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Barbary captives
In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time.
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Insect artifice
How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent ageThis pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when...
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Jakob hutter
Winner of the 2026 Dale W. Brown Book AwardThis scholarly biography and collection of writings by and about an early leader of the Hutterites, a pacifist communal Anabaptist group, sheds light on a persecuted religious minority during the Reformation. This comprehensive, annotated collection of ...
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Mixed matches
This collection of essays explores discourses and practices surrounding a wide variety of transgressive unions in early modern Germany The text addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage The collection provides a new perspective into the shiftin...
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Revolutionizing the sciences
This thoroughly revised third edition of an award-winning book offers a keen insight into how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Covering central scientific figures, including Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Bacon, this new edition features:• Greater treatment of alchemy and ass...
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Sources of korean tradition
Modeled after the classic Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Indian Tradition, this collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for ...
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The great east asian war and the birth of the korean nation
JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. This book instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosôn Dynasty.
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The origin of capitalism in england 1400-1600
A spirited defense of Brenner’s thesis about the origins of capitalism in the English countryside based on original archival research.
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The race for universal monarchy
Ebru Turan explores the emergence of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the early phase of their rivalry within the broader Mediterranean world.
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The renewal of buddhism in china
First published in 1981, Chün-fang Yü’s The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. This fortieth anniversary edition features an updated introduction by the author speakin...
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Turks, moors, and englishmen in the age of discovery
During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood t...
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