The Renaissance

Italy and Abroad

Edited by John Jeffries Martin

Including the most recent scholarship on the history of the Renaissance, this book examines politics, society, identity, gender, religion and science, and focuses on not only...

Published December 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

Collected Essays and Second Thoughts

By Douglas R. Egerton

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a...

Published September 6th 2002 by Routledge.

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A Convent Tale

A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan

By P. Renee Baernstein

Power often operates in strange and surprising ways. With A Convent Tale, Renee Baernstein uncovers some of the nuanced methods cloistered women devised to exert...

Published September 6th 2002 by Routledge.

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A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England

A Sourcebook

Edited by Victor Stater

A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England draws together a fascinating selection of sources to illuminate this turbulent era of English history. From the...

Published August 15th 2002 by Routledge.

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European Warfare, 1494-1660

By Jeremy Black

The onset of the Italian Wars in 1494, subsequently seen as the onset of 'modern warfare', provides the starting point for this impressive survey of...

Published July 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800

By Woodruff Smith

Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social...

Published June 28th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads

Previously published 1930 and 1965

Edited by A. V. Judges

The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of...

Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge.

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The English Rogue - described in the life of Meriton Latroon a witty extravagant being a complete history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes

Previously published 1665 and 1928

By Richard Head, Francis Kirkman

When it first appeared, The English Rogue was declared a forbidden book on account of its gross indecency. Copies were printed secretly and sold furtively...

Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge.

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A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes

Previously published 1719 and 1926

By Captain Alexander Smith Edited by Arthur L. Hayward

A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a...

Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge.

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A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence to the present year

Previously published 1726 and 1927

By Captain Charles Johnson Edited by Arthur L. Hayward

A General History of the Pirates has long been a classic of seafaring literature and was inspiration to both Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie....

Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge.

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