Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This volume details Sir Jerome Horseys account of his experiences in Russia and other countries. Horsey, who spent the better part of seventeen yea...

This volume explores how art and artifacts can tell womens stories of war, a critical way into these stories, often hidden due to the second-tier s...

This volume explores how art and artifacts can tell womens stories of war, a critical way into these stories, often hidden due to the second-tier s...

This book provides you with the chance to explore the world of Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese wife of Charles II, by the means of a full tra...

This book explores the making of saints cults in the early modern world from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering the entangled roles of m...

This book is a sweeping reexamination of the evolution of the state, covering the indigenous orders of pre-Columbian America, the Spanish, Portugue...

Eight kings of England were named Henry. Of these, only two, the third and the sixth, were born as heirs to the throne, and these proved to be the ...

The Rise of Party in England (1975) examines the English political party as an essential entity to the meaningful interpretation of political histo...

The Rise of the Pelhams (1957) looks at the important period between the fall of Walpole and the appointment of Henry Pelham as First Lord of the T...

Refugees have existed since ancient times but it was in the early modern era that they first became a distinct social and political category. This ...

Historical studies of genocide in the 20th century trace the roots back to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments of the early mod...

This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early moder...

Garcia de Ortas Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between ...

Between 1640 and 1660 the British Isles witnessed a power struggle between king and parliament of a scale and intensity never witnessed, either bef...

The causes and nature of the civil wars that gripped the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century remain one of the most studied yet least unde...

Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a...

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate ta...

With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this book examines the practice of direct, scholarly disputation betwee...