17Th Century category: 857 books
Batavia's Graveyard
The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Meeting
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.
It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company’s flagship, was loaded with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems...
Away Off Shore
Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispensable book.” —Russell Baker
In his first book of history, Nathaniel Philbrick...
by R.A. Houston
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples...
Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the origins of a modern individualist spirit in the European Renaissance and Reformation. Yet since the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to...
by George Edmundson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The last duke of the ancient Capetian house of Burgundy dying in 1361 without heirs male, the duchy fell into the possession of the French crown, and was by King John II bestowed upon his youngest son, Philip the Hardy, Duke of Touraine, as a reward, it is said, for the valour he displayed in the...
The Shaping of a Community
The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish c.1400–1560
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book offers a new perspective to the current debate about popular religious attitudes in Tudor England, laying particular emphasis on the social and secular dimensions of parish life. The argument focuses on the role of the laity and especially on the office of churchwarden. It assesses the rising...
Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500-1700
A Multi-disciplinary Future for Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Historical biography has a mixed reputation: at its best it can reveal much not only about an individual, but the wider context of their life and society; at worst it can result in a narrowly focused work of hagiography or condemnation. Yet in spite of its sometimes inferior status amongst academics,...
by John E. Wills Jr., Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
"A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. Spence
John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice...
Lieutenant Nun
Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to...
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
About four hundred years ago there was a small kingdom, spreading over the cliffs and ravines of the eastern extremity of the Pyrenees, called Navarre. Its population, of about five hundred thousand, consisted of a very simple, frugal, and industrious people. Those who lived upon the shore washed...
by Harriet Monroe
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In giving this sketch of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, no attempt has been made to present a complete life of the great king.
It is a history difficult for young people to understand, and for that reason only the leading events of a most eventful life have been presented.
It was first written for...
by Thomas Keneally
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair, Keneally gives us an inside view of this unprecedented...
Glencoe
The Infamous Massacre, 1692
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
A startling new history of the Campbell massacre of the McDonald Clan, one the most emotive episodes in Scottish history. In the early hours of 13 February 1692, English Redcoats under the command of Campbell of Glenlyon, who for the past week had been peacefully quartered on the inhabitants of Glencoe,...