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Walter Roy Laird
The Renaissance of Mechanics

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time…

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Terry Kirby
The Newsmongers

"... unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed "Strange Newes" sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today's digital age. The narrative weav…

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Rolfe Boswell
Nostradamus Speaks

The classic translation and interpretation of Nostradamus' most shocking prophecies, both those fulfilled and those still to come true.People have been transfixed by French astrologer and physician Nostra…

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Helen Pfeifer
Empire of Salons

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth ce…

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Patricia Emison
The Long Picturesque, or Unraveling the Rules of Art

This book provides a Renaissance art historian¿s view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape …

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Chloe L. Ireton
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercely contested and claimed. It recreates the worlds o…

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Rachel L. Denyer, Howell G. M. Edwards, Morgan C. T. Denyer
Armorial Porcelain

This book explores the genesis of armorial porcelain manufacture in Britain. While heraldic devices began appearing on Chinese porcelain from the sixteenth century onwards, armorials did not appear on Bri…

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Andrea Ballesteros - Danel
Pre-Columbian Contact between the Americas and Oceania

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pa…

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Joanne Paul
Thomas More

The definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More.Born into the era of the Wars of the Roses, educated during the Eu…

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Joanne Paul
Thomas More

Pre-order now and discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century__________Born into the English Wars of the…

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Edwin Kong
Cross and Dragon - Matteo Ricci and China

In Ming China, foreigners were barred from entry--until Matteo Ricci found another way in.Edwin Kong brings to life the extraordinary journey of Matteo Ricci, the Italian Jesuit whose daring mission to Ch…

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Malissa Taylor
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its "classica…

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Manu S Pillai
Gods, Guns and Missionaries

When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: a worship of devils and monst…

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Harry Turtledove
The Wages of Sin

Nominee for Sidewise Award. The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.A terrifying tale about HIV spreading …

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Helen Carr
Sceptred Isle

'A sparkling popular history'Dan Jones'Helen Carr is one of the most talented and compelling historians of her generation'Sathnam SangheraTHE TIMES BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025The death of Edward I in 13…

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Sara Caputo
Tracks on the Ocean

"Tracks on the Ocean is a sweeping history of how we have understood and accounted for routes of travel over the ocean. Focusing on the representation of sea journeys in the Western world from the ea…

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Shah Tahmasp I,
The Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I

"A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary so…

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Willem M Floor, D. T. Potts
Qeshm

Located in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf Island is the first serious, book-length study of the island's history. From the fo…

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Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory

This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places Jane's attempted accession and Mary I's successful accession and reign …

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Vito Guida
Deus Est Caritas: The Voice of Gabriele Biondo on Personal Justification and Church Reform

The book examines the life and the writings of Gabriele Biondo, a secular priest who lived in the little town of Modigliana between the second half of the fifteenth century and the first decades of the si…

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