Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries 178920707X, 9781789207071

Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries 9781789207071

Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portu

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Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: From the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries 9789048528998

This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of co

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Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries 9089649832, 9789089649836, 9789048528998

Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely 'terra incognita' - but by the late Middle Ages, it

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Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 9789004537514, 9004537511

As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this bo

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Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century 1607322404, 9781607322405

This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use

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Enclave to Urbanity: Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries 9789888208876

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Sites of imperial memory: Commemorating colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 9781526111890

Addresses imperial memory across various empires, different forms of commemoration and over two centuries

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The Emblem and Architecture: Studies in Applied Emblematics from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (Imago Figurata Studies) 250350776X, 9782503507767

This publication is a collection of essays on the function and significance of emblematic decoration of buildings in Eur

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Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World 1138214736, 9781138214736

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove co

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The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries 9781503618473

This book is a history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, who in their own language call themselves Tay Ñudzahui,

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