Chronological Period/17th Century
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries — from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dy… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644506
- Language: English
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
$25.95 Add to cartShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, … [more below]
- Author: Hardesty, Jared Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1625344570
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Add to cartA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Story of Science: Newton at the Center: Newton at the Center
$33.95 Add to cartIn volume two, students will watch as Copernicus’s systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe–to the dismay of establishment thinkers. After students follow the achievements … [more below]
- Series: Story of Science #2
- Author: Hakim, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1588341615
- Language: English
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U.S. History, Grades 6 – 12: People and Events 1865-Present
$12.99 Read moreAmerican history middle school books for kids ages 11+
Help your middle school or high school child build proficiency in US history and AP us history with the activity-packed Mark Twain American Histo
- Author: Lee, George R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1622236440
- Language: English
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The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
$19.95 Add to cartThe tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along with buildings such as the original St. Paul’s cathedra… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 15 2002
- ISBN10: 1620458381
- Language: English
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Two Treatises of Government
$9.95 Add to cartJohn Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority e… [more below]
- Series: Everyman
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0460873563
- Language: English
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Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany
$17.99 Add to cartBy the late fall of 1630, the Black Plague had descended upon northern Italy. The prentice Magistry of Public Health, centered in Florence, took steps to contain and combat the scourge. In this essay,… [more below]
- Author: Cipolla, Carlo M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: August 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0393000451
- Language: English
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and so
- Series: Princeton Classics #25
- Author: Pocock, John Greville Agard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172234
- 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 Principia
$17.99 Add to cartSir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles) is considered to be among the finest scientific works ever published. His grand unifying idea of gravitation, with effects extending … [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: Sir Isaac Newton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0879759801
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
$18.95 Add to cartThe Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one’s life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist M… [more below]
- Series: Economy Editions
- Author: Weber, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2003
- ISBN10: 048642703X
- Language: English
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Velázquez. the Complete Works
$116.67 Read moreManet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innoce
- Author: López-Rey, José
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 3836581795
- 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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The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness History of the Pilgrims and the Founding of Plymouth Colony
$21.99 Add to cartStart conversations this Thanksgiving with The Pilgrim Chronicles, now in paperback!
All Americans are familiar with the story of the Pilgrims–persecuted for their religion in the Old World, they cro- Author: Gragg, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514894
- Language: English
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Masters of Empire
$28.99 Add to cartA radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the vital role played by the native peoples of the Gre- Author: McDonnell, Michael a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0809068001
- Language: English
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloo
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean [is] a pleasure to read from bow to stern.”–Entertainment Weekly
“In Stephan Talty’s hands, the b… [more below]- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0307236617
- Language: English
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The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
$19.95 Add to cartThe True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the firs… [more below]
- Author: Custalow, Linwood Little Bear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1555916325
- Language: English
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
$26.95 Add to cartLeviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise L
- Series: Princeton Classics #32
- Author: Shapin, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 069117816X
- 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
