Early Modern History 1500-1750 Books

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1. The Atlantic World: 1400 –1850

   Edited by William O'Reilly

   The Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over fifty chapters, all written by experts in the field, The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key, original scholarship in the area....

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-46704-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India: New Perspectives

   Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

   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...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60232-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Historical Revolution (Routledge Revivals): English Historical Writing and Thought 1580-1640

   By Frank Smith Fussner

   First published in 1962, Frank Smith Fussner's introduction to the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the period of the renaissance and reformation (1580-1640) is an influential and thoroughly-researched work. It offers an introduction not only to the context of the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60248-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society

   Edited by Colin P. Mitchell

   Dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, this book brings together a collection of studies on the Safavid state of Iran (1501-1722) from the perspectives of political, social, literary, and artistic history. Savory, a doyen of Safavid studies in the 1960s and 1970s, was...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-77462-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Calvin

   By Michael Mullett

   John Calvin is one of the most important figures in religious history. Sitting at the cusp of the medieval and early modern world, he was centre stage during the huge schism that split the early modern church. In this new biography, Michael Mullett introduces us to this most important figure,...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-47699-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America

   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. With chapters written by top-notch scholars, Converging Worlds is unique in providing not only a...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-96499-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, A Sourcebook

   Edited by Louise A. Breen

   The Converging Worlds source book is the primary source document reader accompanying Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America. Each chapter author of the text has hand-picked documents that go along with the chapter they’ve written for the text. However, the source book is...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-96497-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. English Historical Documents 1558–1603

   Edited by Ian W. Archer, F. Douglas Price

   English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of primary documents on English history ever published. The volumes were published between 1953 and 1977 and have become landmark publications in their own fields. This long awaited volume covers 1558–1603...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-35097-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Moral Play and Counterpublic

   By Ineke Murakami

   This study overturns the misconception that the popular English "morality play" was nothing more than a medieval vehicle for conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami argues that it was also a fiercely interrogative genre, one that, from its inception in itinerate troupe...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-88631-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945 (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Bibliography 1945-1969

    By G.R. Elton

    The Twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in many parts of the area. First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-57667-3 | Paperback (Routledge)