...static society, no provision had been made for correcting the documents as village populations grew at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. With each succeeding generation the cadaster became a more distorted picture of economic and social...

...the benevolent intervention of the church. The results of this study of European children's Bibles at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries suggest that caution is necessary in discussions of the history of childhood, child-reading, or the...

...Dalmatia and Croatia, as well as Slavonia and Voivodine, was occupied by the Ottoman Empire for some time. At the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, following the Habsburgs' defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Habsburgs sought to gain power...

...and private mills, many other illegal obrajes existed. Tyrer suggests that in the Audiencia of Quito at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, at least fifty-seven obrajes were operating illegally,52 though most were probably small urban workshops....

...subject into topical prominence; and the sustained outbreak of ecstatic prophecy among the Camisards at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries was well remembered in Europe. 72. E. Teocmi, Le 'Liore des Actes' et L'Histoire, Paris 1957, p. 204;...

...lands to the north, and adapt it to their own purposes. In Tierradentro the resguardo was established at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. It did not arise earlier because the Nasa were still recovering from their wars with the Spanish. At...

...colonized to supply the growing Bengali production and export of textiles in the sixteenth and again at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. However, all of these, including the initial clearing of the jungle (as in the Amazon today) were financed...

...1720. A number of other fire offices, both mutual societies and joint-stock companies, were established at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Some of the longest survivors of these included a mutual society, the Amicable Contributorship (also...

...of the Thirty Years' War may well have been in the writings of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibni2, who wrote at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and pushed toleration theory well beyond anything Locke or Bayle could manage. He is not discussed...

...neighbor and sometimes as poor as themselves, paid nothing (ibid., [vol. 4,] p. 32). Decline of France at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Turgot, in 1762, says: "It is certain that Limousin and Angoumois have lost much of their wealth. The...