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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age 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: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Racial State : Germany, 1933-1945 (91 Edition) by Michael Burleigh Publisher Comments Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a "class" society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions that underpinned this mission, and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people, both... (read more) List Price $36.99 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault Staff Pick When I was immersed in a sea of literary criticism a few years ago, Foucault, more than anyone else, caught my attention. Looking deeply at the roots of our behavior and our cultural attitudes, his examination of different kinds of power and control is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun Review "Jacques Barzun, one of the most erudite and eloquent of minds, in his new book spans the cultural history of the Western world from the Renaissance and the Reformation till now. It is a masterpiece for the ages." (-- Martin Meyerson, President... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester Publisher Comments Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemuller world map of 1507. So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Portable Enlightenment Reader (95 Edition) by Isaac (ed.) Kramnick Publisher Comments The Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an exultant intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft Publisher Comments In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the “Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Hardcover
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Europe: A History by Norman Davies Publisher Comments "Europe is a magisterial work, sweeping in its analysis, illuminating in its insights and erudite in its scholarship." "Europe brims with learning, crackles with common sense, coruscates with wit and abounds in good judgement." "A master of broad... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Europe in Twentieth Century (05 Edition) by Eric Dorn Brose Publisher Comments Written in a vivid and accessible style, A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century examines the continent's descent into the turmoil of two world wars, the tense cold war standoff between the victors, and finally the beginning of a more tranquil and... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Study of History by John Lucas Publisher Comments The ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines are reader-friendly introductions to the most important fields of knowledge in the liberal arts. Written by leading scholars for both students and the general public, they will be appreciated by anyone desiring a... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $3.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Geoffrey Swain Publisher Comments This essential text has been fully revised, updated and expanded to take account of new material and events since the publication of the third edition. The last chapters focus on the inclusion of most of the Eastern European states into... (read more) Your price: $35.25 New - Trade Paper
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Europe and the People Without History (82 Edition) by Eric R. Wolf Synopsis The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe by Martin Carver Publisher Comments Comparative studies on the age of Sutton Hoo (5c - 8c) with English and European focus, plus summary of the latest site excavations.... (read more) Available November 2009 Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Black Death and the Transformation of the West (97 Edition) by David Herlihy Publisher Comments In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War by Catrine Clay Publisher Comments The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart. Drawing widely on previously unpublished royal letters and diaries, made public for the first... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton Publisher Comments The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - Trade Paper
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Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb Publisher Comments For almost 500 years the Jews of Europe were kept apart, confined to ghettos or tiny villages in the countryside. Then, in one extraordinary moment in the French Revolution, the Jews of France were emancipated. Soon the ghetto gates were opened all over... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All by Peter Linebaugh Publisher Comments This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny--and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture--are being abridged... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Nordic Model: Scandinavia Since 1945 (Reaktion Books - Contemporary Worlds) by Mary Hilson Publisher Comments The political structures of the Scandinavian nations have long stood as models for government and public policy. This comprehensive study examines how that “Nordic model” of government developed, as well as its far-reaching influence. ... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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