Awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association.''Always fascinating . . . The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and moreauthentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture.''--Felix Gilbert, New York ......
The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and eighth centuries both to withstand foreign invasions and to quell internal religious conflicts. ......
Offers a survey of medieval European economy, and culture. This book demonstrates the diversity that the world of Middle Ages achieved, despite the fact that "the physical aspects of life were exceedingly difficult". It probes the problems faced by Jews in a predominantly Christian society, and contemplates as well the problems faced by women.
A collection of articles, reviews and speeches by Monthly Review founder, Paul Sweezy, about the development of societies, mainly within the former USSR, after Marxist revolution.
History of the Lombards, by Paul the Deacon (c. 720-c. 799), is among the most important and oldest accounts of the Germanic nation. The book preserves many ancient myths and popular traditions and draws from sources that are now lost. The history traces the changing fortunes of the Lombards, the last of the migratory Germanic peoples to enter the ......
''Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline.''Speculum
CONTENTS: Introduction - Labour, Necessary product, Surplus Product - Exchange, Commodity, Value - Money, Capital, Surplus-value - The Development of Capital - The Contradictions of Capitalism - Trade - Credit - Money - Agriculture- Reproduction and the Growth of National Income - Periodical Crises - Monopoly Capitalism - Imperialism - The Epoch ......
CONTENTS: Introduction - Labour, Necessary product, Surplus Product - Exchange, Commodity, Value - Money, Capital, Surplus-value - The Development of Capital - The Contradictions of Capitalism - Trade - Credit - Money - Agriculture- Reproduction and the Growth of National Income - Periodical Crises - Monopoly Capitalism - Imperialism - The Epoch ......
