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Europe : a History - a Glorious Chronicle of Europe, From Kings To Peasants, From the Urals To the Faroes (96 Edition)
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...
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The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker: 1849-1999
by Niall Ferguson Synopsis A second volume in the acclaimed history of the legendary banking dynasty chronicles the changing fortunes of the financial family during a turbulent era in world history, from their dramatic influence in nineteenth-century Europe to their gradual...
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Imperial War Museum's D-day Experience: From Operation Overlord To the Liberation of Paris (UK Edition)
by Richard Holmes Publisher Comments From Operation Overlord to the Liberation of Paris, endorsed by the Imperial War Museum, and officially tied in with their D-Day exhibition commencing in March 2004. Including a wealth of first-hand accounts and superb photographs and maps, the book also...
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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
by Mark Kurlansky 
Publisher Comments The Basque History of the World is the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Signs of their civilization existed well before the arrival of the Romans in 218 B.C., and though theories abound, no one has ever been able to determine their...
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Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (00 Edition)
by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has...
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Vikings Rev Edition
by Else Roesdahl Synopsis An encyclopedic study bringing together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingship, poetry and family life with a view to assessing the Viking's impact on European history. Originally published in 1991 by...
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King Leopold's Ghost (98 Edition)
by Adam Hochschild
Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber...
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The Mythology of the Secret Societies
by Jm Roberts Publisher Comments People have always been fascinated by secret societies—and never more so than today, when our post-Da Vinci Code imaginations are newly fired up by conspiracy theories and clandestine plots for world domination. But what is the truth about these...
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I Wish I'd Been Therea(r), Book Two: European History
by Byron Hollinshead Publisher Comments What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed—and why?This is the question that the editors posed to twenty superb historians who wrote a personal essay in response. The result is this engrossing book, a...
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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...
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Kosovo: a Short History (UK Edition)
by Noel Malcolm Synopsis By the early 1980s Kosovo had reached a state of permanent crisis and military occupation, and it became the main focus for the revival of Serbian nationalism. This book traces the history of Kosovo, examining the Yugoslavian conflict, and the part...
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The Tour de France: A Cultural History
by Christopher S. Thompson Synopsis In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its...
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Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice
by Elizabeth Horodowich Publisher Comments While historians typically describe the state as emerging through a wide variety of processes and structures such as armies, bureaucracies, and administrative organizations, this book demonstrates that a crucial but unrecognized component of...
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Warrior 62: Prussian Regular Infantryman 1808-1815 (Warrior)
by Oliver Schmidt Synopsis Following the disastrous defeats at Jena and Auerstadt by Napoleon in 1806, the Prussian armed forces were forced to regroup, and radical changes were instigated in all areas. The fighting spirit and ability of the infantry remained consistently high...
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Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures)
by Heinz Schilling Publisher Comments Based on a series of lectures given at the Historical Society of Israel in 2006, this volume offers a rare opportunity for English language readers to appreciate the groundbreaking work of historian Heinz Schilling. As Schilling argues here, the...
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The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece
by Joanna Pitman Publisher Comments Raphael's St. George and the Dragon is the work of a genius -- an exquisitely rendered vision of heroism and innocence by one of the greatest painters of all time. Yet the painting's creation is only the beginning of its fascinating story, which spans...
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Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue
by Robert Zaretsky Publisher Comments In the French Camargue—the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern “nation” of Occitania—the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. How this came to be—how the...
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The European Company (Law Practitioner)
by Dirk (edt) Van Gerven Publisher Comments The European Company ('SE') is a legal entity offering a European perspective for businesses. Its purpose is to allow businesses that wish to extend their activities beyond their home Member State to operate throughout the EU on the basis of one set of...
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Renaissance Florence
by Roger J. (edt) Crum Publisher Comments This book examines the social history of Florence during the critical period of its growth and development in the early modern period, from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. Treating the city, its art, and its rituals as lived experiences that...
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Rome: the Biography of a City (UK Edition)
by Christopher Hibbert Synopsis A study of the scenic beauty and many-layered past of the Eternal City. From its quasi-mythical origins, through the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages, to its time at the heart of Mussolini's fascist Italy, this...
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