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Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty by Karl Shaw Publisher Comments Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear under lock and key? Or which czar, upon discovering his wife's infidelity, had her lover decapitated and the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aspects of Roman History Ad 14 - 117 by Richard Alston Publisher Comments "Aspects of Roman History" charts the history of the Roman Imperial period, from the establishment of the Augustan principate to the reign of Trajan, providing a basic chronological framework of the main events and introductory outlines of the major... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list New Europe: France, Germany, and the Western Alliance by Philip H Gordon Publisher Comments Whether Europe will ever have anything resembling the “common foreign and security policy” described in the Maastricht Treaty will depend most of all on whether France and Germany are able to align their foreign policy goals and means. This... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forces of Change: An Unorthodox View of History by Henry Hobhouse Publisher Comments There are few books that have the insight and power to change the way we think. Forces of Change is one. In this updated edition, Henry Hobhouse argues provocatively, and most convincingly, that modern history has been shaped less by the actions of human... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World by Michael Wood Publisher Comments In this compelling new book, accompanying the PBS television series of the same name, historian Michael Wood, whose renowned adventures have taken him to many remote and exciting places around the globe, now goes in search of four powerful legends... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe by Angela E Stent Publisher Comments "Stent's book is a significant contribution to the field of Soviet-German relations. Her knowledge of Russian and German is a major asset that allows her to use a wide variety of materials that add much to our knowledge of German and Russian policies... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History by Olivier Zunz Publisher Comments Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal Publisher Comments Drawing on the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the author uses sources as diverse as science fiction and psychoanalysis to examine how rebellion against inherited tradition has given rise to the modern cult of preservation and pervasive nostalgia.... (read more) List Price $47.75 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940 by Norman Moss Publisher Comments 'Nineteen Weeks is Norman Moss\'s riveting account of FDR, Churchill, and the extraordinary decisions made in 1940 that set the stage for America\'s interventionist role in world affairs. The weeks between May and September 1940 saw Hitler\'s stunning... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe (Oxford Illustrated Histories) by T C W Blanning Publisher Comments Modern Europeans, argues T. C. W. Blanning, are characterized by the conviction that the ground is moving beneath their feet. Among other things, it has given them a strong sense of dynamism: the world is changing, it can be changed, and so it should be... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $10.50 (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   69 Ad: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan Publisher Comments The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that they had no qualms about occupying... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where Were You When?: 180 Unforgettable Moments in Living History by Ian Harrison Publisher Comments Take a trip back through six decades of milestone events and discover--through the reflections of people who were there--what it was like at that moment when history was being made.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alexander the Great by Lewis V Cummings Publisher Comments Reissued to coincide with the release of Oliver Stone's epic movie on Alexander the Great (slated for fall 2004) and the Summer Olympics in Greece, Lewis Cummings's comprehensive and readable biography of Alexander the Great gives us the full portrait of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Haskins Society Journal Studies in Volume 4 by Robert B Patterson Publisher Comments The Charles Homer Haskin Society was founded for the study of and research into the political and social history of the Western European world, through the Viking age and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to the break-up of the Carolingian state in the mid 13th... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion by Steph Dando Collins Publisher Comments Reviews From The First Edition Posterity may remember The Dollar Crisis as a seminal book in the field of twenty-first century economics. Indeed, rarely has a book offered such a grim yet well argued view of the current economic situation facing the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of European Family #03: Family Life in the Twentieth Century: The History of the European Family: Volume 3 by David Kertzer Publisher Comments This volume completes the History of the European Family series, a comprehensive synthesis of what is known about European families across the past five centuries. The profound political and social transformations that occurred from 1914-2000 were... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions by Bernard Bailyn Publisher Comments Bailyn, a professor at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writes of the impossibility of teaching history without bias, and that history itself is constantly open to new interpretations and viewpoints.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw Publisher Comments The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, FATEFUL... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oxford Dictionary of World History 2ND Edition by Oxford Univ Press Publisher Comments An incredibly useful reference, the second edition of A Dictionary of World History has been fully revised and updated in order to bring it into the 21st century. It contains over 4,000 clear and concise entries on all aspects of history, from prehistory... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture by Robin Sowerby Publisher Comments "The Greeks" is a concise, yet wide-ranging, introduction to the culture of ancient Greece. This concise survey covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilization from the age of Homer to the end of the classical period, providing detailed... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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