They called it peace

worlds of imperial violence

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It ...

Stigma

marking skin in the early modern world

The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa ...

The Western rising of 1549

The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black Death and the Civil War. Beginning as an argument between two men and their vicar, the rebellion led to a siege of Exeter, savage battles with ...

The dreadful history and judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer

the life and times of an early German revolutionary

These were the words of Thomas Müntzer at the head of the massed ranks of a peasant army in the year 1525. Ranged against him were the might of the princes of the German Nation. How did Müntzer, the son of a coin maker from ...

Adventurers

the improbable rise of the East India Company, 1550-1650

The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for new forms of investment, not least in risky overseas enterprises--and for these "adventurers ...

The Renaissance and the wider world

Award-winning historian Joanne M. Ferraro's The Renaissance and the Wider World skillfully surveys the economic, political, social, and cultural history of Europe for the period between 1250 and 1600. The book examines how the Renaissance manifested itself through developments in the high culture of ...

Lucas Cranach

from German myth to Reformation

A revealing new account of the life and work of this early modern German printmaker. This captivating biography brings Lucas Cranach the Elder into the spotlight for the twenty-first century. The illuminating narrative unveils an artist whose vision transcended personal brilliance as he sought to ...

The Enlightenment and Original Sin

An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that the Enlightenment is best ...

Enlightenment biopolitics

a history of race, eugenics, and the making of citizens

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the Enlightenment when emancipatory ...

Piero di Cosimo

eccentricity and delight

An original survey of the Renaissance painter's life and work. This book is a concise survey of the life of the Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) within his social and cultural surroundings. Delving into the artist's deliberately idiosyncratic life, the book shows ...

The fall

last days of the English Republic

Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament ...

Spice

The 16Th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could ...

Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews

Early Modern Conversion and Resistance

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly ...

Lepanto, la historia oculta

A mediados del siglo XVI, Europa sufrió la mayor amenaza de su historia: el avance del imperio turco islámico. Entre las principales naciones católicas europeas hubo una que, ante tal acontecimiento, decidió dar la espalda: Francia. Jean Dumont se atreve a arrojar luz sobre esta ...

Reformations compared

religious transformations across early modern Europe

Reformations Compared presents a collection of comparative studies of the Reformation as it reverberated across Europe in the sixteenth century. Each chapter is focused on two or more comparable geographical spaces, isolating the variables that help explain how and why the Reformation unfolded as it ...

Protestant empires

globalizing the Reformations

Protestantism during the early modern period is still predominantly presented as a European story. Advancing a novel framework to understand the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations, this volume brings together leading scholars to substantially integrate global Protestant experiences into accounts of the early ...

La Guerre de Trente Ans

1618-1648

Entre 1618 et 1648, l’Europe est en proie aux ravages de la guerre. Aucune synthèse n’a jusqu’ici montré avec tant de clarté la violence et la portée de cette guerre civile et européenne. Les premiers heurts de la guerre de Trente Ans ...

La Guerra Imjin: Japón invade Corea

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 69, año 2024)

La Guerra Imjin fue la mayor y más sangrienta contienda del mundo en el siglo XVI. Sin embargo, de ella apenas llegaron a Europa ecos lejanos a través de misioneros jesuitas. Mientras los reinos de Europa occidental se enfrentaban unos contra otros en las Guerras ...

The revolutionary temper

Paris, 1748-1789

A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian 'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears ...

El Espartaco Negro

La épica vida de Toussaint Louverture

El hombre que lideró una rebelión de esclavos para crear una nación En 1791, en plena efervescencia revolucionaria, los esclavos de la colonia francesa de Saint-Domingue —actual Haití— se rebelaron contra sus amos e iniciaron la primera y única rebelión de esclavos en la historia ...