Chronological Period/17th Century
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The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England’s Maids for Virginia
$36.99 Add to cartJamestown, England’s first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger — from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates we… [more below]
- Author: Potter, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0190942630
- Language: English
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The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J. Apostle to the Pimas
$8.95 Add to cart- Author: Bolton, Herbert Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 19 1982
- ISBN10: 0829400044
- Language: English
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The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
$17.95 Add to cart‘Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.’
Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199684138
- Language: English
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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America
$39.00 Add to cartAllan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and Ne… [more below]
- Series: Studies in North American Indian History
- Author: Greer, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1316613690
- Language: English
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves
$25.99 Add to cartGiles Milton’s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
“An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose.” –Simon W- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778239
- Language: English
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The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
$21.95 Add to cart. . . .rich in colourful detail, and displays impressive knowledge of sailing and fighting skills. –Richard Hill, The Naval Review
Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly reader, it will
- Author: Little, Benerson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1574889117
- Language: English
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
$24.99 Add to cartEverybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, America’s most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a tough New York sea captai… [more below]
- Author: Zacks, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: June 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0786884517
- Language: English
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The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
$24.99 Add to cartThis book is a complete volume of Newton’s mathematical principles relating to natural philosophy and his system of the world. Newton, one of the most brilliant scientists and thinkers of all time, pr… [more below]
- Author: Newton, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1607962403
- Language: English
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Grounded Upon God’s Word: The Life and Labors of Jakob Ammann
$10.95 Add to cartFor centuries, little was known or remembered about Jakob Ammann except his prominent role in the contentious division which split the Swiss Brethren into Amish and Mennonite factions. For too long, A
- Series: Cross Bearers #3
- Author: Ste Marie, Andrew V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: December 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1680010301
- Language: English
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God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England
$18.99 Add to cartThe tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses f… [more below]
- Author: Warren, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1501180428
- Language: English
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
$28.00 Add to cart“Use human means as though divine ones did not exist, and use divine means as though there were no human ones”. So wrote the Jesuit scholar Baltazar Gracian some 300 years ago, in a book that will be … [more below]
- Author: Gracian, Balthasar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385421311
- Language: English
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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
$21.00 Add to cartPulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.
On August 10,- Author: Alexander, Amir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534993
- Language: English
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Spinoza
$12.99 Add to cartFather of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a visi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192803166
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
$15.95 Add to cartIn the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners,
- Author: Tucker, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355438
- Language: English
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
$18.99 Add to cartIn striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn
- Author: Gunn Allen, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060730609
- Language: English
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
$25.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg.
In 1611, the merchants of London’s East India Company received a mysterious lett- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778255
- Language: English
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
$25.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. – “Cahill is our king of popula… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #06
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0385495587
- Language: English
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
$45.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a min- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0316200603
- Language: English
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Pocahontas
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1607, when John Smith and his “Coatmen” arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village’s inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved da… [more below]
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0152054650
- Language: English
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The Women of Colonial Latin America
$48.17 Add to cartIn this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book – incorporating new topics and illustrative cases… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to the Americas
- Author: Socolow, Susan Migden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0521148820
- Language: English
