Early Modern History 1500-1750 Books

New and Published Books

1. Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700

   Edited by Peter Clark, Paul Slack

   This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

   Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

   Edited by Adam Clulow

   Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Pleasures of the Imagination

   English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

   By John Brewer

   The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Female Agency in the Urban Economy

   Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830

   Edited by Deborah Simonton, Anne Montenach

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

   Performance, Geography, Privacy

   Edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph P. Ward

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. Occult Philos Elizabethan Age

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. A Second Elizabethan Journl V2

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. The History of Bankruptcy

   Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe

   Edited by Thomas Max Safley

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social evil. Using legal, business and personal records, the essays in this volume examine the impact of failure on business organizations and practices,...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
9. Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature

    By Alison Chapman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge