17Th Century category: 857 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and Edited, with Notes, an Introduction and Appendices. Includes also letters of King Manuel and Girolamo Sernigi, 1499, and early seventeenth-century Portuguese accounts of da Gama's first voyage. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1898. Owing...
Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565
Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garça (1559), São Paulo (1561) and the Misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
'Being about to write down the disastrous voyage of this great ship, it occurred to me how rash men are in their undertakings, chief among which, or one of the greatest is confiding their lives to four planks lashed together, and to the discretion of the furious winds.' So wrote Henrique Dias, an...
by Harald E. Braun
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought. His treatise De rege et regis institutione libri tres (1599) is dedicated to Philip III of Spain. It was to present the principles of statecraft by which the young king was to abide....
That Monstrous Regiment
The birth of women’s political emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man’s world, they proved highly adept at using women’s...
Russia's Path toward Enlightenment
Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia’s path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great’s opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Hamburg shows why Russia’s enlightenment constituted...
Satan and the Scots
The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560-1700
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and assumed presence in early modern Scotland. For some, especially those engaged in political struggle, this produced a unifying effect by providing a proximate...
by Cathy McClive
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France presents the first full-length discussion of menstruation and its uncertain connections with embodied sex, gender and reproduction in early modern France....
by Jason Eden, Naomi Eden
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This interdisciplinary study examines how age norms shaped the experiences of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in colonial North America, exploring how diverse population groups conceptualized the human life course and how they adhered to culturally specific sets of beliefs about...
by Trevor P. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and cloth; by early October the ship was back in Portugal with a very different cargo, 108 enslaved Africans. With chilling detachment the ship’s trading log...
by A.M. Claydon
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
William III, William of Orange (1650-1702), is a key figure in English history. Grandson of Charles I and married to Mary, eldest daughter of James II, the pair became the object of protestant hopes after James lost the throne. Though William was personally unpopular - his continental ties the source...
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven...
by Alec Ryrie
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for the silent majority of the English population, who conformed outwardly to the successive religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What such public conformity...
by Jonathan Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Notions of which behaviours comprised sin, and what actions might lead to salvation, sat at the heart of Christian belief and practice in early modern England, but both of these vitally important concepts were fundamentally reconfigured by the reformation. Remarkably little work has been undertaken...
Artisanal Enlightenment
Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment
What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound...