This bibliography lists books containing substantial material about a wide variety of topics pertaining to the Renaissance.

Bergin, Thomas G., and Jennifer Speake, eds. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Rev. ed. New York: Facts on File, 2004.

Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Introduction by Peter Gay, afterword by Hajo Holborn. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

Cameron, Euan, ed. Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Campbell, Gordon. The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Carney, Jo Eldridge, ed. Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620:
A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Dewald, Jonathan, ed. Europe, 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004.

Drees, Clayton J., ed. The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1330-1500: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Grendler, Paul F. The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students. 4 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004.

_______, ed. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.

Hale, J. R. Renaissance Europe, 1480-1520. 2d ed. London: Blackwell, 2000.

Halecki, Oscar. Borderlands of Western Civilization: A History of Central-Western Europe. 2d ed. Edited by Andrew L. Simon. Safety Harbor, Fla.: Simon Publications, 2000.

Hillerbrand, Hans J. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Hinds, Kathryn. Life in the Renaissance. 4 vols. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, 2004.

Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.

Pettegree, Andrew. Europe in the Sixteenth Century. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002.

Rachum, Ilan. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600. Vol. 1 in Arts and Humanities Through the Eras. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

Rundle, David, ed. The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999.

Saari, Peggy, and Aaron Saari, eds. Renaissance & Reformation: Almanac. 2 vols. Detroit: UXL, 2002.

_______. Renaissance & Reformation: Biographies. 2 vols. Detroit: UXL, 2002.

_______. Renaissance & Reformation: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2002.

Taylor, Larissa J., ed. Great Events from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2005.

_______. Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2005.

Thackeray, Frank W., and John E. Findling, eds. Events That Changed the World Through the Sixteenth Century. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Winks, Robin W., and Lee Palmer Wandel. Europe in a Wider World, 1350-1650. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Abun-Nasr, Jamil. A History of the Maghrib. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Anquandah, James. Rediscovering Ghana’s Past. Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1982.

Brooks, Lester. Great Civilizations of Ancient Africa. New York: Four Winds Press, 1971.

Chambers, Catherine. Looking Back: West African States Before Colonialism. London: Evans Brothers, 1999.

Clancy-Smith, Julia. North Africa, Islam, and the Mediterranean. London: Cass, 2001.

DeCorse, Christopher R. An Archaeology of Elmina: Americans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

Fage, J. D. A History of Africa. 4th ed. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Falola, Toyin. The History of Nigeria. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

_______, ed. African History Before 1885. Vol. 1 in Africa. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2000.

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. The Swahili Coast, Second to Nineteenth Centuries: Islam, Christianity, and Commerce in Eastern Africa. London: Variorum Reprints, 1988.

Henze, Paul B. Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Holt, P. M., and M. W. Daly. A History of the Sudan. London: Longman, 1988.

Hunwick, John O. Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire. Boston: Brill, 1999.

Kusimba, Chapurukha M. The Rise and Fall of Swahili States. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1999.

Northrup, David. Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1550. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Ogot, B. A., ed. African from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 5 in General History of Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Oliver, Roland, and Anthony Atmore. The African Middle Ages, 1400-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Page, Willie F. Encyclopedia of African History and Culture. 3 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2001.

Petry, Carl F., ed. Islamic Egypt, 640-1517. Vol. 1 in The Cambridge History of Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Roese, Peter M., and D. M. Bondarenko. A Popular History of Benin: The Rise and Fall of a Mighty Forest Kingdom. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

Saad, Elias. A Social History of Timbuktu: The Role of Muslim Scholars and Notables, 1400-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Wilks, Ivor. Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993.

Wolf, John. The Barbary Coast and Algiers Under the Turks. New York: Norton, 1979.

Yahya, Dahiru. Morocco in the Sixteenth Century: Problems and Patterns in African Foreign Policy. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1981.

Bakewell, P. J. A History of Latin America: c. 1450 to the Present. 2d ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004.

Beardsell, Peter. Europe and Latin America: Returning the Gaze. New York: Manchester University Press, 2000.

Bolton, Herbert E. The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest. Reprint. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Brown, Ian W., ed. Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003.

Brundage, Burr C. A Rain of Darts: The Mexica Aztecs. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973.

Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1517-1570. 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

D’Altroy, Terence N. The Incas. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002.

Deagan, Kathleen A., ed. America’s Ancient City, Spanish St. Augustine: 1565-1763. New York: Garland, 1991.

Diffie, Bailey W. A History of Colonial Brazil, 1500-1792. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger, 1987.

Farriss, Nancy M. Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Fergusson, Erna. New Mexico: A Pageant of Three Peoples. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973.

Francis, R. Douglas, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith. Origins: Canadian History to Confederation. 5th ed. Scarborough, Ont.: Nelson Canada, 2004.

Hemming, John. The Conquest of the Incas. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

Leon-Portilla, Miguel, ed. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Longhena, Maria. Ancient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztecs, and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998.

McInnis, Edgar, with Michael Horn. Canada: A Political and Social History. 4th ed. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston of Canada, 1982.

Miller, Lee. Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

Naipaul, V. S. The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History. New York: Vintage, 2003.

Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Peru. London: Phoenix Press, 2002.

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas’ People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Sauer, Carl O. Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the Peoples as Seen by the Europeans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Stick, David. Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Townsend, Richard F. The Aztecs. Rev. ed. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000.

Asher, Catherine B. Architecture of Mughal India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Bambach, Carmen, Hugo Chapman, Martin Clayton, and George Goldner. Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draftsmen of the Renaissance. London: British Museum Press, 2000.

Barnhart, Richard M., et al. The Jade Studio: Masterpieces of Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy from the Wong Nan-p’ing Collection. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1994.

Barral i Altet, Xavier, ed. Art and Architecture of Spain. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.

Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the History of Pictorial Style. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Beach, Milo Cleveland. Mughal and Rajput Painting. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Beck, James. Italian Renaissance Painting. 2d ed. Cologne, Germany: Könemann, 1999.

Benevolo, Leonardo. The Architecture of the Renaissance. 2 vols. Reprint. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Blair, Sheila A. S., and Jonathan Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994.

Blunt, Anthony. Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700. 5th ed. Revised by Richard Beresford. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.

Borchert, Till, ed. The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting, 1430-1530. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Bosch, Hieronymus, et al. Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Paintings and Drawings. Translated by Ted Alkins. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Boucher, Bruce. Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Abbeville Press, 1998.

Buck, Stephanie, and Jochen Sander. Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Butterfield, Andrew. The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.

Campbell, L. The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Schools. London: National Gallery Publications, 1998.

Canby, Sheila R. The Golden Age of Persian Art: 1501-1722. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Chang, Joseph, and Qianshen Ba. In Pursuit of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren from the Estate of Wang Fangyu and Sum Wai. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2003.

Christensen, Carl C. Art and the Reformation in Germany. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1979.

Davies, David, ed. El Greco. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003.

De Vecchi, Pierluigi. Raphael. New York: Abbeville Press, 2002.

Gardner, Helen, et al. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. 11th ed. Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt College, 2001.

Garlake, Peter. Early Art and Architecture of Africa. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Gill, Anton. Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David, 1492-1504. New York: T. Dunne Books, 2003.

Grafton, Anthony. Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Hall, Marcia. Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. New York: Abrams, 2002.

Hartt, Frederick, and David G. Wilkins. History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 5th ed. New York: H. N. Abrams, 2003.

Hopkins, Andrew. Italian Architecture: From Michelangelo to Borromini. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Howard, Deborah, and Sarah Quill. The Architectural History of Venice. Rev. and enlarged ed. with new photographs. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002.

Humphrey, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Janson, H. W., and Anthony F. Janson History of Art. 6th ed. 2 vols. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Kanter, Laurence B., Hilliard T. Goldfarb, and James Hankins. Botticelli’s Witness: Changing Style in a Changing Florence. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1997.

Krischel, Roland. Jacopo Tintoretto, 1519-1594. Translated by Anthea Bell. Köln, Germany: Könemann, 2000.

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Piero della Francesca. New York: Phaidon, 2002.

Lotz, Wolfgang. Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600. Translated by Marty Hottinger. Introduction by Deborah Howard. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995.

Marani, Pietro C. Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Markschies, Alexander. Icons of Renaissance Architecture. New York: Prestel, 2003.

Meilman, Patricia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Titian. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Mitchell, George. Architecture and Art of Southern India: Vijanagara and the Successor States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Morse, Anne Nishimura. Japanese Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1998.

Mowry, Robert D. China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900. Phoenix, Ariz.: Phoenix Art Museum, 1993.

Pächt, Otto. Venetian Painting in the Fifteenth Century: Jacopo, Gentile, and Giovanni Bellini, and Andrea Mantegna. Edited by Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka and Michael Pächt. Translated by Fiona Elliott. London: Harvey Miller, 2003.

Phillips, Quitman E. The Practices of Painting in Japan, 1475-1500. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Phillips, Tom, ed. Africa: The Art of a Continent. New York: Prestel, 1995.

Price, David Hotchkiss. Albrecht Dürer’s Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Richter, Gottfried. The Isenheim Altar: Suffering and Salvation in the Art of Grünewald. Translated by Donald Maclean. Edinburgh, Scotland: Floris Books, 1998.

Roberts-Jones, Philippe, and Françoise Roberts-Jones. Pieter Bruegel. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

Rosand, David. Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. Rev. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Sadao, Tsuneko S., and Stephanie Wada. Discovering the Arts of Japan: A Historical Overview. New York: Kodansha International, 2003.

Snyder, James. Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985.

Tatton-Brown, Tim, and Richard Mortimer, eds. Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2003.

Visonà, Monica Blackmun, et al. A History of Art in Africa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Wittkower, Rudolf, Joseph Connors, and Jennifer Montagu. Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. 6th ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.

Alford, Stephen. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Bevan, Bryan. Henry VII: The First Tudor King. London: Rubicon Press, 2000.

Black, Jeremy. A New History of Wales. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton, 2000.

Brigden, Susan. London and the Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Bucholz, Robert, and Newton Key. Early Modern England: 1485-1714, A Narrative History. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2004.

Canny, Nicholas. Making Ireland British, 1580-1650. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Doran, Susan. England and Europe in the Sixteenth Century. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

_______. Queen Elizabeth I. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Duffy, Sean. An Illustrated History of Ireland. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Gill, Louise. Richard III and Buckingham’s Rebellion. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton, 1999.

Graves, Michael A. R. Henry VIII: A Study in Kingship. London: Pearson Longman, 2003.

Haynes, Alan. The Gunpowder Plot: Faith in Rebellion. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton, 1994.

Hicks, Michael. English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century. New York: Routledge, 2002.

_______. The Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Loades, David. Chronicles of the Tudor Queens. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton, 2002.

Ridley, Jasper. A Brief History of the Tudor Age. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002.

Shagan, Ethan H. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Smith, Lacey Baldwin. This Realm of England, 1399 to 1688. Vol. 2 in A History of England, edited by Lacey Baldwin Smith. 7th ed. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1996.

Solt, Leo F. Church and State in Early Modern England, 1509-1640. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Starkey, David. Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Allworth, Edward A. The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History. Stanford, Calif.: The Hoover Institute, 1990.

Burton, Audrey. The Bukharans: A Dynastic, Diplomatic, and Commercial History, 1550-1702. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Franck, Irene M., and David M. Brownstone. The Silk Road: A History. New York: Facts on File, 1986.

Grousset, René. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. Translated by Naomi Walford. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970.

Kalter, Johannes, and Margareta Pavaloi. Uzbekistan: Heir to the Silk Road. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

McCauley, Martin. Afghanistan and Central Asia: A Short History. Boston: Pearson Longman, 2002.

Chan, Albert. The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.

Dreyer, Edward L. Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355-1435. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1982.

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The
Cambridge Illustrated History of China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Fairbank, John King, and Merle Goldman. China: A New History. Enlarged ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Franck, Irene M., and David M. Brownstone. The Silk Road: A History. New York: Facts on File, 1986.

Gernet, Jacques. A History of Chinese Civilization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Hook, Brian, and Denis Twitchett, eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. 2d ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Huang, Ray. 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981.

Hucker, Charles O. The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan, 1978.

Lach, Donald. Asia in the Making of Europe. 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965-1993.

Mote, Frederick W. Imperial China, 900-1800. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Paludan, Ann. Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors. The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

Ricci, Matteo. China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matteo Ricci, 1583-1610. Translated by Louis J. Gallagher, foreword by Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. New York: Random House, 1953.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. 2d ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.

Twitchett, Denis, and Frederick W. Mote, eds. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Vol 7 in The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Zhu, Dongyun. Biography of Zhang Juzheng. Shanghai: Shanghai Press, 1989.

Lendvai, Paul. The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat. Translated by Ann Major. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Sadoveanu, Mihail. The Life of Stephen the Great. Vol. 3 in Classics of Romanian Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Sedlar, Jean W. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500. Vol. 3 in A History of East Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.

Engel, Pál. The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2001.

Sugar, Peter F. Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804. Vol. 5 in A History of East Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.

Sugar, Peter F., Peter Hanak, and Tibor Frank, eds. A History of Hungary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Varga, Domokos G. Hungary in Greatness and Decline: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Translated by Martha S. Liptaks. Budapest: Corvina Kiadó, 1982.

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Bejczy, István. Erasmus and the Middle Ages: The Historical Consciousness of a Christian Humanist. Boston: Brill, 2001.

Black, Robert. Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bushnell, Rebecca W. A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Grafton, Anthony. Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983-1994.

Grafton, Anthony, and Lisa Jardine. From Humanism to the Humanities. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Grendler, Paul F. Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Kallendorf, Craig W., ed. and trans. Humanist Educational Treatises. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Morris, Jan, ed. The Oxford Book of Oxford. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Pfeiffer, Rudolf. History of Classical Scholarship from 1300 to 1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Schoeck, R. J. Erasmus of Europe: The Making of a Humanist, 1467-1500. 2 vols. Savage, Md.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1990.

Adorno, Rolena, and Patrick Charles Pautz. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. 3 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Arciniegas, Germán. Why America? Five Hundred Years of a Name: The Life and Times of Amerigo Vespucci. Translated by Harriet de Onís. 2d ed. Bogotá, Colombia: Villegas Editores, 2002.

Aronson, Marc. Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Bawlf, Samuel. The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580. Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003.

Bergreen, Laurence. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. New York: William Morrow, 2003.

Cieza de León, Pedro de. The Discovery and Conquest of Peru: Chronicles of the New World Encounter. Edited and translated by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.

Cortés, Hernán. Letters from Mexico. Translated and edited by A. R. Pagden. New York: Grossman, 1971.

Coulter, Tony. Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and the Explorers of Canada. New York: Chelsea House, 1993.

Cuyvers, Luc. Into the Rising Sun: Vasco da Gama and the Search for the Sea Route to the East. New York: TV Books, 1999.

Firstbrook, Peter. The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America. London: BBC Books, 1997.

Flint, Richard, and Shirley Cushing Flint, eds. The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Fuson, Robert H. Juan Ponce de Léon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida. Blacksburg, Va.: McDonald & Woodward, 2000.

Hudson, Charles. Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South’s Ancient Chiefdoms. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Lehane, Brendan. The Northwest Passage. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1981.

McDermott, James. Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

_______. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus. Rev. ed. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1992.

Parry, J. H. The Discovery of South America. New York: Taplinger, 1979.

Winius, George D., ed. Portugal, the Pathfinder: Journeys from the Medieval Toward the Modern World, 1300-ca. 1600. Madison, Wis.: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1995.

Wright, Louis B. West and by North: North America Seen Through the Eyes of Its Seafaring Discoverers. New York: Delacorte Press, 1971.

Baumgartner, Frederic. France in the Sixteenth Century. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Garrisson, Janine. A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483-1598. Translated by Richard Rex. London: Macmillan, 1995.

Heller, Henry. Iron and Blood: Civil Wars in Sixteenth Century France. Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.

Holt, Mack P. The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

_______. Renaissance and Reformation France. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Knecht, R. J. Catherine de’ Medici. New York: Longman, 1998.

_______. French Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and Henry II. 2d ed. New York: Longman, 1996.

Love, Ronald S. Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV, 1553-1593. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.

Mentzer, Raymond A., and Andrew Spicer, eds. Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Potter, David. A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Macmillan, 1995.

Vaughan, Richard. Charles the Bold: The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy. New ed. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer, 2004.

Blockmans, Wim. Emperor Charles V, 1500-1558. Translated by Isola van den Hoven-Vardon. London: Arnold, 2002.

Brook-Shepherd, Gordon. The Austrians: A Thousand Year Odyssey. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996.

Detwiler, Donald S. Germany: A Short History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976.

Fichtner, Paula Sutter. Ferdinand I of Austria: The Politics of Dynasticism in the Age of the Reformation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.

_______. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Fulbrook, Mary. A Concise History of Germany. 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Hsia, R. Po-chin. The German People and the Reformation. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hughes, Michael. Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Maehl, William H. Germany in Western Civilization. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1979.

Maltby, William. The Reign of Charles V. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Okey, Robin. The Habsburg Monarchy: From Enlightenment to Eclipse. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Scribner, R. W., and C. Scott Dixon. The German Reformation. 2d ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Stayer, James M. The German Peasants’ War and the Anabaptist Community of Goods. Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.

Ahmad, Aziz. Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Bābur. The Bāburnāma. Edited and translated by Wheeler M. Thackston. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

Chandra, Satish. Essays on Medieval Indian History. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Eraly, Abraham. The Last Spring: The Lives of the Great Mughals. New Delhi, India: Viking, 1997.

Erskine, William. A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Baber and Humayun. New York: Barnes and Nobles, 1972.

Foltz, Richard C. Mughal India and Central Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Jayapalan, N. Medieval History of India. Delhi, India: Atlantic, 2001.

Karashima, Noboru. Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society Under Vijayanagar Rule. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Keay, John. A History of India. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.

Khan, Iqtidar Alam. Akbar and His Age. New Delhi, India: Northern Book Centre, 1999.

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Richards, John F. The Mughal Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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