Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

At only twentyone square miles in area, Bermuda saw slaves and slaveholders working and living closer together than in other societies. The colonys...

At the center of this remarkable 1621 play is the story of Elizabeth Sawyer, the titular Witch of Edmonton, a woman who had in fact been executed f...

Mary, Queen of Scots is one of the great tragic figures of British history. Born in Scotland one December morning in 1542, she was to become Queen ...

In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian ...

Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the ...

Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY provides the essential narrative of world history in an abb...

Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe examines the norms and practices of collective decision-making across pre-modern European history, east and...

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious ...

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of ga...

The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history ...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

Through a combination of original essays and primary source material, Elizabethan and Jacobean England records the transformative changes that defi...

For over 300 years the government of Ireland was headed by the lord lieutenant, a peer who combined the 'efficient' direction of the Irish executiv...

This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a le...

This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its ri...

This title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: A Level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: ...

Behind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most ...

Bringing together essays from nine established parliamentary scholars, the volume offers new insights and reflections on the management and importa...

In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two political concep...

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel...