Chronological Period/16th Century
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
$18.99 Add to cartThe thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe.
From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spi- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316387894
- Language: English
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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
$30.00 Read moreA captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir
“Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan’s achievem- Author: Lal, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300251270
- Language: English
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Macbeth
$13.00 Add to cartThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and… [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: December 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0521680980
- Language: English
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
$30.00 Add to cartThe Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples o… [more below]
- Author: Newitt, Malyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0521159148
- Language: English
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John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
$32.00 Add to cartElizabethan England’s most famous natural philosopher John Dee recorded his reflections on the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse in a series of conversations with a… [more below]
- Author: Harkness, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0521027489
- Language: English
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The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J. Apostle to the Pimas
$8.95 Add to cart- Author: Bolton, Herbert Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 19 1982
- ISBN10: 0829400044
- Language: English
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
$22.00 Add to cartEngland’s Tudor monarchs–Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I–are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their politic… [more below]
- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0802127541
- Language: English
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartTelling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, Admiral of the Ocean Sea is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the wo… [more below]
- Author: Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 12 1991
- ISBN10: 0316584789
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age
$28.00 Add to cartA “lively and engaging” history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion.
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity o- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0316545317
- Language: English
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Bruegel
$20.00 Add to cartThe great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836553066
- Language: English
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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America
$37.00 Add to cartAllan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and Ne… [more below]
- Series: Studies in North American Indian History
- Author: Greer, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1316613690
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England
$20.00 Add to cartAn entertaining, accessible guide to Elizabethan England–the latest in the Time Traveler’s Guide series
Acclaimed historian Ian Mortimer shows readers that the past is not just something to be studie- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 014312563X
- Language: English
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
$18.99 Add to cart“A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times
An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant
- Author: Ronald, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0060820675
- Language: English
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves
$25.99 Add to cartGiles Milton’s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
“An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose.” –Simon W- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778239
- Language: English
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A Place to Stand
$18.95 Add to cartNew entry in the Leaders In Action Series. Offers a spiritual biography of Martin Luther.
- Series: Leaders in Action
- Author: Vaughan, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 2005
- ISBN10: 1581824203
- Language: English
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
$19.99 Add to cart“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseem?ler world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable st… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1416535349
- Language: English
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Great Expectations (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
$24.99 Add to cartExperience the timeless classic of Great Expectations in this deluxe hardbound edition. Follow the story of Pip, a young orphan who dreams of becoming a gentleman, as he navigates the ups and downs o
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 9388369173
- Language: English
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
$29.95 Add to cartThe Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spa
- Author: Todorov, Tzvetan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0806131373
- Language: English
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Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
$120.00 Read moreThis is the definitive English-language edition of one of the monumental works of the Christian church. All previous editions–in Latin, French, German, and English–have been collated; references and
- Series: Library of Christian Classics
- Author: McNeill, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1822
- Publish Date: January 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0664220282
- Language: English
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Tudor History: A Captivating Guide to the Tudors, the Wars of the Roses, the Six Wives of Henry VIII and the Life of Elizabeth I
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Tudors, then keep reading…
Four captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Tudors: A Captivating Guide to the History of England from Henry VII
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481724
- Language: English
