17Th Century category: 857 books
Auldearn 1645
The Marquis of Montrose’s Scottish campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In August 1644, at the height of the First English Civil War, John Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, raised the standard of Royalist rebellion in Scotland. In a single year he won a string of remarkable victories with his army of Irish mercenaries and Highland clansmen. His victory at Auldearn, the...
by David Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The Battle of Marston Moor was key in English history. It was the largest battle of the Civil Wars, and was decisive.
This fresh study reconstructs the battle in graphic detail, and tells the story using the words of those who took part.
by Peter Gaunt
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The period 1642-1651, one of the most turbulent in the history of mainland Britian, saw the country torn by civil wars. Focusing on the English and Welsh wars this book examines the causes, course and consequences of the conflicts. While offering a concise military account that assesses the wars in...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
One of the most controversial figures in British History, Oliver Crowell entered the world as an insignificant member of the English gentry and left it as the all-powerful Lord Protector of the entirety of England, Scotland and Ireland. A radical Puritan, Cromwell believed that his meteoric rise through...
by Chris Hand
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Almost since Champlain's men first settled on St. Croix Island in 1604, the French and the English fought for control of Acadia, a huge area consisting of today's Maritime Provinces and parts of Quebec and Maine. The British assault on Fort Beauséjour in 1755 was the final act in this long struggle....
by Joseph J. Millard
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Combining the crafty tactics of a guerrilla general and the skill of an admiral, this burly buccaneer scoured the Spanish Main. His crews looted, raped, pillaged, and tortured with such telling effect that Morgan earned an empire -- as well as a knighthood!
by Darren Oldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book places supernatural beliefs and events in the context of the English Reformation to show how early...
Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646
Being Extracts from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with Bahrey's History of the Galla
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The selections from Almeida, translated and edited, describe the country and its people and the journeys of Jesuit missionaries attempting to enter or leave Ethiopia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1954.
John Locke
De la tolérance religieuse au libéralisme, une pensée philosophique moderne
Language: French
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur John Locke en moins d’une heure !
Éminent philosophe anglais du XVIIe siècle, John Locke développe tout au long de sa vie une pensée d’une rare modernité. Fortement influencé par les troubles qui agitent l’Europe, il élabore des théories...
by Henry G. Roseveare
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The financial revolution marked the end of medieval England, and through the major institutions such as Lloyds and the Bank of England, laid the foundations on which England's emergence as a world power was based. The subsequent changes radically altered English politics, and this book aims to provide...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents essays on the cultural codes of conflict and its resolution in this period under three broad themes: peacemaking as practice; the nature of mediation and...
Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe
Rulers, Aristocrats and the Formation of Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians has increasingly questioned the dominant role of ruling families in state formation, underlining instead the continued importance and independence...
by Virginia Freund
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Transcript of the Princeton MS, with Strachey's vocabulary of an Algonkian dialect and an essay on the same by James A. Geary. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1953.
Major-General Thomas Harrison
Millenarianism, Fifth Monarchism and the English Revolution 1616-1660
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I’s death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spectacle witnessed by Samuel Pepys who recorded him...