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The Enlightenment (New Approaches to European History) by Dorinda Outram Publisher Comments This is the second edition of a unique textbook on the Enlightenment.... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today by David A Andelman Publisher Comments A revealing look at the powerful lessons the Treaty of Versailles has for us today Veteran correspondent David Andelman offers a compelling new perspective on the origin of many of today's most critical international issues. He turns the spotlight on the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Year 1000 What Life Was Like At the Turn by Robert Lacey Publisher Comments A vivid recreation of how the English lived at the turn of the first Millennium. The hardback edition has sold over 90,000 copies.... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C Keuls Publisher Comments At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens. The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe by Steven E. Ozment Publisher Comments Here is a lively study of marriage and the family during the Reformation, primarily in Gemany and Switzerland, that dispels the commonly held notion of fathers as tyrannical and families as loveless. Did husbands and wives love one another in Reformation... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The EU and Neighbors: A Geography of Europe in the Modern World by Brian Blouet Synopsis Presenting an entry level, introductory, systemic and regional survey, this book will quickly get readers up to speed on the European landscape. It uses the European Union as an organizing focus while discussing modern events in two sections. The... (read more) List Price $107.00 Your price $60.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Ancient History, Second Edition, Volume III, Part 3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C. by John Boardman and N. G. L. Hammond Publisher Comments The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume III Part 1. Volume III Part 3 explores the new prosperity and growth of the young city-states in the... (read more) List Price $180.00 Your price $140.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Villa to Village: The Transformation of the Roman Countryside by Riccardo Francovich Publisher Comments Uses new archaeological evidence to challenge accepted historical opinion about an important change in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of the Later Roman Empire Volume 1 by John B Bury Publisher Comments Volume 1 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).... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past by Paul Cartledge Publisher Comments In time to coincide with the release of the motion picture directed by Oliver Stone comes a biography on the infamous Macedonian king and conqueror. Author Cartledge is academic consultant on the forthcoming Discovery Channel documentary "Becoming... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 World of the Favourite by J H Elliott Publisher Comments "Observers in England, Spain, France and many other European states in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries grew increasingly alarmed by the growing influence of favourites, or minister-favourites. These individuals appeared to be usurping powers and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rethinking Europe's Future by David P Calleo Publisher Comments Rethinking Europe's Future is a major reevaluation of Europe's prospects as it enters the twenty-first century. David Calleo has written a book worthy of the complexity and grandeur of the challenges Europe now faces. Summoning the insights of history... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Medieval Lives by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments A fascinating look at life in the Middle Ages that focuses on eight extraordinary medieval men and women through realistically invented conversations between them and their counterparts.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games by Tony Perrottet Powells.com Staff Pick Can't attend the Olympics this summer? Then travel back more than 2000 years to experience the original Greek games in all their glory and squalor. Fascinatingly detailed, Perrottet's writing brings the scene to life, vividly depicting what it was like... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan by A. C. Grayling Publisher Comments When Nuremberg was scouted in 1945 as a possible site for the Nazi war crime trials, an American damage survey of Germany described it as being among the dead cities of that country, for it was 90% destroyed, its population decimated, its facilities lost.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Dictionary of World History (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Oxford Publisher Comments This new Oxford reference work is the most up-to-date dictionary of world history available in paperback. The generous coverage of all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day, makes this book the ideal guide both for students and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Augustus (Roman Imperial Biographies) by Pat Southern Publisher Comments Augustus, the heir to Julius Caesar, was the guiding light in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. In this biography, Pat Southern traces the life and works of the emperor chronologically, presenting idealogy and events as they... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alexander's Tomb: The Two Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conqueror by Nicholas Saunders About the Author Nicholas J. Saunders is a lecturer in the department of anthropology at University College, London, and a regular commentator on British television and radio.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The history atlas of Europe by Ian Barnes Publisher Comments Europe is the smallest of the world's continents, yet its culture and languages have come to dominate the world we know today.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Genius of Alexander the Great by N G L Hammond Publisher Comments The preeminent scholar of ancient Macedonia separates reliable fact from historical fiction to reveal the true intellect and charm that earned Alexander his epithet.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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