Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continental Army in pursuit of the British Army moving from Philadelph...

Delivered in bite-sized diary chunks, Jan-Marie Knights takes the reader on a journey into the world of Tudor high society. This is a world of love...

Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and ...

Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursui...

The momentous interaction between Portugal and Kerala com­menced with the historic voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498. It had lasting impact on the so...

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartrams journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, author ...

Not since Edward Woods Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English. Treating the topic afres...

Women in the Tudor age are often overshadowed by their male counterparts. Even those of royalty were deemed inferior to males. Whilst women may hav...

This book investigates the languages of Renaissance Europe on seven keywords, such as allegory, discretion, disegno, grace, modern, scandal, and se...

Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both biblical and contemporary, were...

In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden. Before the new king could sit on his throne, however, he faced a disast...

This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in the early modern Spanish Pacific. I...

This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of which began in the 1540s. One involved relations of Europeans and Native Americans i...

During the Qing dynasty (16441911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors ...

Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from an...

Neutrality in World History provides a cogent synthesis of five hundred years of neutrality in global history. Author Leos Müller argues that neutr...

Newly revised and updated, the second edition of English Catholicism 15581642 explores the position of Catholics in early modern English society, t...

The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...