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January 5, 2024

Technical Knowledge in Europe, 1200-1500 AD

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Free Download Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave, "Technical Knowledge in Europe, 1200-1500 AD"
English | ISBN: 1527587045 | 2022 | 235 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This volume brings together works on the development of scientific and technical knowledge in Europe between the 13th and 16th centuries, with a special focus on the Iberian Peninsula. These works, which rely heavily on the evidence provided by the written record, pay particular attention to the content of recipe books and technical treatises from the 15th and 16th centuries. The volume addresses issues such as manuscript and technical recipe book analysis, archaeological investigation of production areas and archaeometric analysis, presenting a holistic and comprehensive perspective of technical knowledge during the Middle Ages. It highlights different approaches and perspectives in the analysis of medieval technical and technological knowledge, in order to arrive at equally broad and complementary conclusions.

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January 5, 2024

Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850

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Free Download Luis J. Gordo Peláez, "Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850 "
English | ISBN: 1032431113 | 2023 | 246 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits, and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1500 to 1850.

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January 3, 2024

Germany in the World A Global History, 1500-2000 [Audiobook]

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Free Download Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL5HRY77 | 2023 | 36 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 1010 MB
Author: David Blackbourn
Narrator: Peter Noble
Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany’s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history-the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime-are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation’s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation’s borders.

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December 25, 2023

The English Manor C.1200 To C.1500

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Free Download The English Manor C.1200 To C.1500 by Mark Bailey
English | September 7, 2002 | ISBN: 0719052297 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.49 Mb
Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records. Offers translations of, and commentaries upon, each category of document to illustrate their main features. Examples of each category of record are provided in translation, followed by shorter extracts selected to illustrate interesting, commonly occurring, or complex features. A valuable source of reference for undergraduates wishing to understand the sources which underpin the majority of research on the medieval economy and society.

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September 28, 2023

Medieval Russian Armies 1250 – 1500

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Free Download David Nicolle, Viacheslav Shpakovsky, Angus McBride, "Medieval Russian Armies 1250 – 1500"
English | 2002 | pages: 47 | ISBN: 1841762342 | PDF | 6,1 mb
After disastrous defeats at the hands of the Mongols in the 13th century, the Russian principalities became vassals of the Khans of the Golden Horde for more than 200 years; and at the same time the western princes faced the German crusaders of the Teutonic Order. Remarkably, Russia responded with a new surge of military vigour. Eventually, freedom from the ‘Mongol yoke’ coincided with a degree of unity around a powerful new state – Muscovy. This exciting chapter of history is illustrated with rare early paintings, photos, diagrams, and eight plates reconstructing the mixed influences of East and West in the appearance of Russian warriors.

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July 18, 2023

Scandinavia Since 1500 (Second Edition) [Audiobook]

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Free Download Scandinavia Since 1500 (Second Edition) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9R4W478 | 2023 | 15 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 416 MB
Author: Byron J. Nordstrom
Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund
Despite certain distinctions and differences, the lands of Scandinavia, or Norden-Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands-are united by bonds of culture, language, and geography, and by a shared history that comes richly to life in this landmark work. Now in an expanded, updated edition, this definitive chronicle of five centuries of Scandinavian history incorporates the geopolitical developments and momentous events that have marked the Nordic world in recent decades. Scandinavia since 1500 situates the region’s political history within the traditional European chronology-in which the long "modern" period is subdivided into the Renaissance, early modern, modern, and contemporary.

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