17Th Century category: 857 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the...
Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622 with Correspondence
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Continues from First Series 67, with the years 1618-1622, .together with Cocks's correspondence with the East India Company and others. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883.
The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida, by Don Ferdinando de Soto
And six hundred Spaniards his Followers, written by a Gentleman of Elvas, employed in all the Action, and translated out of Portuguese, by Richard Hakluyt
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This text is reprinted from the Edition of 1611, edited, with notes and an introduction, along with a translation of a narrative of the expedition by Luis Hernandez de Biedma, factor to the same. For Hakluyt's translation, see The Hakluyt Handbook (Second Series, 144-5), pp. 42, 252-5. The translation...
by Allison Bruning
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Feared by settlers and natives alike, the Shawnee tribe have been misunderstood by people throughout history. Who were these conservative people? What was their daily life like? How were their villages organized? This informative book will answer these questions and more in the first volume of the We are Shawnee series.
by James Robinson, Charles Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
When, in 1792, the Austrian and Prussian armies had advanced toward Paris with the object of freeing Louis XVI from the restrictions placed upon him by the National Assembly, the French, roused to fury, had deposed and executed a ruler who was convicted of plotting with foreign powers to maintain...
Documents concerning English Voyages to the Spanish Main, 1569-1580
I .Spanish Documents selected from the Archives of the Indies at Seville; II. English Accounts, Sir Francis Drake revived, and Others Reprinted
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In English translation. For further documents, see Second Series 62, 99 and 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1932.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Edited, with notes and an introduction from narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Fotherby, and others, with Baffin's letters, journals, and other observations, and various treatises on the probability of a North-West Passage. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Transcript of the manuscript dedicated to Henry VIII (Royal mss. 18 B. XXVIII), with a pedigree of Barlow, edited with an introduction and notes. Barlow's translation of Enciso's Suma de geographia, with much original and supplementary matter by him. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1932.
The Experience of Defeat
Milton and Some Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?
The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of “God’s cause”—a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period concentrate on the court,...
Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany
Memory, Power and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways. They narrated the past in order to enforce order, empower authority, and record the traditions of their communities. In...
Plague in the Early Modern World
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.
During the early modern period frequent and recurring...
by Albert N. Hamscher
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789 explores the French monarchy’s role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm—the payment of criminal frais de justice in the vocabulary of the ancien régime—between 1670 and 1789...
Blackbeard the Pirate
A Reappraisal of His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1974
Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colorful pirates of all time, becoming the model for countless blood-and-thunder tales of sea rovers. His daring exploits, personal courage, terrifying appearance,...
by Peter Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery. The series of conflicts in the 1640s, known collectively as the English Civil War, was the first in the...