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New Books in Early Modern History
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Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
55 mins; December 10, 2022
Ayelet Zohar, "The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia" (Brill, 2022)
99 hours 10 mins; December 07, 2022
Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 8 mins; December 06, 2022
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 05, 2022
Huw J. Davies, "The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War" (Yale UP, 2022)
73 hours 23 mins; December 01, 2022
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
60 hours 2 mins; November 30, 2022
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2022
On Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"
42 mins; November 30, 2022
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
61 hours 49 mins; November 29, 2022
Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
77 hours 29 mins; November 28, 2022
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
115 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2022
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
49 mins; November 28, 2022
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; November 25, 2022
Kees Boterbloem, "Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566–1725: A Forgotten Friendship" (Lexington Books, 2021)
47 mins; November 24, 2022
Michael A. Verney, "A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
52 mins; November 23, 2022
Paul Barba, "Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
61 hours 28 mins; November 22, 2022
On Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato"
27 mins; November 21, 2022
Erin Alice Cowling, "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
45 mins; November 21, 2022
Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
47 mins; November 21, 2022
Antonio T. Bly, "Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America" (Lexington Books, 2022)
88 hours 2 mins; November 21, 2022
Alexander Des Forges, "Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
58 mins; November 18, 2022
Mary Dunn, "Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 17, 2022
Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
54 mins; November 16, 2022
Melancholy
15 mins; November 15, 2022
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
51 mins; November 14, 2022
Sara Rich, "Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
54 mins; November 14, 2022
Jeremy Bangs, "New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration" (Brill, 2019)
39 mins; November 11, 2022
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 47 mins; November 10, 2022
Morgan Pitelka, "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; November 08, 2022
On "The U.S. Constitution"
43 mins; November 07, 2022
Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
73 hours 11 mins; November 04, 2022
On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
31 mins; November 04, 2022
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
36 mins; November 03, 2022
Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; November 01, 2022
Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
59 mins; November 01, 2022
Timothy Murtagh, "Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
31 mins; November 01, 2022
Yuhua Wang, "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 01, 2022
Sam W. Haynes, "Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas" (Basic Books, 2022)
74 hours 52 mins; October 31, 2022
Victor Stater, "Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was" (Yale UP, 2022)
47 mins; October 31, 2022
Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
56 mins; October 31, 2022
Nancy November, "String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
30 mins; October 30, 2022
Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
69 hours 12 mins; October 28, 2022
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 27, 2022
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
88 hours 34 mins; October 26, 2022
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
63 hours 56 mins; October 25, 2022
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
41 mins; October 25, 2022
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
39 mins; October 25, 2022
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
126 hours 29 mins; October 24, 2022
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
126 hours 29 mins; October 24, 2022
Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
59 mins; October 21, 2022
Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)
55 mins; October 21, 2022
Tracy Adams and Christine Adams, "The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry" (Penn State UP, 2020)
60 hours 59 mins; October 21, 2022
Thomas E. Burman et al., "The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650" (U California Press, 2022)
60 hours 30 mins; October 21, 2022
Eden Collinsworth, "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
49 mins; October 20, 2022
Eric Jay Dolin, "Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution" (Liveright, 2022)
44 mins; October 20, 2022
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" (U California Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 20, 2022
Jeffers Lennox, "North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 19, 2022
Evan Haefeli, "Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
40 mins; October 17, 2022
Jakob Feinig, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" (Stanford UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 17, 2022
On Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"
33 mins; October 17, 2022
Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
67 hours 21 mins; October 17, 2022
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley et al., "Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women" (Indiana UP, 2022)
64 hours 32 mins; October 14, 2022
On Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"
30 mins; October 13, 2022
On Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince"
29 mins; October 12, 2022
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
70 hours 2 mins; October 10, 2022
S. Karly Kehoe, "Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
56 mins; October 07, 2022
Daniel B. Rowland, "God, Tsar, and People: The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
64 hours 50 mins; October 06, 2022
On Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust"
33 mins; October 05, 2022
Timothy McCall, "Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
56 mins; October 05, 2022
Ian Macpherson McCulloch, "John Bradstreet's Raid 1758: A Riverine Operation in the French and Indian War" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
89 hours 20 mins; October 05, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur PeldrĂśn: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
38 mins; October 04, 2022
On Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
29 mins; October 03, 2022
Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
49 mins; October 03, 2022
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 30, 2022
On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
25 mins; September 30, 2022
Aviva Ben-Ur, "Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
54 mins; September 30, 2022
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
84 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
Robert P. Watson, "George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
43 mins; September 29, 2022
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
38 mins; September 26, 2022
Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)
54 mins; September 26, 2022
Ian W. Campbell, "Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917" (Cornell UP, 2017)
47 mins; September 23, 2022
Charles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
67 hours 23 mins; September 23, 2022
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
83 hours 9 mins; September 23, 2022
James Belich, "The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2022)
70 hours 39 mins; September 23, 2022
Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
46 mins; September 22, 2022
Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2021)
69 hours 16 mins; September 20, 2022
On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
33 mins; September 20, 2022
Mohamed Adhikari, "Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples" (Hackett, 2022)
62 hours 49 mins; September 16, 2022
On Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"
28 mins; September 16, 2022
Michael S. Allen, "The Ocean of Inquiry: Niscaldas and the Premodern Origins of Modern Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 38 mins; September 15, 2022
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions"
34 mins; September 15, 2022
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
57 mins; September 13, 2022
Elizabeth Andrews Bond, "The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2021)
73 hours 9 mins; September 12, 2022
Murray Pittock, "Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present" (Yale UP, 2022)
51 mins; September 12, 2022
Josep M. Fradera, "The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires" (Princeton UP, 2018)
55 mins; September 09, 2022
On Maciej Miechowita's "Treatise on the Two Sarmatias"
31 mins; September 09, 2022
Sarah Craze, "Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star" (Boydell Press, 2022)
58 mins; September 09, 2022
On Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
25 mins; September 07, 2022
Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura, "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (IEAS, 2021)
49 mins; September 07, 2022
The Future of the Jesuits: A Discussion with Markus Friedrich
48 mins; September 06, 2022
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