Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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...

Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men traine...

When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes...

Animal spectacles are vital to a holistic appreciation of Spanish culture. In Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain, Beusterien c...

Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-wri...

Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operati...

Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of societys darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the dra...

What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What ha...

How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary...

An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of hi...

Histories you can trust. The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And wh...

A full life and times biography of Süleyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Süleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 152...

Theodore Roosevelt's New York, published in 1891, was one of forty titles he authored during his lifetime. Roosevelt sets out, as he declares in hi...

'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. T...

Originally published in 1974. The close connection between universities and bureaucratic institutions such as church and state was perhaps first no...

Located at the intersection of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Mediterranean has connected societies for millennia, creating a shared space of intens...

Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religiou...

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeares time would have understood the sensual world of his work.  Could something as see...