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What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton Publisher Comments One of the world's leading cultural historians on writing about history in early modern Europe.... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Babylonians: An Introduction by Gwendolyn Leick Publisher Comments Gwendolyn Leick's approachable survey shows us the people of Babylon, from kings and merchants to women and slaves, and the social, historical, geographical and cultural context in which their extraordinary city flourished for so many millennia. This... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire by Matthew Bunson Publisher Comments Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire offers clear, concise information on the key places, people, events, and culture of more than 500 years of Roman history.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman Publisher Comments Long sources of mystery, imagination, and inspiration, the myths and history of the ancient Mediterranean have given rise to artistic, religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions that span the centuries. In this unique and comprehensive introduction... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Constantine the Great and the Christian Revolution, by G P Baker Publisher Comments Revered historian Baker, the author of books on Augustus, Tiberius, and Hannibal, tells the story of Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman empire.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II by Emmy Werner Publisher Comments World War II was the first modern war in which more civilians than soldiers were killed or maimed: When it ended in August 1945, more than thirty-nine millions civilians had died as a direct result of the war, and some thirteen million of these were... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China by Steven Shankman Publisher Comments A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $19.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The I Hate the 21st Century Reader: The Awful, the Annoying, and the Absurd--From Ethnic Cleansing to Frankenscience by Clint Willis Publisher Comments The latest addition to Clint Willis' hugely successful "I Hate series, "The I Hate the 21st Century takes on Internet pornography, reality television, school shootings, SPAM and SUVs to super-bugs, corrupt politicians (of all stripes), bigoted generals... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Inquisition by Edward Peters Publisher Comments This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of "The Inquisition," from its origins with the anti... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Encyclopedia of World History 6TH Edition by Peter N Stearns Publisher Comments For decades William L. Langer's best-selling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY was the indispensable, authoritative guide to all of human history. Now, under the direction of a distinguished new editor, comes an updated and dramatically improved version for... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcvr W/comp Media) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Western Civilization on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times by Tristram Stuart Powells.com Staff Pick The Bloodless Revolution is a fascinating trek through the history of vegetarianism, from around 1600 until the present day. It is scholarly, accessible, and very thorough, and along the way, Tristam Stuart refreshes your memory of an entire host of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $20.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century by Helena Michie Book News Annotation Seventeen essays by scholars of literature, history, geography, and cultural studies interrogate the geography of the 19th centuryboth as field of inquiry and as political-economic reality. The essays consider the interplay between discourses describing... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of the Twentieth Century Volume 1 by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Martin Gilbert's three-volume history of the twentieth century begins with a masterful narrative covering the critical thirty-three years which began this remarkable span of time: from the dawn of aviation through a great war that left six million... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D. by James Reston Publisher Comments An enthralling popular history of how the threatened Christian kingdoms of Europe converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance at the turn of the last millennium. of photos.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Worldly Goods a New History of the Renai by Lisa Jardine Publisher Comments The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship and the serendipitous coming together of some of the greatest artists the world has ever known: this is the traditional view of the Renaissance. This work provides an interpretation of... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Studies in Eighteenth Century Cult Volume 24 by Carla H Hay Publisher Comments Representing the diversity of interests within the eighteenth-century studies community, the latest volume in this distinguished series includes eighteen essays that range chronologically from the mid-seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century... (read more) Your price $10.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Worlds of History: a Comparative Reader, Volume 2 by Kevin Reilly Synopsis A comparative reader that offers a dynamic balance of primary and secondary sources, Worlds of History invites students to make connections across cultures while teaching them to think like historians. The 90 readings in Volume 1 and 94 readings in... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914 by Peter Gay Publisher Comments A seminal and provocative work of history, Schnitzler's Century reassesses nineteenth-century culture and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Yet... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Central Middle Ages (Short Oxford History of Europe) by Daniel Power Publisher Comments The period from the late tenth to the early fourteenth centuries was one of the most dynamic in European history. Latin Christendom found a new confidence which has left its mark upon the landscape in the form of the great cathedrals and castles, while... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan Publisher Comments By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of the 20th century and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kagan reveals new insights into... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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