective, this book analyzes these de…
This edited work critically analyses developments in European Political Economy and their effects on the continental European economies. Leading political economists from Europe and the United States consider how the influential 'Varieties of Capitalism' approach can help us und…
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when …
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when …
