17Th Century category: 857 books
After the Civil Wars
English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The first study of Restoration England from the point of view of both rulers and ruled, this volume offers a vital reappraisal of seventeenth century England. The civil wars had a traumatic effect on the English people: memories of bloodshed and destruction and the ultimate horror of the execution...
Braudel Revisited
The Mediterranean World 1600-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region...
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism’s two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.
Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging...
Der Lange Türkenkrieg (1593-1606) Vol. I
The long Turkish war - Habsburgs arrest the Ottoman advance
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
After more than half-a-century of wars in Hungary, the conflict between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte explodes in 1593, after a series of border incidents. The confrontation was soon regarded as crucial by both sides, also involving the neighbouring states in a complex and ruthless game of diplomacy...
A Linking of Heaven and Earth
Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M.N. Eire
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The Reformation of the sixteenth century shattered the unity of medieval Christendom, and the resulting fissures spread to the corners of the earth. No scholar of the period has done more than Carlos M.N. Eire, however, to document how much these ruptures implicated otherworldly spheres as well. His...
From Oikonomia to Political Economy
Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Renaissance Europe witnessed a surge of interest in new scientific ideas and theories. Whilst the study of this 'Scientific Revolution' has dramatically shifted our appreciation of many facets of the early-modern world, remarkably little attention has been paid to its influence upon one key area;...
by Pascale Barthe
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the birth of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement and...
Poets, Players, and Preachers
Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day.
In...
Russia's Military Way to the West
Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book provides an historical perspective on the growth of Russian military power, studying the emergence of the Russian regular army from 1700 until the end of the eighteenth century. In the process he evaluates the relative importance of Western and native influences on the creation of this formidable...
A Business of State
Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s...
Desertion in the Early Modern World
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
William Bourne, of Gravesend, by trade a gunner, was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar nor of gentle birth, both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the 16th century, when the scientific books were expected to appear only in universities and...
Competing Visions of Empire
Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections...
by Daniel Trocmé-Latter
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Music was, in some form or another, a pastime enjoyed by all in sixteenth-century society, and a fundamental part of their lives. It was both through the use of music and partly as a result of its existence that many religious changes occurred during the Reformation. This book explores the part played...