Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

27991 books were found.

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates...

Author: Keith Thomson
ISBN: 9780316703635
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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50 Life Lessons Learned from Leonardo da Vinci

50 Life Lessons Learned from Leonardo da Vinci

Author: Michael Kopplin
ISBN: 9798396628298
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most important and influential figures in human history. Know for his great works...  Read More >>

Mama Dida: My Road to Canada

Mama Dida: My Road to Canada

Author: Leonida Teohari
ISBN: 9780228889625
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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The Galileo Gambit

The Galileo Gambit

Author: Gary McAvoy ,  Ronald L Moore
ISBN: 9781954123359
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Father Michael Dominic, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive in Rome, is entrusted with the mission of transporting...  Read More >>

Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640

Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern...

Author: Alice Equestri
ISBN: 9781032054667
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation...  Read More >>

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture: Knowledge and Representation of the World in Italy from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture: Knowledge...

Author: Guido Abbattista
ISBN: 9781032047911
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culturepresents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to...  Read More >>

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 – c. 1900

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –...

Author: John Booker
ISBN: 9781032050355
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending...  Read More >>

Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books

Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies...

Author: Philip Beeley ,  Yelda Nasifoglu
ISBN: 9780367609269
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical...  Read More >>

Infanticide: Expert Evidence and Testimony in Child Murder Cases, 1688–1955

Infanticide: Expert Evidence and Testimony in Child...

Author: Rachel Dixon
ISBN: 9780367439231
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Infanticide examines medical expert evidence in infanticide cases, focusing specifically on the shifting notion...  Read More >>

From the Cloister to the State: Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France, 1642-1100

From the Cloister to the State: Fontevraud and the Making...

Author: Annalena Müller
ISBN: 9780367714543
Format: Paperback
$83.99

From the Cloister to the State examines the French order of Fontevraud, one of the largest monastic network under...  Read More >>

Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance

Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch...

Author: Eleanor Chan
ISBN: 9780367345341
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the broad shift towards the establishment of geometry as a practical and analytical tool in early...  Read More >>

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio (University of Richmond, USA) ,  Scott Oldenburg (Tulane University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367502324
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the intersection between geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens...  Read More >>

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period

Author: John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA) ,  Mitzi Kirkland-Ives (Missouri State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367676391
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to understand the multiple ways that Early Modern people made sense of the world...  Read More >>

Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System: 1565-1600

Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System: 1565-1600...

Author: Cuauhtémoc Villamar
ISBN: 9780367615567
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Villamar examines the role of Portuguese merchants in the formation of the Manila Galleon as a system of trade founded...  Read More >>

Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics: Navigation by Greenvill Collins

Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics: Navigation...

Author: Paul Hughes
ISBN: 9780367620479
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Greenvill Collins’s biography, on marine navigation, is aimed at cartographers. Through Arctic shipwreck, Dutch...  Read More >>

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation:...

Author: Sam Kennerley
ISBN: 9780367760809
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides the first in-depth study of contacts between Rome and the Maronites during the fifteenth and...  Read More >>

A Humanist on the Frontier: The Life Story of a Sixteenth-Century Central European Pastor

A Humanist on the Frontier: The Life Story of a Sixteenth-Century...

Author: Marcell Sebők
ISBN: 9781032059280
Format: Paperback
$83.99

A Humanist on the Frontier explores the remarkable life of Sebastian Ambrosius, a sixteenth-century Lutheran minister...  Read More >>

Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century

Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth...

Author: Gudrun Andersson (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032052595
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of...  Read More >>

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Author: Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032072920
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and innovations in furniture that made country houses...  Read More >>

The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848): Reappraisals and Comparisons

The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848):...

Author: Paschalis M. Kitromilides
ISBN: 9781032053660
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book brings together twenty-one scholars and a host of original ideas, revisionist arguments, and new information...  Read More >>

The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early...

Author: Bronach C. Kane ,  Simon Sandall
ISBN: 9781032062075
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of...  Read More >>

Ritual of Fire: From The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author

Ritual of Fire: From The Crime Writers' Association...

Author: D. V. Bishop
ISBN: 9781529096484
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Volume 2, Migrations, 1800–Present

The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Volume 2,...

Author: Marcelo J. Borges (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania) ,  Madeline Y. Hsu (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108487535
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization...  Read More >>

Atlantic Voyages: The East India Company and the British Route to the East in the Age of Sail

Atlantic Voyages: The East India Company and the British...

Author: Dr John McAleer (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9780192894748
Format: Hardback
$195.95

A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard...  Read More >>

The Sweating Sickness Epidemic: Henry VIII's Great Fear

The Sweating Sickness Epidemic: Henry VIII's Great Fear...

Author: Stephen Porter
ISBN: 9781399064286
Format: Hardback
$59.99

This book teases out the similarities and differences between the sweat' and its better-known, if equally feared,...  Read More >>

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