17Th Century category: 857 books
Osaka 1615
The last battle of the samurai
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In 1614-15 Osaka Castle was Japan's greatest fortification, measuring approximately 2 miles in length with walls 100 feet high. It was guarded by 100,000 samurai, determined to defend the last of the once-powerful Toyotomi clan. The castle was seemingly impenetrable; however, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the...
Captain Misson: Death Or Glory
Pirate Classics
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Daniel Defoe's account of piracy, crime and anarchy on the high seas, combining two chapters of his vast General History Of The Robberies And Murders Of The Most Notorious Pirates (1726) - tells the history of Captain Misson, the French teenage rebel whose life as a freebooter eventually leads him...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscripts, and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. Texts include: An account of the fables and rites of the Yncas, by Cristóbal de Molina, c. 1570-84,; An account of the antiquities of Peru, by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-Yamqui Salcamayhua [an Indian],...
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence to the present year
Previously published 1726 and 1927
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A General History of the Pirates has long been a classic of seafaring literature and was inspiration to both Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. Nothing is known about Captain Charles Johnson, and it is thought that the name may be assumed - there are even some who believe he may have been Daniel...
Constructing Floridians
Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award "Compelling stories of people whose ideas about themselves changed as they struggled to understand new people and circumstances. . . . A rich tale of cross-cultural divisions...
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta
Reprinted from the English Translated Edition of Edward Grimeston, 1604 Volume I: The Natural History (Books I, II, III and IV)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru. With introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (First Series 61) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1880.
The History of the great and mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof
Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, and now Reprinted from the early Translation of R. Parke
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
From the 1588 black-letter edition, after the 1586 Madrid edition. The supplementary material includes the 1852 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1853.
A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes
Previously published 1719 and 1926
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned...
A Hangman's Diary
The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573?1617
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career.
A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In 1912, Daniel Burnham and his family are aboard the RMS Olympic, the second largest cruise ship in the world and sister ship to the Titanic. Burnham has gained fame and wealth from aiding in the construction of the World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893. Nearly two decades later, Burnham is sixty-two...
by John Newsome Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book ('Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age') this new work further expands our understanding of the Spanish Philippines by looking at Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas and his son Luis, successive governors from 1589. Drawing upon a...
Sugar and Slaves
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production...
The Solitude of Thomas Cave
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In 1616, as the last warm days dwindle in the north Atlantic, the men on an English whaling ship prepare to head back toward home. But there is one exception among them: the quiet, headstrong Thomas Cave. For Cave has bet the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic island. Alone.
His...
Descartes' Bones
A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and...