A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal is the first comprehensive overview of its subject in English or any language. Cardinals are best known as the pope's electors, but in the centuries from 1400 to 1800 they were so much more: pastors, inquisitors, diplomats, bureaucrats, s…
A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal is the first comprehensive overview of its subject in English or any language. Cardinals are best known as the pope's electors, but in the centuries from 1400 to 1800 they were so much more: pastors, inquisitors, diplomats, bureaucrats, s…
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100-1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women's working experiences, and by adopting …
This new history examines the experiences of people from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking areas of Latin America and the Caribbean from the onset of independence in the late eighteenth century until the present
"This is a story of an island man who became the founding President of the Nation, lived in exile, retruned as the "Apostle of National Reconciliation" and became universally acknowledged as a "World Statesman" working for peace"--Provided by publisher.
"The autobiography of James R. Mancham, founding president of the Seychelles, a geo-political history of this archipelago nation, and his activities to promote world peace. Mancham, deposed by a coup less than one year after his 1976 inauguration, lived in exile until 1991, when…
"The autobiography of James R. Mancham, founding president of the Seychelles, a geo-political history of this archipelago nation, and his activities to promote world peace. Mancham, deposed by a coup less than one year after his 1976 inauguration, lived in exile until 1991, when…