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NATIONS AND REGIONS, NEW AND OLD WORLDS

Inuit and Englishmen: the Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher

Trading Places:The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834

Italy on the Grand Tour

Hudson's Bay Company

Spanish Exploration and Colonization of 'Alta California' 1774-1776

Virginia Runaway Slaves

Aaron Thomas: Caribbean Journey of a Royal Navy Seaman

History of Ukraine: Sixteenth Century; Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Century

Encounters: the meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800

 

MENTALITIES, SYMBOLIC AND MATERIAL CULTURES

The Festive Renaissance

Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-century English Broadsides and Newsbooks

Seeing what Shakespeare means

Connoisseurs, Collectors and Copyists

A Concert of Mourning: the Death of George Washington

A Nation of Shopkeepers

A Seventeenth-century Ghost Story

Museum Plantin-Moretus Print Workshop

Greg Lindahl's Home Page

Witchcraft in Bermuda

 

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC

Exchange in early modern England

Families in Early Modern Appleby Magna

Holiday Calendar, Britain

Parents and their offspring in early modern England

Death and dying in early modern England

Property rights and enclosures in England 1750-1850

Scottish towns

Steam engines of the eighteenth century

Early Modern Chester

Tudor Hackney

London 1753

Myer Myers: Jewish Goldsmith in Colonial New York

 

POLITICS

Elizabeth I, then and now

The Restoration 1660-1700

Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents

The Decisive Day is Come: the Battle of Bunker Hill

Maps of the French and Indian War

George Washington

Revolution Rejected: Canada and the American Revolution

What is the Third Estate?

 

CRIME, DEVIANCE, LAW

Law and Society course

Witchcraft Bibliography Project

The Damned Art

Witchcraft, Demonology and Inquisition

 

SCIENCE, RELIGION, LEARNING, MEDICINE

Divining America

Early Virginia Religious Petitions

The Enlightenment (taught course)

The Geometry of War 1500-1750

Medical Practitioners database

The Spectator: Nature, society and the periodical essay

Thinkers and Ideas

Voltaire Foundation

Early Modern Thought

"He who destroyes a good book, kills reason it selfe"

Latitude: 15th-century navigation

Presbyterianism, Politics and Lunacy, a recent paper in the Winthrop Papers Electronic Seminar Series

Franklin and his Friends: portraying the man of science in eighteenth-century America (if it's not immediately obvious, you click on the image to enter the site)

Cardinal Pole's Mission to England

Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-century France

Leonardo and the Engineers of the Renaissance

The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century

The John Evelyn Archive

Scottish Thought and Letters in the Eighteenth Century

Origins of Modernity

Digital Quaker Collection

Early Modern Philosophy Texts

Newton's Alchemy, Recreated

Online Library of Liberty

Houyhnhnm Land

The Body Revealed: Renaissance and Baroque Anatomical Illustration

 

WOMEN, GENDER, SEXUALITY

My Gracious Silence: Women in the Sixteenth Century

Shakespeare's Unruly Women

Women who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500-1650

A Woman's Work is Never Done

 

LITERATURE, ART, PERFORMANCE

Clandestine E-texts from the eighteenth century

Emblem Book Project

Gulliver's Travels

William Hogarth

Landscape and Venetian Paintings

Music Manuscripts

Style and the Early Modern Theater

Golden Age Spanish Sonnets (with English translations)

Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare: Subject to Change

German Emblem Books

English Emblem Book Project

Figures of Speech in Early Modern Literature

Dictionary of the Scots Language

Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments

Eighteenth-century English Music

Gerrit Dou (seventeenth-century Dutch painter)

Seventeenth-century French Painting

Seventeenth-century Spanish Painting

Sixteenth-century Italian Painting

Jacob Cats' Emblem Book

Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar

Henry Purcell

Musick of Sundrie Kindes

Early Modern French Literature

Tudor Poems

CW3 Journal (women writers)

The British Library's Early Shakespeare Quartos

Glasgow Emblem Books Website

A briefe and playne introduction, teachyng how to pronounce the letters in the British Toung (now commonly called Walsh)

 

INDIVIDUALS

Abraham Cowley archive

Elizabeth I biographical site

Last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots

Letters between Catherine Macaulay and Mercy Warren

Thomas Pennant

Pepys' Diary

Casanova Research Page

Samuel Johnson Soundbite Page

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

 

GENERAL, MISCELLANY AND UNDECIDED

Dynamic Directory: Eighteenth Century

Best of History Web Sites: Early Modern Europe

Virtual Norfolk

Renaissance Weblog

17th Century Net

A critique of the history of history: the case of early modern England

Transatlantica (journal), special issue on the early American Republic (French & English)

Tudor and Stuart Treasures and Exhibitions

Eighteenth-century Treasures and Exhibitions

 

WORLD HISTORY

East and South East Asia: Directory of Web Resources

WWW-VL South East Asian Studies

WWW-VL Asian Studies

Internet East Asian History Sourcebook

Maritime Asia

Silk Road Narratives at Silk Road Seattle

Historical source publications on early modern Asian history

East Asia 1500-1800

South east Asia, 1400-1600

South east Asia, 1600-1800

South-east Asia 1500-1800

Pacific Region 1513-1798

Early Modern Japan bibliographies

Early Modern Japan: course

Tokugawa Japan

Samurai Archives

Early Modern Japan: Politics

Sex in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

Mining communities in early modern Japan

Japanese history

Greater Learning for Women (18th century Japan)

Japan's 'Christian Century' 1549-1639

Japan: Muromachi period

Art history resources, Muromachi period

Muromachi period art

Japan: Azuchi-Momoyama period

Japan: Edo period

Japan, 1400-1600

Japan, 1600-1800

Japanese pottery: Mino ware

Oribeism and the arts in sixteenth-century Japan

China: Late Imperial Era Resources

The Chinese Educational System (16th century)

A Chinese Traveller Views the West (18th century)

The medieval and early modern Chinese state

China, 1400-1600

China, 1600-1800

China in the early modern world: shortcuts, myths and realities

'Early modern China': a preliminary postmortem

Re-thinking eighteenth-century China

The Jesuits and evidential research in late imperial China

Late imperial China: the Qing

Sex, status and the cult of the early modern

China's growing trade with European ships 1517-1800

Honorable merchants: commerce and self-cultivation in late imperial China

Ming's fall and the Manchus' rise

Kin networks, marriage and social mobility in late imperial China

Sex, law and society in late imperial China

Qing China Bibliography

Missionaries and Mandarins: the Jesuits in China

Printing and Publishing in late imperial China

Chinese History: Ming Dynasty

Chinese History:Qing Dynasty

Chinese History: Imperial Period

The Peony Pavilion

Korea, 1400-1600

Korea, 1600-1800

The Journal of Hamel and Korea

Korean History Bibliography (scroll down to Choson period)

Life in Early Choson Korea

Life in Late Choson Korea

Sea of Korea Maps

Social Class in Choson

Click into the Hermit Kingdom

Taiwan timeline

The birth of Taiwan: Formosa in the seventeenth century

M-rauk U period in Arakanese history: reading list

The Arakan Society

Rediscovering Arakan

Arakan during the Mrauk U period: the political success of a Buddhist border state

Indonesian history timeline 1500-1670

Indonesian history timeline 1670-1800

Upstreams and downstreams in early modern Sumatra

Cambodia

Cambodia 1500-1800

Cambodia's struggle for survival 1432-1887

Cambodia: the Middle Period

Gender, sexuality and the sacred in early colonial Philippines

Philippine churches

Philippines: Early Spanish period

Church and State in the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial period

African Timelines: 15th to early 19th centuries

The Story of Africa: Slavery

The Portuguese in Africa 1415-1600

Exploring Africa: Maps and Travel Narratives

The Eye of the Beholder (maps of Africa)

Antiquarian Maps of Africa

The Black Man's Burden (1920)

Diffusion and other problems in the history of African states

Misunderstanding natives in the seventeenth century

Political African Women of the 16th-18th centuries

Pre-colonial Homosexuality in Africa

Pre-colonial Metalworking Bibliography

Ethnicity in Africa 1700-1850 Bibliography

African Political Entities before the Scramble

Zakat in pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa

Timeline: The Maghrib 1400-1600

Timeline: The Maghrib 1600-1800

Warfare and firearms in fifteenth-century Morocco

Sa'did Architecture

Tunisia's Andalusian Heritage

Libya: Ottoman Regency

Ottoman rule in Algeria

Timeline: Egypt 1400-1600

Timeline: Egypt 1600-1800

Egypt under the Ottoman Empire

History of Ottoman Egypt

Egypt: Ottoman Turk Period

Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times (book review)

Cairo City Maps

The Story of Africa: West African Kingdoms

Timbuktu

Timbuktu Libraries

Songhay

Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan

Timeline: Western and Central Sudan 1400-1600

Timeline: Western and Central Sudan 1600-1800

The Forest Kingdoms

Timeline: Guinea Coast 1400-1600

Timeline: Guinea Coast 1600-1800

Art,Innovation and Politics in Eighteenth-century Benin

Women in pre-colonial Nigeria

The Story of Africa: Central African Kingdoms

Timeline: Central Africa 1400-1600

Timeline: Central Africa 1600-1800

Luba

Luba and Lunda Empires

Kuba

Kuba Kingdom

The Kongo Kingdom and the Papacy

History of Angola

Timeline: Eastern and Southern Africa 1400-1600

Timeline: Eastern Africa 1600-1800

Timeline: Southern Africa 1600-1800

Kingdoms of Madagascar

The Dutch in South Africa

Indian History Sourcebook

The Mughals

The Mughal Empire

Shivshahi on the World Wide Web

British India

East India Company Ships

Trading Places: East India Company

Art of Mughal India

Gardens of Mughal India

Mughal India

The Ottomans

History of Turkish Jews

Turkey: History

Ottoman Empire Chronology

Ottoman Website

Ottoman

Harem in the Ottoman Empire

 


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