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Legends & Lies of World History by Richard Shenkman Publisher Comments Some Things You Should Know Before Reading This Book We Americans, I have discovered, do not just get our own history wrong. We get everybody else's wrong as well. Think Nero fiddled while Rome burned? Think Catherine the Great was Russian? Think King... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History in Crisis 2ND Edition Recent Directions by Norman J Wilson Publisher Comments This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current trends, including postcolonialism, postmodernism, and deconstruction, among others. The volume examines key topics such as what was history and what is history?... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries by Jan Bondeson Publisher Comments JAN BONDESON M.D., focuses his medical expertise and insightful wit on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years. Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette really die in the Temple Tower, or did the Lost Dauphin... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism by Sheldon Watts Synopsis This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity -- plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria -- over the last six centuries. It will become the standard account of the way diseases... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All by Peter Linebaugh Publisher Comments This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny--and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture--are being abridged... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list California World History Library #5: Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World by Emma Christopher Publisher Comments "Extends the concept of the Middle Passage to encompass the expropriation of people across other maritime and inland routes. No previous book has highlighted the diversity and centrality of middle passages, voluntary and involuntary, to modern global... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kings or People: Power & the Mandate to Rule by Reinhard Bendix Publisher Comments "It is difficult to decide which is the more impressive: the authority and control with which Mr. Bendix writes of the traditions, the institutions, and the technological and social developments of cultures as diverse as the British, French, German... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $3.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan Publisher Comments With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as "a superb writer who can bring history to life" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today &... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The 100 Greatest Heros by H Paul Jeffers Publisher Comments Acclaimed journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers has spent the last thirty years writing about the lives of some of America's most fascinating and powerful figures, from Theodore Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland to Diamond Jim Brady. In The 100 Greatest... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Renaissance by Walter Pater Publisher Comments Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) 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 Greek Way by Edith Hamilton Synopsis The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. Edith Hamilton is also the author of "The Roman Way".... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments "Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure." In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery by Wolfga Schivelbusch Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-391) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Roman Britain: Outpost of the Empire by H H Schullard Synopsis Combining classical scholarship with recent archeological discoveries, Scullard recreates what life was like in Roman Britain, detailing merchants' activities, the mixing of pagan and Christian religions, and the emergence of the city.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages by Sean Martin Publisher Comments Without lifting a sword, the Cathars posed a threat to Catholicism greater than the Muslims or Jews—or so the Church believed. The Cathars believed that matter was essentially evil—especially the human body—and that the material world... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Money: A History by Jonathan Williams Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-252) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Iron Curtain: From the Stage to Cold War by Patrick Wright Publisher Comments "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." With these words, in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill famously warned the world of the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Urban Europe, 1100-1700 by David Nicholas Publisher Comments Reflecting the vigor of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook from an established scholar in urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasizing the links between the late medieval and early modern... (read more) Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Thicker Than Water: The Origins of Blood as Ritual and Symbol by Melissa Meyer Publisher Comments Blood is more than a fluid solution of cells, platelets and plasma. It is a symbol for the most basic of human concerns--life, death and family find expression in rituals surrounding everything from menstruation to human sacrifice. Comprehensive in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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