Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Presents Scotland as a case study for a fresh interpretation of Archbishop William Laud, his career and his working partnership with Charles I. Wi...

Shows how the Welsh, as well as the English, were colonisers in Tudor and early Stuart Ireland. The colonial presence in early modern Ireland is u...

The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals,...

'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From...

The conduit - of people, ideas and commerce - between Europe and Asia for more than six centuries, the Ottoman imperium had by 1590 become one of t...

England's first Protestant foreign policy initiative, an alliance with German Protestants, is shown to have been a significant influence on the Hen...

A study of an eminent historian of seventeenth-century Britain and his work, showing its continued importance for all those working on the period. ...

A history of the role played by the Franciscans during the contentious Wars of Religion (1562-1594). In this paperback reissue of The Politics of ...

German attitudes toward and stereotypes of Russia before the First World War and how they were inculcated in the public. The causes of the First W...

A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the use of physical space in early modern England. Space was not simply a passive bac...

Crossing boundaries of political, intellectual and cultural history, this study highlights the complexity of political culture in Restoration Irela...

What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, ...

Edition of wills and inventories throws new light on early modern economic history. This collection of 153 wills and inventories provides a vivid ...

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of...

First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in sh...

Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest ...

Using new archival sources, this book shows that Prussia sought not the unity of Germany but its partition into five masses loosely enough joined t...

Hadley, located on the Connecticut River at the far western frontier of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was settled from the colony of Connecticut to...

A proverbial cellar find brought to light a remarkable source for Napoleonic uniformology, which due to its artistic design but also high level of ...

A look at how ordinary English men and women responded to the transformations that accompanied the regicide, the creation of a republic, and the ri...

French-Indigenous families were a central force in shaping Detroits history. Detroits Hidden Channels examines the role of these kinship networks i...