Commander of the Armada

Commander of the Armada
Author: Peter Pierson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300044089

The life story of the seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia, best known as the man who led to the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588.

Philip of Spain and the Netherlands

Philip of Spain and the Netherlands
Author: C. J. Cadoux
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718896785

In Philip of Spain and the Netherlands, C.J. Cadoux discusses the expression of moral judgements regarding leading figures in major historical events. Indeed, Cadoux, using the case of the Dutch Revolt, questions whether it is possible at all to assess moral quality without adequate knowledge of the relevant facts, at least. First published in 1947, Cadoux's approach is one of presenting history, both national and personal, in a non-judgemental manner. This holistic approach allows for a clear and concise depiction of events and persons that is not skewed by an overbearing opinion. He posits that in the great struggle between Spain and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century, a new ethic of Christian mercy is discernible. Cadoux concludes his book by asking the reader 'in whose behaviour there can be seen some promise of better and humaner things?', reinforcing the inherent difficulty that remains when passing moral judgement.

Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands

Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2009-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047429818

Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an “imaginary line” but a tool for thinking about how to separate any two elements, whether ideas, events, etc., into categories by which they become comprehensible and distinct. The scholar contributors seek not simply to discern the boundaries, but, and perhaps more importantly, to understand the process of delination, and its consequences. With its maverick history and grass-root political traditions, the Netherlands provides an auspicious setting to examine the historical function of boundaries both real and imagined.

Nuclear Arms Control

Nuclear Arms Control
Author: Tom Sauer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1998-11-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349267295

The proliferation of nuclear weapons has been defined as the gravest potential threat to international peace and security. The concept of nuclear deterrence has to be revisited in this regard. The longer the Nuclear Weapon States hold on to their nuclear weapons, the bigger the chance that nuclear weapons will be spread and will be used (once again) by accident, in an authorized or unauthorized way, or that nuclear terrorism becomes reality. The marginalizing of nuclear weapons resulting in a Nuclear Weapon Free World should be considered as a viable alternative.

Torture and the Law of Proof

Torture and the Law of Proof
Author: John H. Langbein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226922618

In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's book, first published in 1977, remains the definitive account of how European legal systems became dependent on the use of torture in their routine criminal procedures, and how they eventually worked themselves free of it. The book has recently taken on an eerie relevance as a consequence of controversial American and British interrogation practices in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In a new introduction, Langbein contrasts the "new" law of torture with the older European law and offers some pointed lessons about the difficulty of reconciling coercion with accurate investigation. Embellished with fascinating illustrations of torture devices taken from an eighteenth-century criminal code, this crisply written account will engage all those interested in torture's remarkable grip on European legal history.

Lille and the Dutch Revolt

Lille and the Dutch Revolt
Author: Robert S. DuPlessis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2002-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521894173

This comprehensive study explains why Lille was renowned for adhering to the existing order.

Remembering the Reformation

Remembering the Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429619928

This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Remembering the Reformation traces how a complex, protracted, and unpredictable process came to be perceived, recorded, and commemorated as a transformative event. Exploring both local and global patterns of memory, the contributors examine the ways in which the Reformation embedded itself in the historical imagination and analyse the enduring, unstable, and divided legacies that it engendered. The book also underlines how modern scholarship is indebted to processes of memory-making initiated in the early modern period and challenges the conventional models of periodisation that the Reformation itself helped to create. This collection of essays offers an expansive examination and theoretically engaged discussion of concepts and practices of memory and Reformation. This volume is ideal for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying the Reformation, Early Modern Religious History, Early Modern European History, and Early Modern Literature.