|9780822948674|Europe in a Global World, 1450s-1780s|Join Domenico Bertoloni Meli on a detailed journey through the understanding and investigations of nature, when profound changes transformed the intellectual landscape and the beginning of European expansion and colonialism. His book takes us on a guided tour through history, when the religious unity of Europe was broken with huge political, intellectual, and economic consequences, while global history took on new meanings, with European voyages of exploration and exploitation being interwoven with geographical knowledge, warfare, and trade. After a brief introduction, each part of this book—from the Renaissance to the Epistemic Revolution to the Enlightenment—opens…

|9780822948988|Europe in a Global World, 1450s-1780s|Join Domenico Bertoloni Meli on a detailed journey through the understanding and investigations of nature, when profound changes transformed the intellectual landscape and the beginning of European expansion and colonialism. His book takes us on a guided tour through history, when the religious unity of Europe was broken with huge political, intellectual, and economic consequences, while global history took on new meanings, with European voyages of exploration and exploitation being interwoven with geographical knowledge, warfare, and trade. After a brief introduction, each part of this book—from the Renaissance to the Epistemic Revolution to the Enlightenment—opens…

|9780822967750|European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740|Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation—substances whose curative virtues were known to Indigenous peoples and assimilated into European knowledge and commerce by missionaries, soldiers, and merchants. Exoticizing Consumption explores the many ways in which new global drugs disrupted the European medical marketplace, how they came to be known, described, valued, and used in Europe, how they reached European…

|9780822948704|European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740|Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation—substances whose curative virtues were known to Indigenous peoples and assimilated into European knowledge and commerce by missionaries, soldiers, and merchants. Exoticizing Consumption explores the many ways in which new global drugs disrupted the European medical marketplace, how they came to be known, described, valued, and used in Europe, how they reached European…

|9780822947769|A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America|Over the past 250 years, energy transitions have occurred repeatedly—the rise of coal in the nineteenth century, the explosion of oil in the twentieth century, the nuclear utopianism of the 1950s and 1960s. These transitions have been as revolutionary as any political or economic upheaval, and they required changes in infrastructure and behavior. Yet new energies never wholly replace old ones. This volume historicizes energy production and consumption while demonstrating how energy use has reshaped everything from social life and economic organization to political governance. It foregrounds the importance of energy…