This book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and the wide-ranging links that were formed in a new and e

This book explores seventeenth-century English overseas expansion, offering a unique interpretation of the history of the early modern English Empire.

Challenging contemporary perceptions of the ascetic in the early modern period, this book explores asceticism as a vital site of religious conflict and literary

How did Britain emerge as a world power and later as the world's first industrial society? What policies, cultural practices, and institutions were responsible

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It