Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

Through the lens of a contemporary deception model, The Walsingham Gambit describes how the English deception planners...  Read More >>

The War over Naples was fought by France and Spain between 1502 and 1504. Gonzalo de Córdoba, called El Gran Capitán,...  Read More >>

Paul of Aleppo journeyed with his father, Patriarch Makarios III ibn al-Za'im, in Constantinople, Moldavia, Wallachia,...  Read More >>

"''The Salem Witch Trials: Uncovering the Hysteria, False Accusations, and Tragic Executions That Shook a Nation""...  Read More >>

This work offers an overview of intellectual life during the twenty-year period (1515-1535) in which the Renaissance's...  Read More >>

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from...  Read More >>

This book explores the influence of classical Greek and Latin literature on the early settlers and residents of...  Read More >>

"The British Library Archives protects a fragile, burned fragment of an impassioned letter. The document concludes,...  Read More >>

It has been almost 500 years since my beheading. And still, people talk about me. Some of the stories are real....  Read More >>

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration...  Read More >>

The first male missionary religious order, the Franciscans, arrived in Nueva España (Mexico) in 1524, and were followed...  Read More >>

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This book details the origin of the Grand Hospitaller Priory of Messina.  Read More >>

During the 1,000-year history of the English monarchy there have been eight kings with the name of Henry. The Eight...  Read More >>

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals...  Read More >>

Cuando el almirante Colón regresó a la isla de La Española en 1493, al frente de diecisiete naos, se encontró el...  Read More >>

Dieses Handbuch zu den, Wahrheitszeugen' des mystischen Spiritualisten und Lutheraners Friedrich Breckling (1629-1711)...  Read More >>

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This meticulously researched and brilliantly told historical novel, the first of the Machiavelli trilogy, recounts...  Read More >>

History of The Great Plague of London engrossingly told by Daniel Defoe in the guise of a witness account, offering...  Read More >>

In 17th century France, sixteen-year-old Sylvienne is summoned from her home near Amiens to the court of Louis XIV...  Read More >>

On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who...  Read More >>