...of French and English colonial authorities reveals that they faced the same dilemma with freebooters at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries: If repression were too severe, it would only encourage freebooters to try their chances elsewhere,...

...dominant labor system and thereby influenced all other social relations. This fateful transition occurred at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries in 113 the two Southern slave systems, but it never happened in the North. From this perspective, the...

...patricians of Geneva since the middle of the seventeenth century, in the English village of Colyton at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and among the patricians of Zierikzee in the eighteenth century." The dates of birth of children of...

...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....

...societies of the Amazon floodplain, but the majority of the Rio Negro societies, contacted only toward the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries when the driving forces behind expansion were intense, generated little ethnographic curiosity. Furthermore...

...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;...

...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...