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New Books in Early Modern History
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ZoltĂĄn Biedermann, "(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia" (Oxford UP, 2019)
83 hours 24 mins; April 08, 2022
Jason K. Stearns, "The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo" (Princeton UP, 2022)
125 hours 13 mins; April 08, 2022
William D. Adler, "Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
50 mins; April 07, 2022
Shawn Michael Austin, "Colonial Kinship: GuaranĂ­, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
108 hours 1 min; April 07, 2022
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
66 hours 8 mins; April 06, 2022
Chelsea Phillips, "Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800" (U of Delaware Press, 2022)
59 mins; April 04, 2022
Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
51 mins; April 01, 2022
Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
77 hours 49 mins; April 01, 2022
Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec, "Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
60 hours 8 mins; March 29, 2022
Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
74 hours 5 mins; March 29, 2022
AyƟe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
45 mins; March 29, 2022
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
75 hours 57 mins; March 25, 2022
Michael D. Breidenbach, "Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
87 hours 56 mins; March 24, 2022
Elisabeth Ceppi, "Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
82 hours 12 mins; March 24, 2022
Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore, "The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (6): Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880" (Yale UP, 2019)
63 hours 29 mins; March 22, 2022
Kenneth Hsien-y Pai and Susan Chan Egan, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)
53 mins; March 21, 2022
De-Min Tao and Gary P. Leupp, eds., "The Tokugawa World" (Routledge, 2021)
32 mins; March 21, 2022
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, "All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; March 18, 2022
Samuel Wright, "A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E." (Oxford UP, 2021)
45 mins; March 17, 2022
Tessa Murphy, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
88 hours 56 mins; March 16, 2022
Arup K. Chatterjee, "Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
49 mins; March 10, 2022
Albert A. Palacios, "Unlocking the Colonial Archive in Latin America"
58 mins; March 09, 2022
Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
69 hours 4 mins; March 07, 2022
Edward Jones Corredera, "The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation" (Brill, 2021)
62 hours 16 mins; March 07, 2022
Brian Ogren, "Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World" (NYU Press, 2021)
52 mins; March 03, 2022
Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
63 hours 12 mins; March 02, 2022
Lu Ann Homza, "Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
45 mins; March 02, 2022
Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
84 hours 9 mins; March 01, 2022
Joseph J. Krulder, "The Execution of Admiral John Byng As a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Routledge, 2021)
64 hours 34 mins; March 01, 2022
Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
80 hours 6 mins; February 25, 2022
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
20 mins; February 23, 2022
Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
61 hours 20 mins; February 21, 2022
Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)
58 mins; February 21, 2022
Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)
46 mins; February 17, 2022
Micah Alpaugh, "Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; February 07, 2022
Rita Koganzon, "Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; February 03, 2022
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)
53 mins; February 02, 2022
Erin Jessee et al., "Nyiragitwa: Daughter of Sacyega" (Mudacumura, 2021)
36 mins; January 31, 2022
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)
59 mins; January 31, 2022
Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
54 mins; January 26, 2022
Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
41 mins; January 26, 2022
Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel, "The Middle Ages: A Graphic History" (Icon Books, 2020)
66 hours 22 mins; January 25, 2022
David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
26 mins; January 07, 2022
Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
43 mins; January 05, 2022
Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
70 hours 3 mins; January 04, 2022
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
83 hours 38 mins; January 03, 2022
Paul Bushkovitch, "Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 15 mins; December 28, 2021
E. Natalie Rothman, "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell UP, 2021)
71 hours 50 mins; December 24, 2021
F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)
31 mins; December 22, 2021
Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
60 hours 46 mins; December 22, 2021
Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii, "Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 32 mins; December 20, 2021
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
60 hours 11 mins; December 20, 2021
Tibor MartĂ­ and Roberto Quiros Rosado, "Eagles Looking East and West: Dynasty, Ritual and Representation in Habsburg Hungary and Spain" (Brepols, 2021)
49 mins; December 17, 2021
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
67 hours 53 mins; December 17, 2021
Avner Wishnitzer, "As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
57 mins; December 16, 2021
Gloria Maité Hernåndez, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
47 mins; December 16, 2021
Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
47 mins; December 15, 2021
Janna Coomans, "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; December 15, 2021
Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)
65 hours 17 mins; December 14, 2021
Edmond Smith, "Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650" (Yale UP, 2021)
63 hours 35 mins; December 13, 2021
Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)
52 mins; December 08, 2021
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
89 hours 25 mins; December 03, 2021
Devin J. Vartija, "The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
72 hours 54 mins; December 02, 2021
Andrew Roberts, "The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III" (Viking, 2021)
34 mins; December 01, 2021
Kevin Bruyneel, "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)
53 mins; November 29, 2021
Daniel Lee, "The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
64 hours 13 mins; November 24, 2021
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
51 mins; November 24, 2021
Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
42 mins; November 23, 2021
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
90 hours 39 mins; November 22, 2021
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders" (Princeton UP, 2021)
54 mins; November 18, 2021
Clara A. B. Joseph, "Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn" (Routledge, 2020)
38 mins; November 17, 2021
Eva Del Soldato, "Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
66 hours 9 mins; November 16, 2021
Ndubueze L. Mbah, "Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age" (Ohio UP, 2019)
76 hours 11 mins; November 16, 2021
David Lester, "Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2021)
56 mins; November 10, 2021
Vincent Evener, "Enemies of the Cross: Suffering, Truth, and Mysticism in the Early Reformation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
61 hours 44 mins; November 08, 2021
Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
101 hours 39 mins; November 05, 2021
Justin K. Stearns, "Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 05, 2021
Machiko ƌgimachi, "In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
33 mins; November 04, 2021
Andrea Gondos, "Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
50 mins; November 04, 2021
Anthony Seldon, "The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; October 27, 2021
Teofilo Ruiz, “The Consolations of History” (Open Agenda, 2021)
146 hours 46 mins; October 26, 2021
Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
58 mins; October 22, 2021
Eileen Hunt Botting, "Portraits of Wollstonecraft" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
70 hours 16 mins; October 22, 2021
Emily Mokros, "The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority" (U Washington Press, 2021)
63 hours 32 mins; October 20, 2021
Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; October 20, 2021
Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bƍtƍ" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; October 19, 2021
Gåbor Ágoston, "The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe" (Princeton UP, 2021)
149 hours 30 mins; October 13, 2021
Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Imaginaries of Connectivity: The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
63 hours 15 mins; October 12, 2021
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 50 mins; October 11, 2021
Paola Ugolini, "Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
56 mins; October 11, 2021
Mark Somos and Anne Peters, "The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea" (Brill, 2021)
62 hours 48 mins; October 11, 2021
Paola Ugolini, "Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
56 mins; October 11, 2021
Robert C. Schwaller, "African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
79 hours 59 mins; October 08, 2021
Mans Broo, "The Rādhā Tantra: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation" (Routledge, 2019)
50 mins; October 07, 2021
Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
49 mins; October 07, 2021
Judith Pollmann, "Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635" (Oxford UP, 2011)
56 mins; October 07, 2021
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
67 hours 35 mins; October 07, 2021
John Shovlin, "Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order" (Yale UP, 2021)
63 hours 28 mins; September 29, 2021
Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; September 28, 2021
M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
82 hours 47 mins; September 22, 2021
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