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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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A fascinating, erudite but easy-to-read series of chapters on trade, exploration, cross-cultural influence and physical culture, using 17th century Delft as the starting point. but reaching around the globe to Asia and the Americas. I'm a huge Vermeer fan and I visited Delft last April, so the book had an added resonance to me. Although you don't nee... »
Two Treatises of Government
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This guy is a hallucinator. He's had bouts of rage and depression. He head butts people. He thinks the island talks to him. He blows up submarines. Beware of this guy and his crazy woo woo beliefs!... »
The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics)
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I have had this book high on my reading list for over 40 years now, ever since a took a course in German Baroque literature as an undergraduate. It is far better than I had imagined, both in style and content. My only regret is that I didn't get around to reading it 40 years ago.... »
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook
Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Y... »
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class
Dunn does an excellent job of explaining the planter class in the West Indies. His research is excellent and his writing style is clear and devoid of tha... »
The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History 1660-17
Mahan's work is great for those studying the development of US sea power. However, NuVision has managed to take this great historical work and turn it int... »
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible
Would you believe that nutmeg formed the basis of one of the most bitter international conflicts of the 17th century, and was also intimately connected to... »
The Scientific Revolution (science * culture)
In the last ten years, a new school of sociology has grown up that sees science as not only relativistic but as a purely human construct; that ties scient... »
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity,
No number of stars is enough for this book. The scholarship is amazing, the narrative clear and fascinating from start to finish, the topic more relevant ... »
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad
In 1629, the Dutch merchantman Batavia grounded on a desolate atoll near Western Australia. Of the 200 survivors, 115 were subsequently murdered,... »
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