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La 4e de couverture indique : "Qu'est-ce que le Saint-Empire ? Mosaïque de principautés allant des Flandres au royaume de Hongrie et de la Baltique à la Méditerranée, le Saint-Empire déroute par maints aspects. Il ne s'oriente pas vers une monopolisation croissante du pouvoir dans les mains d'un unique prince mais reste jusqu'au moins la fin du XVIIe siècle fondé sur un principe féodal. Il n'est pas non plus un état territorial délimité par des frontières nettes et demeure dépourvu de capitale. Il ne possède ni exécutif commun, ni armée unifiée face à l'ennemi extérieur. Mais la fragmentation, y compris du paysage universitaire et académique, démultiplie aussi la discussion intellectuelle et les possibilités d'échanges interterritoriaux. Le Saint-Empire est ainsi non seulement une couronne et un espace de communication et de savoirs, mais encore un espace de paix et de conflits négociés qui n'a plus sa place dans l'Europe des nations redéfinie par le Congrès de Vienne

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Social policy in early modern Ireland, like England, was primarily orientated towards the perennial problem of poverty. Despite the effect of war and famine, trade began to prosper in sixteenth century Ireland and continued to do so until after the Napoleonic Wars, albeit, interspersed with occasional depressions and minor famines. The effect of this growth in trade on population was explosive. Between 1672 and 1791 population more than tripled from 1.1 million to 3.8 million. England, as a result of the establishment of the Elizabethan Poor Law, in 1601, had achieved a relatively sophisticated poor relief system based on a crude categorisation according to abilities and needs, the introduction of a carceral system of discipline for the able‐bodied poor, and the compulsory levying of a poor rate. Ireland relied primarily on a system of punishments supplemented by proselytization, and tended to treat the poor as a unitary category, with the exception of children.

Warfare in Atlantic Africa provides a detailed examination of the way in which the war was conducted. This study covers the whole region systematically from original sources. It also includes the relationship between warfare and the slave trade.

Not much is known about the demography of the native population of Venezuela in Colonial times. Until mid-17th century, some factual information may be gained from the narratives of the first conquistadores, missionaries and colonists, as well as of authors writing in later times of the Colony, but with access to original sources. After mid-17th century, some quantitative information of demographic relevance was collected by the Jesuit, Capuchin and Franciscan missionaries and, in the last decades of the 18th century, by the colonial administration and the religious authorities. The native population declined, from between 200,000 and 500,000 inhabitants at contact (guesstimates of modern authors) to perhaps 120,000 in 1800, according to Humboldt's estimate. It is possible that the initial decline became steeper after the first smallpox pandemic of the 1580s and continued, at a slower pace, until the Independence. As in other regions of South America, marriage was early and almost universal, and the high ratio of births to deaths seems to indicate a high potential for growth, interrupted by frequent mortality crisis.A competing cause of the decline of the natives was the process of mestizaje that intensified with the increase of the population of European and African origin.