Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical mo...

How hunger shaped both colonialism and Native resistance in Early America  In this bold and original study, Cevasco punctures the myth of colonial ...

Die Frühe Neuzeit zeigte, öffentlichkeitswirksam, den heroischen Monarchen im vollen Glanz seines Ruhmes: Als Ritter, als königlichen Feld- bzw. al...

No one in history has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened ruler or brutal tyrant? Was he an insatiable warmong...

A detailed look at the ambition and artistic legacy of Emperor Maximilian I and his passion for armor and chivalry Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I ...

For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its you...

Vivid and entertaining. A most enjoyable account of the dramatic events of 1815 told through the words of those who were there. - Rory Muir, author...

Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action a...

On an icy winter's day in January 1649, a unique event in English history took place on a scaffold outside of Whitehall: Charles I, King of England...

The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain  Stater tells a complex and convoluted s...

How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from BritainRecount...

The English settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some sought wealth from the land, whi...

Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer...

Giovanni Pontano, who adopted the academic sobriquet Gioviano, was prime minister to several kings of Naples and the most important Neapolitan huma...