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Short History of the Middle Ages by Barbara H Rosenwein Book News Annotation Rosenwein (history, Loyola U., Chicago) has succeeded in writing a history of the Middle Ages that presents Byzantium and Islam alongside Western Christendom with equal emphasis, developing the relationships between them throughout the text in a way... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future by Charles Van Doren Publisher Comments A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Social History of Rome (Ancient Society & History) by Geza Alfoldy Publisher Comments This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To the author,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Jerry Brotton Publisher Comments More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century by Richard Vinen Publisher Comments "Fascinating and immensely readable" is the way one British newspaper described A History in Fragments. With the rise of the European superpower-symbolized by the introduction of the euro on January 1, 2002-Europe has gained a new prominence on the world... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge 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 $25.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rome in Augustan Age by Henry T Rowell Publisher Comments This book is intended to serve three purposes: to account historically for the great flowering in Rome that occurred in the Augustan Age; to describe the city in its physical and cultural development as it reached its peak; and to make the discovery of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.18 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographies and index.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rites of Spring: The Great War & The Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins Publisher Comments In a remarkable display of originality and discerning historical analysis Rites Of Spring describes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of the Great War of 1914-1918, arguably the most traumatic event of this century.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.95 (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   1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Stephen Oshea Publisher Comments O'Shea chronicles both the meeting of minds and the collisions of armies that marked the interaction of Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages--the better to understand their apparently intractable conflict today.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History by Peter Green Synopsis Discusses the intellectual and political developments that distinguished the country's history from the beginnings of Minoan culture to the death of Alexander.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation by Judith Evans Grubbs Publisher Comments This is a new and thought-provoking look at law and marriage in late antiquity, dealing particularly with the legislation on marriage enacted by the Roman emperor Constantine. Though Constantine is usually accepted as being the first Christian emperor... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy by Nicholas F Jones Publisher Comments Jones' book examines the associations of ancient Athens under the classical democracy (508/7-321 B.C.) in light of their relations to the central government. Associations of all types--village communities, cultic groups, brotherhoods, sacerdotal families,... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World by Pierre Vidal-Naquet Publisher Comments The text organizes the discussions around four principle themes: space and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves and artisans; and the city of vision and reality. It focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.95 (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 $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) by Paul Cartledge Publisher Comments Sumptuously illustrated in color and packed with information, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the first time in paperback. Offering fresh interpretations of classical Greek culture, the book devotes as much... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Man and Nature in the Renaissance (Cambridge History of Science) by Allen Debus Publisher Comments Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $6.95 (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 $24.95 Your price $4.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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