Bibliography for

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


General Studies, Surveys, and Reference Works

Bergin, Joseph, ed. The Short Oxford History of Europe—The Seventeenth Century: Europe, 1598-1715. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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

Cook, Jacob Ernest, ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.

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

Munck, Thomas. Seventeenth Century Europe: State, Conflict, and the Social Order in Europe, 1598-1700. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.

Ogg, David. Europe in the Seventeenth Century. 9th ed. London: A. C. Black, 1971.

Pennington, D. H. Europe in the Seventeenth Century. 2d ed. London: Longman, 1989.

Sauer, Carl O. Seventeenth Century North America. Berkeley, Calif.: Turtle Island, 1980.

Scott, H. M., ed. The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2 vols. London: Longman, 1995.

Thackeray, Frank W., and John E. Findling, eds. Events That Changed the World in the Seventeenth Century. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

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



Africa

Barry, Boubacar. Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Translated by Ayi Kwei Armah. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Ehret, Christopher. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002.

Fage, J. D., and William Tordoff. A History of Africa. 4thed. New York: Routledge, 2002.

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

Gilliomee, Herman. The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. London: C. Hurst, 2003.

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

McCaskie, T. C. State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Marcus, Harold. A History of Ethiopia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

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

Ogunmola, M. O. A New Perspective to Oyo Empire History, 1530-1944. Ibadan, Nigeria: Vantage, 1997.

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

Terreblanche, Sampie. A History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of Natal Press, 2002.

Thompson, Leonard. A History of South Africa. 3d ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.

Vansina, Jan. Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Wrigley, Christopher. Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.



Art and Architecture

Alpers, Svetlana. The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

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

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

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.

_______, et al. Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

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

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

Gaskell, Ivan. Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Painting. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.

Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: The Complete Work. Translated by J �rgen Riehle. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.

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

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

Lillehoj, Elizabeth, ed. Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Morrissey, Jake. The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome. New York: Morrow, 2005.

Mowl, Timothy, and Brian Earnshaw. Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism Under Cromwell. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Baroque Architecture. 1971. Reprint. London: Phaidon Press, 2003.

Olson, Todd P. Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism, and the Politics of Style. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002.

Oppenheimer, Paul. Rubens: A Portrait. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.

Paine, Robert Treat, and Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1975.

Powell, Nicolas. From Baroque to Rococo: An Introduction to Austrian and German Architecture from 1580 to 1790. London: Faber & Faber, 1959.

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

Schama, Simon. Rembrandt’s Eyes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1999.

Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Vel �zquez. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summerson, John. Inigo Jones. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.

Tinniswood, Adrian. His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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

Welch, Anthony. Shah YAbbās and the Arts of Isfahan. New York: Asia Society, 1973.

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



Australia

Day, Alan Edwin. Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Estensen, Miriam. Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Flannery, Tim F., ed. The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier. New York: Grove, 2000.

Welsh, Frank. Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia. London: Allen Lane, 2004.



China

Clements, Jonathan. Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton, 2004.

Crossley, Pamela Kyle. The Manchus. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002.

Crozier, Ralph C. Koxinga and Chinese Nationalism: History, Myth, and the Hero. Cambridge, Mass.: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1977.

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.

Hummel, Arthur W., ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period, 1644-1912. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943-1944.

Mungello, D. E. The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Peterson, Willard J. The Ching Empire to 1809. Vol. 9 in The Cambridge History of China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.



Colonial North America

Alves, Abel A. Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Balesi, Charles John. The Time of the French in the Heart of North America, 1673-1818. Chicago: Alliance Fran �aise Chicago, 1992.

Bennett, Herman L. Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Berkin, Carol, and Leslie Horowitz, eds. Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Documents in Early American History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.

Billings, Warren M., John E. Selby, and Thad W. Tate. Colonial Virginia: A History. White Plains, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1986.

Canny, Nicholas, and Alaine Low, eds. The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise at the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 1 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, edited by William Roger Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Dillon, Francis. The Pilgrims. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.

Eccles, William John. Canada Under Louis XIV, 1663-1701. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.

_______. France in America. Rev. ed. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

Foster, Lynn V. A Brief History of Mexico. New York: Facts On File, 2004.

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

Hambleton, Else L. Daughters of Eve: Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts. New York: Routledge, 2004.

James, Sidney V. Colonial Rhode Island: A History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1975.

Knight, Alan. The Colonial Era. Vol. 2 in Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Krugler, John D. English and Catholic: The Lord Baltimores in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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

Mays, Dorothy A. Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954.

Moogk, Peter. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000.

Nash, Gary B. Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726. New ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Poole, Stafford. Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Price, David. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. New York: Doubleday, 2004.

Simonian, Lane. Defending the Land of the Jaguar: Natural History of Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Treckel, Paula A. To Comfort the Heart: Women in Seventeenth-Century America. New York: Twayne, 1996.

Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.



England, Scotland, and Ireland

Ashley, Maurice. Charles I and Oliver Cromwell: A Study in Contrasts and Comparisons. London: Methuen, 1987.

_______. The Glorious Revolution of 1688. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967.

Barnard, Toby. The Kingdom of Ireland, 1641-1760. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Bucholz, Robert, and Newton Key. Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Canny, Nicholas. Making Ireland British, 1580-1640. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Capp, B. S. When Gossips Meet: Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Coward, Barry. Cromwell. New York: Longman, 2000.

_______, ed. A Companion to Stuart England. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2003.

Crawford, Patricia. Women in Religion in England, 1500-1720. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Crawford, Patricia, and Laura Gowing, eds. Women’s Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England. London: Routledge, 2000.

Daybell, James. Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1700. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004.

Erickson, Amy Louise. Women and Property in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Fitzpatrick, Brendan. Seventeenth Century Ireland: The War of Religions. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble Books, 1989.

Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Vantage Books, 1984.

Frith, Valerie, ed. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England. Concord, Ont.: Irwin, 1997.

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson. The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, 1603-1660. New York: Longmans, Green, 1876. Reprint. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1970.

Gregg, Pauline. King Charles I. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1981.

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

Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. New York: Norton, 1980.

_______. Change and Continuity in Seventeenth Century England. Rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991.

Hunt, Tristram. The English Civil War at First Hand. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002.

Laurence, Anne. Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Lee, Maurice, Jr. The “Inevitable” Union and Other Essays on Early Modern Scotland. East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2003.

Macinnes, Alan I., and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds. The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century: Awkward Neighbours. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press, 2002.

Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Ohlmeyer, Jane H., ed. Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Peters, Christine. Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Rose, Craig. England in the 1690’s: Revolution, Religion, and War. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1999.

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.



Exploration

Allen, Oliver E. The Pacific Navigators. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1980.

Balesi, Charles John. The Time of the French in the Heart of North America, 1673-1818. Chicago: Alliance Fran �aise Chicago, 1992.

Champlain, Samuel de. Algonquians, Hurons, and Iroquois: Champlain Explores America, 1603-1616. Translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne, edited by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Dartmouth, N.S.: Brook House Press, 2000.

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

Dampier, William. A Voyage to New Holland: The English Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1699. 2vols. London: James Knapton, 1703-1709. Rev. ed. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton, 1981.

Goodman, Edward J. The Explorers of South America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

Hanbury-Tenison, Robin, ed. The Oxford Book of Exploration. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

La Salle, Nicolas de. The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River: A Lost Manuscript of Nicolas de La Salle, 1682. Translated by Johanna S. Warren, edited by William C. Foster. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2003.

Slot, B. J. Abel Tasman and the Discovery of New Zealand. Amsterdam: O. Cramwinckel, 1992.



France

Bannister, Mark. Cond � in Context: Ideological Change in Seventeenth-Century France. Oxford, England: European Humanities Research Centre, 2002.

Berce, Yves Marie. The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598-1661. Translated by Richard Rex. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Bergin, Joseph. The Rise of Richelieu. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991.

Bergin, Joseph, and Laurence Brockliss, eds. Richelieu and His Age. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Duindam, Jeroen. Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Dunlop, Ian. Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

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

Levi, Anthony. Cardinal Richelieu and the Making of France. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.

_______. Louis XIV. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.

Lossky, Andrew. Louis XIV and the French Monarchy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

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

Ranum, Orest. The Fronde: A French Revolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Sturdy, David J. Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Treasure, G. R. R. Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France. New York: Routledge, 1995.

_______. Seventeenth Century France. 2d ed. London: J. Murray, 1981.



Germany and Austria

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

Duindam, Jeroen. Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Evans, R. J. W. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700: An Interpretation. 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

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

Frey, Linda, and Marsha Frey. Frederick I: The Man and His Times. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 1984.

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

Gagliardo, John G. Germany Under the Old Regime, 1600-1790. London: Longman, 1991.

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

Ingrao, Charles W. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

McKay, Derek. The Great Elector: Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia. New York: Longman, 2001.

Schindler, Norbert. Rebellion, Community, and Custom in Early Modern Germany. Translated by Pamela E. Selwyn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Shennan, Margaret. The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Wilson, Peter H. From Reich to Revolution: German History, 1558-1806. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.



India

Athar Ali, M. The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Gordon, Stewart. The Marathas, 1600-1818. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Hallissey, Robert C. The Rajput Rebellion Against Aurangzeb: A Study of the Mughal Empire in Seventeenth Century India. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1977.

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

Raj Kumar, ed. India Under Shah Jahan. New Delhi, India: Anmol, 2000.

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

Wolpert, Stanley. A New History of India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.



Invention and Technology

Asimov, Isaac. Eyes on the Universe: A History of the Telescope. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Aspray, William, ed. Computing Before Computers. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.

Bedino, Silvio A. The Pulse of Time: Galileo Galilei, the Determination of Longitude, and the Pendulum Clock. Florence, Italy: L. S. Olschki, 1991.

Febvre, Lucien, and Henri-Jean Martin. The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800. Translated by David Gerard, edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wooter. London: Foundations of History Library, 1997.

Fournier, Marian. The Fabric of Life: Microscopy in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

King, Henry C. The History of the Telescope. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2003.

Middleton, W. E. Knowles. The History of the Barometer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Misa, Thomas J. Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Ruestow, Edward G. The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Struik, Dirk J. The Land of Stevin and Huygens: A Sketch of Science and Technology in the Dutch RepublicDuring the Golden Century. Boston: D. Reidel, 1981.



Italy

Black, Christopher F. Early Modern Italy: A Social History. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Dandelet, Thomas James. Spanish Rome, 1500-1700. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.

Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Marino, John A., ed. Early Modern Italy, 1550-1796. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Martin, John, and Dennis Romano, eds. Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Sella, Domenico. Italy in the Seventeenth Century. London: Longman, 1997.



Japan

Bowring, Richard, and Peter Kornicki, eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Hall, John W., Nagahara Keiji, and Kozo Yamamura, eds. Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Massarella, Derek. A World Elsewhere: Europe’s Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.

Merton, Linda K., Noren W. Lush, Eileen H. Tamura, and Chance I. Gusukuma. The Rise of Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

Murdoch, James. A History of Japan During the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse, 1542-1651. Vol. 2 in A History of Japan. Reprint. New York: Routledge, 1996.



Jewish Diaspora

Faber, Eli. A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820. Vol. 1 in The Jewish People in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. The Colonial and National Periods, 1654-1820. Vol. 1 in American Jewish History. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Hershkowitz, Leo. “Judaism.” In Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, edited by Jacob Ernest Cook. Vol. 3. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.

Israel, Jonathan I. European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750. 3d ed., rev. and updated. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998.

Kaplan, Yosef. An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2000.

Marcus, Jacob R. The Colonial American Jew, 1492-1776. 3 vols. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

Nadler, Steven. Rembrandt’s Jews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Ruderman, David B. Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. New York: New York University Press, 1992.

Sutcliffe, Adam. Judaism and Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Swetschinski, Daniel M. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth Century Amsterdam. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000.



Literature

Applebaum, Robert. Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000.

_______. John Donne and the Seventeenth Century Metaphysical Poets. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

Carey, John. John Donne: Life, Mind, and Art. New ed. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990.

Cascardi, Anthony, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Corns, Thomas, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Fowler, Alastair, ed. The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Fumaroli, Marc. The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

Gillespie, Katherine. Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women Writers and the Public Sphere. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Hager, Alan, ed. The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major Seventeenth-Century British and American Authors. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.

Hammond, Nicholas. Creative Tensions: An Introduction to Seventeenth Century French Literature. London: Duckworth, 1997.

Hill, Christopher. A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.

Hutner, Heidi, ed. Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Kanning, Douglas. The Romanticism of Seventeenth Century Japanese Poetry. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1998.

Keeble, N. H., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Keene, Donald. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-modern Era, 1600-1867. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976.

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000.

McGrath, Alister E. In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.

Merrim, Stephanie. Early Modern Women’s Writing and Sor Juana In �z de la Cruz. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.

Parente, James A., Jr., Richard Erich Schade, and George C. Schoolfield. Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Reid, David. The Metaphysical Poets. Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 2000.

Sagarra, Eda, and Peter Skrine. A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the Present. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997.

Ueda, Makoto. Bashō and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.

Wilson, Douglas. Beyond Stateliest Marble: The Passionate Femininity of Anne Bradstreet. Nashville: Highland Books, 2001.

Wynne-Davies, Marion. Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.



Mathematics

Alexander, Amir R. Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Bell, E. T. Men of Mathematics. 1937. Reprint. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Burton, David M. The History of Mathematics: An Introduction. 5th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Dunham, William. Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics. New York: Wiley, 1990.

_______. The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Mancosu, Paolo. Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Neal, Katherine. From Discrete to Continuous: The Broadening of Number Concepts in Early Modern England. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2002.

Simmons, George F. Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

Struik, Dirk J. A Concise History of Mathematics. New York: Dover, 1967.



Medicine

Bono, James J. The Word of God and the Languages of Man: Interpreting Nature in Early Modern Science and Medicine. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Debus, Allen G. The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2002.

_______. Chemistry and Medical Debate: Van Helmont to Boerhaave. Canton, Mass.: Science History, 2001.

Frank, Robert G., Jr. Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: A Study of Scientific Ideas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

French, Roger. Ancients and Moderns in the Medical Sciences: From Hippocrates to Harvey. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000.

_______. William Harvey’s Natural Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Pagel, Walter. Joan Baptista van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Woolley, Benjamin. Heal Thyself: Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Zimmer, Carl. Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain and How It Changed the World. New York: Free Press, 2004.



Music

Abraham, Gerald, ed. The Age of Humanism, 1540-1630. Vol. 4 in The New Oxford History of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

_______. Concert Music, 1630-1750. Vol. 6 in The New Oxford History of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Anthony, James R., et al., eds. The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Couperin, Rameau. New York: Norton, 1986.

Arnold, Alison, ed. South Asia, The Indian Subcontinent. Vol. 5 in Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. New York: Garland, 2000.

Arnold, Denis, et al., eds. The New Grove Italian Baroque Masters: Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Corelli, A. Scarlatti, Vivaldi, D. Scarlatti. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984.

Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell: Glory of His Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Fabbri, Paolo. Monteverdi. Translated by Tim Carter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Hanning, Barbara Russano. Concise History of Western Music. 2d ed. New York: Norton, 2002.

Lewis, Anthony, and Nigel Fortune, eds. Opera and Church Music: 1630-1750. Vol. 5 in The New Oxford History of Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Parker, Roger, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Powell, John S. Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Rifkin, Joshua, et al., eds. The New Grove North European Baroque Masters: Sch �tz, Froberger, Buxtehude, Purcell, Telemann. New York: Norton, 1985.

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2d ed. 29 vols. New York: Grove, 2001.

Smallman, Basil. Sch �tz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Stone, Ruth M., ed. Africa. Vol. 1 in Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. New York: Garland, 1998.



Native Americans

Adorno, Rolena. Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru. 2d ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

Allen, Paula Gunn. Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003.

Bourne, Russell. The Red King’s Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

Cave, Alfred. The Pequot War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Drake, James David. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. Five Hundred Nations: An Illustrated History of the North American Indians. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Price, David. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation. New York: Knopf, 2003.

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

Waters, Frank. Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten. Santa Fe, N.Mex.: Clear Light, 1993.



Netherlands

Dash, Mike. Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused. New York: Crown, 1999.

Israel, Jonathan. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Price, J. L. The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Vintage, 1997.



Ottoman Empire and the Middle East

Eskandar Beg Monshi. The History of Shah YAbbās the Great. 2 vols. Translated by Roger M. Savory. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1978.

Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Jackson, Peter, and Laurence Lockhart, eds. The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 6 in The Timurid and Safavid Periods. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

McCarthy, Justin. The Ottoman Turks. New York: Longman, 1997.

Melville, Charles, ed. Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Murphey, Rhoads. Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Savory, Roger M. Iran Under the Safavids. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Somel, Selcuk Aksin. Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003.



Philosophy

Bordo, Susan, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Ren � Descartes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Broad, Jacqueline. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Chappell, Vere, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Locke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

_______. Seventeenth Century British Philosophers. New York: Garland, 1992.

Cottingham, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Descartes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Dunn, John. Locke: A Very Short Introduction. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

French, Peter A., Howard K. Wettstein, and Bruce Silver, eds. Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002.

Garrett, Don, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Gaukroger, Stephen. Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early Modern Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Gaukroger, Stephen, John Schuster, and John Sutton, eds.Descartes’s Natural Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Hammond, Nicholas, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Pascal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Hunter, Ian. Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Israel, Jonathan I. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Knott, Sarah, and Barbara Taylor, eds. Women, Gender, and Enlightenment, 1650-1850. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Moriarty, Michael. Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Smith, Steven B. Spinoza’s Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the “Ethics.” New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003.

Sorrell, Tom, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Tuck, Richard. Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.



Political Science

Harrison, Ross. Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece: An Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Sullivan, Vickie B. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Tuck, Richard. Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Wolin, Sheldon. The Politics of Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. Expanded ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.



Religion and Theology

Adair, John. Puritans, Religion, and Politics in SeventeenthCentury England and America. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton, 1998.

Bailey, Richard. New Light on George Fox and Early Quakerism: The Making and Unmaking of a God. San Francisco, Calif.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

Baron, Samuel H., and Nancy Shields Kollman, eds. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.

Benedict, Philip. The Faith and Fortunes of France’s Huguenots, 1600-1685. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001.

Bremer, Francis J. John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Founding Father. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

_______, ed. Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Faith. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1993.

Bushkovitch, Paul. Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Byrd, James P., Jr. The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002.

Carden, Allen. Puritan Christianity in America: Religion and Life in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1990.

Como, David R. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Conn, Marie A. Noble Daughters: Unheralded Women in Western Christianity, Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Contributions to the Study of Religion 60. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Cotton, John. John Cotton on the Churches of New England. Edited by Larzer Ziff. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968.

Crawford, Patricia. Women and Religion in England, 1500-1720. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Doran, Susan, and Christopher Durston. Princes, Pastors, and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1500-1700. 2d ed. London: Routledge, 2002.

Hall, David D. Puritans in the New World: A Critical Chronology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Ingle, H. Larry. First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Knoppers, Laura Lunger, ed. Puritanism and Its Discontents. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003.

Lossky, Nicholas. Lancelot Andrewes the Preacher, 1555-1626: The Origins of the Mystical Theology of the Church of England. Translated by Andrew Louth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

McClain, Lisa. Lest We Be Damned: Practical Innovation and Lived Experience Among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

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

Phillips, Henry. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Scholem, Gershom. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah. New York: Littman, 1997.

Spurr, John. English Puritanism, 1603-1689. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Weddle, Meredith Baldwin. Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Wilcox, Catherine M. Theology and Women’s Ministry in Seventeenth-Century English Quakerism: Handmaids of the Lord. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1995.



Russia and Poland

Anderson, M. S. Peter the Great. 2d ed. New York: Longman, 1995.

Cracraft, James. The Revolution of Peter the Great. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Davies, Norman. God’s Playground: A History of Poland. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.

Dunning, Chester S. L. Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.

Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.

Kotilaine, Jarmo, and Marshall Poe, eds. Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth Century Russia. London: Routledge Curzon, 2004.

Lukowski, Jerzy, and Hubert Zawadzki. A Concise History of Poland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Perrie, Maureen. Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia. 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Soloviev, Sergei M. The First Romanov: Tsar Michael, 1613-1645. Edited and translated by G. Edward Orchard. 2 vols. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1991-1995.

Ure, John. The Cossacks: An Illustrated History. New York: Penguin, 2002.



Science

Albanese, Denise. New Science, New World. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997.

Aughton, Peter. Newton’s Apple: Isaac Newton and the English Scientific Revolution. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.

Bennett, Jim, et al. London’s Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Chappell, Vere, ed. Seventeenth-Century Natural Scientists. New York: Garland, 1992.

Connor, James A. Kepler’s Witch: An Astronomer’s Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.

Dear, Peter Robert. Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan. Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer, 2004.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2003.

Feingold, Michael. The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Ferguson, Kitty. Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens. New York: Walker, 2002.

Fermi, Laura, and Gilberto Bernardini. Galileo and theScientific Revolution. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2003.

Fournier, Marian. The Fabric of Life: Microscopy in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.

Henry, John. Knowledge Is Power: How Magic, the Government, and an Apocalyptic Vision Inspired Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science. Cambridge, England: Icon, 2004.

Jacob, James R. The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1998.

Jowitt, Claire, and Diane Watt, eds. The Arts of Seventeenth Century Science: Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2002.

Kelly, Jason M., ed. Looking Up: Science and Observation in the Early Modern Period. New York: Legas, 2002.

Machamer, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Galileo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Palmerino, Carla Rita, and J. M. M. H. Thijssen, eds. The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth Century Europe. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2004.

Renn, J �rgen. Galileo in Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Selin, Helaine, ed. Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1997.

Windelspecht, Michael. Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Seventeenth Century. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.



South America

Abreu, Jo o Capistrano de. Chapters of Brazil’s Colonial History, 1500-1800. Translated from the Portuguese by Arthur Brakel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Adorno, Rolena. Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru. 2d ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

Cohen, Thomas M. The Fire of Tongues: Ant �nio Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Fisher, John R., ed. Peru. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1990.

Hunefeldt, Christine. A Brief History of Peru. New York: Facts On File, 2004.

Klar �n, Peter Flindell. Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Meade, Teresa A. A Brief History of Brazil. New York: Facts On File, 2003.

Reiter, Frederick J. They Built Utopia: The Jesuit Missions in Paraguay, 1610-1768. Potomac, Md.: Scripta Humanistica, 1995.

Russell-Wood, A. J. R. Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822. Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1992.

Smith, Joseph, and Francisco Vinhosa. A History of Brazil, 1500-2000: Politics, Economy, Society, Diplomacy. New York: Longman, 2002.



Spain and Portugal

Anderson, James M. The History of Portugal. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Birmingham, David. A Concise History of Portugal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Carr, Raymond, ed. Spain:
A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Dandelet, Thomas James. Spanish Rome, 1500-1700. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.

Kamen, Henry. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

_______. Spain, 1469-1714: A Society in Conflict. 2d ed. Harlow, England: Longman, 1991.

Lynch, John. The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change, 1598-1700. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992.

Russell-Wood, A. J. R. The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Stradling, R. A. Spain’s Struggle for Europe, 1598-1668. London: Hambledon Press, 1994.



Sweden

Frost, Robert I. The Northern Wars: War, State, and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.

Kirby, David. Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period: The Baltic World, 1492-1772. New York: Longman, 1995.

Lockhart, Paul Douglas. Sweden in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Moberg, Vihelm. A History of the Swedish People: From Renaissance to Revolution. Translated by Paul Britten Austin. New York: Dorset Press, 1989.

Oakley, Stewart P. War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560-1790. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Roberts, Michael. The Early Vasas: A History of Sweden, 1523-1611. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

_______. Gustavus Adolphus. 2d ed. London: Longman, 1992.

_______. Swedish Imperial Experience, 1560-1718. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1979.



Theater

Banham, Martin, ed. A History of Theatre in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Bowers, Faubion. Japanese Theatre. 1952. Reprint. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976.

Brandon, James R., ed. The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Brandt, George W., ed. German and Dutch Theatre, 1600-1848. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Brereton, Geoffrey. French Comic Drama From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. London: Methuen, 1977.

Brockett, Oscar, and Franklin J. Hildy. History of the Theatre. 9th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Carlin, Claire L. Pierre Corneille Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1998.

Fei, Faye Chunfang, ed. and trans. Chinese Theories of Theater and Performance from Confucius to the Present. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Fisk, Deborah Payne, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Ganelin, Charles, and Howard Mancing, eds. The Golden Age Comedia: Text, Theory, and Performance. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1994.

Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642. 3d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Harp, Richard, and Stanley Stewart, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Hochman, Stanley, ed. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in Five Volumes. 2d ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

Howe, Elizabeth. The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Kerr, David. African Popular Theatre: From Pre-colonial Times to the Present Day. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1995.

Leach, Robert, and Victor Borovsky, eds. A History of Russian Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Leiter, Samuel L., ed. A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2002.

McKendrick, Melveena. Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Mackerras, Colin, ed. Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present Day. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988.

Maraniss, James E. On Calder �n. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.

Owen, Susan J. Restoration Theatre and Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Powell, John S. Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Scott, Virginia. Moli �re: A Theatrical Life. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Tobin, Ronald W. Jean Racine Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1991.



Trade and Commerce

Andrews, Kenneth R. Trade, Plunder, and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. London: Verso, 1997.

Bowen, H. V., Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby, eds. The Worlds of the East India Company. Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2002.

Brewer, John, and Roy Porter, eds. Consumption and the World of Goods. London: Routledge, 1993.

Brown, Jennifer S. H. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Ekelund, Robert, Jr., and Robert D. Tollison. Politicized Economies: Monarchy, Monopoly, and Mercantilism. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.

Farrington, Anthony. The English Factory in Japan, 1613-1623. London: British Library, 1991.

_______. Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia, 1600-1834. London: British Library, 2002.

Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Lawson, Philip. The East India Company: A History. London: Longman, 1993.

Loades, David. England’s Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce, and Policy, 1490-1690. New York: Longman, 2000.

Marks, Robert B. Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Mathee, Rudolph P. The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Middleton, Arthur Pierce. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press and the Maryland State Archives, 1984.

Overton, Mark. Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy, 1500-1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Prakash, Om. The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

_______. European Commercial Enterprise in Precolonial India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Price, Jacob M. Tobacco Atlantic Trade: The Chesapeake, London, and Glasgow, 1675-1775. Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1995.

Reese, Ted. Soft Gold: A History of the Fur Trade in the Great Lakes Region and Its Impact on Native American Culture. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2001.

Stein, Stanley J., and Barbara Stein. Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Tuck, Patrick, ed. Britain and the China Trade, 1635-1842. London: Routledge, 2000.

Wild, Antony. The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600. London: HarperCollins, 1999.

Wills, John E., Jr. Pepper, Guns, and Parleys: The Dutch East India Company and China, 1662-1681. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Winius, George D., and Marcus P. M. Vink. The Merchant-Warrior Pacified: The VOC (The Dutch East India Company) and Its Changing Political Economy in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.



Warfare

Asch, Ronald G. The Thirty Years’ War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-1648. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Black, Jeremy. European Warfare, 1660-1815. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994.

Chase, Kenneth. Firearms: A Global History to 1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Childs, John. Warfare in the Seventeenth Century. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2004.

Croxton, Derek. Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1999.

Fissel, Mark Charles. English Warfare, 1511-1642. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Graff, David A., and Robin Higham, eds. A Military History of China. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2002.

Hogg, Ian V. The History of Fortification. London: Orbis, 1981.

Lee, Stephen J. The Thirty Years’ War. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Lynn, John A. The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714. London: Longman, 1999.

Parker, Geoffrey. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

_______, ed. The Thirty Years’ War. 2d ed. London: Routledge, 1997.

Perrin, Noel. Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879. Boston: David R. Godine, 1979.

Powell, John, ed. Magill’s Guide to Military History. 5vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2001.

_______. Weapons and Warfare. 2 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2002.

Turnbull, Stephen R. Samurai: The World of the Warrior. London: Osprey Books, 2003.

Wedgwood, C. V. The Thirty Years’ War. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1939. Reprint. New York: Methuen, 1981.



Women’s Studies

Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Berkin, Carol, and Leslie Horowitz, eds. Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Documents in Early American History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.

Bordo, Susan, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Ren � Descartes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Capp, B. S. When Gossips Meet: Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Conn, Marie A. Noble Daughters: Unheralded Women in Western Christianity, Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Contributions to the Study of Religion 60. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Crawford, Patricia. Women and Religion in England, 1500-1720. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Crawford, Patricia, and Laura Gowing, eds. Women’s Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England. London: Routledge, 2000.

Daybell, James. Women and Politics in Early ModernEngland, 1450-1700. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004.

Erickson, Amy Louise. Women and Property in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Vantage Books, 1984.

Frith, Valerie, ed. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England. Concord, Ont.: Irwin, 1997.

Hambleton, Else L. Daughters of Eve: Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Knott, Sarah, and Barbara Taylor, eds. Women, Gender, and Enlightenment, 1650-1850. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Laurence, Anne. Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Mays, Dorothy A. Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Mikesell, Margaret, and Adele Seeff, eds. Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003.

Moore, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Moore, 1612-1664: The Friendships, Marriage, and Intellectual Life of a Seventeenth-Century Woman. Compiled by Lynette Hunter. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004.

Peters, Christine. Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Treckel, Paula A. To Comfort the Heart: Women in Seventeenth-Century America. New York: Twayne, 1996.

Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.

Wilcox, Catherine M. Theology and Women’s Ministry in Seventeenth-Century English Quakerism: Handmaids of the Lord. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1995.

Williams, Selma R., and Pamela Williams Adelman. Riding the Nightmare: Women and Witchcraft from the Old World to Colonial Salem. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.