Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

A comprehensive survey and analysis of the Presbyterian community in its important formative period. The Presbyterian community in Ulster was crea...

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...

A new investigation of James I and VI's policy in the troubled Border region between England and Scotland. The Scottish Borders experienced dramat...

Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers. Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a ...

A topical subject offering interesting parallels between the news revolution in the age of James I and Charles I and our internet age. An important...

The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culmin...

A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II Shortlisted for th...

An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period. It was common knowledge in early modern Engl...

Representing a history of drinking from below, this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society. This book provi...

Provides a wealth of detail on how the wild geese - the Irish who refused to submit to the English - played a significant role in the armies of Spa...

This volume of the Biblia Americana contains Cotton Mather's annotations on the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Jeremiah, and Isaiah. A...

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at le...

In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, co...

The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon. This book discusses the impact of camer...

This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-poli...

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

*Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, History Today and the Sunday Telegraph*Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute. The TimesGen...

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows...

Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? Th...

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in...

In Incomplete Conquests, Stephanie Joy Mawson uncovers the limitations of Spanish empire in the Philippines, unearthing histories of resistance, fl...

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

In August 1844 a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored vastness of central Australia. ...

Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of ...