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English | November 9th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241534089 | 672 pages | True EPUB | 1.35 MB
Whether as an epic battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an enduring imprint on the history of the world for over two millennia.

Free Download Sascha Sardadvar, "Economic Growth in the Regions of Europe: Theory and Empirical Evidence from a Spatial Growth Model"
English | 2011 | pages: 136 | ISBN: 3790826367, 3790828300 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Although interest in spatial growth regressions has been growing in recent years, formal theoretical approaches that acknowledge the role of space in economic growth have been sparse. In particular in a regional context, the assumption of independent, non-interacting closed economies can lead to misinterpretations. This book fills the void by discussing neoclassical growth theory in a spatial context, in order to examine growth both theoretically and empirically in a system of N regional economies. A formal model is presented that allows for interregional fixed capital relocations, which are in turn determined by the economies' relative locations in space. It is shown how initial endowments with human capital play a decisive role regarding the evolution of output, and how both convergence and divergence processes may occur. Using a spatial econometric model specification, the theoretical model is tested empirically for 255 European regions.

Free Download Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe: From Inhumation to Cremation
by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009247395 | 246 Pages | True PDF | 12 MB

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English | ISBN: 9004680551 | 2024 | 816 pages | PDF | 82 MB
Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700 examines the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to the structure of meaning of their books.

Free Download Donald F. Lach, "Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 4: East Asia (Volume 3) "
English | ISBN: 0226467562 | | 627 pages | PDF | 69 MB
This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.

Free Download Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe By Elise Dermineur
2018 | 378 Pages | ISBN: 2503570526 | PDF | 23 MB
This collection of essays compares and discusses women's participation and experiences in credit markets in early modern Europe, and highlights the characteristics, common mechanisms, similarities, discrepancies, and differences across various regions in Europe in different time periods, and at all levels of society. The essays focus on the role of women as creditors and debtors (a topic largely ignored in traditional historiography), but also and above all on the development of their roles across time. Were women able to enter the credit market, and if so, how and in what proportion? What was then the meaning of their involvement in this market? What did their involvement mean for the community and for their household? Was credit a vector of female emancipation and empowerment? What were the changes that occurred for them in the transition to capitalism? These essays offer a variety of perspectives on women's roles in the credit markets of early modern Europe in order to outline and answer these questions as well as analysing and exploring the nature of women, money, credit, and debt in a pre-industrial Europe.

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by Gianna M. Eick
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1803925523 | 189 Pages | True PDF | 3.53 MB

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English | ISBN: 1644693364 | 2020 | 254 pages | PDF | 4 MB
From the translator of Avigdor Hameiri's Hell on Earth, winner of the 2019 TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize

Free Download Understanding Emotions in Early Europe By Michael Champion, Andrew Lynch
2015 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 2503552641 | PDF | 3 MB
This book investigates how medieval and early modern Europeans constructed, understood, and articulated emotions. The essays trace concurrent lines of influence that shaped post-Classical understandings of emotions, through overlapping philosophical, rhetorical, and theological discourses. They show the effects of developments in genre and literary, aesthetic, and cognitive theories on depictions of psychological and embodied emotion in literature. They map the deeply embedded emotive content inherent in rituals, formal documents, daily conversation, communal practice, and cultural memory. The contributors focus on the mediation and interpretation of pre-modern emotional experience in cultural structures and institutions - customs, laws, courts, religious foundations - as well as in philosophical, literary, and aesthetic traditions.The volume thus represents a conspectus of contemporary interpretative strategies, displaying close connections between disciplinary and interdisciplinary critical practices drawn from historical studies, literature, anthropology and archaeology, philosophy and theology, cognitive science, psychology, religious studies, and gender studies. The essays stretch from classical and indigenous cultures to the contemporary West, embracing numerous national and linguistic groups. They illuminate the complex potential of medieval and early modern emotions in situ, analysing their involvement in subjects as diverse as philosophical theories, imaginative and scholarly writing, concepts of individual and communal identity, social and political practices, and the manifold business of everyday life.

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2010 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0140290141 | PDF | 7 MB
'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created. Chris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period, encompassing peoples such as Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, was central to the development of our history and culture. From the collapse of the Roman Empire to the establishment of new European states, and from Ireland to Constantinople, the Baltic to the Mediterranean, this landmark work makes sense of a time of invasion and turbulence, but also of continuity, creativity and achievement.