Early Modern
Browse published pages on everyday life across the early modern world, with attention to household economies, expanding trade, food systems, urban services, colonial settings, and craft work.
Choose a geographical group to browse the published locations below.
117 entries
Northern and Western Europe
- Daily life in Antwerp during the 16th century
- Daily life in Geneva during the Reformation
- Daily life in Amsterdam during the 17th century
- Daily life in Amsterdam during the 18th century
- Daily life in Copenhagen during the 17th century
- Daily life in Copenhagen during the 18th century
- Daily life in Stockholm during the 17th century
- Daily life in London during the 17th century
- Daily life in Bristol during the 18th century
- Daily life in Paris during the 17th century
- Daily life in Bordeaux during the 18th century
- Daily life in Lyon during the 18th century
- Daily life in Marseille during the 18th century
- Daily life in Nantes during the 18th century
- Daily life in Dublin during the 18th century
- Daily life in Edinburgh during the 18th century
- Daily life in Glasgow during the 18th century
Central and Eastern Europe
- Daily life in Gdansk during the 17th century
- Daily life in Hamburg during the 17th century
- Daily life in Krakow during the 16th century
- Daily life in Prague during the 16th century
- Daily life in Vilnius during the 17th century
- Daily life in Warsaw during the 17th century
- Daily life in Moscow during the 17th century
- Daily life in St. Petersburg during the 18th century
- Daily life in Vienna during the 18th century
Southern Europe
- Daily life in Florence during the 1400s
- Daily life in Venice during the 16th century
- Daily life in Venice during the 18th century
- Daily life in Naples during the 18th century
- Daily life in Lisbon during the 16th century
- Daily life in Istanbul during the 16th century
- Daily life in Istanbul during the 18th century
- Daily life in Seville during the 16th century
- Daily life in Cadiz during the 18th century
- Daily life in Madrid during the 17th century
Africa
- Daily life in Algiers during the 17th century
- Daily life in Fez during the 17th century
- Daily life in Tunis during the 18th century
- Daily life in Cape Town during the 18th century
- Daily life in Benin City during the 16th century
- Daily life in Timbuktu during the 16th century
- Daily life in Cairo during the Ottoman period
- Daily life in Zanzibar during the 18th century
West and Central Asia
- Daily life in Aleppo during the 16th century
- Daily life in Samarkand during the Timurid period
- Daily life in Damascus during the Ottoman period
- Daily life in Muscat during the 17th century
- Daily life in Isfahan during the 17th century
- Daily life in Isfahan during the Safavid period
South Asia
- Daily life in Goa during the 16th and 17th centuries
- Daily life in Madras during the 18th century
- Daily life in Pondicherry during the 18th century
- Daily life in Calcutta during the late 18th century
- Daily life in Surat during the 17th century
- Daily life in Surat during the 18th century
- Daily life in Agra during the Mughal period
- Daily life in Lahore during the Mughal period
- Daily life in Jaipur during the 18th century
- Daily life in Mughal Delhi during the 17th century
East Asia
- Daily life in Macau during the 17th century
- Daily life in Canton during the 18th century
- Daily life in Seoul during the Joseon dynasty
- Daily life in Edo during the 18th century
- Daily life in Kyoto during the Edo period
- Daily life in Osaka during the Edo period
- Daily life in Nagasaki during the Edo period
- Daily life in Beijing during the Qing dynasty (18th century)
- Daily life in Xi'an during the Ming dynasty
- Daily life in Nanjing during the Ming dynasty
Southeast Asia
- Daily life in Aceh during the 17th century
- Daily life in Ayutthaya during the 17th century
- Daily life in Luang Prabang during the 18th century
- Daily life in Batavia during the 17th century
- Daily life in Manila during the 17th century
- Daily life in Manila galleon households during the 17th century
- Daily life in Manila during the 18th century
The Americas
- Daily life in New Amsterdam during the 1650s
- Daily life in Jamestown during the early 17th century
- Daily life in Salem during the late 17th century
- Daily life in Boston during the 1770s
- Daily life in Quebec countryside during the 17th century
- Daily life in Quebec City during the 18th century
- Daily life in rural New England during the 18th century
- Daily life in Savannah during the 18th century
- Daily life in Charleston during the 18th century
- Daily life in Williamsburg during the 18th century
- Daily life in Havana during the late 18th century
- Daily life in Saint-Domingue during the 18th century
- Daily life in Cartagena de Indias during the 17th century
- Daily life in Port Royal, Jamaica during the late 17th century
- Daily life in Cusco during the Inca period
- Daily life in Lima during the 17th century
- Daily life in Lima during the 18th century
- Daily life in Quito during the 17th century
- Daily life in Potosi during the 17th century
- Daily life in Recife during the 17th century
- Daily life in Salvador da Bahia during the 17th century
- Daily life in Rio de Janeiro during the 18th century
- Daily life in Buenos Aires during the late 18th century
- Daily life in Philadelphia during the late 18th century
- Daily life in Mexico City during the 17th century
- Daily life in Tenochtitlan before the Spanish conquest
Oceania
- Daily life around Sydney Harbour during the 18th century before 1788 – Bark canoes, fishing gear, shelters, shore foods, stone tools, and family work around Sydney Harbour in the eighteenth century before 1788.
- Daily life in Fijian villages during the 18th century – Homes, root-crop gardens, reef fishing, pottery, barkcloth, canoe building, and shared work in eighteenth-century Fijian villages.
- Daily life in Hawaiian coastal villages during the 18th century – Fishing, upland gardens, thatched households, food restrictions, stone tools, and kapa clothing in Hawaiian coastal communities during the 1700s.
- Daily life in Kanak communities in New Caledonia during the 18th century – Homes, yam and taro gardens, cooking pots, fishing, fibre clothing, canoes, and community relationships in eighteenth-century Kanak communities in New Caledonia.
- Daily life in Māori pā during the 17th century – Homes, kūmara gardens, food storage, fishing, fibre work, and family learning in Māori pā during the 1600s.
- Daily life in Samoa during the 18th century – Homes, gardens, food preparation, fishing, canoes, barkcloth, fine mats, and shared household work in eighteenth-century Samoa.
- Daily life in Tahiti during the 18th century – Breadfruit groves, fishing, thatched homes, barkcloth making, household relations, and community gatherings in eighteenth-century Tahiti.
- Daily life in the Marquesas Islands during the 18th century – Stone house platforms, breadfruit stores, shore gathering, barkcloth, plaited fans, canoes, and household relationships in the eighteenth-century Marquesas Islands.
- Daily life on Rapa Nui during the 17th century – Stone gardens, coastal water sources, homes, cooking, fishing, tools, barkcloth, and household relationships on Rapa Nui during the 1600s.
- Daily life on Yap during the 18th century – Taro gardens, homes, cooking pots, reef fishing, plant-fibre clothing, canoe journeys, and stone money on eighteenth-century Yap, with historical evidence and its limits explained.