Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Welche Bedeutung besaÃen Herkunft und Religion eines frÃhneuzeitlichen Kaufmanns fÃr seinen Handel? Worin unterschied sich die Tätigkeit eines Han...

The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership.Poggio Bracciolini w...

For the first time during the Early Modern period, ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. Durin...

This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, ...

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi...

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian...

This book is a study of all the known schools in the six counties of the West of England, from the Conquest to the Reformation. Most are described ...

The botanical drawings of the American naturalist William Bartram.

Engaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, E...

Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world traffic in anti-immigrant rhet...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

This volume documents the practice of bringing enslaved people to early modern Europe not only as a side effect of overseas colonial regimes but a...

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to particip...

While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well known to the English-reading public, the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remain...

The authors have done an excellent job bringing this last conflictone that is often overlookedto life. And not only that, they have put it into the...

In the 16th century - due to the lack of local higher education institutions - Wittenberg was the most important university for Protestants in Hung...

This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored trea...