Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge.   Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the wor...

Most of today's familiar fairy tales come from the stories of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, but this innovativ...

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the Fre...

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports...

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance ...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance ...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed ar...

This scholarly biography and collection of writings by and about an early leader of the Hutterites, a pacifist communal Anabaptist group, sheds lig...

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color...

The Old World, the New World, and the Creation of the Modern World, 14001650: An Interpretive History provides a unique look at the early years of ...

The Old World, the New World, and the Creation of the Modern World, 14001650: An Interpretive History provides a unique look at the early years of ...

Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in th...