• By the late 18th century Spain was a very backward part of Europe, lagging economically, politically and culturally behind England and France. (marxist.com)
  • In the 18th century, cocoa plantations grew up along the coast, worked by further importations of African slaves. (wikipedia.org)
  • This hotel building is typical of the 18th century town houses of Seville. (maplandia.com)
  • Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) The aim of this presentation is to examine the state of archival sources used to document the itinerary of a French shipwrecked off the coast of Sicily in the early 18th century, carrying Muslim pilgrims from Algiers and Tunis. (eui.eu)
  • This Baroque-style building was built in the second half of the 18th century, restored in 2009, and converted into a Parador in 2015, becoming the first hotel of the Parador Network to be located outside Spain. (paradores.es)
  • [21] [22] Counterarguments to Chang's point of view are that the developing countries are able to adopt technologies from abroad whereas developed nations had to create new technologies themselves and that developing countries can sell to export markets far richer than any that existed in the 19th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • People down on their luck fleeing to the colonies on the first available ship is a mainstay of 19th century fiction. (history.ac.uk)
  • Although the bounty of 19th century plant hunters benefited our gardens at home, they thought very little about the impact plant collecting had on the origin country. (blogspot.com)
  • It requires us to imagine who we might be if we found ourselves in, say, 16th century France or 19th century South Africa. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • Finally, and most essentially, it is a space that was shaped between the 16th and the 19th centuries by circulations of people, commodities, technologies, ideas, and information. (oxfordbibliographies.com)
  • From the late 19th-century on, art historians have commonly used the term to describe art that follows Renaissance classicism and precedes the Baroque. (artandpopularculture.com)
  • For this reason, historians of the 19th century called this time the «era of national scripts» (6th to the 11th centuries). (uzh.ch)
  • The main objective of this study was to assess the importance of the newspaper Madrid Gazette, outline the contents of the publication, authenticate the origins of the documentary sources underpinning its composition, and confirm its impact and citations throughout 19th-century Spanish publications. (bvsalud.org)
  • We have explored the 19th century mystery of the identity of Kaspar Hauser, the so-called Child of Europe, from the perspective of the smallpox vaccination. (bvsalud.org)
  • It was used by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt and popularized by German art historians in the early 20th century to categorize the seemingly uncategorizable art of the Italian 16th century - art that was no longer perceived to exhibit the harmonious and rational approaches associated with the High Renaissance. (artandpopularculture.com)
  • By focussing on the theme of the heroic individual and the heroic cause, this course will provide an overview from the Mesopotamian establishment of the heroic mould with Gilgamesh in 2500 BCE to the cosmic myths debated during the scientific revolution in the sixteenth century. (uwindsor.ca)
  • She was a key protagonist in the sixteenth-century struggles between Ottoman and the Christian empires in Spain and Portugal. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • A towering figure in sixteenth-century Irish history, Gráinne was head of the O'Malley clan who, for more than three hundred years, ruled the southern shore of Clew Bay. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • The best reaction to: what was Spain's primary motive for conquering large areas of land in the sixteenth century? (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • Spain's primary motive for conquering large areas of land in the sixteenth century was to gain wealth, resources, and power through colonization and exploitation of indigenous populations. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • Spain was motivated by various factors to conquer large areas of land in the sixteenth century. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • In summary, Spain's primary motive for conquering large areas of land in the sixteenth century was motivated by wealth, resources, and power through colonization and exploitation of indigenous populations. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • The origins of the dulcian are obscure, but by the mid-sixteenth century it was available in as many as eight different sizes, from soprano to great bass. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Centring on the period from the 11th to the early 16th centuries, this collection of eleven essays and a foreword by both well-established and younger scholars addresses a range of still-unexplored aspects of medieval women's involvement in medical treatment and health care, as well as their role in the consumption, transmission, and production of medical knowledge. (history.ac.uk)
  • Although Vikings settled from the 11th century to the 14th century, the first explorations of Europeans began at the end of the 15th century, culminating in the expeditions of Frenchman Jacques Cartier to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. (numista.com)
  • In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Creek people and other Native Americans, and free and fugitive African Americans sought refuge in Florida. (wikipedia.org)
  • Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. (houseofnames.com)
  • Catalogue of an exhibition of etchings of the seventeenth century / with an introduction and biograp. (brooklynmuseum.org)
  • Seville is home to the famous Picasso Museum, which was founded in the early seventeenth century. (socialnetworkingqueen.com)
  • A tradition emerged in the early seventeenth century of composing music with the aim of recreating the pastoral atmosphere of the first Christmas Eve. (wfmt.com)
  • Its ornate sandstone buildings and Universidad de Salamanca, founded in the 1100s, were key intellectual centers in the 15th and 16th centuries. (socialnetworkingqueen.com)
  • Now needleworkers can learn to make exquisite lace and net embroidery in styles that originated in the centuries-old lace-making centers of Europe. (krainaksiazek.pl)
  • The EUI Visual and Material History working group hosts a paper by Dr. Stefan Hanß (University of Manchester) on 26 April 2022 17:00 (Hybrid-Mode) This paper charts the activities of featherworkers at the Habsburg court in Madrid. (eui.eu)
  • A brisk trading relationship existed between the southern Irish ports and Portugal from at least the late 15th century, and evidence of a permanent Irish community in Lisbon exists from the middle of the 16th century. (sas.ac.uk)
  • The word "pox" indicated, during the late 15th century, a disease characterized by eruptive sores. (bvsalud.org)
  • The independence struggle began in 1810 while Spain was engaged in the Peninsular War . (wikipedia.org)
  • The eleventh and last was on the 16th of December 1810, and was ratified on the 31st of the same month by new members from Mexico. (google.com.ar)
  • References to Ocale, Olagale, and Etoquale occur in 16th and early 17th century sources, but do not specify a location. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thomas O'Connor is professor in early modern history in the National University of Ireland Maynooth and director of the University's Arts and Humanities Institute. (sas.ac.uk)
  • Another 134 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1261, 1283, 1639, 1622, 1658, 1434 and 1479 are included under the topic Early De la paz History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. (houseofnames.com)
  • Another 28 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early De la paz Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. (houseofnames.com)
  • From Russia to the Americas, from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean and Middle East, Candice presents internationally known artists on the early music scene, crafting a delightful mix of musicianship, music, and history. (wfmt.com)
  • In the early eighteenth century Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the great wit and letter writer who was wife of the English ambassador, was transported by the vision of a beautifully dressed Turkish woman of Edirne: "She was dress'd in a Caftan of Gold brocade flower'd with Silver, her drawers were pale pink, Green and silver, her Slippers white. (cornucopia.net)
  • The early Carolingian minuscules of the 8th and 9th centuries, as writings of transition, gave rise to the next significant change: on the one hand, their numerous ligatures continued traditions of cursive writing from the late antiquity and their letterforms continued older minuscule scripts. (uzh.ch)
  • Note that the dulcian was never entirely supplanted-it continued to be used well into the eighteenth century by Bach and others. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Spain established its first permanent South American settlement in the present-day city of Cumaná in 1502, and in 1577 Caracas became the capital of the Province of Venezuela . (wikipedia.org)
  • Spain founded the first European settlement in the New World in 1493 in present-day Dominican Republic. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • citation needed] In the last decades of the twentieth century, the greater Ocala area had one of the highest growth rates in the country for a city its size. (wikipedia.org)
  • An overview of the major events and movements during the first half of the 'short' twentieth century. (uwindsor.ca)
  • Later, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, European designers from William Morris to Mariano Fortuny brought their admiration for Turkish silks into the mainstream of European textile design, while the great European and American collections of applied arts acquired Turkish silks in vast numbers. (cornucopia.net)
  • It would be a fine thing were the United States to return-and Vermeule says it is not really so long, approximately the middle of the twentieth century, since we left it-to the sincere pursuit of the common good. (thepostil.com)
  • After foreign colonial rule shifted between Spain and Great Britain and back again, in 1821 the United States acquired the territory of Florida. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Republic of Gran Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simón Bolívar , and Venezuela separated from that Republic in 1830. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was again expelled by a decree of the Spanish córtes of 1820, which was carried out in New Spain in January 1821. (google.com.ar)
  • Upon completion of the program, graduates will be ready to pursue a career in academia, carrying out research to high standards on topics within the subject of economic history, whether at a university or research centre, in both public as well as private institutions. (uc3m.es)
  • Matthew Restall is a Colonial Latin American Historian with areas of specialization in Yucatan and Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, Maya history, the Spanish Conquest, and Africans in Spanish America. (ox.ac.uk)
  • still their economic, political, and cultural activities in the Spanish Atlantic world did not end with the conquest but they continued in the following centuries. (oxfordbibliographies.com)
  • Links, Calumet LU and Green, Erik LU ( 2023 ) In Lund Papers in Economic History. (lu.se)
  • Klein-Venedig ( Little Venice ) was the most significant part of the German colonization of the Americas , from 1528 to 1546, in which the Augsburg -based Welser banking family obtained colonial rights in Venezuela Province in return for debts owed by Charles I of Spain. (wikipedia.org)
  • Topics include Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and Venice. (uwindsor.ca)
  • By the middle of the 16th century not many more than 2,000 Europeans lived in present-day Venezuela. (wikipedia.org)
  • This course looks at the different forms of contact between Europeans and the rest of the world during their first period of imperial expansion (15 th -18 th Century). (uwindsor.ca)
  • The Venezuelan territories were governed at different times from the distant capitals of the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru . (wikipedia.org)
  • The 16th- and 17th-century colonial economy was centered on gold mining and livestock farming. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is particularly recognizable in the letters E,M, and U (instead of V). As book script, the Uncial emerged in texts of the late 3rd to the 8th centuries. (uzh.ch)
  • A short representation of the history of Latin script and the individual scripts should enable an approximate dating of the texts in the archive. (uzh.ch)
  • His paintings are a priceless document of the history of the Spanish people. (marxist.com)
  • But the invasion of Spain by the French set in train a series of events that were a living nightmare for the Spanish people - a nightmare that found its mirror image in the paintings of Goya. (marxist.com)
  • Explore the medieval charm of Toledo, Spain, the capital of the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha. (socialnetworkingqueen.com)
  • Silk thread produced in China was likely woven into fabric in Spain before crossing the Atlantic where a Spanish colonizer or an Indigenous Andean seamstress sewed Mary's garments. (dartmouth.edu)
  • The history of the Spanish presence in the spice islands Written by Marco Ramerini. (colonialvoyage.com)
  • Motivations for colonization: Spain's colonization goals were to extract gold and silver from the Americas , to stimulate the Spanish economy and make Spain a more powerful country. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • What did the Spanish conquer in the 16th century? (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • Even though most works on the Atlantic Spanish world center on its maturity and decline, certain characteristics of this world had emerged since the 16th century. (oxfordbibliographies.com)
  • By the beginning of the second half of the 16th century, Spain had already begun to decline. (marxist.com)
  • In the course of the next half-century, Ghalib and Gerard translated no less than 88 Arabic works of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, philosophy and logic, the very branches of learning which underpinned the great revival of scholarship in Europe referred to as the Twelfth Century Renaissance. (irfi.org)
  • A fifth key, for the low Eb, was added during the first half of the eighteenth century. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • 1) Students with a Joint Master's Degree in Economic History at the Universidad de Barcelona, the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and the Universidad de Zaragoza, or in the the Master's Degree in Economic Development and Growth at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid must achieve an overall average grade of 7 or above, with a grade of 7 or above in their dissertation. (uc3m.es)
  • The deputies from America and the Philippines to the national córtes in Spain, presented several petitions for the restoration of the society of Jesus in the Indies. (google.com.ar)
  • The 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau , a secret agreement between France and Spain concerning the Louisiana territory in North America, was concluded here. (werelate.org)
  • Austrian music of the baroque era was strongly influenced by the contemporary music of Italy, France, Spain, and Hungary, as well as the music of the Slavic lands. (wfmt.com)
  • Superb reproduction of most popular 16th-century lace design book by Queen of France s favorite patterner. (krainaksiazek.pl)
  • Fifteen original Oriental manuscript leaves of six centuries : twelve of the Middle East, two of Rus. (brooklynmuseum.org)
  • This hamlet was endowed with a royal hunting lodge and a chapel by Louis VII in the middle of the twelfth century. (werelate.org)
  • This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, as well as those working in gender studies and migration studies. (hdoisto.gr)
  • Economic History. (uc3m.es)
  • The aim of this program is to train researchers in the different branches of economic history. (uc3m.es)
  • They will also be able to produce original research in the field of economic history and very long-term economic development. (uc3m.es)
  • Students are expected to gain mastery of the skills, techniques and methodologies specific to economic history, a field clearly set within the sphere of social sciences due to its interdisciplinary and cross-sectional character, as well as its place at the crossroads of economics and history. (uc3m.es)
  • The university where the applicant studies in the past will be reviewed in detail, giving special attention to any previous training in subjects in economics, history and economic history. (uc3m.es)
  • Applicants must prove they have undergone enough training to allow them to undertake research in the field of economic history. (uc3m.es)
  • Knowledge in the fields of economics, history and economic history will be considered an advantage. (uc3m.es)
  • Finally, the committee will consider positively any teaching experience in the subjects of economics, history and economic history, as well as in other subjects. (uc3m.es)
  • The applicant's personal statement must clearly reflect the motivation behind undertaking doctoral training in the field of economic history. (uc3m.es)
  • Before the rise of Islam , Toledo had been the capital city of Visigothic Spain, and its capture by Alfonso VI of Castile was an important moment in the Christian reconquista of the land known to Islam as al-Andalus. (irfi.org)
  • Mexican Literature as World Literature is a landmark collection that, for the first time, studies the major interventions of Mexican literature of all genres in world literary circuits from the 16th century forward. (bloomsbury.com)
  • In the summer of 1948 Alexander Fleming, known around the world as the discoverer of penicillin, visited Spain. (history.ac.uk)
  • The conflict over the division of land in the New World between Portugal and Spain was resolved by the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the territories, giving Portugal explicit rights to explore Brazil and Africa while Spain was given the vast majority of the New World. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • On 14 October 2019 - with Camilla Pietrabissa (Fondazione 1563 per l'arte e la cultura, Turin) Lecture co-organised with the History of Science Working Group (EUI) This seminar explores the role of drawing practices in fabricating the image of urban nature in eighteenth-century Paris. (eui.eu)
  • Yet historians differ in opinion, as to whether Mannerism is a style, a movement, or a period, and while the term remains controversial it is commonly used to identify European art and culture of the 16th century. (artandpopularculture.com)
  • Her most recent publications explore the cross-cultural dimension of the textual and material exchanges between Spain and England. (sas.ac.uk)
  • Reticella work, carricmacross lace, princess lace, and other traditional techniques developed by lace-makers in Ireland, England, Spain, and other countries resulted in finished pieces of unrivaled beauty that continue to inspire needlecrafters. (krainaksiazek.pl)
  • A century later, Sayyida al Hurra (1485-1561), the queen of Tétoun in northern Morocco, was a pirate commander controlling the west side of the Mediterranean Sea in an alliance with the Turkish corsair Barbarossa of Algiers, who held the eastern waters. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • Gonzalo Capellán PhD in Modern and Contemporary History with extraodinary award. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This page of Research Supported by FAPESP assembles referential information on scholarships and research grants from several research modalities awarded by FAPESP, classified in the sub-area of knowledge Modern and Contemporary History , 3nd level of hierarchical organization. (fapesp.br)
  • The display board "FAPESP Support in Numbers" presents the number of ongoing or completed scholarships and research grants, awarded by the Foundation, classified in the sub-area Modern and Contemporary History . (fapesp.br)
  • Use the "Refine results" list of options to filter research information classified in the sub-area Modern and Contemporary History and to get results that are more specific for your search, according to the following parameters: type of Research Grants, modality of Scholarships, Institution and Start Date. (fapesp.br)
  • The Maps and Graphs contribute to identifying the geographical distribution of FAPESP sponsorship in the State of São Paulo and to visualizing the historical sequence of funded research, by year, on the research projects classified in the sub-area Modern and Contemporary History . (fapesp.br)
  • However, in the seventeenth and especially the eighteenth centuries, Lisbon's trading and employment opportunities attracted numerous Protestant Irish, many of whom converted to Catholicism. (sas.ac.uk)
  • He is a member of the Fondation Irlandaise (Paris), has served on the Irish Manuscripts Commission, and has been editor of the history sources journal, Archivium Hibernicum (2000-20021). (sas.ac.uk)
  • History of the Pacific States of North America: Mexico. (google.com.ar)
  • The fortress of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios is the most important fortification of the entire defensive system built on the island of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) by the Portuguese in the eighteenth century and is located on a hill between the Bay of Santo António and the Praia do Cachorro. (colonialvoyage.com)
  • We must also point out the great importance of the archive, which contains documents that date back to the 9th century. (mu.nu)
  • Another highlight is the infamous bullring, which dates back to the eighteenth century. (socialnetworkingqueen.com)
  • It is estimated that between 1503 and 1660, Spain transported over 180 tons of silver and 16,000 tons of gold back to Spain. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • In addition to traditional military history, this course will introduce many facets of the New Military History, such as the social history of soldiers, life on the homefront, gender and war, etc. (3 lecture hours, or 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week. (uwindsor.ca)
  • Areas of study may include the history of historical thought, analysis of various contemporary approaches, working with secondary sources, and deploying bibliographical tools. (uwindsor.ca)
  • Spain sought new sources of revenue after experiencing financially draining wars. (adventurecostablanca.com)
  • His illustrated autobiography, published in 1560, shows him dressed in the robes he had worn in the presence of or had been given by the rulers of Poland, Russia and Spain as well as Turkey. (cornucopia.net)
  • Nevertheless, the Bourbon monarchs of Spain, like other European monarchs, had tried to introduce elements of Enlightenment, copied from the French Illustration. (marxist.com)
  • Eighteenth century Spain was not like other European countries. (marxist.com)
  • Other translations from the Arabic at this period filled European libraries with a richness of learning impossible even to imagine a century before: editions of Aristotle, Euclid, Plato and Ptolemy, commentaries by Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and astrological texts by al-Khwarizmi, encyclopedias of astronomy, illustrated accounts of chess, and guides to precious stones and their medicinal qualities. (irfi.org)
  • Mannerism is a period of European painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts of the 16th century . (artandpopularculture.com)
  • This hotel is an authentic palace in the style of Sevilla and dates from the 16th century. (maplandia.com)
  • Other manuscripts represent the lives and daily activities of the people who commissioned them-royal and elite patrons who populated the court in the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. (seattleartmuseum.org)