Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure...

The rapid expansion of the newspaper business in the first decade of the American republic had crucial consequences for cultural, commercial, and p...

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different ...

Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates i...

In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future...

The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolut...

In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arr...

A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art   In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word w...

"A fresh and quite original contribution to an understanding of an extremely important period in English history and to a quite remarkable discussi...

This book is a study of the social and cultural change in Ming China's lower Yangzi delta region from about 1500 to 1644. It takes three social gro...

People and goods from across the globe filled the vibrant ports of Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance. This book takes us onto the streets, br...

Robert O. Crummey uses the methods of collective biography to provide the first modern study of the elite group that dominated Russian government a...

Acclaimed for their dramatic rendering of the personalities and forces that shaped Elizabethan politics, Wallace T. MacCaffrey's three volumes thor...

In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and leg...

William McCuaig explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar--the hum...

The histories of six generations of the Strozzi, Gondi, Guicciardini, and Capponi families are traced from the fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centu...

Covering two centuries of Russian history, Forging a Unitary State is a comprehensive account of the creation of what is commonly known as the "Rus...

A collection of essays originally presented on the Blackfriars stage at the American Shakesepeare Center, Shakespeare Expressed brings together sch...

Tise cutting-edge collection of essays in this volume represent the vast array of experiences in the Chesapeake region, encompassing the racial, cl...

In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and leg...

The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at ...

A collection of essays originally presented on the Blackfriars stage at the American Shakesepeare Center, Shakespeare Expressed brings together sch...

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the...

The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at ...

This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political tho...

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the sour...

Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as ...