Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

Based on the treatises of Jose de Acosta and Ignacio de las Casas, this study shows how the Jesuits differed from...  Read More >>

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM?...  Read More >>

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This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval and early modern women across Western...  Read More >>

The dramatic century of England's first forays into India, and the modern world this relationship created.  Read More >>

The first comprehensive history of Spanish colonial Louisiana. It emphasizes the Lower Mississippi valley's status...  Read More >>

Conspiración, traición, corrupción política bajo el techo de la sociedad aristócrata francesa. Matteo Strukul...  Read More >>

For God, Glory, and Gold chronicles the pivotal three decades from 1513 to 1543, marking the establishment of the...  Read More >>

Map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments...  Read More >>

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Explore the fascinating story of England's emergence as a major maritime trading power, from 1400 to 1540.  Read More >>

""Tracing the moral and medical panics about addictive commodities that flourished after tobacco, chocolate, sugar,...  Read More >>

During the winter of 1777, Reuben Law strapped on snowshoes and walked from Massachusetts into the wilderness of...  Read More >>

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J. D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

Explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery As winter...  Read More >>

Este apasionante viaje a trav�s de la historia le ofrece una introducci�n a uno de los periodos m�s fascinantes...  Read More >>

Sarah Madry has written a bold and revelatory answer to those who have said the mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask...  Read More >>

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Jo Graham's The Borgia Dove is a riveting historical fantasy that chronicles the rise of Giulia Farnese, muse and...  Read More >>

This is the first full edition of the correspondence of the humanist Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584). Sambucus was...  Read More >>

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Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women’s residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence...  Read More >>

""En 1883, el Krakatoa saltó repentinamente a la notoriedad. A pesar de lo insignificante que había parecido hasta...  Read More >>

Margaret More Roper may be remembered as the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, but she was much, much more. Well-educated,...  Read More >>

The Tudors as a dynasty executed many people, both high and low. But the nobility were the ones consistently involved...  Read More >>