17Th Century category: 857 books
by Louise Simard
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Au crépuscule de sa vie, alors que son pays est désormais aux mains de l'ennemi, Louise de Ramezay fait le bilan de son existence. Celle que l'on surnommait «la très noble demoiselle» a-t-elle eu raison de se méfier de l'amour? Le bonheur éprouvé après chaque conquête n'était-il qu'illusion?...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Did you know that Louisiana has not always been a part of the US? There was a time that the government actually had to buy Louisiana. Learn why it was so and how it happened by going over the pages of this history book for children. Treat this book as a means of supplementary reading to boost your child’s historical knowledge. Encourage reading today!
by Kris Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
by Bouko de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The 80 Years' War (also known as the Dutch War of Independence) was the foundation of Dutch nationhood, and during the course of the conflict one of its main leaders – Maurice of Orange-Nassau – created an army and a tactical system that became a model throughout Europe.
This study, the first...
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
From the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is also the first study to apply this comparative and social scientific method to the GDL.
In this book,...
The Middle Ages
Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence...
by Bruno Mugnai, Chris Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Chris Flaherty and Bruno Mugnai in this second volume of the ‘Lange Türkenkrieg’ examines in deep eastern European warfare and its implications in the global debate on infantry firepower, cavalry tactics and engineering techniques in this period. Covering relatively unknown corps and military...
Select Documents illustrating the Four Voyages of Columbus
Including those contained in R. H. Major's Select Letters of Christopher Columbus. Volumes I-II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and edited, with additional material, and introduction and notes. Enlarges on First Series 43 (1870). Continued in Second Series 70. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1930.
The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands
Being the Second Voyage set forth by the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East-Indies. From the Edition of 1606
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The 1606 title-page begins: The last East-Indian voyage. The appendix includes commissions, letters of James I addressed to foreign rulers, and other documents. For a second edition, see Second Series 88. The supplementary material includes the 1856 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1855.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This forms part of the original Book II of Cieza's 'Civil Wars of Peru', translated and edited. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 54. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1918.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A new and enlarged edition, with an Introduction and Notes. For the previous edition, see First Series 19 (1854). The additional material includes an account by Edmund Scott of events at Bantam, 1603-05, and his description of Java. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1943.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women’s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was...
Going to Market
Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position...
The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8
Reprinted from the First Edition of Hakluyt's Voyages, with Selections from Manuscript Documents in the British Museum and State Paper Office
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In addition to the main text, this also has Edward Sellman's account of the third voyage, and a list of artefacts from Frobisher encampments, etc, found by C. F. Hall and deposited with the Royal Geographical Society. The additional documents relate to numerous aspects of the financing and fitting...