Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this...

The treatise was meant as an analysis of problems connected with the monumental work of Samuel Pufendorf on the reign of Charles X Gustav, King of ...

In the 19th century, Alessandro Manzoni dedicated himself to writing the novel I promessi sposi that encouraged the Italian Risorgimento. This book...

This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations ...

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that w...

In her Great Books of Record Anne Clifford places herself within the dynamic history of the ancient Clifford family, providing an unbroken view int...

The Ryukyu islands have been inhabited by humans for over 30,000 years. Their modern population, however, did not come from stone-age ancestors, no...

One of the key pictorial developments of Renaissance art was a conceptualisation of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The idea ...

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in g...

This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power...

A fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world Challenging the myth of Eliza...

Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the his...

The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself ...

The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the Englis...

This is the first book-length treatment of the turncoat John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales...

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophilesan instant classic on Dutch book h...

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehe...

What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Visé, the founder and editor in chief of Le Mercure Galant, one of Frances first newspapers, was arguab...

Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cr...

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and it...

The George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dying soldiers and prayed and spoke last words with them a...

A COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE An innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early ...