17Th Century category: 857 books
by Leonard Cantor
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The period covered by this book, first published in 1987, was an important one for the rural landscape in England. The author describes and analyses the evolution of the countryside during the years which witnessed the gradual disappearance of the medieval landscape and the introduction of new farming...
by Charles Le Goffic
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2013
En 1675, une partie importante de la Basse-Bretagne se révolte contre les nouveaux impôts décrétés par le ministre Colbert et le roi Louis XIV pour faire face aux ruineuses guerres que mène le Roi de France. L’administration royale ne s’embarasse pas de faire enregistrer ces nouvelles taxes...
Batavia
het waargebeurde, avontuurlijke verhaal van de ondergang van het VOC-schip Batavia in 1629
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Een uniek stuk geschiedenis! Het waargebeurde, avontuurlijke en bloedstollende verhaal van de ondergang van het grootste koopvaardijschip van de VOC, de Batavia, in 1629. Bijna 400 jaar geleden voer de Batavia uit om nooit meer terug te keren... Op 29 oktober 1628 vertrekt de Batavia - de trots van...
Gulliver in the Land of Giants
A Critical Biography and the Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Józef Boruwlaski was the most famous dwarf of the Enlightenment age. Polish-born, he travelled extensively throughout Europe, appearing and performing at royal courts and salons, before settling in Durham in his later life until his death at the age of 97. He was described in Diderot's Encyclopédie...
Pueblo Sovereignty
Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Over five centuries of foreign rule—by Spain, Mexico, and the United States—Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the history of...
The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires
An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Follows on with continuous main pagination from Second Series 89. Translated by the editor from the Portuguese MS in the Biblioth�e de la Chambre des Deput� Paris. Book VI of the Suma Oriental, together with a translation of Rodrigues' 'Book', the entire Portuguese texts, and a letter from Pires...
Samouraï William
L'Anglais qui rompit l'isolement du Japon
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Le 12 avril 1600 s’échouait sur une petite plage du sud du Japon, après un rude voyage de deux ans à travers deux océans et le terrible détroit de Magellan, un navire hollandais en piteux état, piloté par William Adams, premier Anglais à fouler la terre inconnue de ce pays mythique.
Avec...
Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant
I.- The Diary of Master Thomas Dallam, 1599-1600. II.- Extracts from the Diaries of Dr John Covel, 1670-1679. With Some Account of the Levant Company of Turkey merchants
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The supplementary material consists of the 1892 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1893 (1892).
A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana by Robert Harcourt 1613
With Purchas' Transcript of a Report made at Harcourt's Instance on the Marrawini District
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Edited with introduction and notes. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1928.
by Judith Merkle Riley
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Eine Frau im Sog einer der skandalösesten Giftaffären aller Zeiten Paris, Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Die Polizei deckt einen Zirkel von Hexen, Wahrsagerinnen und Magiern auf, der bis zum Hof von König Ludwig XIV. reicht. Mittendrin: die 15-jährige Geneviève Pasquier. Die junge Frau mit seherischen...
Philipp II.
Biographie eines Weltherrschers
Language: German
Release Date: October 18, 2017
König Philipp II. von Spanien (1527-1598) war der erste moderne Monarch, dessen Länder den gesamten Globus umspannten. Mit viel politischem Geschick und nüchternem Verstand regierte und vergrößerte er die von seinem Vater Kaiser Karl V. ererbten Herrschaftsgebiete und machte aus der spanischen...
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Sienkiewiczs Frühwerk wird literarisch dem Polnischen Positivismus zugerechnet, von dem er sich aber spätestens löste, als er sich mit dem ab Mai 1883 als Fortsetzungsroman erschienenen ''Mit Feuer und Schwert'' dem historischen Roman zuwandte. Dieser Roman, Teil einer Trilogie, der Ereignisse...
by Edwin Alfred Walford
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
The Battle of EdgeHill of 22 October 1642 was the first great engagement of the English Civil War. It was fought in the open fields between the villages of Radway and Kineton in Warwickshire. At the end of the day, although neither side at Edgehill could claim a decisive victory, the result was that...
Thomas Pynchon
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
This is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America’s engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon’s...