Renaissance category: 1000 books
by John Guy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Guy's Very Short Introduction to The Tudors is the most authoritative short introduction to this age in British history. It offers a compelling account of the political, religious and economic changes of the country...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political...
by Natalie A. Zacek
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the...
The Reader in the Book
A Study of Spaces and Traces
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated...
by Annette Carson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Ever since the discovery of his lost grave in Leicester, the eyes of the world have been drawn to the twists and turns surrounding England’s King Richard III… Annette Carson, acclaimed author and expert on Richard’s reign (and one of the team who found him), has published A Small Guide to the...
The Rule of Moderation
Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Why was it that whenever the Tudor-Stuart regime most loudly trumpeted its moderation, that regime was at its most vicious? This groundbreaking book argues that the ideal of moderation, so central to English history and identity, functioned as a tool of social, religious and political power. Thus...
by John Morrill
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly...
Looking Into Providences
Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or ‘designs’ that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the ‘trials,’...
by Michael Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the lands of the 'New World', and few stories in history can match these for drama and endurance.
In...
The Lodger Shakespeare
His Life on Silver Street
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life....
by Andrea Zuvich
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The Stuart monarchs reigned during a time when Britain was balanced on the brink of change. It was an era torn between absolute monarchy and revolution: kings ruled with iron fists only to be toppled by opponents who laid claim, not to a crown, but to a country. It was an era that saw the carnage...
Invisible Agents
Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon,...
Political Gastronomy
Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is...
Exploiting Erasmus
The Erasmian Legacy and Religious Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Desiderius Erasmus' humanist works were influential throughout Europe, in various areas of thought including theology, education, philology, and political theory. Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies...