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Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
The East India Company was the most powerful commercial enterprise in British history. Yet its speculative, highly risky origins are now all but forgotten. A revolution in commerce during the...
Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never Was
The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England...
The Lost City of London
In 1666 London was devastated by the Great Fire, which gutted over 13,000 houses, over eighty parish churches and St Paul's Cathedral. Bob Jones has set out to discover the...
John Locke Bibliography
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This bibliography documents John Locke's works published from 1654 through 1800. It includes the publishing history of all known editions and translations, as well as material published in journals, and...
Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody...
Rembrandt's Themes: Life into Art
Rembrandt van Rjin (1606-1669) was among the few celebrated old masters who enjoyed considerable freedom in his choice of subject matter. Living and working in the Protestant Netherlands, he painted...
Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were forged in four types of medieval Iberian discourse: muwashshah/jarcha poems from al-Andalus, Andalusi "cutting poems," medical...
The Witchfinder's Assistant
'Beautifully written and a thoroughly absorbing read. I found it impossible to put down' Deborah Carr, USA Today Bestseller THE TOWN OF WEM, SHROPSHIRE 1643 Civil war is ripping England...
The Illustrated Guide To The Fantastic Edo Era
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The book titled The Illustrated Guide To The Fantastic Edo Era by the author Zenyoji Susumu, Lynne Hobday. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City,
London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of...
Smythson Circle: The Story of Six Great English Houses
Inan absorbing narrative stretching from 1541 to 1614, charting the creation of the first Renaissance buildings in England, the author of "Bess of Hardwick" describes how Chatsworth, Old and New...
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840
This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced in England, Scotland, and Wales from the...
Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to
Shortlisted for The British in India Book Prize 2025 'A spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal...
Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and his Italian Ambassador
1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he was twenty. But now he...
The Prisoner of Measham Hall: The highly praised and brilliantly
The third gripping novel in this highly acclaimed and brilliantly realised seriesFor readers who loved Andrew Miller's historical novels, Francis Spufford's Golden Hill or Leonora Nattrass's Lawrence Jago seriesNominee for...
A Royal Passion: Louis XIV as Patron of Architecture
A Royal Passion is the first in-depth study of the Sun King as a patron of architecture. Surveying such monuments as the Louvre, Versailles, the Invalides, and other buildings that...
Roman Fever: Influence, Infection, and the Image of Rome, 1700-1870
During the 18th and 19th centuries, artists and travellers were lured to Rome, the home of civilized values and artistic beauty. But the history of visiting Rome had a pathological...
The Penguin History of Britain: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain
The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of...
Display of Art in Roman Palace, 1550-1750
This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple...
Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Free
The Free Drawing School (Ecole royale gratuite de dessin) fulfilled the Enlightenment ideal of an education open to all-rich and poor, male and female - and of an education founded...
The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus: By His Son Ferdinand
""The cornerstone of the history of the American continent."" --Washington Irving This revised edition (originally published in 1959) of the famous biography of Columbus by his son Ferdinand was published...
Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe
The story of Old London Bridge is a turbulent and varied one, spanning over 600 years of history from 1176 to 1832. In every period, the bridge was the focal...
Painting, Power and Patronage: Rise of the Professional Artist in the
Bram Kempers presents the period of the Renaissance as a process of the developing professionalization of the artist, with a line of patronage stretching from the mendicant orders and city...
Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's College, Colbert's Revenge
From Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, the buildings of Louis Le Vau shaped the image of French court society. None, however, has had as dramatic an effect as Mazarin's College (1661-70), the...
Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I
This book offers a full and comprehensive account of one of the most colorful and formative reigns in French history, that of Francis I (1515-47), and was published to coincide...
Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789
Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of people's lives, from a variety of...
Robert de Cotte and the Perfection of Architecture in
Robert de Cotte (1656/7-1735), principal architect to the King of France, was a prominent European architect. In a period that witnessed the ascendancy of Paris over Rome as the international...
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An essential history of the English...
That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Reformation in Nimes, 1530-1570
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In this book, author Alan Tulchin breaks apart the process of mass conversion in the sixteenth century to explain why the Reformation occurred, using Nimes, the most Protestant town in...
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744
This is a dual biography, exploring the lives of John and Sarah Churchill, first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Perhaps the greatest British general of all time and the most...
Scotland's Empire 1600-1815
The Scots had an enormous impact on the global development of the British Empire as emigrants, soldiers, merchants and colonial administrators. Imperial Scotland provides a comprehensive examination of their crucial...
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
In The Pursuit of Glory Tim Blanning brings to life one of the most extraordinary and dynamic periods in Europe's history: from the desolate, battered and introvert continent of the...
The Battle of Naseby and the Fall of King Charles I
This study discusses the political and military background to the battle and documents its chaotic aftermath.
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
Henry VIII always had problems with women. Born on 28 June 1491, he lived in the shadow of his elder brother Arthur and his dour and autocratic father, Henry VII....
The Life and Times of Charles I
The book titled The Life and Times of Charles I by the author D.R. Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Restoration London
Making use of every possible contemporary source-diaries, memoirs, advice books,government papers, almanacs, even the register of Patents - Liza Picard presentsan entralling picture of how life in London was really...
God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the
A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after...
The Gunpowder Plot: Classic Histories Series
Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night....
Battles of the English Civil War
The book titled Battles of the English Civil War by the author Austin Woolrych. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain's First King
A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...
Versailles: Science and Splendour
A richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the French court of Versailles - published to accompany the exhibition at London's...
A Play of Passion: Life of Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an explorer, pirate, lover, poet, courtier, philosopher and political prisoner, a man of timeless fascination. An essential part of the nation's history he embodies...
Prince Rupert: Portrait of a Soldier
This is a romantic and colourful story of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an extraordinary military commander. General Kitson discusses Rupert's boyhood study of fortifications, the early campaigns, his military...
Pepys and his Contemporaries
Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. As a picture of England, and especially of London, in the age...
Sycorax: a captivating reimagining of Shakespeare's most powerful
Born of the sun and moon, shaped by fire and malady, comes a young woman whose story has never been told . . . They call her Sycorax. Seer. Sage....
Sycorax: a captivating reimagining of Shakespeare's most powerful
Born of the sun and moon, shaped by fire and malady, comes a young woman whose story has never been told . . . They call her Sycorax. Seer. Sage....
Batavia's Graveyard
When the Dutch East Indian Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board....
Blood's Campaign: There can only be one victor . . .
In the theatre of war there can only be one victor . . . August 25, 1689 The English army has surrounded Carrickfergus in Ireland. The brilliant strategist and gunner...