Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In recent years, writing on early-modern culture has turned from examining the upheavals of the Reformation as the ruptured birth of early modernit...

This volume makes available in print for the first time an edition of the manuscript autobiography of John Rastrick, a Lincolnshire clergyman known...

This is the first history of Irish divorce. Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, it places the human experience of marriage breakdo...

This is the first English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman...

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attack...

In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, p...

'The present state of the old world is running up like parchment in the fire.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical relig...

America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideologic...

In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, a...

A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period  A tour de force off...

A fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors, revealing the dynastys influence on the arts in Renaissance England and beyond Ruling ...

This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliards long and remarkable life (c. 15471619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan ...

FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely. New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-...

Thomas Aikenhead, a sometime University of Edinburgh student, was in 1697 the last person executed for blasphemy in Britain. Michael Graham uses t...

A reconstruction of the Strand palaces, where Englands earlymodern and postReformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathedrals ...

With the rise of nationalism, and with it the nation-state in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, so arose new polemical issues. As the Spanish ...