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Peter the Great

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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Peter the Great

By: Paul Bushkovitch

In Peter the Great, Yale historian and Russian scholar Paul Bushkovitch offers a brilliant, but concise, biography of this enigmatic leader.

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Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

The Transfer of Power 1450–1725

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

The Transfer of Power 1450–1725

By: Paul Bushkovitch

This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar's power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, overturns generations of scholarship to argue that legal primogeniture never existed: the monarch designated an heir that was usually the eldest son only by custom, not by law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108801277

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Peter the Great

The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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Peter the Great

The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725

By: Paul Bushkovitch

A new narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671-1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals.

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Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

The Transfer of Power 1450–1725

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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The Transfer of Power 1450–1725

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Religion and Society in Russia

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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Religion and Society in Russia

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Paul Bushkovitch

This book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an important transitional period in Russian history. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Russia saw the gradual decline of monastic spirituality, the rise of miracle cults, and ultimately the birth of a more personal and private faith that stressed morality instead of public rituals. Bushkovitch not only skillfully reconstructs these rapid and fundamental changes in the Russian religious experience, but also shows how they were influenced by European religious ideas and how they foreshadowed the secularization of Russian society usually credited to Peter the Great.

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Oxford University Press

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0195361520

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Peter the Great

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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Peter the Great

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In Peter the Great, Yale historian and Russian scholar Paul Bushkovitch offers a brilliant, but concise, biography of this enigmatic leader.

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Religion and Society in Russia

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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Religion and Society in Russia

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Paul Bushkovitch

Bushkovitch's book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in this important transitional period in Russian history. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Russia saw the gradual decline of monastic spirituality, the rise of miracle cults, and ultimately the birth of a more personal and private faith that stressed morality instead of public rituals. Bushkovitch not only skilfully reconstructs these rapid and fundamental changes in the Russian religious experience, but also shows how they were influenced by Western European religious ideas and how they foreshadowed the secularization of Russian society usually credited to Peter the Great.

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6610440956

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A Concise History of Russia

By: Paul Bushkovitch

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A Concise History of Russia

By: Paul Bushkovitch

Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past. The book traces not only the political history of Russia, but also developments in its literature, art and science. Bushkovitch describes well-known cultural figures, such as Chekhov, Tolstoy and Mendeleev, in their institutional and historical contexts. Though the 1917 revolution, the resulting Soviet system and the Cold War were a crucial part of Russian and world history, Bushkovitch presents earlier developments as more than just a prelude to Bolshevik power.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139504444

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The Power of Kings

Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715

By: Paul Kléber Monod

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The Power of Kings

Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715

By: Paul Kléber Monod

This sweeping book explores the profound shift in the way European kings and queens were regarded by their subjects between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Once viewed as godlike beings, by 1715 monarchs had come to represent the human, visible side of the rational state. The author offers new insights into the relations between kings and their subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion.

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Yale University Press

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0300090668

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9780300090666

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830

By: Paul Stock

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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830

By: Paul Stock

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.

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Oxford University Press

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019253386X

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The Making of Russian Absolutism 1613-1801

By: Paul Dukes

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The Making of Russian Absolutism 1613-1801

By: Paul Dukes

Revised and expanded, the second edition of this fascinating study surveys the first two centuries of Romanov rule from the foundation of the dynasty by Michael Romanov in 1613 to the accession of Alexander I in 1801. The central theme of the book is the growth of absolutism in Russia throughout these years, and it traces in detail how the Russian variety of what was a contemporary European phenomenon came fully into being.

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Routledge

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1317902327

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9781317902324

Binary Stars, Neutrinos, and Liquid Crystals:

The First 250 Years of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania

By: Paul A. Heiney

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Binary Stars, Neutrinos, and Liquid Crystals:

The First 250 Years of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania

By: Paul A. Heiney

This book traces the parallel paths of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, starting with their genesis in the 18th century, through the rising stature of both departments in the 20th century, and concluding with their unification in 1994. Along the way we meet David Rittenhouse, who observed the transit of Venus in 1769, Charles Doolittle, whose remarkable beard would freeze to his telescope on cold nights, Gaylord Harnwell, who transformed first the physics department and then the entire university, and Raymond Davis, who uncovered a mystery in the middle of the sun. The stories are tragic (Arthur Goodspeed failed to discover X-rays through inattention), horrifying (Dicran Kabakjian poisoned an entire neighborhood), and celebratory (three Penn physicists received the Nobel Prize in the late 20th Century). The reader will gain an appreciation, not just of the history of one institution, but of the ways these two disciplines both intersect and complement each other.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669851575

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9781669851578

Origins of the French Welfare State

The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914–1947

By: Paul V. Dutton

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Origins of the French Welfare State

The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914–1947

By: Paul V. Dutton

This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English, or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it. The author argues that France simultaneously pursued two different paths toward universal social protection. Family welfare embraced an industrial model in which class distinctions and employer control predominated. By contrast, protection against the risks of illness, disability, maternity, and old age followed a mutual aid model of welfare. The book examines a remarkably broad cast of actors that includes workers' unions, employers, mutual leaders, the parliamentary elite, haut fonctionnaires, doctors, pronatalists, women's organizations - both social Catholic and feminist - and diverse peasant organisations. It also traces foreign influences on French social reform, particularly from Germany's former territories in Alsace-Lorraine and Britain's Beveridge Plan.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139432966

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9781139432962

Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic Group

By: Peter Paul Bajer

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Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic Group

By: Peter Paul Bajer

In the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of Scots migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Some sojourned there for some time, while others stayed permanently and exercised commercial business and crafts. The migration stopped in the eighteenth century, and the Scots who remained in Poland seem to have lost their ethnic identity. This book offers an examination and assessment of this migration: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating Scottish presence in Poland-Lithuania; their commercial, academic, religious and military activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania.

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BRILL

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9004210652

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9789004210653

A History of Ukraine

The Land and Its Peoples, Second Edition

By: Paul Robert Magocsi

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A History of Ukraine

The Land and Its Peoples, Second Edition

By: Paul Robert Magocsi

First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order to expand our conception of the Ukrainian historical narrative. New chapters deal with the Crimean Khanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and new research on the pre-historic Trypillians, the Italians of the Crimea and the Black Death, the Karaites, Ottoman and Crimean slavery, Soviet-era ethnic cleansing, and the Orange Revolution is incorporated. Magocsi has also thoroughly updated the many maps that appear throughout. Maintaining his depiction of the multicultural reality of past and present Ukraine, Magocsi has added new information on Ukraine's peoples and discusses Ukraine's diasporas. Comprehensive, innovative, and geared towards teaching, the second edition of A History of Ukraine is ideal for both teachers and students.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442698799

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9781442698796

Book's by Paul Bushkovitch

Peter the Great

Peter the Great

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Peter the Great

Peter the Great

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Religion and Society in Russia

Religion and Society in Russia

Peter the Great

Peter the Great

Religion and Society in Russia

Religion and Society in Russia

A Concise History of Russia

A Concise History of Russia

The Power of Kings

The Power of Kings

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830

The Making of Russian Absolutism 1613-1801

The Making of Russian Absolutism 1613-1801

Binary Stars, Neutrinos, and Liquid Crystals:

Binary Stars, Neutrinos, and Liquid Crystals:

Origins of the French Welfare State

Origins of the French Welfare State

Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

A History of Ukraine

A History of Ukraine

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