Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany
Joel F. HarringtonCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted chil...
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The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition
Edmund S. MorganCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In 1957, the University of Chicago Press asked acclaimed best-selling historian Daniel J. Boorstin to oversee a series of accessible yet authoritat...
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The Reformation and Robert Barnes: History, Theology and Polemic in Early Modern England
Korey D. MaasCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99The first extensive examination of Robert Barnes, his career, misconstrued theology and wide-ranging influence beyond England. By the time of his ...
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The Time Traveller''s Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London
Ian MortimerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exc...
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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Joseph J. EllisCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....
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John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning
William PooleCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50John Aubrey (162697) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in ...
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When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
Maureen QuilliganCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious warsyet it also witnessed the remarkable flower...
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John Leland: De uiris illustribus / On Famous Men
John LelandCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99Equipped with a commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 before they were dispers...
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Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer
Professor Scott H. HendrixCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99A bold, insightful biography of Martin Luther[A] richly detailed portrait.D.G. Hart, Wall Street JournalEven-handed and engaging. . . . A nuanced p...
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy WarrenCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with ...
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The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal
Ruth MacKayCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops...
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The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635-1642
Leonie JamesCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Contributes to a better understanding not only of ecclesiastical power and politics but of life in an élite household in seventeenth-century Britai...
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Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515
John M. NajemyCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 ...
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The King''s Smuggler: Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I
John FoxCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Jane Whorwood (1612 - 1684) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire...
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Britain''s Slave Empire
James WalvinCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The history of how the Africa Trade formed the backbone of the British Empire. The British Empire carried more Africans into bondage across the Ame...
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The Blast of War: Destruction in the English Civil Wars
Stephen PorterCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The destruction caused by the English Civil Wars was widespread and devastating. Towns, villages, churches, and country houses were destroyed, and ...
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Ye Olde Good Inn Guide: A Tudor Traveller''s Guide to the Nation''s Finest Taverns
James MooreCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Art thou in need of hearty ale and a bed safe from brigands as you ply the highways and byways of Britain? Then Ye Olde Good Inn Guide is for you ...
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The Mistresses of Henry VIII
Kelly HartCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting. Over the years, this didnt change much. Henry was consid...
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How the Scots Won the English Civil War: The Triumph of Fraser''s Dragoons
Alisdair McRaeCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Taking a fresh look at the Scottish involvement in the English Civil War, this fascinating take on a popular period of history focuses on how the S...
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James I: Scotland''s King of England
John MatusiakCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than Englands first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern ...
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The Life of Henrietta Anne: Daughter of Charles I
Melanie CleggCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of ...
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Mary Queen of Scots Downfall: The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley
Robert StedallCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In the early hours of 10 February 1567 a large explosion ripped through the Provosts lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scot...
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The Real Guy Fawkes
Nick HollandCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the rulin...
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Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time
Natalie GrueningerCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinati...
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