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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
by J. H. Elliott  Publisher Comments This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile...
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The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Volume 3
by Fernand Braudel Synopsis The concluding volume of the trilogy charts the growth of the world economy from the 15th to the 18th century concentrating on the human activity that underlies the business of life....
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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...
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The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Volume 2
by Fernand Braudel Publisher Comments 'The intricacy of detail and boldness of hypothesis in this book are indisputable, and if one is to do more than skim it, it demands and repays enormous attention...The lavish illustrations are superbly well chosen. The pictures show the endless variety...
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Panorama of the Enlightenment (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
by Dorinda Outram Publisher Comments The Enlightenment is that crucial, and profoundly exciting, period between the late seventeenth century and the French Revolution. It was the great age of rationalism and tolerance, an age of boundless curiosity about the physical universe and the nature...
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Great Upheaval (07 Edition)
by Winik Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "April 1865" and one of the most renowned and gifted historians returns with an epic, stunningly original portrait of the tumultuous years--1788-1800--that made the modern world....
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Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie Du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Sword Fights, Book Burnings, Assorted Kings, Seditious Verse.....
by David Bodanis Publisher Comments It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Chatelet, a beguiling (and married) aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton's arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein's theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any...
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Europe's Reformations 1450-1650 : Doctrine, Politics, and Community (2ND 06 Edition)
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...
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California World History Library #5: Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World
by Emma Christopher Publisher Comments "Extends the concept of the Middle Passage to encompass the expropriation of people across other maritime and inland routes. No previous book has highlighted the diversity and centrality of middle passages, voluntary and involuntary, to modern global...
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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...
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
by J. H. Elliott Publisher Comments This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early 19th century....
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Making of the European Age
by J M Roberts Publisher Comments The Illustrated History of the World is a lavishly illustrated edition of J. M. Roberts's bestselling History of the World. Now completely revised and updated, each volume of this comprehensive reference work traces the tumultuous story of humankind from...
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The Western Heritage, Volume 2: Teaching and Learning Classroom Edtion
by Donald Kagan Publisher Comments This highly visual, brief survey of Western civilization provides an exceptionally balanced survey of the political, social, and cultural development of Western civilization-- its strengths and weaknesses, and the controversies surrounding it. From 1650...
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
by Paul Kennedy Publisher Comments About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe....
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Money and Liberty in Modern Europe
by William N Reddy Publisher Comments The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France...
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1688: A Global History
by John E Wills Publisher Comments This rich, kaleidoscopic history of the world, highlighting events in the year 1688, paints a detailed picture of how the global connections of power, money, and belief were beginning to lend the world its modern form. 12 illustrations....
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Ancestors : the Loving Family in Old Europe (01 Edition)
by Steven E. Ozment Publisher Comments Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have painted of life in early Europe, "Ancestors" offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history and tells a story of age-old domesticity surprisingly similar to our...
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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 In 1648, Europe was essentially a medieval society. By 1815, it was the powerhouse of the modern world. In exuberant prose, Tim Blanning investigates "the very hinge of European history" (The New York Times) between the end of the Thirty Y ears' War and...
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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,...
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Industrial Revolution in World History
by Peter N. Stearns About the Author Peter N. Stearns is provost and professor of history at George Mason University. He is the editor of the Journal of Social History and the author of many books, including World Civilizations: The Global Experience and World History in Brief: Major...
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