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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 $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all time. Cicero comes to life in these pages and takes center... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methodology by Martha C Howell Publisher Comments From Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Athena the Afroasiatic Roots Volume 1 by Martin Bernal Publisher Comments What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson Publisher Comments Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt Publisher Comments Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August—a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities by Matthew White Publisher Comments Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman 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: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. 2 by John B Bury Publisher Comments Volume 2 of classic history. One of the world's foremost historians chronicles the major forces and events in the history of the Western and Byzantine Empires from the death of Theodosius (A.D. 395) to the death of Justinian (A.D. 565). "An important and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod by Scott Christianson Publisher Comments A collection of the most important ideas, theories, and concepts of all time 100 Diagrams That Changed the World is a fascinating collection of the most significant plans, sketches, drawings, and illustrations that have influenced and shaped the way we... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome by Richard C Beacham Publisher Comments The presentations in the theater, gladiatorial combats, chariot races in the circus, animal hunts, triumphal processions, and other public entertainments of early imperial Rome served as tangible expressions of Roman ideology and power. This engagingly... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker Publisher Comments Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 by Andrew Roberts Publisher Comments In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Meanwhile, the British Empire was in decline but did not yet know it. Any number... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Silencing the Past by Michel Ro Trouillot Publisher Comments Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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