The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical re

Nineteen scientists, doctors and philosophers share their perspective on what is arguably the most significant scientific development that humanity has ever fac

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in t

Explores Bacon's idea that the discovery of America was not as important as its conquest; and so with the rest of the western world's discoveries, the "conquest

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thoma