Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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...

A Nation is Born Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Washington, Hamilton, Benedict Arnold. All familiar names, but how did they all fit together? Ho...

John Cannon, known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', was the self-taught son of a Somerset farmer. Though some episodes in Cannon's life have been...

The first in-depth and wide-ranging academic investigation of the reception of the Tudor period in the modern world, this volume includes studies b...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and se...

A leading American historian examines the character of the frontiers of European expansion throughout the modern age, questioning a notion of front...

What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? How did Charles I cure a headache, or Samuel Pepys get rid of kidney stones?...

To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of modern self, demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self...

'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary ReviewEvery Tudor Queen had ladies-in-wait...

'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary ReviewEvery Tudor Queen had ladies-in-wait...

An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Pompeo Colonnas In Def...