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New Books in Early Modern History
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James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
56 mins; July 12, 2024
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
50 mins; July 09, 2024
Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
33 mins; July 07, 2024
Elizabeth Storr Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, "Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 06, 2024
Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 11 mins; July 06, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
24 mins; July 05, 2024
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 29, 2024
Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
39 mins; June 28, 2024
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
59 mins; June 28, 2024
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 24, 2024
Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
36 mins; June 23, 2024
Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023)
73 hours 15 mins; June 22, 2024
Genji Yasuhira, "Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
64 hours 49 mins; June 21, 2024
Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; June 17, 2024
Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)
53 mins; June 16, 2024
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 13, 2024
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; June 12, 2024
Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
37 mins; June 11, 2024
Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 08, 2024
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
45 mins; June 06, 2024
Stephanie Joy Mawson, "Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines" (Cornell UP, 2023)
47 mins; June 01, 2024
Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
55 mins; June 01, 2024
Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
72 hours 18 mins; May 26, 2024
Yehonatan Eybeshitz, "Pearls of Wisdom from Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeshitz: Torah Giant, Preacher & Kabbalist" (Gerber's Miracle Publishers, 2021)
31 mins; May 24, 2024
Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)
32 mins; May 21, 2024
Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
40 mins; May 20, 2024
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
53 mins; May 18, 2024
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; May 17, 2024
Lauren Horn Griffin, "Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity" (Brill, 2023)
32 mins; May 14, 2024
Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
52 mins; May 13, 2024
Joanne Edge, "Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death" (York Medieval Press, 2024)
67 hours 25 mins; May 11, 2024
Lucy Barnhouse, "Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
69 hours 24 mins; May 07, 2024
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
62 hours 4 mins; May 05, 2024
Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; May 02, 2024
Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 30, 2024
Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)
60 hours 29 mins; April 29, 2024
Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
51 mins; April 28, 2024
Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)
68 hours 58 mins; April 27, 2024
Juliet B. Wiersema, "The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; April 26, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
68 hours 20 mins; April 26, 2024
Nicholas Popper, "The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; April 26, 2024
Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
50 mins; April 25, 2024
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
72 hours 27 mins; April 24, 2024
Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)
48 mins; April 23, 2024
Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)
40 mins; April 22, 2024
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
35 mins; April 22, 2024
Amanda Wunder, "Spanish Fashion in the Age of VelĂĄzquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV" (Yale UP, 2024)
52 mins; April 20, 2024
Nicholas Terpstra, "Senses of Space in the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
60 hours 42 mins; April 19, 2024
Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
49 mins; April 18, 2024
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
44 mins; April 16, 2024
Felipe FernĂĄndez-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
61 hours 59 mins; April 16, 2024
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
63 hours 8 mins; April 14, 2024
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
41 mins; April 14, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
59 mins; April 10, 2024
Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
58 mins; April 08, 2024
Claudio Ferlan, "The Jesuits: A Thematic History" (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2023)
57 mins; April 06, 2024
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)
69 hours 11 mins; April 02, 2024
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
52 mins; April 02, 2024
Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
53 mins; April 02, 2024
Katie Barclay, "Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self" (Oxford UP, 2021)
17 mins; April 01, 2024
Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; April 01, 2024
Oliver Wunsch, "A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France" (Penn State UP, 2024)
52 mins; March 31, 2024
W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)
55 mins; March 31, 2024
Thomas Lockley, "A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court" (Hanover Square Press, 2024)
37 mins; March 30, 2024
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
71 hours 21 mins; March 28, 2024
Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)
42 mins; March 28, 2024
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 52 mins; March 26, 2024
William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
99 hours 28 mins; March 26, 2024
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
44 mins; March 26, 2024
John William Nelson, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press, 2023)
82 hours 56 mins; March 23, 2024
Thomas D. Conlan, "Kings in All But Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; March 17, 2024
Victoria Perry, "A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape" (Hurst, 2022)
54 mins; March 14, 2024
Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
73 hours 1 min; March 13, 2024
Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)
68 hours 51 mins; March 12, 2024
Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
65 hours 29 mins; March 10, 2024
Jeremy Black, "The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
41 mins; March 09, 2024
Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)
79 hours 45 mins; March 08, 2024
Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
46 mins; March 05, 2024
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
52 mins; March 05, 2024
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
59 mins; March 04, 2024
Cristina Brito, "Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
36 mins; March 04, 2024
Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
48 mins; March 02, 2024
Fynn Holm, "The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
51 mins; February 29, 2024
Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)
44 mins; February 28, 2024
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
36 mins; February 26, 2024
Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)
53 mins; February 24, 2024
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; February 24, 2024
Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
59 mins; February 22, 2024
Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
43 mins; February 22, 2024
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, "Tudor Networks of Power" (Oxford UP, 2023)
41 mins; February 21, 2024
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
62 hours 49 mins; February 20, 2024
Isabel B. Taylor, "The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England" (De Gruyter, 2023)
45 mins; February 19, 2024
Tom Hamilton, "A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; February 19, 2024
Matthew C. Ward, "Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
78 hours 23 mins; February 18, 2024
Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss, "The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France" (Getty, 2022)
48 mins; February 17, 2024
Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)
86 hours 44 mins; February 16, 2024
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
57 mins; February 15, 2024
Laura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 13, 2024
Ana Lucia Araujo, "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
48 mins; February 11, 2024
Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
99 hours 35 mins; February 07, 2024
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