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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock Publisher Comments Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and legacy alongside... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars by Rene Weis Publisher Comments A brilliant exploration of the medieval community that, with almost miraculous psychological fortitude and strength of faith, defied the Catholic Church and the Inquisition. The Cathars, whose religion was based on the Gospels but contradicted the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient World 3RD Edition Readings in Social & C by D Brendan Nagle Publisher Comments This collection of scholarly readings focuses on the social and cultural history of the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome, and is designed to encourage readers to examine issues pertaining to a broad range of themes by analyzing selections from history.... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price $39.95 (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 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ( Updated and Expanded) by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before—creating an explosion of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan Publisher Comments Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by Eric J Hobsbawm Publisher Comments Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments This prize-winning national bestseller is the landmark, personality-filled history of the Paris peace conference of 1919, now in paperback.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Civilization before Greece and Rome by H.W.F. Saggs Publisher Comments "Saggs has a knack for drawing together the most telling details from the jumble of cultural data and presenting them in such a way that we truly see each culture as it was at its zenith, and its heritage to the world. An especially informative look at... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (Critical Issue) by Melvyn P Leffler Publisher Comments The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. "The Specter of Communism" is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (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   Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments Before his death at age thirty-two in 323 BC, Alexander the Great founded eighteen new cities and conquered Persia; his empire—from Greece to India—comprised two million square miles. In this succinct portrait of Alexander, distinguished... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones Publisher Comments Famous for lampooning the medieval world in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "Terry Jones has a real passion for and detailed knowledge of the Middle Ages. In "Terry Jones' Medieval Lives," his mission is to rescue the Middle Ages from moth-eaten... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (Norton History of Modern Europe) by Eugene F Rice Synopsis Was the shift from old to new in this period a transition from medieval to modern? Professor Rice, assisted in this edition by Professor Tony Grafton continues to argue, as in the first edition, that this century represents a shift from medieval to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forge of Empires 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made by Michael Knox Beran Publisher Comments Writing with the sweep of a Tolstoyan novel and the cinematic excitement of a Hollywood epic, acclaimed author Beran brings to life a compelling cast of characters who have ushered in or witnessed the events of the revolutionary decade, 1861-1870... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Medieval Feudalism by Carl Stephenson Publisher Comments This book gives a clear and concise account of the origin, growth, and decay of the feudal system.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oxford History of the Classical World by John Boardman Publisher Comments From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world has established the foundations of our culture, as well as many of its enduring... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies) by Theodor Ern Mommsen Publisher Comments Although numerous texts are available in translation that illustrate the papal side of the Investiture Controversy, few accounts exist that convey the position of secular leaders. Imperial Lives and Letters fills this gap, offering the full text of "The... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World by Robert Lacey Publisher Comments AS THE SHADOW OF THE MILLENNIUM DESCENDED ACROSS ENGLAND AND CHRISTENDOM, IT SEEMED AS IF THE WORLD WAS ABOUT TO END. ACTUALLY, IT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING . . .<P>WELCOME TO THE YEAR 1000.<P>THIS IS WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE.<P>How clothes were... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Atlas of the Medieval World by Rosamon Mckitterick Publisher Comments Forged in an age of faith and war and tempered by great statesmen, religious leaders and artists, medieval civilizations witnessed remarkable transformations. Far from being a homogeneous world of knights and castles, the era saw a multitude of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Publisher Comments For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world's most respected... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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