17Th Century category: 857 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic, political,...
History of the two Tartar Conquerors of China, including the two Journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest in the Suite of the Emperor Kang-hi
From the French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orléans, of the Company of Jesus. To which is added Father Pereira's Journey into Tartary in the Suite of the same Emperor, From the Dutch of Nicholaas Witsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The first part is translated from the 1688, Paris, edition; the narrative of Father Pereira's journey and the text of two letters by Father Verbiest are from the 1692, Amsterdam, edition. The supplementary material consists of the 1854 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1854.
La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo
The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan missionary plan (1617-1627)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Pedro Fernández de Quirós was a remarkable navigator and explorer. Having sailed in 1595 as chief pilot in the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands, he returned to the 'Austral Lands' - the area of the New Hebrides - in 1605 with another expedition, which is the subject of this...
by W. A. Speck
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Forced out of power in the"Glorious Revolution" of 1688, and defeated in the subsequent battle of the Boyne by William of Orange, the short reign of James II has an importance that reaches far beyond his three years in power. An ardent Roman Catholic, his efforts to return England to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The outbreaks and collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. This book, first published in 1983, attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare and contrast them, and to draw general conclusions.
Seventy-five...
Catherine of Braganza
Charles II's Restoration Queen
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch's Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry - she put up with the king's many mistresses and continuous plots to remove her from the throne. She lived through times of war, plague and fire....
Getting Along?
Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examining the impact of the English and European Reformations on social interaction and community harmony, this volume simultaneously highlights the tension and degree of accommodation amongst ordinary people when faced with religious and social upheaval. Building on previous literature which has...
by Joshua Rodda
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this book examines the practice of direct, scholarly disputation between fundamentally opposing and oftentimes antagonistic Catholic, Protestant and nonconformist puritan divines. Introducing a form of discourse hitherto neglected...
by WalterdeGray Birch
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Volume I: This is translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Volume II: This is translated from Part ii of the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Volume III: Part iii of the 1774 edition. With descriptions of Malacca and Goa translated...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1925.
Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
Collected and published by Richard Hakluyt, Prebendary of Bristol, in the Year 1582
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume contains the original printed text, with notes and an introduction. The edition is described as prepared 'for the subscribers of 1849' and as the third volume of 1849 in the report in the next volume. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1850.
Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women
Essays Presented to Hilda L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields. Each essay confronts some received wisdom, ’truth’ or orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific...
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689
The Last Act of the Killing Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie was unquestionably the most dramatic.
It was...
The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies,1614-15
As Recorded in Contemporary Narratives and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1939.