Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In 1513 the Portuguese became the first Europeans to establish a maritime route to China. Their motives were a combination of a quest for trade and...

The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. This study offers a new histo...

When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him...

Focusing on the interconnections of the Atlantic world from 1450-1900, The Atlantic Connection examines the major themes of Atlantic history. Durin...

To understand modern science, it is essential to recognize that many of the most fundamental scientific principles are drawn from the knowledge of ...

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using ...

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

Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. V...

Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought provides comparative analysis of the Scottish and French Enlightenments. Studies...

The study of enslavement has become urgent over the last two decades. Social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, wh...

When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him...

Why is it that so many Americans have not heard of John Dickinson? John Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Delaware was an early leader of the resistan...

Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in ...

Scientific Practices in European History, 12001800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as C...

The Safavid World brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 15011722. With the latest insights and arguments, s...

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive ap...

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa.In 1518, al-Hasan i...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals R...

In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...

Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant tr...

This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations ...

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern pe...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The fir...