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The Anatomy of Revolution
by Clarence Cr Brinton  Publisher Comments A comparative history of the English, American, French and Russian revolutions. Bibliographical appendix, index....
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Age of Revolution 1789 1848
by Eric Hobsbawm Synopsis The author traces the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the dual occurrence of the French and Industrial revolutions. The account highlights the 60 significant years when industrialism established domination over the world...
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The Prince & the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match
by Glyn Redworth Publisher Comments On the night of March 7, 1623, the prince of Wales and the duke of Buckingham knocked on the door of the British embassy in Madrid. Their unsolicited arrival began one of the most bizarre episodes in British history, as the Protestant heir to the Stuart...
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The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Publisher Comments For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already well acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged...
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The Golden Century: Europe 1598 - 1715
by Maurice Ashley Publisher Comments Although 17th century Europe experienced continuous war and revolution, it was also a time when creativity flourished: Cervantes and Velásquez in Spain, Shakespeare and Milton in London, Rubens in Antwerp, Rembrandt in Amsterdam, and Moliè...
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The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
by Robert Harms 
Publisher Comments Yale historian Harms ("Games Against Nature") explores the global scope of an odious industry by tracking the slave ship "Diligent, " which sailed from Vannes, France, in 1731. Using First Lt. Robert Durand's journal, Harms fleshes out the multinational...
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House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. of color photos....
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The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent
by John Stoye Publisher Comments "In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna, the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every...
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Enlightenment (2ND 05 Edition)
by Dorinda Outram Publisher Comments This is the second edition of a unique textbook on the Enlightenment....
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Rebels & Rulers 1500 1660 Volume 2
by Perez Zagorin Publisher Comments Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character...
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Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871
by Adam Zamoyski Publisher Comments "Entertaining and thought-provoking." (Times Literary Supplement) "Zamoyski skillfully brings together all the strains of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nationalism, from the American Revolution to the Paris Commune, showing how quasi-religious...
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Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe
by Stanley Stein Publisher Comments The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore...
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Understanding the Industrial Revolution
by Charles More Publisher Comments "Understanding the Industrial Revolution" is a fresh, new exploration of this economic phenomenon of major importance. It describes theories of economic growth, shows how these can be applied to the revolution, and discusses them in the light of modern...
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Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850
by Paula Sutt Fichtner Publisher Comments Many negative stereotypes of Muslims can be traced to the clashes between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Paula Sutter Fichtner explores here the particular dynamics between the Ottoman and Austrian Habsburg empires and...
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New Approaches to European History #7: The Enlightenment
by Dorinda Outram Publisher Comments This major new textbook introduces both the concepts and the contexts of the Enlightenment to students of eighteenth-century history....
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Revolutions, 1789-1917 (98 Edition)
by Allan Todd Publisher Comments Allan Todd provides a lucid exploration of the main features of revolutions: the economic, social, political and ideological developments prior to the revolution, and the roles and actions of crowds, parties, women and counter-revolutionaries. Particular...
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The Memory of the Modern
by Matt K Matsuda Publisher Comments A multidisciplinary work, Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early...
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Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
by Anthony Pagden Publisher Comments Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been...
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Revolution in History
by Roy Porter Publisher Comments Fifteen historians examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development....
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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)....
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