...in the south of Sweden, site of an important naval base, was prominent in the production of warships at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, especially under the direction of the British shipbuilder Charles Sheldon. In his time more than 70...

...something unknown in Europe since pre-Christian times. Alexander Hamilton, a Scot who toured India at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, came across one Hindu holy man, a giant with a massive penis to which was attached a gold ring. He...

...from elsewhere in the Americas, see the importation of several hundred Madagascar slaves into New York at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, in Virginia Bever Platt, "The East India Company and the Madagascar Slave Trade," WMQ, 26 (1969), 548-77,...

...that the Ottomans experienced in maintaining their hold on the island during these tumultuous years at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries and shows that the Ottoman predicament was similar in important ways to Venice's predicament during...

...from Rabbi Jacob Sasportas and Rabbi Leyb ben Ozer, the notary of the Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Thus it is known to us that Abraham de Sousa 'was an unbeliever from the beginning to the end'." Also...

...were three belonging to the Deme clan, which derived from Sanko-bo, and each had famous craftsmen: at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, for example, Kawachi of the Iseki house, Mitsuteru of the Echizen house, and Zekan, Yukan, Tohaku and...

...texts representing pioneering work done by acrobats, actors and dancers in the fairgrounds of Paris at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. At the heart of the project are the texts themselves. Currently we have eighteen, with more to come....

...will is as historically comprehensible and materially significant as that with which we have to deal at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Perhaps Christianity, in view of what its creed understands by sanctification and obedience, sets out...

...Italians, French and Germans - died with Henry Purcell. However, England's enthusiasm for Italian opera at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries produced an interesting reaction: unable to compete with Italy, the English resorted to ridicule and...

...worried Tokugawa lemitsu and his advisers, but the renewed outflow of bullion to cover trade imbalances at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries once again alarmed the shogunate, which in 1715 issued the New Regulations on Ships and Trade. Provisions...