Chronological Period/16th Century
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
$19.99 Add to cart“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the Wo
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062875361
- Language: English
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A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
$16.99 Add to cartNow an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt’s executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as … [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1629144800
- Language: English
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The Boleyns of Hever Castle
$27.99 Add to cartHever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is famous for its links with the Boleyns, an East Anglian gentry family who rose and fell dramatically at t
- Author: Emmerson, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8412232569
- Language: English
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Young and Damned and Fair
$20.00 Add to cartWritten with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is “a stunning achievement” (The Sunday Times, London), a… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1501108646
- Language: English
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
$35.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” –The Washington Post From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric- Author: Metaxas, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 110198001X
- Language: English
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Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
$80.00 Add to cartA magnificent, never-before-published collection of every painting and fresco on display in the Uffizi, the Galleria Palatina of the Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo, and more — nearly 2,00… [more below]
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1631910019
- Language: English
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Galileo and the Magic Numbers
$23.33 Add to cartSixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths. His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei said, “Truth
- Author: Rosen, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1504068874
- Language: English
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The Protestant Reformation: Revised Edition
$19.99 Add to cartOriginally published more than forty years ago, this important collection–now revised and updated–brings together the works and writings of the revolutionary minds behind the Protestant Reformation
- Author: Hillerbrand, Hans J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0061148474
- Language: English
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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
$17.99 Add to cartThe story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery–and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history
It bega- Author: Reséndez, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0063269066
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest
$19.95 Add to cartTruth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, the Autobiography of a Hunted Priest. This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizabethan England
- Author: Gerard, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 395
- Publish Date: June 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1586174509
- Language: English
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Tudor England: A History
$20.00 Read moreA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
- Author: Wooding, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273320
- Language: English
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
$22.99 Add to cartThe Reformation of the sixteenth century was a vast and complicated movement. It involved kings and peasants, cardinals and country priests, monks and merchants. It spread from one end of Europe to th… [more below]
- Author: Roland H Bainton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1426754434
- Language: English
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Lakhota: An Indigenous History Volume 281
$34.95 Add to cartThe Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book t… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian
- Author: Andersson, Rani-Henrik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190752
- Language: English
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 – 1870
$30.00 Add to cartAfter many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade.
Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hug- Author: Thomas, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: February 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0684835657
- Language: English
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Utopia
$19.95 Add to cartFive-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers
Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radic- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1784787604
- Language: English
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The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
$22.95 Add to cartThe shocking and extraordinary story of the most conniving, manipulative Tudor family you’ve never heard of–the dashing and daring House of Dudley.
Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by- Author: Paul, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366121
- Language: English
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
$35.00 Add to cartFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier
- Author: Weidensaul, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0151015155
- Language: English
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
$27.95 Add to cartWhy Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that sprea- Author: Mokyr, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180962
- Language: English
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The Discoverie of Witchcraft
$24.95 Add to cartThey sacrifice their owne children to the divell before baptisme, holding them up in the aire unto him, and then thrust a needle into their braines … They use incestuous adulterie with spirits … T… [more below]
- Series: Dover Occult
- Author: Scot, Reginald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 486260305
- Language: English
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Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition Through the Salem Trials
$17.95 Add to cartThis in-depth and comprehensive resource explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World. Witch Hunts in the We… [more below]
- Series: Extraordinary World
- Author: Pavlac, Brian A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 080323290X
- Language: English
