17Th Century category: 857 books
Oranje tegen de Zonnekoning
De strijd van Willem III en Lodewijk XIV om Europa
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Lodewijk van Frankrijk, bijgenaamd de 'Zonnekoning', droomde ervan de machtigste vorst van zijn tijd te worden. Maar hij stuitte op een taaie prins, de jonge Willem III van Oranje. Lodewijk was een aantrekkelijke verschijning. Willem had een bochel en was berucht om zijn nukkigheid. Lodewijk heerste...
by Holly Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
“Tucker writes with gusto . . . high drama.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners,...
Willem van Oranje
de opportunistische Vader des Vaderlands
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 7, 2017
Een voorvechter van tolerantie, gewetensvrijheid en alles wat Nederlands is, strijdend tegen de machtsbeluste Spaanse koning. Dat is het beeld dat we hebben van Willem van Oranje, onze Vader des Vaderlands. Een ideaalbeeld uit de negentiende eeuw, toen we behoefte hadden aan nationale helden.
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by Francis Loring Payne
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A history of the city of Versailles in France. Versailles was once the capital of France and the Palace of Versailles is considered one of the most beautiful palaces in the world. This is a comprehensive study of many important periods in the history of the city.
by Netta Murray Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
This book suggests a solution to an episode that has remained a mystery to this day. It is a story involving a king, his mistress, one of Princess Diana's ancestors and a financial genius.The solution offered here is a hypothesis, but as will be shown, a more plausible one than two published well after...
France at Bay 1870-1871
The Struggle for Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor Napoleon III was captured and his regime collapsed. The war went on for another five agonizing months, and resolved itself into a contest for Paris...
Histoire de la vie et de l'administration de Colbert
Précédée d'une Etude historique sur Nicolas Fouquet. - suivie de pièces justificatives, lettres et documents inédits ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: July 24, 2018
HISTOIRE DE LA VIE ET DE L'ADMINISTRATION DE COLBERT.
CHAPITRE PREMIER.
Causes de l'élévation de Colbert et de l'influence qu'il a exercée pendant son ministère.—Origine plébéienne de ce ministre (1619).—Il est employé successivement dans une maison de commerce de Lyon, chez...
Frederick the Great
A Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
For tactical and strategic ingenuity, for daring and ruthless determination and the capacity to inspire troops, Frederick the Great was without equal. In this detailed life of ‘Old Fritz’, Christopher Duffy, who has written widely on the army of Frederick and on the armies of his adversaries, Austria and Russia, has produced a definitive account of his military genius.
by Eugene Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Leo and Luther is a brief, well annotated history of the reformation and the clash between the two leaders of the religious world during the reformation.
Andrew Melville (1545-1622)
Writings, Reception, and Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution...
Sedgemoor 1685
Marlborough’s First Victory
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
A new account of Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 and the Battle of Sedgemoor. The author focuses on the confrontation between Monmouth and John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, and provides a graphic reassessment of the campaign. He retraces the routes taken by the opposing armies across the...
Crown, Covenant and Cromwell
The Civil Wars in Scotland 1639-1651
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. While the politics of the time are necessarily touched upon, it is above all the story...
The Civil War in Yorkshire
Fairfax Versus Newcastle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
During the English Civil Wars the streets and fields of Yorkshire were fought over for the control of the county. In the bitter confrontation between king and Parliament, Yorkshire was the key to control of the North. This historical guide tells the story of this Yorkshire war, using contemporary...
by Richard Cust
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Charles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to the only republican government Britain has ever known. Historians have struggled to get him into perspective,...