17Th Century category: 857 books
Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution
Laws of Another Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The seventeenth-century scientific revolution and the eighteenth-century chemical revolution are rarely considered together, either in general histories of science or in more specific surveys of early modern science or chemistry. This tendency arises from the long-held view that the rise of modern...
Uniforms of Russian army in the era of ancient Tzar
From the Reign of Vasili IV to Michael I, Alexis, Feodor III during the XVII th century
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the years from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries. The Viskovatov’s...
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities...
Democracies and the Shock of War
The Law as a Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Over the course of the twentieth century, democracies demonstrated an uncanny ability to win wars when their survival was at stake. As this book makes clear, this success cannot be explained merely by superior military equipment or a particular geographical advantage. Instead, it is argued that the...
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
The Philosopher Princess
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680) was the daughter of the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. A princess born into one of the most prominent Protestant dynasties of the age, Elisabeth was one of the great...
Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare
Culinary Readings and Culinary Histories
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of a range of European authors, including Shakespeare, from the late medieval period to the mid seventeenth century. The volume is divided into...
by Autori Vari
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Transformation of Confessional Cultures in a Central European City results from a series of projects about the history of Olomouc, a medium-sized royal city in Moravia in the present-day Czech Republic. Set in its regional as well as wider contexts, this study of Olomouc contributes to research...
The Duke of Monmouth
Life and Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.
Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity....
by Edward Hale
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
THE history of western Europe in the seventeenth century is a history of wars.
"Wars destroy the morals of mankind by habituating them to refer everything to force, and by necessitating them so often to dispense with the ordinary suggestions of sympathy and justice." This...
Gustavus Adolphus
A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many...
by William Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, this landmark account was written between 1630 and 1647. It vividly documents the Pilgrims' adventures: their first stop in Holland, the harrowing transatlantic crossing aboard the Mayflower, the first...
The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back...
Aspiration, Representation and Memory
The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and...
Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs
The Entring Book, 1677-1691
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
'An exceptionally significant monograph, and without doubt one of the most important to appear in the field of Restoration history in the last twenty years. Mark Goldie has done more than anyone else to illuminate the political and religious assumptions of late seventeenth-century Englishmen.' Dr...