This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

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The first of two volumes that present the current state of research in the field, and do this across as many fields and subjects as possible. The volumes are meant to be ...

Vol. 1.

In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a ...

How did state power impinge on the religion of the ordinary person? This perennial issue has been sharpened as historians uncover the process of 'confessionalization' or ...

The life and findings of Erasmus.

"Tracy's 'life and times' approach results in a considerably deeper understanding on the part of the reader of what sparked Erasmus's works, and of their intent."--Elisabeth G ...