This maritime history recounts the exploits of sixteenth century English privateers in conflict with the Spanish Empire.

A historian recounts the unlikely rise of a world capital, and how its encounters with East Asian trading cities played a key role.

Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary 1520 international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery.

Protesters wear his mask, families burn his effigy, and just about everybody recognizes his name and face. But just who was the real Guy Fawkes? In this new book, readers will get an exciting look at the flesh-and-blood person behind the myth.