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Public goods provision in the early modern economy : comparative perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe
Many of our expectations regarding patterns of historical change in global history
continue to be based upon understandings of the significance of what William
McNeill called “The Rise of the West” in the title of a ...
Dominating nature and colonialism: Francis Bacon’s view of Europe and the new world
(Routledge, 2018-11)
Francis Bacon’s works are pervaded by the firm belief that he was living in a new epoch. He thought of this epoch as based on knowledge and mechanical arts, which would permit dominion over nature. This dominion arises ...
The sacred in modern western European music: Between fires of cultural paradigms
(Universidad del Zulia, 2020)
Fictions of Legibility : The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin
abriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. As well as engaging the tools ...
Naval crossfire: a comparative analysis of iron projectiles from mid-18th to early 19th centuries European warships
(Elsevier, 2015-06)
The ordnance of early Modern main maritime powers (i.e. Great Britain, France, and Spain) played an important role in conflictsfor supremacy of the seas. Therefore, it was subjected to various innovation processes, in order ...
From intonational phrase to syntactic phase: The grammaticalization of enclisis in the history of Portuguese
(Elsevier Science BvAmsterdamHolanda, 2012)
Projects Of Modernity: Authoritarianism, Eugenics And Racism In 20th Century Brazil
(Univ Los Andes, Fac Ciencias SocBogota, 2016)
Naval metals from mid 18th- to early 19th-century European shipwrecks: a first analytical approach
(Historical Metallurgy Society, 2015-01)
This article gives the preliminary results of a study of metal artefacts recovered from European shipwrecks dating from the mid 18th- to early 19th-century. The analytical approach included optical emission spectrometry ...