Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive...

Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando...

Constructed in 12971300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the ...

The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Albertis major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievem...

Robert Beale (15411601) was a diplomat and administrator who worked at the heart of Elizabethan governance and international policymaking. In spite...

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) saw a...

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c....

The Walsingham Gambit provides the reader with a new and unique insight into the hidden history associated with the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scot...

Reconstructs Indian regional history, from the rooting of Arab principality in Sind to the arrival of colonial rule in eastern India. Regional His...

Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. ...

Following recent historiographical appeals on the need to study knowledge exchanges between European maritime rivals and their impact on overseas e...

Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-c...

King Philip's War was the result of over 50 years' tension between the native inhabitants of New England and its colonial settlers as the two parti...

Ramism and the Reformation of Method offers a fresh exploration of the philosophical and theological presuppositions of the early modern movement o...

An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment.   What was the Enlightenment? This qu...