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Sweden, Russia, and the 1617 Peace of Stolbovo
In 1617 after seven years of war between Sweden and Russia and talks facilitated by English and Dutch diplomats the peace treaty of Stolbovo was signed. This important but little-studied document was to form the basis for relationships between Sweden and Russia for the next one hundred years before it was replaced by the Peace of Nystad in 1721 and it had a huge influence on the lives of the people who lived in the region.
This wide-ranging volume draws together contributions by scholars from Britain Sweden Germany Estonia Russia and Finland to offer new insights into and analysis of this peace treaty and its impact on the wider region during the seventeenth century. Covering disciplines including political and economic history church history and Slavonic and Classical philology the chapters gathered here shed new light on and provide a new understanding of the Early Modern period in the Baltic Sea area.
La Austriaca siue Naumachia de Francisco de Pedrosa
La insólita victoria de la Santa Liga sobre la flota turca en la batalla de Lepanto (1571) inspiró la puesta en marcha de la maquinaria propagandística imperial destinada a ensalzar el reinado de Felipe II y las virtudes de Juan de Austria como general de la armada cristiana. Esto ofrecía un marco idóneo para el desarrollo de toda clase de poesía encomiástica donde el género épico había ocupado un lugar destacado desde antiguo. El vigoroso aliento poético de Lepanto llegó a Santiago de Guatemala donde el poeta y gramático madrileño Francisco de Pedrosa compuso una epopeya titulada Austriaca siue Naumachia que ha permanecido inédita hasta nuestros días.
Este volumen consta de dos partes. La parte I contiene el estudio introductorio de la obra donde se ofrecen en primer lugar los datos biográficos de Pedrosa. Seguidamente se examinan las características y los diversos procedimientos compositivos de la Austriaca donde lo clásico y lo moderno la épica y la historia lo pagano y lo cristiano confluyen en un juego incesante. También se abordan algunas cuestiones problemáticas como la datación de algunos de los paratextos del manuscrito y los indicios que apuntan al estado in fieri de la versión que se ha conservado de esta epopeya. La parte II consta de la edición crítica del poema y de estos escritos que lo acompañan: dos versiones -una en latín y otra en castellano- de una carta prologal los poemas laudatorios y una carta de fray Martín de la Cueva dirigida a Pedrosa.
The Colonial Machine
French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime
The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III and François Regourd explore these two world-historical forces and their interactions in this comprehensive and in-depth history of the French case in the Old Regime presented here for the first time. The case is key because no other state matched Old-Regime France as a center for organized science and because contemporary France closely rivaled Britain as a colonial power as well as leading all other nations in commodity production and participating in the slave trade.
Based on extensive archival research and vast primary and secondary literatures and sharply reframing the historiography of the field this landmark volume traces the development and significance for early-modern history of the Colonial Machine of Old-Regime France an unparalleled agglomeration of institutions geared to the success of the French colonial enterprise including the Royal Navy the Académie Royale des Sciences the Jardin du Roi and a host of related specialist institutions working together at home and overseas. Mainly supported by the French state the Colonial Machine reveals itself through its actions from the time of Colbert and Louis XIV as it grappled with fundamental problems facing contemporary European colonialism: cartography and navigation; medical care of sailors colonists and slaves; and applied botany and commodity production.
Historians of globalization and European overseas expansion of Old-Regime France and of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will henceforth take this stimulating volume as a necessary starting point for further reflection and research.