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Step into an age of upheaval, discovery, and dangerous new ideas, where reformers challenge empires, voyagers redraw the world, and fragile colonies begin to imagine their future. From the thunder of Luther’s protest to Descartes’ cool search for truth, this bookshelf opens a window onto the centuries when Europe and the wider world were being remade. Courtly intrigue, faith, trade, exploration, and revolution all converge here in a sweeping panorama of the early modern world.

by Unknown

by William Bray

by Amelia Gere Mason

by Niccolò Machiavelli

by Thomas Hobbes

by Niccolò Machiavelli

by Jacob Burckhardt

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Rafael Sabatini

by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

by John William Draper

by Samuel Pepys

by Juan González de Mendoza

by Samuel Pepys

by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall

by Martin Luther

by Barlow Cumberland

by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams

by Samuel Pepys

by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

by Herbert Joyce

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Francis Aidan Hibbert

by active 1559-1577 John Awdelay, active 1567 Thomas Harman

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Samuel Pepys

by Thomas Carlyle

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Ralph Delahaye Paine

by F.R.H.S. Joseph Fisher

by William Andrews

by Samuel Pepys

by Francis Pretty

by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

by Paul Hentzner, Sir Robert Naunton

by Samuel Pepys

by Roger Ascham

by Daniel Defoe

by Jerónimo Lobo

by Freiherr von der Friedrich Trenck

by active 1602 Edward Hayes

by Martin Luther

by Charles James Fox

by Don Manoel Gonzales

by George Berkeley

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Richard Hakluyt

by Richard Hakluyt

by Maarten Gerritszoon Vries, Cornelis Janszoon Coen, Philipp Franz von Siebold

by Samuel Pepys

by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

by Albrecht Dürer

by Daniel Defoe

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

by Samuel Pepys

by Thomas Sheridan

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

by Jean-François de La Harpe
by John Locke

by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

by René Descartes

by Hippolyte Taine

by Philipp Melanchthon

by Francis Grose

by Francis Bacon

by Washington Irving

by Martin Luther

by Benedictus de Spinoza