Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that wi...

Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her story reads like a particularly spicy nove...

It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal sus...

Geza Palffy traces the complex relations between Hungary and the Habsburgs, including the integration of the country into a conglomerate central Eu...

The second volume in this two-volume history explains how and why 300 gunners of the Royal Irish Artillery who landed in Martinique in 1794 mustere...

This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bial...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 Exhilarating and whip-smart THE SUNDAY TIMES ...

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 1794, 300 gunners of the Royal Irish Artillery landed in Martinique as part of an expedition led by General Grey and Admiral Jervis designed to ...

The Plantation of Ulster was the most ambitious scheme of colonisation ever attempted in modern Europe, and one of the largest European migrations ...

The Scottish Reformation of 1560 is one of the most controversial events in Scottish history, and a turning point in the history of Britain and Eur...

Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne, the daughters of King Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, would be brought up against the background of t...

The six monarchs of the Tudor dynasty are phenomenally well known. Henry VII succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII formed the Churc...

Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. This book focuses on one nationa...

The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable,...

In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontie...

In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontie...

From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidensprovided t...

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes...

In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly ch...

In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus,...