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A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History

William James Bouwsma - History - 1990 - 464 pages
"Together the articles form a substantial book which traces the antecedents, characteristics and impact of Renaissance thought and action 'beyond all schools, ' with that ...
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John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

William J. Bouwsma - History - 1989 - 324 pages
Historians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and ...
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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

William James Bouwsma - History - 2002 - 328 pages
Historians have conventionally viewed intellectual and artistic achievement as a seamless progression in a single direction, with the Renaissance, as identified by Jacob ...
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Die Erfahrung der Inflation im internationalen Zusammenhang und Vergleich

William James Bouwsma - Business & Economics - 1984 - 448 pages
Conference report on the history of inflation and economic reconstruction in Europe, 1914-1924 - concentrates on events in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, UK ...
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Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge

Nick Wilding - Science - 2014 - 211 pages
Galileo’s Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo’s friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571–1620). Sagredo’s life, which has never before been studied in ...
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