17Th Century category: 857 books
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The seventeenth century saw the transformation of Britain from a minor state on the fringes of Europe into a global economic power, whose interests were protected and promoted by the largest navy in the world. The character of this navy was forged by a bloody civil war, three fiercely disputed conflicts...
Black Ranching Frontiers
African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in...
History of the Third Seminole War
1849-1858
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Spanning a period of over forty years (1817-1858), the three Seminole Wars were America’s longest, costliest, and deadliest Indian wars, surpassing the more famous ones fought in the West. After an uneasy peace following the conclusion of the second Seminole War in 1842, a series of hostile events...
Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750
Steering Toward England
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recorded his policy as having ’steared as neere as we could to the course of Ingland’. Over the course of the next century the various colonial administrations...
Cromwell’s War Machine
The New Model Army 1645 - 1660
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously researched and accessible new study, Keith Roberts describes...
The Great Fire of London
In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Acclaim for The Great Fire of London
"Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill."
—Times Literary Supplement
"The brilliance...
A History of English Philanthropy
From the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the Taking of the First Census
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
First published in 1905, this book charts the history of English philanthropy from the Elizabethan period through to the nineteenth century. In doing so, Benjamin Kirkman Gray posed some important questions about modern philanthropy, and reflected on the meaning and worth of philanthropy. Through...
Ill Composed
Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical...
Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture
New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
It is often assumed that a recognisably modern sporting culture did not emerge until the eighteenth century. The plethora of physical training and games that existed before 1700 tend to fall victim to rigid historical boundaries drawn between "modern" and "pre-modern" sports, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Toward the end of the fifteenth century, the Habsburg family began to rely on dynastic marriage to unite an array of territories, eventually creating an empire as had not been seen in Europe since the Romans. Other European rulers followed the Habsburgs' lead in forging ties through dynastic marriages....
by Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in women’s lives, whether as victims or culprits. The foundational...
Medicine, Trade and Empire
Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where...
Moors Dressed as Moors
Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence.
In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary,...
Jahangir and the Jesuits
With an Account of the Benedict Goes and the Mission to Pegu
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
First published in 1930.
'The book is full of splendour and strange scenes' Nation
The Relations of Fernão Guerreiro, from which the three narratives in this volume have been taken, constitute a complete history of the missionary undertakings of the Society of Jesus in the East Indies, China, Japan...