How did people become rich in the 17th century? As the 17th century wore on, England's wealth steadily increased. It was a time of steady growth for trade and commerce. Traders' importance to the ...

“Italy in the 17th century was a place of opportunity for foreign artists,” says Hall, a veteran Old Master dealer. “It’s similar to how artists such as Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning ...

Exquisite treasure hoard of gold and jewels from a 17th century Spanish galleon ... There was dazzling Old World culture in The Bahamas. The Lucayans, slave trade ... International Editions.

A continuous thread runs from the accession of England’s first Stuart king, James I, in 1603, to the dynasty’s fall in the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688-89.Yet historians often balk at ...