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Allan Greer, "Canada in the Age of Rum" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)

44 mins; March 31, 2026

Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)

58 mins; March 25, 2026

Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

39 mins; March 24, 2026

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" (Harvard UP, 2026)

104 hours 11 mins; March 13, 2026

Michael Bycroft, "Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

53 mins; March 11, 2026

Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

51 mins; March 11, 2026

Leah Astbury, "Making Babies in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

56 mins; February 26, 2026

Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

59 mins; February 25, 2026

Jane Ohlmeyer, "Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

60 hours 32 mins; February 22, 2026

Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

59 mins; February 22, 2026

Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

26 mins; February 18, 2026

Sara Pennell & Jon Stobart, "Auctions and the Consumption of Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

58 mins; February 17, 2026

Shelley Puhak, "The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

52 mins; February 17, 2026

Lynneth Miller Renberg, "Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

43 mins; February 14, 2026

Elaine M. Fisher, "The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India" (Oxford UP, 2025)

38 mins; February 12, 2026

Marc Mierowsky, "A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence" (Yale UP, 2026)

57 mins; February 10, 2026

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 35 mins; February 08, 2026

Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)

56 mins; February 04, 2026

Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)

34 mins; February 02, 2026

Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)

60 hours 11 mins; January 29, 2026

Olivia Weisser, "The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

51 mins; January 28, 2026

Saundra Weddle, "The Brothel and Beyond: An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice" (Penn State UP, 2026)

56 mins; January 28, 2026

Karin Wulf, "Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 27, 2026

Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

44 mins; January 27, 2026

Nena Vandeweerdt, "Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay" (Leuven UP, 2025)

42 mins; January 25, 2026

Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

46 mins; January 25, 2026

Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)

52 mins; January 21, 2026

Amanda G. Madden, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" (Cornell UP, 2025)

53 mins; January 18, 2026

Elwin Hofman et al. eds., "The Business of Pleasure: A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of Europe" (Leuven UP, 2022)

50 mins; January 17, 2026

Sam Fullerton, "Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England" (Manchester UP, 2026)

53 mins; January 15, 2026

Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)

61 hours 26 mins; January 13, 2026

Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

49 mins; January 11, 2026

Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)

60 hours 38 mins; January 11, 2026

John Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)

95 hours 17 mins; January 10, 2026

Danielle Alesi, "Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)

45 mins; January 09, 2026

Rachel Midura, "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2025)

41 mins; January 07, 2026

Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)

59 mins; January 07, 2026

Andrew S. Curran, "Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson" (Other Press, 2026)

76 hours 45 mins; January 02, 2026

Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)

37 mins; January 01, 2026

Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)

49 mins; December 30, 2025

Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)

57 mins; December 29, 2025

Shlomo Pereira, "Monuments de Papel E Pergaminho: Hebrew Printing in Portugal at the End of the 15th Century" (Chabad Portugal Press, 2025)

51 mins; December 25, 2025

Hilary Davidson, "A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins" (Yale UP, 2025)

57 mins; December 22, 2025

Mayu Fujikawa, "Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)

55 mins; December 19, 2025

Tullia d'Aragona, "The Wretch, Otherwise Known As Guerrino" (Iter Press, 2024)

51 mins; December 15, 2025

Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025)

37 mins; December 15, 2025

David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 47 mins; December 08, 2025

Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)" (Oxford UP, 2025)

54 mins; December 05, 2025

Joseph Harley and Vicky Holmes eds., "Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

48 mins; December 03, 2025

Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)

59 mins; November 30, 2025

Thomas Morel, "Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

46 mins; November 21, 2025

John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)

56 mins; November 17, 2025

Bryan A. Banks, "Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment" (McGill-Queen's, 2024)

41 mins; November 15, 2025

Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)

49 mins; November 12, 2025

Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)

48 mins; November 08, 2025

Naomi Baker, "Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

50 mins; November 07, 2025

Elizabeth Currie, "Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio" (Reaktion, 2025)

37 mins; November 02, 2025

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, "The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617" (Routledge, 2025)

45 mins; November 01, 2025

John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World" (Princeton UP, 2025)

51 mins; October 30, 2025

Kenneth G. Appold, "Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525" (Oxford UP, 2025)

49 mins; October 27, 2025

Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

45 mins; October 26, 2025

Julia Fawcett, "Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

44 mins; October 25, 2025

Iris Idelson-Shein, "Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe" (U Penn Press, 2024)

51 mins; October 25, 2025

David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)

87 hours 28 mins; October 19, 2025

James Grehan, "Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)

36 mins; October 17, 2025

Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, "Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards" (Brepols, 2025)

54 mins; October 17, 2025

David M. Whitford, "The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity" (Routledge, 2025)

57 mins; October 05, 2025

Clara A. B. Joseph, "India's Non-violent Freedom Struggle: The Thomas Christians (1599-1799)" (Routledge, 2023)

37 mins; October 02, 2025

Subah Dayal, "Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India" (U California Press, 2024)

40 mins; September 30, 2025

Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

49 mins; September 29, 2025

Emily Vine, "Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

39 mins; September 24, 2025

Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower eds., "Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

28 mins; September 23, 2025

Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)

64 hours 56 mins; September 18, 2025

Susan Juster, "A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America" (UNC Press, 2025)

54 mins; September 12, 2025

Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

100 hours 9 mins; September 08, 2025

Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57" (Routledge, 2016)

53 mins; September 05, 2025

Steven Veerapen, "Witches: A King's Obsession" (Birlin, 2025)

39 mins; September 03, 2025

Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan

51 mins; September 01, 2025

Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires" (Boydell & Brewer, 2025)

58 mins; September 01, 2025

Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)

68 hours 51 mins; August 31, 2025

Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski, "An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death" (Hachette UK, 2025)

40 mins; August 29, 2025

Jérémy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025)

36 mins; August 26, 2025

Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)

60 hours 33 mins; August 23, 2025

David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution" (Oxford UP, 2023)

34 mins; August 16, 2025

Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)

62 hours 34 mins; August 15, 2025

Terri Diane Halperin, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)

58 mins; August 09, 2025

Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom” (Norton, 2017)

63 hours 24 mins; August 09, 2025

David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)

78 hours 36 mins; August 08, 2025

Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)

71 hours 47 mins; August 07, 2025

Ronald C. Po, "Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" (Liverpool UP, 2024)

75 hours 46 mins; August 06, 2025

Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)

61 hours 54 mins; August 01, 2025

Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)

46 mins; July 28, 2025

Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

38 mins; July 27, 2025

Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)

74 hours 3 mins; July 27, 2025

Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)

37 mins; July 25, 2025

Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)

59 mins; July 20, 2025

How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research

22 mins; July 19, 2025

Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain" (Profile Books, 2025)

64 hours 50 mins; July 15, 2025

Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots" (Berlinn, 2025)

37 mins; July 12, 2025

Samuel Kline Cohn, "Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy" (Oxford UP, 2022)

33 mins; July 11, 2025

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