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Rebels & Rulers 1500 1660 Volume 2 by Perez Zagorin Publisher Comments Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (Oxford Illustrated Histories) by George Holmes Publisher Comments From the fall of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance, the thousand years forming the medieval period were a time of tremendous change and turmoil--a millennium that witnessed the creation of Western civilization. This beautiful volume--the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Quest for Eternity by Charles T Wood Publisher Comments (First published as THE AGE OF CHIVALRY) A lively and insightful interpretation of the Middle Ages.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $1.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry by Barbara Benedict Publisher Comments "Pithy and wide-ranging. . This study provides a fresh new lens through which to reinvestigate the whole of early modern English literature."—Library Journal In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War by Jonathan Swift Publisher Comments With 50 maps and easily accessible text, the newest title in the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas series presents the Cold War in a form which is both useful and understandable. Covering popular issues such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The True History of Chocolate by Sophie Coe Publisher Comments A detailed, illustrated investigation into the story of chocolate, beginning 3,000 years ago. "Genuinely scholarly and highly entertaining...erudite and delightful" "The Sunday Telegraph".... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian by Robin Lane Fox Publisher Comments Eminent classicist Robin Lane Fox brilliantly chronicles the vast sweep of history from Homer to the reign of Augustus, from the Peloponnesian War through the creation of Athenian democracy, from the turbulent empire of Alexander the Great to the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco by Arlene Hirschfelder Publisher Comments Here's a comprehensive reference guide that gives readers the entire story about the volatile issue of smoking in North America from the 1600s to the present. This encyclopedia is the ideal source for understanding today's controversies in a historical... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $23.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectaton and Social Change, 950-1050 by Richard Landes Publisher Comments The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hacke Fischer Publisher Comments David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (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   Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 by Marco Polo Publisher Comments A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conspiracy Theories by Kate Tuckett Publisher Comments The ultimate compendium of conspiracy theories--from A-Z. An encyclopedic listing exposing some of the most famous--and infamous--conspiracies throughout history, including the JFK assassination, Area 51, the death of Princess Diana, the events of 9/11... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman Powells.com Staff Pick "This is a witty and engaging book, intelligently written, with an endless amount of scandalous, hilarious, and eye-opening anecdotes. As Herman is the first to admit, though, many tales of the court were related by gossipy courtiers, memoirists eager... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Davis shows how the ruling elites helped produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. 15 photos. 8 maps.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of Women in the West Volume 1 by Georges Duby Publisher Comments Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day. The inaugural volume brings women from the margins of ancient history... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Trial of the Templars by Malcolm Barber Publisher Comments In 1307, the Templars in France were arrested by King Philip IV's officials in the name of the Inquisition, their property seized and the men charged with serious heresies, including the denial of Christ, homosexuality, and idol worship. Confessions... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ethics of History by David Carr Book News Annotation European and American scholars of the humanities, primarily philosophy, exploit the ambiguity of the phrase the ethics of history to explore divergent avenues. They agree however in their critique of a flat-footed correspondence theory of historical... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On the Edge of the New Century by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments "On the Edge of the New Century" is the sequel to Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes", a serious and challenging historical analysis that became a bestseller. Hobsbawm's book continues his "magisterial" ("The New York Times Book Review") analysis of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives by Simon Goldhill Publisher Comments "If you do not know where you come from, you will always be a child." Cicero wasn't talking about being a child in the sense of enjoying life in a state of ignorant bliss. He was, rather, adamant that those who don't understand their origins are... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott Publisher Comments A gruesomely hilarious and fascinating pop-history account of methods of execution from around the world and through the ages In this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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