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• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The 1619 Project (special issue of The New York Times Magazine, with supplementary materials; 2019), ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones (PDF with commentary at pulitzercenter.org)

• L'Écriture et le Reste: The Pensées of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Wetsel (PDF at Ohio State)
• Thoughts, by Blaise Pascal, trans. by W. F. Trotter
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Thoughts; Letters; Minor Works (Harvard Classics edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), by Blaise Pascal, ed. by O. W. Wight, trans. by W. F. Trotter and Mary L. Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, by Robert Barclay, ed. by Licia Kuenning (HTML at qhpress.org)
• An Apology for the True Christian Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers, by Robert Barclay (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Four Discourses Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum (London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1694), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500-1700, ed. by Theo Hermans and R. Salverda (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Keith P. Luria (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Child Life in Colonial Days (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms (originally published 1972; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Donne's Christian Vocation (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Robert S. Jackson (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century England (Germanic Literature and Culture series; New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Margaret Lewis Bailey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bunyan, by James Anthony Froude (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Muslims in the Dutch Golden Age: Representations and Realities of Religious Toleration (Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2007), by Benjamin J. Kaplan (PDF in the Netherlands)

• An Account of the Rising at Ximabara, and of the Notable Siege Thereof, and of the Deaths of Various of Our Portuguese Fellow-Countrymen for the Faith (Alemquer, Portutal: Typ. e Pap. H. Campeão, 1901), by Duarte Correa, trans. by Guilherme J. C. Henriques
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Histoire des Diables de Loudun: ou, De la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, et de la Condamnation et du Suplice d'Urbain Grandier, Curé de la MêMe ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du cardinal de Richelieu. (in French; Amsterdam: Aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1752), by Aubin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of The Devils of Loudun: or, an Account of The Possession of The Ursuline Nuns, and The Condemnation and Punishment of Urban Grandier, a Parson of The Same Town (3 books in 1, with main title page damaged; London: Printed for R. Bassett and W. Turner, 1705), by Aubin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at NIH

• Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Tamar Herzog (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo: Assimilating a Minority (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Linda Martz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, Who Were Ejected or Silenced After the Restoration, Particularly by the Act of Uniformity, Which Took Place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 (2 volumes; London: W. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy, ed. by Samuel Palmer
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google

• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, 2007), by Michelle Burnham (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Lauren Working (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), ed. by Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham (PDF with commentary at bill.com)

• The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Jonathan Barth (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening, ed. by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• William Blathwayt, a Late Seventeenth Century English Administrator (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), by Gertrude Ann Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of the Court of England in 1675 (London: John Lane, 1913), by Madame d'Aulnoy, ed. by George David Gilbert, trans. by Lucretia Arthur (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of Count Grammont (based on 1828 and 1905 editions), by Anthony Hamilton, ed. by Walter Scott (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of the Court of Charles II, By Count Grammont (London: Henry Bohn, 1864), by Anthony Hamilton, ed. by Walter Scott (illustrated HTML at pseudopodium.org)
• Royalty Restored: or, London Under Charles II, by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (Gutenberg text)

• The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went From Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 (reprinted New York: Empire State Book Co., from a London edition of 1874), ed. by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Jonathan Barth (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monopoly Trade and Economic Stagnation: Studies in the Foreign Trade of Iceland, 1602-1787 (c1983), by Gísli Gunnarsson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Second Vindication of Mr. Locke (1738), by Vincent Perronet (PDF at McMaster)

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