17Th Century category: 857 books
by Henry Wakeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under the rule of absolute monarchs. It opens with Henry IV., it closes with Peter the Great. It reaches its...
Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution
Computational Linguistics and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material.
This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally....
The Pikeman’s Lament
Pike and Shot Wargaming Rules
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Recreate the action and drama of 17th Century warfare on your tabletop with The Pikeman's Lament. Start by creating your Officer – is he a natural leader raised from the ranks, the youngest son of a noble family, or an old veteran who has seen too many battles? As you campaign, your Officer will...
The Weaker Vessel
Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous...
by Domenico Sella
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
In his comprehensive overview of 17th century Italy, Professor Sella challenges the old view that Italy was in general decline, instead he shows it to have been a time of sharp contrasts and shifts in fortune. He starts with a balanced and critical analysis of political developments (placing the Italian...
Beyond the Military Revolution
War in the Seventeenth Century World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history.By placing 17th century...
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans
English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also transcended...
by Jules Harper, Aurora von Goeth
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women.
After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand - France’s self-styled ‘Sun King’...
Vermeer's Hat
The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.
A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room,...
A Warrior Dynasty
The Rise and Decline of Sweden as a Military Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its...
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements—can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald...
The Unknown of the Known in Africa
The rise and the fall of the African Chiefdoms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Unknown of the Known in Africa is the story of George Eden Bess from Germany who does research as a historian. George unveils unknown King Shaka and his plan to make Southern Africa to be in his palm of hand. George's purpose becomes a plan to bring back Africans united, as there is no African...
Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn
A Scandalous Story of Marriage and Betrayal in Restoration England
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London. For fans of WEDLOCK, THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER and GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.
Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess...
1616
The World in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“A stunning overview of the nascent modern world through a thematic exploration of the year 1616 . . . with dozens of fabulous illustrations” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of maritime globalism...