Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry...

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what wa...

Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book exa...

From the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Seward and Stanton, here is the critically acclaimed and definitive biography of J...

Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592-1598. While in captivity i...

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the n...

A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object o...

Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early ...

On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de' Medici murdered Alessandro de' Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama,...

The Parliamentary Diary and Other Parliamentary Papers of Sir Richard Paulet, 1604-1614 presents one of the earliest surviving private parliamentar...

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. A...

This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, histo...

This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, histo...

It was not so long ago that the belief in witchcraft was shared by members of all levels of society. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, di...

In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationship...

War and politics in the Elizabethan counties reassesses the national war effort during the wars against Spain (15851603). Drawing on a mass of hith...

Liverpool was unique among English towns in the rate of its commercial development from the late seventeenth century. Liverpool, 16601750 provides ...

This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominic...

This book investigates how Europe has evolved from a theocratic culture to a contemporary nation-state structure. It examines how the Renaissance a...

America's origins are inextricably linked to warfare. In Struggle for a Continent, John Ferling tells the complex story of conquest and survival no...

James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relation...