17Th Century category: 857 books
John Locke
The Father of Modern Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the philosophy of John Locke in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of John Locke. Inspired by great philosophers such as Hobbes and Descartes, Locke sought to respond to the problems of his era...
by George F. Barwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relación of the voyage begun in company with Quirós and Torres in 1607, together with a report of the Spanish Council of State concerning Quirós, 1618, and letters of Torres and Prado, 1607-13. Contents: New light on the discovery of Australia.-Note...
Oliver Cromwell
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Little integrates the latest research from younger and established scholars to provide a new evaluation and 'biography' of Cromwell. The book challenges received wisdom about Cromwell's rise to power, his political and religious beliefs, his relationship with various communities across the British Isles and his role as Lord Protector.
The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas, and Brazil
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The text is translated into English from the Third French edition of 1619, and edited, with notes. This volume covers from 1601 to Pyrard's arrival at Goa in 1608 and is continued in First Series 77 and 80. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1887.
Guy Fawkes
A Complete History of the Gunpowder Treason
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2010
This excellent analysis of the famous 'Gunpowder Plot' by Thomas Lathbury has been specially formatted for today's e-readers. The account details the full history of one of England's most famous historical periods, including information about the characters involved, the political situation at the...
by Margaret Willes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
by Voltaire, Louis Moland, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Extrait : "Ce n'est pas seulement la vie de Louis XIV qu'on prétend écrire ; on se propose un plus grand objet. On veut essayer de peindre à la postérité, non les actions d'un seul homme, mais l'esprit des hommes dans le siècle le plus éclairé qui fut jamais. Tous les temps ont produit des héros...
The Other Exchange
Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift...
by Alicia R Zuese
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires. To interrogate characters’ mental activity, internalisation...
The Prester John of the Indies
A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, written by Father Francisco Alvares. Volumes I-II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen, among whom was...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume brings together, translated and edited by R.H. Major, five letters by Columbus describing his first, third, and fourth voyages; another by Dr Chanca, physician, descriptive of the second voyage; and an extract from the will of Diego Mendez, one of Columbus's officers on the fourth voyage....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.1505-1508. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937.
The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590
Documents to illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584 Volumes I-II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Volume I: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White's drawings of the first colony;...
Monsieur de Saint-Géry, l'espion du Roy
Correspondance secrète pendant les guerres de religion en Languedoc – 1616-1641
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Entre 1616 et 1641, Clément de La Roque Bouillac, seigneur de Saint-Géry, baron de Loupiac, en pleine guerres de religion et alors que le pouvoir royal cherche à se raffermir, est chargé d’approcher les chefs huguenots pour le compte du roi de France.
Ce seigneur provincial, peu au fait...