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Vermeer's Hat : The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Timothy Brook
Hardcover - $44.95
In the hands of award-winning historian Brook, Vermeers dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought--from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.
The Origins of Empire : British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century
Nicholas Canny
Paperback - $107.95
A five-volume comprehensive assessment of the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Written by international experts, Volume I explains how and why Britain became involved with transocean ...
The Oxford History of the British Empire : The Origins of the Empire
Nicholas Canny
Hardcover - $315.95
A five-volume comprehensive assessment of the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Written by international experts, Volume I explains how and why Britain became involved with transocean ...
The Causes of the English Civil War
Norah Carlin
Paperback - $88.95
This book provides readers with the essential background to the English Civil War and the historical debates surrounding its causes. It discusses the pitfalls of arguments about causation and analyzes the events that preceded the war. The volume exam ...
Batavia's Graveyard : The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Dash
Paperback - $26.95
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful monopoly. ...
Great Themes in Puritan Preaching (Hardcover)
M. Di Gangi
Hardcover - $45.95
Dr. Di Gangi brings together the words of John Owen, William Gough, Thomas Watson, John Flavel, Richard Sibbes, and other great Puritan preachers with the hopes that their sermons might be used to revive the desire to see the Scriptures faithfully pr ...
Auden's History of Tong - Vol 1
Joyce Frost
Paperback - $40.95
Tong is a delightful village, whose fascination soon gets a hold on those who come to live in it - even on those who come as visitors. One resident was The Reverend John Ernest Auden, Vicar from 1896-1913. He took a deep interest in the history of hi ...
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David Hirst
Hardcover - $315.95
This book, by one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, is a wholesale revision of his classic Authority and Conflict, England 1603-1658 (1986). Hirst has drawn on a decade of research that has appeared since the original ...
England in Conflict, 1603-1660 : Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth
David Hirst
Paperback - $94.95
England in Conflict 1603-1660 tells the story of the disintegration of the early modern polity. By questioning the meanings of the body politic it is able to bridge not only the high and low but also divergent approaches to the period. The book's ope ...