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New Books in Early Modern History
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Michael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
79 hours 53 mins; September 05, 2022
Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
142 hours 11 mins; September 02, 2022
Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
40 mins; August 31, 2022
Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)
43 mins; August 30, 2022
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
49 mins; August 29, 2022
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
47 mins; August 29, 2022
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
58 mins; August 26, 2022
Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
44 mins; August 26, 2022
Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
53 mins; August 26, 2022
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
78 hours 56 mins; August 23, 2022
Brian Brege, "Tuscany in the Age of Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
94 hours 3 mins; August 22, 2022
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; August 17, 2022
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
45 mins; August 16, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
65 hours 30 mins; August 12, 2022
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Atlantic" (Robinson, 2022)
42 mins; August 12, 2022
Adam Sundberg, "Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
99 hours 51 mins; August 12, 2022
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
43 mins; August 11, 2022
Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 11, 2022
Lindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
54 mins; August 09, 2022
John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)
57 mins; August 05, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 2022
Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)
54 mins; August 04, 2022
On "The Story of the Stone"
27 mins; August 04, 2022
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
44 mins; August 02, 2022
Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
45 mins; August 02, 2022
Richard Middleton, "Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World" (Yale UP, 2022)
71 hours 56 mins; July 29, 2022
Peter H. Wood, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion" (Norton, 1996)
104 hours 30 mins; July 29, 2022
Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
62 hours 34 mins; July 29, 2022
Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)
59 mins; July 28, 2022
Stuart Ellis-Gorman, "The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
55 mins; July 28, 2022
Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich, "Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
67 hours 31 mins; July 26, 2022
James P. Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler, "The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction" (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021)
67 hours 45 mins; July 25, 2022
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, "Orthodox Cyprus Under the Latins, 1191-1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities" (Lexington Books, 2018)
63 hours 43 mins; July 22, 2022
David Brown, "Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars" (Manchester UP, 2020)
45 mins; July 22, 2022
Francine Friedman, "Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Brill, 2021)
86 hours 59 mins; July 20, 2022
Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)
51 mins; July 18, 2022
Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
71 hours 2 mins; July 15, 2022
Keith Thomson, "Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune" (Little Brown, 2022)
41 mins; July 13, 2022
Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles
60 hours 19 mins; July 12, 2022
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
46 mins; July 12, 2022
Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
30 mins; July 08, 2022
Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
41 mins; July 08, 2022
Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)
39 mins; July 07, 2022
Ricardo A. Herrera, "Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778" (UNC Press, 2022)
63 hours 53 mins; July 07, 2022
Meng Zhang, "Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market" (U Washington Press, 2021)
43 mins; July 06, 2022
Drew Daniel, "Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
65 hours 31 mins; July 06, 2022
Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)
45 mins; July 04, 2022
Mary Wellesley, "Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers" (Riverrun, 2021)
69 hours 49 mins; July 04, 2022
Christina Ramos, "Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" (UNC Press, 2022)
68 hours 2 mins; July 01, 2022
James Stafford, "The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
46 mins; June 30, 2022
Deirdre N. McCloskey and Art Carden, "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
27 mins; June 29, 2022
Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2022
Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth" (Lyons Press, 2021)
47 mins; June 28, 2022
Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds., "The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
79 hours 56 mins; June 28, 2022
D. G. Hart, "Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant" (Oxford UP, 2021)
46 mins; June 28, 2022
Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
34 mins; June 24, 2022
Andrew Sneddon, "Representing Magic in Modern Ireland: Belief, History, Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
31 mins; June 21, 2022
Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
46 mins; June 20, 2022
James Elisha Taneti, "Telugu Christians: A History" (Fortress Press, 2022)
89 hours 27 mins; June 20, 2022
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
86 hours 34 mins; June 16, 2022
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
42 mins; June 15, 2022
Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)
48 mins; June 14, 2022
Virginia Reinburg, "Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
41 mins; June 10, 2022
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Germany" (Robinson, 2022)
50 mins; June 09, 2022
Andrea C. Mosterman, "Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; June 07, 2022
Thomas J. Misa, "Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
75 hours 28 mins; June 06, 2022
Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; June 02, 2022
Mary Franklin and Hannah Burton, "She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers" (Iter Press, 2019)
42 mins; June 01, 2022
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
61 hours 40 mins; May 31, 2022
Ashley M. Williard, "Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
48 mins; May 30, 2022
Chiara Camarda et al., "The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space That Travels" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
31 mins; May 27, 2022
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
54 mins; May 27, 2022
Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)
30 mins; May 26, 2022
James Clark, "The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History" (Yale UP, 2021)
96 hours 36 mins; May 26, 2022
Kate Luce Mulry, "An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic" (NYU Press, 2021)
71 hours 47 mins; May 25, 2022
Akshya Saxena, "Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
42 mins; May 23, 2022
Catherine McCormack, "Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies" (Norton, 2021)
58 mins; May 23, 2022
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 20, 2022
Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
59 mins; May 20, 2022
Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
81 hours 7 mins; May 16, 2022
Dana W. Logan, "Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
55 mins; May 13, 2022
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 55 mins; May 13, 2022
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
78 hours 47 mins; May 12, 2022
Ryan Hall, "Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877" (UNC Press, 2020)
76 hours 39 mins; May 12, 2022
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, "From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 11, 2022
Paul Conrad, "The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
63 hours 36 mins; May 10, 2022
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; May 05, 2022
William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
50 mins; May 04, 2022
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, "Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time" (Princeton UP, 2022)
65 hours 26 mins; May 04, 2022
On Mary Magdalene in the Reformation
40 mins; May 02, 2022
Joan DeJean, "Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast" (Basic, 2022)
43 mins; May 02, 2022
Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
46 mins; April 28, 2022
Lillian Faderman, "Woman: The American History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2022)
55 mins; April 26, 2022
Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)
64 hours 34 mins; April 25, 2022
Faisal H. Husain, "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
103 hours 43 mins; April 22, 2022
Mark R. Anderson, "Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians' First Battles in the Revolution" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
68 hours 31 mins; April 21, 2022
Simon Peter Newman, "Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London" (U London Press, 2022)
41 mins; April 19, 2022
Jeroen Koch et al., "The House of Orange in Revolution and War" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
64 hours 50 mins; April 15, 2022
SigurĂ°ur Gylfi MagnĂșsson, "Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland" (Reaktion, 2010)
52 mins; April 12, 2022
James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
73 hours 57 mins; April 12, 2022
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