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Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781611680195
A study of individual trajectories in an early modern global context
Author : Brian Brege
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674258778
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct commercial expansion, as Brian Brege shows, Tuscany followed a different path, one that allowed it to participate in Europe’s new age of empire without establishing an empire of its own. The first history of its kind, Tuscany in the Age of Empire offers a fresh appraisal of one of the foremost cities of the Italian Renaissance, as it sought knowledge, fortune, and power throughout Asia, the Americas, and beyond. How did Tuscany, which could not compete directly with the growing empires of other European states, establish a global presence? First, Brege shows, Tuscany partnered with larger European powers. The duchy sought to obtain trade rights within their empires and even manage portions of other states’ overseas territories. Second, Tuscans invested in cultural, intellectual, and commercial institutions at home, which attracted the knowledge and wealth generated by Europe’s imperial expansions. Finally, Tuscans built effective coalitions with other regional powers in the Mediterranean and the Islamic world, which secured the duchy’s access to global products and empowered the Tuscan monarchy in foreign affairs. These strategies allowed Tuscany to punch well above its weight in a world where power was equated with the sort of imperial possessions it lacked. By finding areas of common interest with stronger neighbors and forming alliances with other marginal polities, a small state was able to protect its own security while carving out a space as a diplomatic and intellectual hub in a globalizing Europe.
Author : Graham Joyce
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 057123951X
Doogie's new girlfriend is hot, but what's with the weird behaviour, freaky parents and the super-human intelligence? And was that really a forked tongue he saw or did he imagine it?
Author : Andy Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593135228
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
Author : Vivian Carol Sobchack
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 081352492X
This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists. The book should appeal to both film buff and fans of science fiction.
Author : George Mikes,Nicolas Bentley
Publisher : Longman
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1405827386
'Penguin Readers' are simplified texts designed in association with Longman to provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351918107
Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries. This collection is unique in essaying a truly global coverage of mercantile activities, from the Wangara of the Central Sudan, Mississippi and Huron Indians, to the role of the Jews, the Muslim merchants of Anatolia, to the social structure of the mercantile classes in early modern England. The histories of merchant communities are not their histories alone, but also the histories of assumptions concerning their contexts. From the comparative perspective adopted here, it emerges that in markets where Western European merchants vied for place with competitors from the Near East, South Asia or East Asia, they were very often unsuccessful.
Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2921 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4066338116345
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of Hilaire Bellocs most influential works: Nonfiction: History The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry The Path to Rome The Old Road The French Revolution Blenheim Tourcoing Crécy Waterloo Malplaquet Poitiers First and Last Europe and the Faith Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church The Jews The Historic Thames A Change in the Cabinet A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase The Two Maps of Europe Economics Servile State Essays: Avril: Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hills and the Sea On Nothing and Kindred Subjects On Everything On Anything On Something This and That On The Free Press Fiction: Novels & Short Stories The Mercy of Allah The Green Overcoat Poetry: A Moral Alphabet Bad Child's Book of Beasts More Beasts For Worse Children The Modern Traveller Cautionary Tales for Children More Peers
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Aliens
ISBN : UIUC:30112000755428
Author : Ulrike Küchler,Silja Maehl,Graeme Stout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628921168
As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders. Offering a perspective on the alien that connects to scholarship on immigration and globalization, Alien Imaginations brings together canonical and contemporary works in the literature and cinema of science fiction and transnationalism. By examining the role of the alien through the themes of language, anxiety and identity, the essays in this collection engage with authors such as H.G. Wells, Eleanor Arnason, Philip K. Dick and Yoko Tawada as well as directors such as Neill Blomkamp, James Cameron and Michael Winterbottom. Focusing on works that are European and North American in origin, the readings in this volume explore their critical intent and their potential to undermine many of the central notions of Western hegemonic discourses. Alien Imaginations reflects upon contemporary cultural imaginaries as well as the realities of migration, labor and life, suggesting models of resistance, if not utopian horizons.
Author : John A. Cramer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595194162
How alien would aliens be? Would they look like us or perhaps more like an octopus? How would they communicate? Could we even hear their voices, assuming they have them? Like us, aliens would be constrained by the physical world. Understanding how those physical constraints apply both to us and to aliens is the theme of this book. The constraints imply that they will not be all that different from us, perhaps half to twice as big as we are. They will depend on vision and hearing as we do and they will live on a planet much like ours. But where will they be? Do they even exist? The odds are not good. We may be the only intelligent life in the universe.
Author : John A. Cramer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300068303
Author : Robert W. Heimburger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107176621
A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.
Author : United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Naturalization
ISBN : UOM:35112101120972
Author : Bruce Coville
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439112519
Alien Invasion of Earth! Peter Thompson, a typical seventh-grader, finds himself touring the planet with his friends Susan Simmons and Duncan Dougal—and three aliens in disguise! Their mission? To file the final report that will determine Earth’s future in the universe. As the clock ticks away the hours before their meeting in space, the tour becomes weirder and weirder. The three friends come face-to-face with a plague of poots and “Big Julie”—the weirdest alien yet! Meanwhile Peter discovers a secret that has been hidden for decades. Will his discovery save Earth, or is it already too late to stop the aliens from destroying the planet?