An account of the conflict between Galileo and the Church. It reconstructs the history of the ideas that were the principle factors in defining his struggle with the Church, and provides an objective analysis which presents the issues as seen by both sides involved in the conflict.
Tells the stories of three Jewish activists, who at different times and different places refused to be victims any longer and by political assassination sought to gain world attention to the plight of their people. This book offers information on how the killings were carried out, the international response, and the reaction of Jews.
Rembrandt's life (1606-1669) coincided with what the Dutch refer to as their 'golden age'. This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past, a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen, to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly ......
Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism
This detailed study charts the uneven growth of the Austrian navy from its high point following Archduke Ferdinand Max's administration and the War of 1866 to its ultimate dissolution after World War 1. In following this development, Lawrence Sondhaus not only relates the operational aspects of the Habsburg navy but also traces the growth of ......
Neolithic Figurines from Franchthi Cave, Greece, Fascicle 9, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece
Talalay reports on a small body of figurines (24 figurines and 21 fragments) recovered during excavations at Franchthi Cave and at the nearby open-air settlement along the present shoreline. She also reexamines the theoretical and methodological foundations of scholarship in the field of figurine studies. A thorough and pathfinding study of the ......
"...one of the most exhaustively researched studies of modern Russian history to have appeared in many years...In its searching analysis of the pogrom as a 'social movement' and in its sensitive analysis of the interplay between class tension and ethnic violence the study makes a most valuable contribution" - Stephen A. Smith, University of Essex. ......
The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990
Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended these seizures to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold charters of autonomy to hundreds of villages, thus ......
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
