17th‑Century History
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

The Wager

The Lost Painting

King Leopold's Ghost

The Witches

A Distant Mirror

The Island at the Center of the World

Born to Be Hanged

The New Atlantis

Thunderclap

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

Under the Black Flag

Amsterdam

The Faithful Executioner

The Floating Brothel

The Ruin of All Witches

The Zorg

The Bounty

Batavia's Graveyard

Witchfinders

The Outlaw Sea

The Habsburgs

Tulipomania

The Far Land

Ottoman Centuries

The Dancing Plague

A Hangman's Diary

In Search of a Kingdom

The Embarrassment of Riches

The Black Death

Conquistadores

The World Turned Upside Down

The Pirate King

White Cargo

The Burgermeister's Daughter

Imperial Spain

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Escaping Salem

The Verneys

The Diligent

Women on the Margins

The Blood in Winter

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

The Dutch Republic

The London Hanged

Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

The Pirate Wars

Two Princes of Calabar

Blackbeard the Pirate

El Cid

The Anarchy

Menendez

A Hero for the Americas

The Uskoks of Senj

The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires

Cervantes in Algiers

Anarchism & the Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931

First Asians in the Americas

The Captors' Narrative

Emden and the Dutch Revolt