17Th Century category: 857 books
The Lost Painting
The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
**Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. **
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed...
The Taste of Conquest
The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize;...
Gunpowder Plots
A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family.
This book draws on the...
After Elizabeth
The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Many volumes have been written about the long reign of Elizabeth I. Now, for the first time, comes a brilliant new work that focuses on the critical year her reign ended, a time in which England lost its childless queen and a Machiavellian struggle ensued to find her successor.
December 1602....
by Charles Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
THE period of the Reformation had produced two great changes in the history of Europe. It had revolutionised religion and it had revolutionised commerce. Both changes were the result of a previous revolution in thought. It was not so much that men had not dared to think in the Middle Ages -- many...
by Russell Shorto
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
**In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history.
"Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we...
The Invention of Science
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world.
We live in a world transformed...
Samuel de Champlain et l'exploration de la Nouvelle-France (Grandes découvertes)
Aux origines de Québec
Language: French
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Champlain et l’exploration de la Nouvelle-France en moins d’une heure !
Dès le XVe siècle, la France, qui ne souhaite pas être en reste des autres puissances européennes, cherche à étendre son empire colonial, se lançant à l’assaut...
Henry Hudson, un navigateur maudit
L’exploration de la côte Est des Amériques
Language: French
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Henry Hudson et l’exploration de la côte Est des Amériques en moins d’une heure !
Au début du mois de mai 1607, Henry Hudson, jeune capitaine anglais, lève l’ancre, chargé par la compagnie de Moscovie de trouver une nouvelle voie...
New Approaches to Naples c.1500-c.1800
The Power of Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate target of attempts, by Catholic missionaries and others, to ’civilize’ the city. Historiographically bypassed in favour of Venice, Florence and Rome,...
Oliver Cromwell
El lord protector de la Commonwealth que rechazó la corona
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Oliver Cromwell, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Analizar en detalle la biografía de Oliver Cromwell, desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte, pasando por su...
Samuel de Champlain
La exploración de Nueva Francia y los orígenes de Quebec
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Samuel de Champlain, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Conocer a Samuel de Champlain, navegante que recibe el encargo de desarrollar los asentamientos de Francia...
Isaac Newton
La gravitación universal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Isaac Newton y su teoría de la gravitación universal, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Profundizar en la vida y obra de Isaac Newton, así como el contexto...
The Passions and the Interests
Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role...