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Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life by Herman Pleij Publisher Comments Cockaigne: portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times -- an earthly paradise to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to quell anxieties over an ever-... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators by Riccardo Orizio Publisher Comments Inspired by newspaper clippings he had kept about two former African dictators accused of cannibalism, journalist Riccardo Orizio set out to track down tyrants around the world who had fallen from power — to see if they had gained any perspective on... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Duncan Publisher Comments Humanity's epic struggle to determine a true and accurate year -- featuring the incredible story of how ten days once were lost. Our present calendar predates the invention of the telescope and mechanical clock, modern numbers and the concept of zero... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Spartans by Paul Cartledge Publisher Comments Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia-a remarkably evolved society whose warrior heroes were forbidden any other trade, profession, or business. As a people, the Spartans were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline,... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately Publisher Comments Acclaimed historian Gellately focuses on the dominant political leaders who enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945, and analyzes their catastrophic impact in global terms in this important addition to the understanding of modern history.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games by Roland Auguet Publisher Comments Cruelty and Civilization offers an in-depth look at the Roman games as a force vital to the functioning of an Empire. Gladiatorial combats, chariot races and other spectacles were a kind of public opiate for the citizens of Ancient Rome. These rites gave... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Concept of Neutrality in Classical Greece by Robert Bauslaugh Publisher Comments "A definitive contribution to the history of Western diplomacy. Thanks to Bauslaugh, the concept of neutrality must play a part in all future discussions of classical Aegean interstate politics."--Nicholas F. Jones, author of "Public Organization in... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $33.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of the Twentieth Century Volume 3 by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Critics heralded the first two volumes A History of the Twentieth Century as "masterly" (Boston Globe) and "deft", illuminating, and fascinating" (Henry Kissenger).? Now, the final work in Martin Gilbert's magisterial and acclaimed three-volume history... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro by Dean Kotlowski Publisher Comments The transformation of Europe since the end of World War II has been astounding. In 1945, a battle-scarred continent lay in ruins. Today, it has achieved a level of integration, prosperity, and stability that few people could have anticipated. The life... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Thread of Years by John Lukacs Publisher Comments A distinguished historian presents a series of vignettes of daily life, both in the U.S. and abroad, between 1901 and 1969, that together become a poignant history of manners and mores that show the decline of a civilization.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Northern World: The History and Heritage of Northern Europe by David M Wilson Synopsis The contribution of Germanic-speaking peoples to our civilization between 400-1100 AD is in many ways as vital as that of the Latin speakers. A team of historians and archaeologists condense the discoveries of modern research into a concise and readable... (read more) Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic by Rober Morstein Marx Publisher Comments Examines how public, political discourse shaped the distribution of power between Senate and People.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $60.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Long to Reign by A W Purdue Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twentieth century, monarchy was by far the most common form of government: emperors sat on the thrones of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Persia, China, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, while there were kings of Bulgaria, Serbia, Italy... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Business Life of Ancient Athens by George M Calhoun Publisher Comments Provides an interesting insight into the individuals who conducted business in a great civilization of antiquity.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $17.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Biography: A Brief History by Nigel Hamilton Publisher Comments For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Asimov's Chronology of the World by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments From the worldand#39;s greatest science writer, a history of the world from the Big Bang to 1945, told in irresistible short takes and highlighted by a timeline.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The optimist's guide to history by Doris Flexner Publisher Comments The classic look at the past with a very jaundiced eye -- now with even more disheartening facts! The original "irreverent jaunt through the catastrophes, cataclysms and outrages that shaped our world" has sold more than 73,000 copies. This updated... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Crusades: The Illustrated History by Thomas Madden Publisher Comments An important, richly illustrated account of the struggle between Christianity and Islam in the Near East, and an essential guide to understanding many modern-day conflicts, from the Balkans and Lebanon to Palestine and the War on Terror ". . . the ideal... (read more) Your price $38.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Volume 2 by Fernand Braudel Publisher Comments 'The intricacy of detail and boldness of hypothesis in this book are indisputable, and if one is to do more than skim it, it demands and repays enormous attention...The lavish illustrations are superbly well chosen. The pictures show the endless variety... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (Early American Studies) by Simon Middleton Publisher Comments As a category of historical analysis, class is dead--or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $39.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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