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Cassell's Chronology of World History: Dates, Events and Ideas That Made History
by Hywel Williams
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This extraordinary reference provides a comprehensive summary of world history from the earliest recorded evens to the start of the third millennium. Arranged in an accessible year by year form that invites browsing, it answers research questions, and... ( read more)
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Athenian Myths & Institutions
by William Bla Tyrrell
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This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual, the code of the warrior, marriage, and politics. Combining traditional historical and... ( read more)
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Europe Today #01: Europe Today
by Ronald Tiersky
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This engaging new text is a true post-Cold War enterprise. The contributors, an authoritative group of Americans and Europeans, explore the new Europe-West and East-using intertwining themes of domestic politics, European integration, and European... ( read more)
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Historical World Atlas, Hammond
by Hammond World Atlas
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This newly revised edition takes a comprehensive look at the most significant periods and major events in civilization's history. Through the 118 full-color maps (arranged chronologically) and the 8-page time chart with a graphic history of mankind... ( read more)
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Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present
by Fritz R Stern
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This is a book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. As the present work will show, modern historians have written in a variety of genres, but the multiplicity of style cannot obscure the two basic... ( read more)
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The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Natural Philosophy, and Culture
by Joan Cadden
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This book explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophical theories and medical notions... ( read more)
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War in the Middle Ages
by Philippe Contamine
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Covering the ten centuries following the fall of Rome, War in the Middle Ages engages all aspects of its subject, including the military customs and conditions of the various Western European states; armor and weaponry recruitment; and rules of combat... ( read more)
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Truth in History
by Oscar Handlin
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One of the most eminent historians of our time offers here a perceptive guide to the study of history. Truth in Historyteaches how to read, how to analyze, how to discriminate. It is as helpful to the reader whose history is created daily in the news as... ( read more)
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
by Vicki Leon
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In a witty and informative way, Vicki Leon profiles 150 women who made their mark around the Mediterranean between 2800 B.C. and 450 A.D.--3,200 years of history from a female vantage point. Among those featured are the Assyrian queen of Babylon who is... ( read more)
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The Medieval Castle: Life in a Fortress in Peace and War (Classic History)
by Philip Warner
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-258) and index.... ( read more)
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Day by Day Ser #0001: Day by Day, the Forties
by Thomas Leonard
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A genuine feeling for the forties is reflected in the hit songs, bestselling books, Academy Award(-winning movies, and other social phenomena of the time. 100 photos. Index. Chronology.... ( read more)
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Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism in Western civilization.
Our need for heroes is a timeless phenomenon; from ancient Greece to September 11, we have always looked... ( read more)
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Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
by Debra Hamel
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.... ( read more)
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Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contents)
by Julia Haig Gaisser
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Investigates the lives and fortunes of Renaissance... ( read more)
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New Approaches to European History #0006: Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
by Charles G Nauert
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'This new textbook provides a synthesis of the major themes of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert traces the origins of the humanist \"movement\" and its development in the social and... ( read more)
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
by Robert Lacey
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In the year 1000 the world was one in of people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. Narrated through the progression of the seasons, this book presents a recreation of English life... ( read more)
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The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker: 1849-1999
by Niall Ferguson
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The second volume of the history of the Rothschild banking dynasty is "a triumph of historical research and imagination".--Robert Skidelsky, "The New York Review of Books". A "New York Times" Notable Book. 8-page color insert.... ( read more)
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Alexander the Great
by Ulrich Wilcken
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Here is one of the greatest biographies of Alexander, in its original form, brought fully up to date with the findings of modern research and criticism.... ( read more)
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Ideas That Changed the World
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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Authoritative, compelling, and provocative, Ideas That Changed the World presents the big themes in philosophy and history, and reveals how certain ideas have shaped our civilization. One of the most respected historians writing today, Felipe Fernandez... ( read more)
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Who Was the Man in the Iron Mask?: And Other Historical Enigmas
by Hugh R Williamson
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Who was Elizabeth I's true father? Did Buckingham poison James I? And who was the Man in the Iron Mask? These and a host of other tantalizing age-old mysteries that have caused speculation and scandal through the centuries are explored in this intriguing... ( read more)
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