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The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies
The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of the Lancaster voyages, see Second Series 85. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1877.
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The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
\"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world\"--Amazon.com.
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Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century
William Methwold's 'Relation', reprinted from Purchas his Pilgrimes and two other 'relations', one by Antony Schorer, translated from the Dutch, the other anonymous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1931. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map of \"The Bay of Bengal, and the Kingdoms surrounding it\" which formed the frontispiece of the first edition of the work.
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1616 : The World in Motion
Thomas Christensen illuminates the extravagant age of the early 17th century by focusing on a single riotous year. Woven with color images and artwork from the period, \"1616\" tells the surprising tales of the men and women who set the world on its tumultuous course toward modernity.
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Evliyā Çelebī's Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne
Evliyā Çelebī's Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne is an edition and translation of the relevant section from Evliyā's Book of Travels detailing the 29-day journey he undertook in the autumn of 1659 from Bursa to Edirne via the Dardanelles strait.
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Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.
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Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
In the hands of award-winning historian Brook, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought--from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.
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The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century
Since its original publication in 1975, The Old Dominion in the
Seventeenth Century has become an important teaching tool and
research volume. Warren Billings brings together more than 200
period documents, organized topically, with each chapter introduced
by an interpretive essay. Topics include the settlement of
Jamestown, the evolution of government and the structure of
society, forced labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and
Bacon's Rebellion. This revised, expanded, and updated edition adds
approximately 30 additional documents, extending the chronological
reach to 1700. Freshly rethought chapter introductions and
suggested readings incorporate the vast scholarship of the past 30
years. New illustrations of seventeenth-century artifacts and
buildings enrich the texts with recent archaeological findings.
With these enhancements, and a full index, students, scholars, and
those interested in early Virginia will find these documents even
more enlightening.
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