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The merchant republics : Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790
\"The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses -- Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg -- developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-1790). In addition to discussing the qualities that made these three cities alike, this volume also considers the very real differences that derived from their dissimilar histories, political structures, economic fates and cultural expectations. While all valued both their republicanism and their merchant identities, each presented a different face to the world and each made the transition from an early modern republic to a modern city in a different manner\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Money in the German-speaking lands
Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively demonstrate money's vast symbolic and practical significance, from its place in debates about religion and the natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation of national identity.
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Medicine and society in early modern Europe
\"Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, Mary Lindemann examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly scientific one. Drawing on medical anthropology, sociology and ethics as well as cultural and social history, she focuses on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals. This second edition has been updated and revised throughout in content, style, and interpretations and new material has been added, in particular, on colonialism, exploration and women. Accessibly written and full of fascinating insights, this will be essential reading for all students of the history of medicine and will provide invaluable context for students of early modern Europe more generally\"--Provided by publisher.
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Liaisons dangereuses
Liaisons dangereuses examines the local and international repercussions of a notorious episode in eighteenth-century Hamburg. Historian Mary Lindemann recounts the mysterious circumstances surrounding the violent death of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of an erstwhile Prussian lieutenant, the Baron von Kesslitz.
Reconstructing the drama from the perspectives of four principal players—the count, the baron, an Italian/French courtesan, Anna Maria Romellini, and Antoine Ventura de Sanpelayo, the Spanish consul in Hamburg—Lindemann explores the historical currents that swept these individuals together and the effects of their encounter on Hamburg's public, its government, and its diplomatic and economic relationships with European courts and states. Lindemann profiles each person involved in the crime, exploring their lives as unique sets of circumstances while analyzing them as eighteenth-century types.
What actually took place on that fateful night in October 1775? All Hamburg buzzed with rumors, but it is impossible to determine without doubt the motives of those involved, or even to know what really happened. Nevertheless, the case that developed around the killing of Visconti provides fascinating insights into the diplomatic, cultural, legal, social, and political history of the last third of the eighteenth century.
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How Great Wars End: Legacies and Lessons
Even the most subtle attempts to draw relevance from the peace concluded in 1648 will inevitably founder on the hidden sharp rocks of context and contingency. [...]the Peace of Westphalia and the much-praised \"Westphalian settlement\" have not been universally admired. The idea that there were rules, sometimes written, sometimes not, about what was considered proper behavior in times of war—that is, as Mannzucht or Kriegszucht (discipline)—did not develop only in the modern world. [...]just as important—violence rarely stopped when the ink on peace treaties dried. The Swedish occupation in this area was particularly harsh with forced recruitment, exploitation of resources, the quartering of troops, and the extension of military law—as Maren Lorenz graphically portrayed in her 2007 publication Das Rad der Gewalt.17 But the subject is by no means exhausted and the meaning of the era of war-after-peace in the early modern world remains a relatively open field. [...]the whole subject of refugees (Flüchtlinge) or displaced persons in modern terms is far more developed for the twentieth-century Great Wars than for the seventeenth-century ones, with the exception of numerous treatments of religious refugees. [...]the chief architect of the \"Brandenburg miracle\" was its elector, Friedrich Wilhelm.
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