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Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century(Reprint)
by Hamish Scott, Brendan Simms, Cambridge University Press
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-15463-5, ISBN: 0-521-15463-4

"This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically how 'culture', defined in the widest sense, was exploited during the 'long eighteenth century' to buttress authority in all its forms and how politics infused culture. Individual essay ..."






Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century(1st Edition)
by Hamish Scott, Brendan Simms
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2007 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-84227-3, ISBN: 0-521-84227-1

"This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically how 'culture', defined in the widest sense, was exploited during the 'long eighteenth century' to buttress authority in all its forms and how politics infused culture. Individual essay ..."






Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century
by Hamish Scott, Brendan Simms
Published 2007 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-139-46377-5, ISBN: 1-139-46377-2

"An entire nation, in other words, cannot rely on a foreign means of communication, and – here Bessenyei broached another important theme for the future – it is the monoglots, primarily the peasants, who keep nobles from losing touch with the vernacular. The first work on Magyar by the pioneering grammarian Mikl ́os R ́evai appeared in 1778. There then followed especially S ́andor B ́ar ́oczi's defence of Magyar, which refutes the a ..."






The Invention of Edinburgh
by Hamish Scott
Hardcover, Published by Mainstream Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-84018-958-2, ISBN: 1-84018-958-4






The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
Volume II: Cultures and Power
by Hamish Scott
736 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-102001-8, ISBN: 0-19-102001-X

"Quoted in Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti, 'Introduction: Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas', in Bauer and Mazzotti, eds., Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts and Identities (Chapel Hill, 2009), 4. 49. Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (Princeton and Oxford, 2006); for an overview of the historiography, see Gabriel Paquette, ' The Dissolution of the Spanish Atlantic ..."






The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
Volume II: Cultures and Power
by Hamish Scott
736 Pages, Published 2015 by Oup Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-102000-1, ISBN: 0-19-102000-1

"D. Lancashire and P. Hu Kuo-chen, ed. E. Malatesta (St. Louis, 1985). ' Celebrated by posterity as Ricci's masterly synthesis of Confucianism and Christianity, at the time of its publication this book had quite a different impact: The Meaning of the Lord of Heaven amounted to a declaration of war against Buddhism.' Po-Chia Hsia, A Jesuit in the Forbidden City, 239. Nicolas Standaert, ' The Four Principal Converts', in Standaert, ed., ..."






The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815
by Hamish Scott
Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-13423-2, ISBN: 1-138-13423-6

"This book addresses the crucial phase in the emergence of the modern international system which, with the subsequent addition of the USA, Japan and Russia, has prevailed until the present day."






Wirds for the day(1st Edition)
by Hamish Scott
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2015 by The Laverock's Nest Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9928005-7-4, ISBN: 0-9928005-7-9

"Hamish Scott's third poetry collection comprises 50 poems in Scots on both contemporary and timeless themes."






The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
Volume I: Peoples and Place
by Hamish Scott
736 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-101534-2, ISBN: 0-19-101534-2

"Gutenberg's Bible enterprise created heavy tomes that in many ways resembled huge twelfthcentury manuscript lectern Bibles. After the increased popularity of smaller handheld Bibles in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, lectionaries (large collected readings from Scripture) returned to favour. Lectionaries were read on many different occasions and certainly not simply in monastic refectories. Gutenberg and his rivals and ..."






The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
Volume I: Peoples and Place
by Hamish Scott
736 Pages, Published 2015 by Oup Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-101533-5, ISBN: 0-19-101533-4

"Reform. The first of these reform movements is called 'Evangelical', a name derived from the Greek for 'Gospel', and was instigated by Martin Luther. Luther is a remarkable personality especially in that he represented many of the most important characteristics of fifteenth-century Christianity. ... In the first, 'To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation', he called upon the German princes to reject the medieval division betw ..."






The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815
by Hamish Scott
456 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-89353-0, ISBN: 1-317-89353-0

"The origins ofthe Anglo-Spanish warhave been recently the subjectofa major revisionist studyby Philip Woodfine, Britannia's Glories: the Walpole Ministry and the 1739war with Spain (1998),the conclusions ofwhichwere anticipated and summarisedin thesame author«saThe Anglo-Spanish Warof1739«,in J. Black, ed .,The Origins ofWarin Early Modern Europe (Edinburgh, 1987), pp. 185¥209. The commercial disputes which preceded the war are the ..."






The Modern European State System
The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815
by Hamish Scott
456 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-89354-7, ISBN: 1-317-89354-9

"The crucial book for this and the two subsequent chapters is Paul W. Schroeder's magnificent The Transformation of ... The best recent survey is William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (Oxford, 1989; 2nd edn., 2002), by a ... as is Bailey Stone, who has written two studies, The Genesis of the French Revolution: a global– historical interpretation ... and Reinterpreting the French Revolution: a Global–Historical P ..."






Edinburgh and East Scotland(2nd Edition)
(AA 50 Walks Series)
by Rebecca Ford, Aa Publishing Staff, Automobile Association, Hamish Scott
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Automobile Association
ISBN-13: 978-0-7495-6289-2, ISBN: 0-7495-6289-7

"A guide to Edinburgh and East Scotland that features a variety of mapped walks. It contains 50 walks of 2-10 miles, accompanied by background reading on the history and wildlife of the area, and an introduction to each walk that is annotated with local points of interest and places to stop for refreshments."






DISCOVER BRITAIN'S HISTORIC HOUSES
SCOTLAND.
by Hamish. Scott
Hardcover, Published 2008 by Reader's Digest
ISBN-13: 978-0-276-44386-2, ISBN: 0-276-44386-1






100 Marvels of the Modern World
by Gramercy Staff, Alison Ahearn, Andrew Forbes, Hamish Scott, Fay Sweet
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Gramercy
ISBN-13: 978-0-517-22737-4, ISBN: 0-517-22737-1

"From awe-inspiring skyscrapers designed to be noticed to the impressive engineering of the bridges, tunnels, and energy-generating wind fields, viaducts, and dams for which function is just as important as form, 100 MODERN MARVELS OF THE WORLD displays some of the most fascinating feats of architecture and engineering in the modern world. This volume includes famous landmarks like the Sydney Opera House and the CN Tower, as well as less ..."






Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century
by Hamish Scott
Online Resource
ISBN-13: 978-0-511-49689-9, ISBN: 0-511-49689-3






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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume II: Cultures and Power (Oxford Handbooks)
by Hamish Scott
Paperback, 768 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-882057-4, ISBN: 0-19-882057-7

"This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it ..."






The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750(Reprint)
Volume I: Peoples and Place (Oxford Handbooks)
by Hamish Scott
Paperback, 816 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-882056-7, ISBN: 0-19-882056-9

"This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it ..."






The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750(1st Edition)
Volume II: Cultures and Power (Oxford Handbooks)
by Hamish Scott, Oxford University Press
Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959726-0, ISBN: 0-19-959726-X

"This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it ..."






The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750(1st Edition)
Volume I: Peoples and Place (Oxford Handbooks)
by Hamish Scott
Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959725-3, ISBN: 0-19-959725-1

"This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it ..."



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