Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, advocates of protection against foreign competition prevailed in a fierce controversy over international...

This book uses the stories of early modern women in the Mediterranean who left their birthplaces, families, and religions to reveal the complex spa...

This book uses the stories of early modern women in the Mediterranean who left their birthplaces, families, and religions to reveal the complex spa...

This English translation of a key work by one of Okinawa's most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine, provides a compelling new picture of the role...

The 15th century was a time of dramatic and decisive change for nuns and nunneries in Florence. In the course of that century, the city's convents ...

The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as ...

The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the exceptional character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite...

Never truly a new world entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of tran...

Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in ear...

Machiavelli in Love introduces a complex concept of sex and sexual identity and their roles in the culture and politics of the Italian Renaissance....

This book is about one of the most important elements of the political narratives in the history of Hungary in past and present: the Holy Crown of ...

Sacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth-century English colonization by reexamin...

Since at least the Reformation, English men and women have been engaged in visiting, exploring and portraying, in words and images, the landscape o...

This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Ital...

Elisabeth of Bohemia (16181680) was the daughter of the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of King ...

Karen Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here...

Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushroomsthese seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasu...

In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestanti...

In seventeenth-century northern Europe, as the Aristotelian foundations of scientia were rocked by observation, experiment, confessional strife, an...

In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the...

Branded one of the greatest villains of all time, the name Guy Fawkes is synonymous with a spectacular crime that never was the Gunpowder Plot. Bu...

The lifetime of Francois Hotman (1524-1590) was one of the most tumultuous periods in European history. Donald R. Kelley shows how this protege of ...