The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800

Susan Pinkard

Modern French habits of cooking, eating, and drinking were born in the Ancien Regime, radically breaking with culinary traditions that originated in antiquity and creating a new aesthetic.

Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice

Elizabeth Horodowich

While historians typically describe the state as emerging through a wide variety of processes and structures such as armies, bureaucracies, and administrative organizations, this book demonstrates that a crucial but unrecognized component of statebuilding in Renaissance Venice was the management of public speech: controlling foul language.

Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company

Kerry Ward

Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent.

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Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe

John A. Lynn II

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815.

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The Continuities of German History

• Helmut Walser Smith
• This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the German catastrophe.  

A Movable Feast Ten Millennia of Food Globalization

• Kenneth F. Kiple
• This groundbreaking new work, from the editor of the highly regarded Cambridge World History of Food, examines the exploding global palate.

Europe and the Making of England, 1660–1760

• Tony Claydon
• This book is a wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660–1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power and developed its peculiarly free political culture.

Inventing the Indigenous Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

• Alix Cooper
• Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that learned physicians began to urge their readers to discover their own "indigenous" natural worlds.

A History of Natural Philosophy From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century

• Edward Grant
• The book describes how, in the seventeenth century, natural philosophy and the exact mathematical sciences were joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

What was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

• Anthony Grafton
• Elegant and accessible, this book is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr’s celebrated Trevelyan Lectures on What Is History?.

The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland

• John McCafferty
• This study examines how John Bramhall, William Laud, and Thomas Wentworth embarked on a policy for the established church which represented not only a break with a century of reforming tradition but which also sought to make the tiny Irish church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms.

The Early Modern Ottomans

• Edited by Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman 
• This book is a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the middle years of the Ottoman Empire, from the conquest of Byzantium in 1453 to the establishment of the Tanzimat in 1839.