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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor Publisher Comments From the renowned director of the British Museum, a kaleidoscopic history of humanity told through things we have made. When did people first start to wear jewelry or play music? When were cows domesticated and why do we feed their milk to our children... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $31.00 Used - Hardcover
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland Publisher Comments A masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of perhaps the greatest civilization ever and the events and people that led to its transformation from a republic to an empire. On a dark January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul,... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt Publisher Comments The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff Staff Pick I'm rather sure that all three of Stacy Schiff's previous works have been nominated for some award or another. With a pedigree like that, you know that her latest biography is bound to be a must-read. Stripping away all the previous misconceptions about... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like Amid Splendor and Intrigue: Byzantine Empire, Ad 330-1453 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: The Secrets of History's Most Enduring Mystery Revealed by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The astonishing true story of Atlantis In 1500 B.C. a supervolcano beneath the Greek island of Santorini exploded in a near-apocalyptic eruption. Buried beneath the rubble and waves was the world’s most remarkable lost civilization. . . . New York... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar Publisher Comments From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor Publisher Comments "A comprehensive look at WMD's antecedents, from flamethrowers of the Peloponnesian War to plague-bearing booby traps.... Rich and entertaining." -Newsweek Featuring a new introduction by the author. Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Style in History by Peter Gay Publisher Comments In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Sea by Neal Ascherson Publisher Comments Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History In this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea, Neal Ascherson explores the disputed meaning of community, nationhood, history, and culture in a... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crusades - Essential Histories Edition (01 Edition) by David Nicolle Publisher Comments Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Venice (82 Edition) by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 1797 when Napolean put an end to the thousand year-old Republic. 32 pages of black and white photos, 4 maps and charts.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley Publisher Comments Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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California World History Library #10: Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones by Gary Okihiro Publisher Comments Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $12.95 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 Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus Synopsis "The Annals of Imperial Rome" recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. Michael Grant's introduction discusses the life and works of Tacitus and the historical context of the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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