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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Mariely Lares
Dawn of Fate and Fire

The stunning conclusion to the duology that began with the internationally bestselling Sun of Blood and Ruin, this Zorro reimagining weaves Mesoamerican mythology and sixteenth-century Mexican history int…

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François Quiviger
Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth

A life of the sixteenth-century potter and scientist, with special attention to his natural philosophy.Bernard Palissy, a French Renaissance artisan philosopher, saw intelligence and consciousness in all …

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Zenon Kohut
The Making of Cossack Ukraine

Both modern Ukrainian nationhood and the historical preconditions of the country's contemporary conflict with Russia are rooted in a complex period of development in Cossack Ukraine. The Making of Cossack…

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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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John Martin Robinson,
Burghley House

A remarkable tour through the lavish interiors, extraordinary architecture and parklands, and unrivaled collections of the grandest surviving sixteenth-century estate in Britain.Conceived by William Cecil…

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Lily V. Filson
Renaissance Automata of the Villa Pratolino

This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these 'living sculptu…

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Petr Vorel
The Italian Crusade to Germany in 1546

This book explores a significant historical event in sixteenth-century European history. The Italian crusade against the German Lutherans in 1546 was, for many reasons, the catalyst for the military phase…

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Walter Roy Laird
The Renaissance of Mechanics

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time…

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Exoticizing Consumption

Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European em…

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Camilla Townsend,
After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Bishnupriya Gupta
An Economic History of India

This book offers a major new economic history of India from the reign of Akbar in the sixteenth century to India's post-independence integration into the global economy. Using concepts and theories from e…

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Andrea Beth Wenz
Bernardino Ochino's Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation

Bernardino Ochino was one of the most celebrated Italian Catholic preachers of the sixteenth century-until the Roman Inquisition forced him into exile. But rather than silencing him, displacement granted …

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Privacy at Sea

This book explores the idea of privacy at sea from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and econo…

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Noria K Litaker
Bedazzled Saints

Winner of the Sixteenth Century Society Gerald Strauss Book Award Shortlisted for the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Award The defense of the cult of saints and relics was an essential element of the…

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Manuel Lucena Giraldo
How the Spanish Empire Was Built

"A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others."--Wall …

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Manuela Ceballos
Between Dung and Blood

Between Dung and Blood investigates the stories of two sixteenth-century saints: the Spanish Christian Teresa de Jesús and the Moroccan Sufi Sīdī Riḍwān al-Januwī, both from families of converts. Through …

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Giovanna Montenegro
German Conquistadors in Venezuela

"Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the strangest and often-ignored episodes in the conquest and colonization of the Americas--the governance of the Province of Venezuela by the Welsers, a Germa…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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