The Dutch Golden Age, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. Jonathan Israel gives the ...
Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating the fallibility of both its authors and its interpreters. He argues that free enquiry is not only ...
Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the ...
Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and ...
In this detailed survey, Jonathan Israel examines the genesis of modern thought, marked by its emphasis on democracy and equality, from the 17th- and 18th-century philosophies of Spinoza, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
A concise, practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of liver disease. Authoritative and practical, this important new book not only spells out the advantages and limitations of the latest diagnostic tests, but also provides numerous algorithms for evaluating patients and treating the liver problems commonly encountered by primary care ...
This book, joint winner of the Wolfson Literary Award for History, is a survey of Jewish life and culture in early modern Europe, which sees the 16th and 17th centuries as a radically new phase in Jewish history. It emphasizes the reversal of trends in western and central Europe in the late sixteenth century, which was followed by a rapid increase ...
Much new research and writing on the Glorious Revolution of 1688-91 in England, Scotland, Ireland and North America, and on the Dutch role in the Revolution, has materialized in the last few years in connection with the tercentenary celebrations of 1988 and 1989 and the various accompanying conferences, symposia, and exhibitions in Britain, the ...
Despite its small size and population, the Dutch Republic functioned as the hub of world trade, shipping, and finance for nearly two centuries. This is the first detailed account of that hegemony from its sixteenth-century origins to the final collapse of the Dutch trading system in the eighteenth century.
Two renowned historians address the issue of religious tolerance in the Dutch-ruled Brazil in the seventeenth century. The reputation of the Dutch for religious tolerance was never more justified than in their Brazilian colony, where Catholics and Jews coexisted peacefully alongside the Protestants, all enjoying freedom of religious belief and ...
...both in its transitional argument and in its conclusions Israel's work will undoubtedly occupy henceforth an important place in the study of Spanish, Dutch and European history of its period...'___ The Times Literary Supplement .
An examination of the relationship between gens and regnum by systematically comparing the "Germanic" and non-Germanic successor states of the Roman Empire. This question leads to key results about the role of ethnic processes and political developments in the formation of the new kingdoms.
One of the main consequences of recent work in early modern intellectual and religious history has been a discrediting of the notion of a sudden and dramatic transition to the spiritual world of the Enlightenment. Scholars are increasingly examining the underlying spiritual trends and tendencies which confirm the variety and complexity of the slow ...
This volume concerns the Sephardic Jewish diaspora, and the connected "New Christian" diaspora, during the period 1540-1740 when these linked networks played a role in the six great European maritime empires of the time - the Venetian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French.
El desarrollo poltico del virreinato tuvo en el periodo de 1610 a 1670 sus mayores tensiones. La composicin racial y de clase de la sociedad colonial determin el desenvolvimiento global -econmico y poltico- de ese conflictivo conjunto humano, al hacer de la administracin colonial una lite que detentaba el poder de la sociedad entera.
The period between the late sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries was one of tremendous, and ultimately decisive, shifts in the balance of political, military and economic power in both Europe and the wider world. In these essays Jonathan Israel argues that Spain's efforts to maintain her hegemony continued, for a number of reasons, to be ...
This account of the two centuries of Dutch domination in world trade uses archival material to explain how the Dutch Republic, despite its small size and population, functioned as the hub of world shipping and finance and was able to exert its ascendancy for so long. It examines the mechanisms by which this was achieved and sustained, and the ...
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