An influential Huguenot tract published in Basel in 1579. The work proceeds through four questions concerning the response of the people to their king. The first two questions concern whether a people are bound to obey their king when he breaks the divine law. The third and longest question considers whether the people can resist a king on the grounds that he is destroying the commonwealth.
This collection resurrects an extraordinary array of women's writings from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries. The focus of English Women Voices is not on females writing "literature" but on the actual lives of women, as described in their own words. Recorded in diaries, letters, sermons, pamphlets, formal petitions, health manuals, trial records, biographies, and autobiographies, the words escape from the past, as vital as current events.
Selections from Hakluyt's multi-volume collection that illustrate the variety and multi-faceted nature of the set, and demonstrate the complex nature and purpose of it.
The account relating to 1609-1622 by Nathaniel Boteler; edited, from a manuscript in the Sloane Collection, British Museum. Originally attributed to John Smith.
Translation of a journal kept by Joutel, who traveled with René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle during his last North American expedition in the late 17th century.
The "Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain" is one of the major contemporary accounts of the economic, political, and social impact of the conquest of Aztec Mexico. Written by Alonso de Zorita, a Spanish judge of high integrity and many years' experience in colonial administration, it provides a detailed description of Aztec life before and after the Conquest. Based on Zorita's stay in Mexico from 1556 to 1566, it reflects the anguish felt by a devoted and humane servant of the Crown.
The intimate world of Niccolo Machiavelli comes to life in this first complete collection in English of the letters he wrote and received. Spanning his adult life from 1497 until his death in 1527, these letters to and from his friends and compatriots reveal his personality and present a panorama of life, people, and critical events in Renaissance Italy.
Originally printed in 1589, this collection was complied by Richard Hakluyt, who lived from about 1552 to 1616. Hakluyt was an English writer who promoted English colonization through his writings.
This analysis of primary documents allows readers to understand Shakespeare's tragedies within the context of historical issues of Renaissance England.
Originally written in 1576 by Jean Bodin, this text discusses his thoughts on politics, sovereignty, religion, and the importance of climate and geography in the shaping of a people's character.
In 1551 Casas printed a series of tracts in Seville which assailed the treatment of the Indians by the Spaniards. Reprint of the edition originally published in 1583.
Marquette was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan. In 1673 Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to explore and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River Valley.
Original title page reads: The world encompassed, by Sir Francis Drake... carefully collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher, preacher in this employment, and divers others his followers in the same. Offered now at last to publique view, both for the honour o[f] the actor, but especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their countrie, and eternize their names by like noble attempts. London, Printed for Nicholas Bovrne and are to be sold at his shop at the Royall Exchange, 1628.
The original work, of which the present volume is a reprint, was published in 1628, in a small quarto, collected by the nephew of the Admiral out of the notes of Francis Fletcher, who was the chaplain on board Drake's ship...Besides this manuscript narrative of Mr. Fletcher, which extends only to the end of what he calls the first part of the voyage... we have added some detached Notes which exist in handwriting of the time.
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An online resource that provides an overview of world history from the mid-15th century to the present with timelines, videos and slideshows, biographies, maps and graphs of historic explorations, empires and kingdoms, and wars plus links to many primary source documents.
It contains timelines, videos and slideshows, biographies, maps and graphs of historic explorations, empires and kingdoms, and wars plus links to many primary source documents such as constitutions and charters, weapons treaties, annexations and territorial agreements, and peace treaties and truces. A good place to search world history topics by region or era.
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The Artstor Digital Library provides access to 2.5+ million images of the world’s cultural heritage, all rights-cleared for use in education. Perform an advanced search to narrow by time period or geographical location.
All images have comprehensive metadata and all content is rights-cleared for educational use. Images can be found for topics such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, fashion & costume, literature, religion, theater, and world history.
A Gale resource that provides a media rich overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.
Covered topics reach back to the ancient world and extend to today’s current headlines to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. This site places an emphasis on images and video with access to more than 1,700 primary source documents as well as reference materials such as the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Gale Encyclopedia of World History, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, and the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. It also contains more than 2,000 maps and atlases, images, videos, and audio selections, from sources like archival newsreels, Critical Past, The History Channel, BBC News, and NPR with full-text coverage of periodicals and journals.