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New Books in Early Modern History

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Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 16 mins; February 03, 2024

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

38 mins; February 01, 2024

Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)

53 mins; January 25, 2024

James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)

63 hours 5 mins; January 24, 2024

Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)

75 hours 18 mins; January 24, 2024

Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)

52 mins; January 23, 2024

Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

49 mins; January 22, 2024

Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)

40 mins; January 21, 2024

Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

64 hours 26 mins; January 20, 2024

Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)

58 mins; January 20, 2024

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

60 hours 32 mins; January 20, 2024

Lewis Wade, "Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV" (Boydell Press, 2023)

54 mins; January 19, 2024

Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

53 mins; January 16, 2024

Emma Gleadhill, "Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830" (Manchester UP, 2022)

62 hours 24 mins; January 16, 2024

Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

83 hours 50 mins; January 15, 2024

Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

87 hours 7 mins; January 14, 2024

Elisabeth Gernerd, "The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

95 hours 51 mins; January 14, 2024

Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024)

45 mins; January 13, 2024

Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; January 13, 2024

Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)

56 mins; January 13, 2024

Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

60 hours 50 mins; January 12, 2024

Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)

68 hours 53 mins; January 10, 2024

Matthew Carr, "Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614" (Hurst, 2017)

111 hours 7 mins; January 08, 2024

Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)

68 hours 46 mins; January 06, 2024

Colin Jones, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)

56 mins; January 05, 2024

Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

39 mins; January 04, 2024

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

60 hours 38 mins; January 04, 2024

Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)

64 hours 1 min; January 03, 2024

Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

98 hours 20 mins; January 02, 2024

Ronen Steinberg, "The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2019)

61 hours 23 mins; January 01, 2024

John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)

56 mins; January 01, 2024

Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)

27 mins; December 31, 2023

Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)

36 mins; December 31, 2023

Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)

28 mins; December 30, 2023

Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)

42 mins; December 28, 2023

Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)

50 mins; December 27, 2023

Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

64 hours 31 mins; December 25, 2023

Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

96 hours 15 mins; December 23, 2023

Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)

53 mins; December 22, 2023

David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)

58 mins; December 21, 2023

Brian Jeffrey Maxson, "Early Modern Europe: Facts and Fictions" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

50 mins; December 21, 2023

Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)

51 mins; December 19, 2023

Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

66 hours 57 mins; December 13, 2023

Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

57 mins; December 11, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist

52 mins; December 10, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico

60 hours 5 mins; December 09, 2023

Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth

68 hours 18 mins; December 09, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family

45 mins; December 08, 2023

Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

48 mins; December 06, 2023

Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)

59 mins; December 04, 2023

Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation

58 mins; December 02, 2023

Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

63 hours 9 mins; December 01, 2023

D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

81 hours 58 mins; November 30, 2023

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

59 mins; November 29, 2023

Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)

61 hours 3 mins; November 28, 2023

Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

42 mins; November 28, 2023

Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)

71 hours 45 mins; November 27, 2023

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

70 hours 35 mins; November 24, 2023

Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; November 24, 2023

Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)

70 hours 47 mins; November 21, 2023

Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)

49 mins; November 20, 2023

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

37 mins; November 18, 2023

Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)

67 hours 17 mins; November 13, 2023

Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy

61 hours 9 mins; November 08, 2023

David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)

80 hours 55 mins; November 04, 2023

Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian

65 hours 29 mins; November 03, 2023

Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

61 hours 50 mins; November 03, 2023

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

49 mins; October 31, 2023

Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)

65 hours 21 mins; October 31, 2023

Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)

57 mins; October 30, 2023

James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

70 hours 57 mins; October 29, 2023

Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023)

41 mins; October 29, 2023

James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)

40 mins; October 28, 2023

David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)

51 mins; October 23, 2023

Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez, "Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean" (Routledge, 2023)

45 mins; October 23, 2023

Rosie Harte, "The Royal Wardrobe: Peek into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals" (Headline, 2023)

50 mins; October 22, 2023

Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)

77 hours 11 mins; October 21, 2023

Shannon McHugh, "Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

53 mins; October 20, 2023

Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)

43 mins; October 18, 2023

Elena Serrano, "Ladies of Honor and Merit. Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

44 mins; October 18, 2023

Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)

55 mins; October 18, 2023

Onyeka Nubia, "England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

67 hours 38 mins; October 17, 2023

Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)

32 mins; October 17, 2023

Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)

36 mins; October 16, 2023

A. Katie Harris, "The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

48 mins; October 16, 2023

John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)

59 mins; October 15, 2023

Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)

80 hours 20 mins; October 14, 2023

Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

48 mins; October 11, 2023

The History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80

60 hours 25 mins; October 10, 2023

Julian Goodare and Martha McGill, "The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland" (Manchester UP, 2023)

39 mins; October 09, 2023

Books in Early Modern Europe

63 hours 53 mins; October 07, 2023

Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

41 mins; October 05, 2023

Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

37 mins; October 03, 2023

Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

35 mins; October 02, 2023

Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023)

46 mins; October 02, 2023

Martina Mampieri, "Living Under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (Brill, 2019)

85 hours 16 mins; September 30, 2023

Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

65 hours 25 mins; September 27, 2023

Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)

78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023

Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)

89 hours 12 mins; September 23, 2023

Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)

56 mins; September 23, 2023

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