Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The battle of Cheriton, in March 1644, was a decisive yet unexpected defeat for the Hampshire detachment of King Charles''s ''Oxford Army''. Despit...

This book explores thoroughly the reforms of Russian administration from 1775 to 1785, this work also reaches beyond Catherine's reign to challenge...

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotla...

In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known ...

The Jacobites, adherents of the exiled King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his descendants, continue to command attention long after t...

Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', rep...

This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offerin...

Exploring republican ideas and concepts that developed in sixteenth-century Poland under the impact of humanism and the Renaissance, as well as pol...

Drawing on a wide and rich array of sources, this book explores the nature and extent of Dutch trade and commerce in the Río de la Plata during thr...

Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues th...

What were the laws on marriage in Ireland, and did church and state differ in their interpretation? How did men and women meet and arrange to marry...

Bel-vedére; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4,500 short verse quotations a...

In Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristoc...

A feast for the eyes and an entertaining, erudite read, this book opens with an illustrated survey of the 120 doges who led the Venetian Republic b...

This book provides a timely and original overview of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and its longer term affects on the social and physical land...