Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

Written by one of the 20th Century’s foremost historians of Iberia, this comprehensive book, originally published...  Read More >>

A lavishly illustrated look at some of Boston's most historic buildings, now available in a new, updated edition....  Read More >>

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OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of The Trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century...  Read More >>

The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons following its creation in 1282, was directly affected...  Read More >>

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Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration...  Read More >>

This collection of 13 essays covers a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, and commodities...  Read More >>

This book explores the meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood....  Read More >>

In this first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram casts new light...  Read More >>

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities. In spite of the importance...  Read More >>

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets,...  Read More >>

Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval...  Read More >>

Drawing upon private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the Monmouth Rebellion...  Read More >>

Most works written about the Jacobites have tended to look at the 1745 Rebellion, rather than the earlier attempt...  Read More >>

This book uses a broadsheet print of the martyrdom of the Carthusians of the London Charterhouse during the reign...  Read More >>

Robert Boyle’s role as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now acknowledged,...  Read More >>

Following on from Jeremy Black’s previous studies on eighteenth-century foreign policy, Politics and Foreign Policy...  Read More >>

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophic pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503, was the first extensive...  Read More >>

The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded...  Read More >>

This book explores individual and community involvement in the approbation, reconfiguration and regulation of early...  Read More >>

A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as ’the most accomplished cavaliero’ in England. This...  Read More >>

Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book, this new work further expands our understanding of the Spanish Philippines...  Read More >>

Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer examines marriage as an important agent of cultural transfer,...  Read More >>

Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall...  Read More >>