1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457451103321

Titolo

Globalization and global history / / edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-135-99248-7

1-283-83743-9

1-280-37599-X

9786610375998

0-203-79947-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Rethinking globalizations ; ; 2

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Economic history

Globalization

International trade

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographcial references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Globalizations, global histories and historical globalities; 2 Globalizing history and historicizing globalization; 3  The global animus; 4 Civilizing processes and international societies1; 5 Globalizations; 6 The Big Collapse; 7 [Re] periphalization, [re] incorporation, frontiers and non-state societies; 8 Growth/decline phases and semi-peripheral development in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian world-systems1

9 Early Iron Age economic expansion and contraction revisited10 Dark ages; 11 Three steps in globalization; 12 Globalization began in 15711; 13 Colonies in a globalizing economy, 1815-1948; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. The authors collected here study globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history, thereby enabling them to assess the extent of ongoing



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453856203321

Autore

Laoutaris Chris

Titolo

Shakespearean maternities : crises of conception in early modern England / / Chris Laoutaris [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-7486-7168-4

1-281-94769-5

9786611947699

0-7486-3042-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Motherhood in literature

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: Constructing maternal knowledge -- ; 1. Flesh and stone : dissecting maternity in the theatre of anatomy. -- Behold the woman : the Renaissance anatomist in the satyr's mask -- Hearts and hands : the satirical disclosures of maternity in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- ; 2. The cabinet of wonders : monstrous conceptions in the theatre of nature. -- Wonders of common things : the natural history of maternity and the Renaissance garden-grotto -- Above the beast : the monster and the natural historian in Shakespeare's Tempest -- ; 3. Strange labours : maternity and maleficium in the theatre of justice. -- Breaching the wall : the archaeologies of witchcraft and the maternal body in early modern England -- Poisoned chalices : the reproductive demonologies of Shakespeare's Macbeth -- ; 4. Speaking stones : memory and maternity in the theatre of death. -- Voce pia mater : memoralising mothers and the death-ritual in early modern England -- A celerity in dying : the maternal postures of death in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- ; Postscript: Our maternities : the historical legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

This study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in



early modern England.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386299203316

Autore

Williams John <1582-1650.>

Titolo

A manual, or, Three small and plain treatises [[electronic resource] ] : viz. 1. Of prayer, or active, 2. Of principles, or positive, 3. Resolutions, or oppositive [brace] divinity / / translated and collected out of the ancient writers, for the private use of a most noble lady, to preserve her from the danger of popery, by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-Bishop of York

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for William Garret, and are to be sold by Joseph Clark, and Ralph Needham ..., 1672

Descrizione fisica

[2], 158 p

Soggetti

Meditations

Prayers

Devotional literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021