17Th Century category: 857 books
On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger
War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China’s long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for the notorious leader Zhang Xianzhong...
Processi e cronache giudiziarie tra Bergamo e Venezia (sec. XVI-XVIII)
Da documenti inediti dell'Archivio Segreto Vaticano
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Ansia di verità, paura della pena, desiderio di rivalsa, senso di giustizia. Sentimenti ed emozioni in contrasto che trapelano dalla viva voce dei protagonisti. Storie inedite, vere, vissute, altrimenti destinate a rimanere chiuse nelle gonfie buste d’archivio, e scovate dall’autore nei fascicoli...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's historical work, "The Marquise de Ganges". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40) and tells the tale of an infamous family squabble over inheritance that resulted in brutal murder during the seventeenth...
The Trial of Tempel Anneke
Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
The Trial of Tempel Anneke examines documents from an early modern European witchcraft trial with the pedagogical goal of allowing students to interact directly with primary sources. A brief historiographical essay has been added, along with eleven civic records, including regulations about sorcery,...
Dark Inheritance
Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges...
Attending to Early Modern Women
Conflict and Concord
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political,...
by Helen King
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in...
Life on the Tyne
Water Trades on the Lower River Tyne in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, a Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Whilst the early modern period has long been recognized as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority of studies to date have tended to focus upon London and southern England. In order to provide a more balanced understanding of the dynamics at work on a national level, this book explores...
Sciences, techniques, pouvoirs et sociétés du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle
Concours d'enseignement CAPES Agrégation 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2016
L'époque moderne a vu naître la pensée scientifique moderne, d'abord dans le champ des mathématiques et de l'astronomie. En même temps, la diffusion des techniques nées du développement des sciences mais aussi basées sur un savoir-faire perfectionné au cours des siècles connaît aussi une...
Science in an Enchanted World
Philosophy and Witchcraft in the Work of Joseph Glanvill
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Best known as the Saducismus triumphatus (1681), Joseph Glanvill’s book on witchcraft is among the most frequently published from the seventeenth century, and its arguments for the reality of diabolic witchcraft elicited passionate responses from critics and supporters alike. Davies untangles the...
The Brightness of Darkness Of An African
Knowing the Past, Living the Present, and Hoping for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The Brightness of Darkness of an African is a continuous story of the Unknown of the Known in Africa. Chungu unveils the roots and stems of racism in our societies. He does a research in both the Republic of South Africa and in the United States of America. He compare the two countries and their treatments...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The years 1650 to 1750 - sandwiched between an age of 'wars of religion' and an age of 'revolutionary wars' - have often been characterized as a 'de-ideologized' period. However, the essays in this collection contend that this is a mistaken assumption. For whilst international relations during this...
by James Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Witchcraft was a crime punishable by death in England during this period and this book charts the witch panics and legal persecution...
French Society
1589-1715
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book provides a "birds eye" view of social change in France during the "long seventeenth century" from 1589-1715. One of the most dynamic phases of French history, it covers the reigns of the first three Bourbon kings, Henri IV, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV. The author explores the upheavals in...