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When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars...

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing...

In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. Goodwin tells the...

This book begins and ends with analytical sections on early and later Stuart England respectively, and has four narrative sections in the middle. Changes to this edition include the addition...

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England...

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance- an African diplomat's guide to Africa In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a...

From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie...

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History...

All the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors are ready to uncover, including who invited Queen Lizzie to visit his brand new toilet, and what you get when you sew...

They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and scientific instruments....

A fiery feminist retelling of Mary, Queen of Scots' darkest hour for fans of MATRIX and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS 'Richly detailed' THE NEW YORKER 'Carr has taken an...

This is the third volume in Lucy Norton's three-volume abridgement and translation of the the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, first published in the 1960s. The court of Louis...

More than 3000 years ago a village was established at Thebes on the west bank of the Nile. Situated amid a barren landscape are housed the workers who created the...

This new biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar, and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), is the first account to make full use of his huge unpublished archive, deposited at the British Library...

This delightful book recreates the busy, colorful world of a Catholic bishop and his flock from 1590-1620. Based upon the recently discovered daybook of Mathias Hovius, the book focuses not...

More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's classic biography won her the...

Now a major TV seriesThe Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker Prize 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels...

Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) directed the Platonic Academy in Florence, and it was the work of this Academy that gave the Renaissance in the 15th century its impulse and direction. During...

A short account of the relations between Islam and Christianity from Muhammad to the Reformation. The author argues that though there were trading and cultural interactions between the two during...

A new approach to historical biography - she has studied both the original sources and recent works of scholarship and has a thorough understanding of the period. SUNDAY TIMES Until...

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd...

Joseph Ellis follows Washington from his military career to his presidency, illuminating the difficulties the first executive faced as he worked to keep the emerging country united in the face...

The book titled The Penguin History of Britain: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain by the author Mark Kishlansky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she...

In the seventeenth century, Catholic-aristocratic Rome and Protestant-bourgeois Amsterdam were expanding rapidly, both in a political and in a cultural way. In a multifaceted comparison of these two contrasting cultural...

Vittorio Sgarbi's unique account of both the artistic and human vicissitudes of Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio. Art critic, historian, writer, TV presenter, politician and professional provocateur, Vittorio Sgarbi...

The book titled Rembrandt by the author Michael Bockemuhl. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Robert Lacey traces the story of this controversial figure - whose reign was marked by arbitary seizures of power, ruthlessness and cruelty - from the brilliance of his youth to...

'One of the best novels of the year so far' The Times A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Unlike anything I've read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It's...

The band of Puritan emigres that left Southampton in 1620 to found a godly colony in Virginia (as the eastern seaboard of the North American continent was known then) carried...

Four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the most legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most...

In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a...

A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne. 'Those who live in courts must...

A masterly re-evaluation of a self-made Elizabethan hero, and a fascinating re-creation of the man and his era. Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in...

This biography presents Drake through the accounts of friends and enemies on both the national and personal level. From his family's fierce love of Protestantism, and their early poverty which...

The book titled Redcoats and Rebels: The War for America, 1770-1781 by the author Christopher Hibbert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Everybody knows her smile, but no one knows her story: Meet the flesh-and-blood woman who became one of the most famous artistic subjects of all time-Mona Lisa. A genius immortalized...

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history and for all the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague and the Fire of London -...

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy,...

'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL ' A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES ' Vivid and shocking' BOOKSELLER The Tudors retained...

From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive portrait of the six remarkable women who shared the throne — and the turbulent fortunes — of...

Widely regarded as the most important narrative of 17th-century New England, William Bradford's "Of Plimmoth Plantation" is one of the founding documents of American literature and history. In this study,...

A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable...

A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 "The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years."-Richard Spencer, The...

An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen...

A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order...