Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth...  Read More >>

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection...  Read More >>

This book examines the hemispheric histories of overlooked peoples and places that shaped colonial Spanish America....  Read More >>

En 1528 partió desde España una expedición para colonizar La Florida. Pero todo salió terriblemente mal: retrasada...  Read More >>

Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.  Read More >>

In the wealth of early modern portrayals of the devil as a fear-inducing monstrosity, narrative realizations that...  Read More >>

The life and times of Catherine de' Medici, by scholar of the Italian Renaissance Mary Hollingsworth.  Read More >>

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Focused on the Escorial and the Vatican, the book delves into the essential political and cultural role of 16th-century...  Read More >>

The type of coquette emerging in the 17th century enjoyed unparalleled success in the 18th century thanks to the...  Read More >>

Examines the forgotten campaigns to control North America’s mineral wealth, linking the Civil War’s military, naval,...  Read More >>

Reveals the experiences of the Salzburger migrants who came to Georgia with the support of British and German philanthropy,...  Read More >>

Provides the first comprehensive history of the sheet music of the Confederacy. The book covers Confederate-themed...  Read More >>

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Provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and...  Read More >>

The book contains seven essays on the Reformation written by world-renowned authors. As much as they are widely...  Read More >>

This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar's power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of...  Read More >>

Focused on the Escorial and the Vatican, the book delves into the essential political and cultural role of 16th-century...  Read More >>

The type of coquette emerging in the 17th century enjoyed unparalleled success in the 18th century thanks to the...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

First published in 1935, Queen Elizabeth and Her Subjects presents a comprehensive history of the Elizabethan Age....  Read More >>