An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change
How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited,... Læs mere
Following a facsimile of the 1609 Quatro printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, Stephen Booth offers an analytic commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays.
Looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. This book shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy and offered exciting opportunities for political action.
Shows how our debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to resolve them. This title explores the... Læs mere
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles
This study of Edward I, first published in 1988, is an account of one of the leading monarchs of the Middle Ages. Examining manuscript sources, the book reveals a capable monarch who pioneered legal and parliamentary change, conquered Wales and came close to conquering Scotland.
A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis