Journal of Early Modern History

Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts

Articles

Jorge Cañizares Esguerra

Spanish America in Eighteenth-Century European Travel Compilations: A New "Art of Reading" and the Transition to Modernity

James D. Ryan

Preaching Christianity Along the Silk Route: Missionary Outposts in the Tartar "Middle Kingdom" in the Fourteenth Century

Gayle Brunelle

Contractual Kin: Servants and their Mistresses in Sixteenth-Century Nantes

Book Review Section

Review Articles:

Thomas O. Hueglin

Actuality and Illusion in the Political Thought of Machiavelli

David Loades

The Reformation: A European Experience for England

Books Reviewed:

  • Albanese, Denise, New Science, New World (Durham, N.C., and London, 1996). David Oldroyd
  • Fogelman, Aaron Spencer, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (Philadelphia, 1996). Anthony W. Parker
  • Helmrath, Johannes and Heribert Müller, editors, Studien zum 15. Jahrhundert: Festschrift für Erich Meuthen (Munich, 1994). Phillip H. Stump
  • Parker, Geoffrey, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, 2d ed. (Cambridge, 1996); Ward, Christopher, Imperial Panama: Commerce and Conflict in Isthmian America 1550-1800 (Albuquerque, 1993). Christopher Storrs
  • Olson, Paul, The Journey to Wisdom: Self-Education in Patristic and Medieval Literature (Lincoln, 1995). Marcia L. Colish
  • Zarka, Yves, editor, Raison et déraison d'état: Théoriciens et théories de la raison d'état aux xvie et xviie siècles (Paris, 1994). H. M. Höpfl