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Columbian Exchange Biological by A W Crosby Synopsis "The best thing about this book is its overarching thesis, the concept of a Columbian exchange. This provocative device permits Crosby to shape a lot of familiar and seemingly unrelated data into a fresh synthesis. . . . The implications of this... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History) by Stuart B Schwartz Publisher Comments This volume examines encounters between Europeans and the other peoples of the world during the early modern era.... (read more) List Price $63.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The War of the Austrian Succession by Reed Browning Publisher Comments Reed S. Browning explores the often-changing war aims of the major belligerents-Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and Spain-and links diplomatic and military events to the political and social context from which they arose.... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Embarrassment of Riches : an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (87 Edition) by Simon Schama Publisher Comments In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr Publisher Comments In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L Eisenstein Publisher Comments In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (00 Edition) by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments This Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise explores patterns and symbols in the disciplines of mathematics, art, and musical... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments One of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about the human condition in the realms of politics... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cosmopolis :the hidden agenda of modernity by Stephen Toulmin Publisher Comments In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason by Iain McCalman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-272).... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress Publisher Comments The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nationsFrance; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britainlay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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1688: a Global History by John E. Wills Publisher Comments The Shogun of Japan is cracking down on the samurai, and is obsessed with cruelty to dogs (he is known to history as the Dog Shogun). A very young Peter the Great is just about to launch his coup d'etat and transform Russia. In France, the Sun King rules... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Enlightenment by Norman Hampson Synopsis In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great - but less... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution by Alex Storozynski Publisher Comments Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The First European Revolution, 1776-1815 by Norman Hampson Publisher Comments Contents Include: Preface I. The Intellectual Climate II. The Political and Social Environment III. The French Revolution and the European Reaction IV. The Indian Summer of Enlightened Despotism V. The Victory of... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650: Doctrine, Politics, and Community (Critical Issues in History) by James D Tracy Publisher Comments In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1688 : a Global History (01 Edition) by John E. Jr. Wills Publisher Comments John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet BashÅ. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi emperor publicly... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (Penguin History of Europe) by Tim Blanning Publisher Comments An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Maddenandrsquo;s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) by George Rude Publisher Comments The new edition of this classic account of Revolutionary Europe brings to life many of the key issues that have fascinated historians since the fall of the Bastille and now includes a new introduction examining RudU's life and works and an updated list... (read more) List Price $57.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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