Early Modern History 1500-1750 Books

New and Published Books

1. Pre-Communist Indochina

   By R.B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Routledge History of Slavery

   Edited by Gad Heuman, Trevor Burnard

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

   Edited by Rebecca Totaro, Ernest B. Gilman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

   Imagining Physical Impairment

   By David M. Turner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

   This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. England's Long Reformation

   1500 - 1800

   Edited by Nicholas Tyacke

   England's Long Reformation" brings together a distinguished team of scholars, who seek to advance beyond current debates concerning the English Reformation. It puts the religious changes of the 16th century in longer perspective than has been traditional and counters the recent emphasis on the...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Living in the City

   Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010

   Edited by L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen, W.H. (Wim) Willems

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Memory in Shakespeare's Histories

   Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

   By Jonathan Baldo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare’s later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended with what were perceived to be traumatic...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. Converging Worlds

   Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, A Sourcebook

   Edited by Louise A. Breen

   Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and "Atlantic" in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. The ideal accompaniment to Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, this...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
10. Persian Documents

    Social History of Iran and Turan in the 15th-19th Centuries

    Edited by Kondo Nobuaki

    Series: New Horizons in Islamic Studies

    After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge