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Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered …
In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, …
Though the Reformation was sparked by the actions of Martn Luther, it was not a decisive break from the Church in Rome but rather a gradual process of religious and social change. …
Winner of the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize of the Sixteenth Century Society and ConferenceDuring the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the development of a …
"e;If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented"e; was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, …
This book is an economic, historical, and sociological examination of rural textile industries in the Lower Rhineland beginning in the sixteenth century, culminating with the age …
As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal …
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "e;a work of enormous imagination and enterprise"e; and in The New York …
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent …
Al-Kindi was the first philosopher of the Islamic world. He lived in Iraq and studied in Baghdad, where he became attached to the caliphal court. In due course he would become an …