17th Century
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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England
$16.95 Add to cartThe story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wil… [more below]
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0762759682
- Language: English
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
$22.99 Add to cartIn an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422601
- Language: English
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The History and Archeology of the Iroquois Du Nord
$61.78 Add to cartIn the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ont
- Series: Mercury
- Author: Von Bitter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0776639803
- Language: English
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Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast
$18.95 Add to cartThey were bold, arrogant, brutal. They strode the rolling deck of a ship more easily than the tame streets of a town. They were wealthy–some beyond the wildest dreams of the governors and kings who f
- Author: Roberts, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 1993
- ISBN10: 194946718X
- Language: English
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Grounded Upon God’s Word: The Life and Labors of Jakob Ammann
$10.95 Add to cartFor centuries, little was known or remembered about Jakob Ammann except his prominent role in the contentious division which split the Swiss Brethren into Amish and Mennonite factions. For too long, A
- Series: Cross Bearers #3
- Author: Ste Marie, Andrew V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: December 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1680010301
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Read moreA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
$19.95 Add to cartThe tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along with buildings such as the original St. Paul’s cathedra… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 15 2002
- ISBN10: 1620458381
- Language: English
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Compendium Maleficarum
$12.95 Add to cartExtraordinary document (1608) on witchcraft and demonology offers striking insight into early 17th century mind. Serious discussions of witches’ powers, poisons, crimes, more. Rare limited edition.
Aut… [more below]
- Series: Dover Occult
- Author: Guazzo, Francesco Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 048625738X
- Language: English
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
$22.95 Add to cartIn this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pur
- Series: Princeton Classics #2
- Author: Hirschman, Albert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160252
- Language: English
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Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost
$15.95 Read moreA poet who crafted the
greatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. His Paradise Lost is a tou- Series: Bookmarked #16
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1632461528
- Language: English
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
$29.00 Add to cartSchama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781242
- Language: English
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
$19.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” – spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s – when l… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496220
- Language: English
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The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
$7.00 Read moreA highly influential figure in the Age of Enlightenment in England and France, whose works helped inspire the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, John Locke was one of the most impo… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424642
- Language: English
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They Flew: A History of the Impossible
$35.00 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”–David J. Davis, Wall Street Journa- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259808
- Language: English
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
$32.50 Add to cartNamed a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for No… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982181745
- Language: English
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The Thirty Years War
$24.95 Add to cartEurope in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg–as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of th
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Wedgwood, C. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: June 30, 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171462
- Language: English
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The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the “Scientific Revolution.” New ideas and discoveries not only redef… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Principe, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0199567417
- Language: English
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Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
$18.99 Read moreIn this critical darling Vermeer’s captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing–were transformed in the 17th century, when the world
- Author: Brook, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1596915994
- Language: English
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
$22.00 Add to cart“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”–Patrick O’Brian
” A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-- Author: Cordingly, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2006
- ISBN10: 081297722X
- Language: English
