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The decline of Spain (1500–1850): conjectural estimates [PDF]
, 2007 This article attempts to quantify the decline of Spain over the period 1500–1850. In contrast to earlier estimates that focus almost exclusively on Castilian agriculture, we look at trends in urbanisation and construct new measures of agricultural and ...
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro +1 more
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Review of Perevodchiki Posol'skogo prikaza v XVII v.
Вивліоѳика, 2021 • A. V. Beliakov, A. G. Gus’kov, D. V. Liseitsev & S. M. Shamin, Perevodchiki Posol’skogo prikaza v XVII v.: Materialy k slovariu. Moscow: Indrik, 2021. 304 p. ISBN: 978-5-91674-618-1.
Paul Bushkovitch
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Who were the urban gentry? Social elites in an English provincial town, c.1680-1760 [PDF]
, 2011 This paper explores the identity and social worlds of the ‘urban gentry’ of Chester as they developed from the late seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century.
Stobart, Jon
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In Situ, 2019 Some examples taken from the paintings executed at Bologna from the end of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth illustrate the different meanings that can be attributed to the bed in different narrative contexts. The bed can become a major
Michele Danieli
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Kalinago-European Alliances in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 Thomas ‘Indian’ Warner is described as a figure who brokered peace between the Kalinago and the Europeans. However, the influence of Warner’s actions when compared to retaliatory measures taken by Europeans against him and the Kalinagos, and the ...
Stephane Martin Demers
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Gambling with Women, Estates and Status in Long Eighteenth Century-Comedy
Etudes Epistémè, 2021 This article discusses gambling and inheritance as two types of property transfer presented on the long eighteenth-century stage and investigates the relationship each has with gender and social status. Comparing Aphra Behn’s The Lucky Chance (1685) with
Beth Cortese
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Historical reflections on progress and tradition [PDF]
, 2014 Reflecting on the tension between progressives and traditionalists in present-day Egypt, the author surveys comparable conflicts in the European past.
van Caenegem, Raoul
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Islamisasi Makassar Abad 17; Kajian tentang HUbungan Umara dan Ulama Nusantara
Buletin Al-Turas, 2018 ; Arrival event of three Moslem scholars from Malay Empire in early seventeenth century to Makassar can be attested how close relationship between among Moslem scholar and umara in the Indonesian Archipelago at the time. In the context of Islamization of
Mulyono Damopoli
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La Palatine, une spectatrice paradigmatique ? De l’intérêt du théâtre : usages, goûts, expérience
Etudes Epistémè, 2022 The “spectatorial motif” is a recurrent one in the voluminous correspondence of Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz, Princess Palatine and Duchess of Orléans.
Sylvaine Guyot
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Five views of an age : a selection of late seventeenth century pamphlets from Ellis Library's rare book room [PDF]
, 1987 Foreword by Thomas W. Shaughnessy; introduction by Margaret A. Howell.Trials of the Seventeenth Century / Mireya del Castillo -- Women of Seventeenth Century England / Alla Barabtarlo -- Restoration satire / Catherine Seago -- Broadsides / Martha Shirky -
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