Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea...

In 1660 England was already prosperous, free, civilized, and the possessor of the makings of an empire. In the century to follow, the island nation...

Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding p...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

In Calvinists and Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands, Stephen T. Staggs analyzes the impact of the Dutch Reformation upon the cross-cultural rel...

The acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of historys greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurers death-d...

First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and...

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. H...

The House of Commons 1509-1558 offers readers a groundbreaking examination of the role and significance of the British House of Commons during the ...

Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and tex...

In post-Reformation England, monster could mean both a horrible aberration and a divine embodiment or revelation. In Marvelous Protestantism, Julie...

This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book t...

The Power of Song explores the music and dance of Franciscan and Jesuit mission communities throughout the entire northern frontier of New Spain. I...

While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philips War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early ...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbe...

Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in mod...