Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burfo...

While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical...

What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the diffusion and reception of ...

When Flemish engraver and publisher Theodore de Bry issued the first volume of his America series in 1590, the New World was, for most Europeans, t...

This book addresses the varied performances of magic in medieval and early modern Scandinavia. It provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly ex...

This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated b...

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entert...

Exploring what the early English Protestants came to believe about the afterlife, and how they arrived at their positions, this much-needed book fi...

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through differe...

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (17241803) and his impact on architectural theory and ped...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

A vogue for travel stunts flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland tr...

Including 11 essays published over the last 15 years, this volume by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez concerns the origins and early developmen...

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime ...

This title was first published in 2000. Rethinking Prejudice offers the first philosophical monograph on the concept of prejudice. It takes its sta...

From antiquity to our own time those interested in political economy have with almost no exceptions regarded the natural physical environment as a ...