17Th Century category: 857 books
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. The Mayflower was the ship that launched a nation. She left from England in September of 1620, carrying 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit. These...
Cavalier
A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2008
William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of King Charles I and his cavaliers, he was doomed to failure.
Cavendish was a master of manège (the art of teaching...
by Frederick M. Keener
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
More radically than had any contemporary English author’s work, Thomas Gray’s two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers’ powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not...
by Louis Bertrand
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Marie Mancini, Louise de La Vallière, La Montespan, La Maintenon...font parties d'une très longue liste : celle des maîtresses de Louis XIV. Bien qu'étant un personnage public, le Roi était un homme secret, vivant dans l'adultère ses amours qui sont l'un des...
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Here is the story of how the English...
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects—Irish...
The Man Who Invented Fiction
How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on...
Civil War
The History of England Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II....
Under the Black Flag
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian
“[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's Journal
This rollicking...
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer...
How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It
The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on how pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of the most famous pirates in detail as they raid...
A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People
John Bunyan and His Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?
John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity...
God's Fury, England's Fire
A New History of the English Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First...
The English Civil Wars
1640-1660
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.
The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more...