17th Century Books


Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Best Price: $3.44 In my research for Wai-nani, High Chiefess of Hawaii, I read a dozen accounts of Captain James...	The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $11.45 Wedgewood's history was written in 1938, when the German states were "reunified" under...	Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Best Price: $15.24 A beaver hat on a laughing officer in one of Vermeer's Dutch interiors sends the author -- and...	The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History Best Price: $8.35 Leon Trotsky in his classic three-volume History of the Russian Revolution spent some time...	Two Treatises of Government Best Price: $2.78 J.L's theories of government and rights gave inspiration to the notion that people are...



Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History Best Price: $2.97 I give the author 2 stars for taking on an interesting topic and having done exhaustive research...	Pueblos, Spaniards, and The Kingdom of New Mexico Best Price: $15.65 Kessel has again delivered a hard-to-put-down narrative of Spanish New Mexico that would serve...	The Scientific Revolution (science * culture) Best Price: $7.66 Perhaps the best, concise review by an established scholar. Worth it for the first chapter...	The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 Best Price: $24.79 Mahan's work is great for those studying the development of US sea power. However, NuVision has...	Death of Woman Wang, The Best Price: $6.20 Jonathan D. Spence is the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and is an expert on...



The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV Best Price: $11.74 This is one of the most fun books of history you will ever be lucky enough to read. It covers...	Pirate Utopias Best Price: $6.02 I like Pirate movies, hey almost everyone does... But now I want a "Sally Rover"...	The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 Best Price: $7.94 "Simply not enough information." It is a common complaint for readers of the...	Pirate Hunter, The: The True Story of Captain Kidd Best Price: $5.37 Richard Zacks amazing research on a 2 century old myth was fascinating. I found some parts of...	The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century Best Price: $29.95 Nicholas Canny in the origins of Empire organizes historians into the key categories on the...

Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan Best Price: $2.59 I found this to be a superbly written book, filled with fascinating details and enough...	The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV Best Price: $5.00 I knew nothing about this period of history, other than having a vague knowledge of Louis XIV...	The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $11.00 After reading a bunch of these Bedford series in History books for a history class, I have...	The Jamestown Project Best Price: $12.23 Ordering books through Amazon is my favorite shopping method. One of my ancestors came to...	The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History) Best Price: $8.00 Although both the parliamentary and royalist sides in the English Revolution, the major...

The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader Best Price: $33.29 While I might quibble a bit with the chronological boundaries set by the editors of this text,...	Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the Institute of Early AME) Best Price: $16.00 Dunn does an excellent job of explaining the planter class in the West Indies. His research is...	Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric (P.S.) Best Price: $3.95 This is a wonderful book - rich in historical detail, intellectually stimulating and emotionally...	Warfare in the Seventeenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare) Best Price: $3.95 Summarizing a century of warfare in approximately 200 pages is, as John Childs acknowledges in...	The Buccaneer's Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688 Best Price: $13.00 Because of the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean, many books about pirates have been...

The Essential Galileo Best Price: $8.94	Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason Best Price: $6.94 When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone...	The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715 (Story of Civilization Vol. 8) Best Price: $49.99 Almost the exact same thing can be said of this 721 page tome as can be said for Durant's...	The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age Best Price: $19.99 In The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century, Maarten Prak explores the Golden Age of the...	Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 Best Price: $45.12 No number of stars is enough for this book. The scholarship is amazing, the narrative clear and...

Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi) Best Price: $17.95 As other reviewers have pointed out, Guicciardini belongs with the great masters of Aphorism. I...	Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 (Norton Library History of England) Best Price: $6.59 The late eminent British Marxist historian Christopher Hill is better known for his pioneer work...	1688: A Global History Best Price: $10.08 John Wills has done a good job of presenting the whole world as it was in 1688. The coverage is...	Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream Best Price: $1.47 I read "Captain John Smith" after reading Price's "Love & Hate in...	At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (Regional Perspectives on Early America) Best Price: $11.21 When an American thinks of the frontier of history, modern day Ohio, Kentucky and the...

The Historical Atlas of Knights & Castles Best Price: $19.94 As I can tell,the work is deficient especially in Wallachia,...	Essential Histories 58: The English Civil Wars 1642-1651 Best Price: $8.75 The English Civil Wars appear very complexing at first sight. Peter Gaunt does a fine job of...	The LA Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687 Best Price: $27.27 Written from detailed notes taken during this historic journey, Joutel's journal is the most...	How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (Gutenberg-e) Best Price: $60.00 At the beginning of the 1600s, Taiwan was a sylvan backwater, sparsely inhabited by headhunters...	DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Best Price: $30.36 In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles of the English Civil War,...

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe) Best Price: $21.45 I really enjoyed this book. It was written by one of the top historians on the subject and it...	Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates Best Price: $13.33 Ritchie does an extremely able job of refocusing the story of Captain Kidd away from being a...	Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe Best Price: $33.25 This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and...	Oliver Cromwell (Profiles in Power Series) Best Price: $17.89 In spite of dozens of books and virtually hundreds of articles published in specialist journals...	The Powers of the Crown: Time Frame Ad 1600-1700 Best Price: $13.45

The Public and the Private in the Age of Vemeer Best Price: $34.97 I thought this book was very interesting. I love history and if you do too, this is the book for...	Battles of the Thirty Years War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635 (Contributions in Military Studies) Best Price: $95.96 This book and its companion volume are an excellent addition to anyone interested in military...	Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Harvard Historical Studies) Best Price: $23.85 Homogeneity of nationality and ethnicity do not necessarily signify a unified culture. By...	1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era Best Price: $8.93 Why is 1603, a year otherwise oddly uncelebrated among historians (those brainy bespectacled...	The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture) Best Price: $22.94 The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the...

Eikon Basilike with Selections from Eikonoklastes Best Price: $18.93 Eikon Basilike with selections from Eikonoklastes By John Milton Edited by Jim Daems &...	Gunpowder: The Players Behind the Plot Best Price: $11.53 The 1605 Catholic plot to blow up King and Parliament is one of the great real-life dramas in...	Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 Best Price: $32.21 Mortimer's book, referred to by a colleague of mine as "English historical empiricism at...	Seventeenth-Century Europe, Second Edition: State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe 1598-1700 (Palgrave History of Europe) Best Price: $24.85 This is a fully-revised edition of a well-established synthesis of the period from the Thirty...	Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire Best Price: $28.27 Here is a classic example where the 5-star system of Amazon breaks down. Like Roger Ebert with...

The Seed of a Nation: Rediscovering America Best Price: $11.80 What "Amazing Grace" did for a generation of people to appreciate the impact of...

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