×


 x 

Shopping cart

c 1600 to c 1700

Results 641 - 660 of 1156

c 1600 to c 1700

Hardback. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; BGA; HBAH; HBTB; JMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403917652
ISBN
9781403917652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardback. This unique volume forestalls the scientific injustice that could have been inflicted on William Gascoigne. The captivating narrative tracks the gradual recovery of the 17th-century astronomer's trailblazing work on the telescopic sight and the micrometer. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; PDX; PGC; PHJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461440963
ISBN
9781461440963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.15

hardcover. Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 93 colour illustrations, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JB; 3JD; BGT; PBB; PBF; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 573.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Birkhäuser Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493931606
ISBN
9781493931606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.67

Hardcover. This book explores the significance of the physicality of manuscripts and printed early modern texts. Focusing on the material aspects and social practices of texts as a new way of reading meaning, it reassesses the developing relationships between cultures of manuscript and print from the late sixteenth to early eighteenth century. Editor(s): Daybell, Professor James; Hinds, Peter. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223523
ISBN
9780230223523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.64

Hardcover. During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period. Editor(s): Suzuki, Mihoko. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224605
ISBN
9780230224605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.33

Hardcover. Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics. Editor(s): Holderness, Graham; Wootton, David. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230240926
ISBN
9780230240926
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardcover. Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises. Editor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Streete, Adrian. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; APF; APT; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230273436
ISBN
9780230273436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardcover. This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It addresses the idea that the natural philosophers of the era forged their new sciences despite, rather than because of, the pervasive bible-centeredness of early modern thought. Editor(s): Killeen, Kevin; Forshaw, Peter J. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HRCG3; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230507074
ISBN
9780230507074
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.97

Hardcover. This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century. Editor(s): McEwan, Joanne; Sharpe, Pamela. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230542426
ISBN
9780230542426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

Hardcover. Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations. Editor(s): Raymond, Joad. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; 3JD; DSB; HBTM; HRCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230552036
ISBN
9780230552036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.76

Hardcover. What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in Renaissance literary studies today? The essays collected here address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Mark David. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293598
ISBN
9780312293598
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardcover. This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period. Editor(s): Beidler, Philip D.; Taylor, Gary. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295967
ISBN
9780312295967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period. Editor(s): Beidler, Philip D.; Taylor, Gary. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 169 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295974
ISBN
9780312295974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.74

Paperback. This title is a collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists. Editor(s): McMullan, Gordon. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333676660
ISBN
9780333676660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Hardcover. This volume offers insights into the relationship between Russia and Europe during the reign of Peter the Great, and it looks at Peter's personality, legacy and relevance for Russia today. Editor(s): Hughes, Lindsey. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333920091
ISBN
9780333920091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.77

Hardcover. Drawing its impetus from the conviction that death is a central yet curiously understudied preoccupation for Edmund Spenser and John Milton, this is a collection of essays on the topic of death in these two monumental representatives of the early modern canon. Editor(s): Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane; Cheney, Patrick; Schoenfeldt, Michael. Num Pages: 227 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333983980
ISBN
9780333983980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBTB; HRCX7; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 49. Weight in Grams: 491.
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826314956
ISBN
9780826314956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

Hardcover. The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity. Editor(s): Jacob, Margaret C.; Secretan, Catherine. Num Pages: 299 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDN; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380517
ISBN
9781137380517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137401489
ISBN
9781137401489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. Makes a contribution towards a more nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity". This work contains six essays that provide a cross-section of the complex Jesuit encounter with the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century, as well as a factor in the quandary faced by practitioners in their pursuit of science. Editor(s): Feingold, Mordechai. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 270 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2003rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402008481
ISBN
9781402008481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.89

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!