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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and
This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and...
Cromwell's Earl
Samuel Pepys is perhaps the best-known instance of the zest and versatility that characterize the second half of the 17th century, but his cousin and patron Edward Montague, first Earl...
The Great Commanders of the Early Modern World 1567-1865
What qualities made the Duke of Wellington a strategic genius? How did Oliver Cromwell, a gentleman farmer create an army that overthrew a king and changed the course of British...
Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
Produced to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum, on view 24 September 2009 - 24 January 2010, this catalogue will explore the dramatic events surrounding the Spanish assault...
Who's Who in Stuart Britain
This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age...
The Incas: Empire of Blood and Gold
When Francisco Pizarro landed in Peru in 1532 he found a vast empire seemingly overflowing with gold and silver. Ruled by monarchs claiming direct descent from the sun itself, its...
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident
'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very...
Letters
The book titled Letters by the author Lord Lisle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Order and Disorder in Early Modern England
The social history of early modern England has become a lively area of publication and debate. This volume attempts both to take stock of distinct directions in the field and...
The History of England
In his introduction, Hugh Trevor-Roper considers the History's dominant place in nineteenth-century historical literature. One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout...
On Painting
The revolutionary treatise for the history of art, exploring the use of perspective in painting Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his...
Edgehill: the Battle Reinterpreted
This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work...
Alternative History of Britain: The War of the Roses
Timothy Venning's exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses. What if Richard of York had not given...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have...
Caravaggio
A powerful and illuminating biography - the first in English for two generations - of one of the most popular painters of all time. Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (C....
Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII
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In this depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII...
Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints,...
We'll Meet Again
During World War II, two figures symbolized the spirit of Britain. Winston Churchill was one and Vera Lynn was the second. The optimism, hope, realism and cheerful good humour of...
Mary, Music, and Meditation: Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine
Burdened by famine, the plague, and economic hardship in the 1500s, the troubled citizens of Milan, mindful of their mortality, turned toward the veneration of the Virgin Mary and the...
The Portable Enlightenment Reader
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...
The Stuart Age: England 1603-1714
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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 Cosmography and Geography of Africa
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...
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
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: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
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...
The Tower
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...
Memoirs of the Duc De Saint-Simon: v. 3: 1715-23
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...
Ancient Lives: Story of the Pharaoh's Tombmakers
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...
A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century
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...
Mary Queen of Scots
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...
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader
"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...
His Excellency: George Washington
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 Penguin History of Britain: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain
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...
Rome-Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth Century Europe
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...
The Life and Times of Henry VIII
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...
Peculiar Ground
'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...
Mayflower
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...
Sir Francis Drake
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...
Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero
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...
Redcoats and Rebels: The War for America, 1770-1781
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.
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
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,...
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
'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...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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...
William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
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,...
Tudor England: A History
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...
Iran: A Modern History
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...
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
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...
Bolt Of Fate: Benjamin Franklin And His Fabulous Kite
Benjamin Franklin flying his electric kite is one of the most celebrated images of any Founding Father's life. Yet, as Tom Tucker argues convincingly in Bolt of Fate, the kite...