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The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

By: Bainton, Roland H.

Price: $13.73

Publisher: Beacon Press: 1985-09-30

Seller ID: E2-107f

ISBN: 0807013013

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

With a new foreword and bibliography by Jaroslav Pelikan Bainton presents the many strands that made up the Reformation in a single, brilliantly coherent account. He discusses the background for Luther's irreparable breach with the Church and its ramifications for 16th Century Europe, giving thorough accounts of the Diet of Worms, the institution of the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome, and William the Silent's struggle for Dutch independence. "Would that we had more history like this, so well-proportioned in its emphasis, and so pertinent to the understanding of histo...
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The Middle Ages

By: Bishop, Morris

Price: $12.96

Publisher: Mariner Books: 2001-02-26

Seller ID: Q6-7023f

ISBN: 061805703X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

In this single indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of res
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Chambers Dictionary of World History

By: Bruce, Lenman

Price: $7.54

Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher+chambers: 1993-04-08

Seller ID: GB18-16

ISBN: 0550150056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Still wrapped in plastic.
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Trickster Travels: In Search of Leo Africanus

By: Davis, Natalie Zemon

Price: $14.95

Publisher: HILL AND WANG: 2007-01-01

Seller ID: L6-6029f

ISBN: 057120256X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and o...
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Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva

By: Dillon, Patrick

Price: $28.45

Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.: 2002-12-30

Seller ID: B8-606w

ISBN: 1932112006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Ex-libris on front end page. Dust jacket in mylar protective cover.
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Yank: The Story of World War II as Written by the Soldiers

By: Editors of Yank [Editor]; Franklin S. Forsberg [Foreword];

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing: 1984-06-17

Seller ID: H1-3010ri

ISBN: 0517436221

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present

By: Eli Barnavi [Editor]

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Schocken: 1994-11-01

Seller ID: A2-122y

ISBN: 0805241272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

A comprehensive overview of more than four thousand years of Jewish history includes maps, artwork, chronologies, and commentary.
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The Idea of Decline in Western History

By: Herman, Arthur

Price: $88.64

Publisher: Free Press: 1997-01-08

Seller ID: N5-521f

ISBN: 0684827913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From Nazism to the Sixties counter-culture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the author traces the roots of declinism and aims to shows how major thinkers of the past and present, including Nietzsche, DuBois, Sartre and Foucault, have contr...
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People's century, 20th: From the dawn of the century to the start of the cold war (Vol 1)

By: Hodgson, Godfrey

Price: $34.95

Publisher: BBC Books: 1995-01-01

Seller ID: H5-705ri

ISBN: 0563370246

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Arthurian Period Sources Vol 9: St Patrick

By: Hood,A B E

Price: $91.80

Publisher: Phillimore & Co.:

Seller ID: A31-103w

ISBN: 0850332990

Condition: New

Arthurian Period Sources Vol 9: St Patrick
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The World of The Past, Volume 1

By: Jacquetta hawkes

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Touchstone: 1975-04-15

Seller ID: G6-210f

ISBN: 0671220330

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

The World of the Past

By: Jacquetta hawkes

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Touchstone: 1975-04-15

Seller ID: G10-512mf

ISBN: 0671220349

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Saddletramp: From Ottoman Hills to Offa's Dyke

By: James, Jeremy

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Pelham Books, Stephen Greene Press: 1989-01-01

Seller ID: N6-824w

ISBN: 0720718767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Black mark on bottom of page end

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By: Jared M. Diamond

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1999-04-01

Seller ID: A8-450f

ISBN: 0393317552

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunni...
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The Anchor Atlas of World History, Vol. 1 (From the Stone Age to the Eve of the French Revolution)

By: Kinder, Gary

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Anchor: 1975-01-01

Seller ID: V3-321ri

ISBN: 0385061781

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Small bubble in cover.

The Anchor Atlas of World History, Vol. 2 (From the French Revolution to the American Bicentennial)

By: Kinder, Hermann; Hilgemann, Werner; Ernest A. Menze

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Anchor: 1978-05-19

Seller ID: V3-320ri

ISBN: 0385133553

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

People of the Past

By: Leakey, Richard

Price: $29.43

Publisher: Fog City Press: 2003-06-01

Seller ID: C5-464

ISBN: 1877019305

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Wonders of the World

By: Leslie Allen; Stephen L. Harris; Catherine Herbert Howell; K. M. Kostyal; Rick Sammon

Price: $8.22

Publisher: National Geographic: 1999-01-01

Seller ID: A10-708ri

ISBN: 0792272005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A collection of photographs and articles first published in National Geographic magazine detailing thirty five sites all over the world which have inspired legends and amazed travellers for centuries, ranging from the Great Wall of China to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Atlas of the Year 1000

By: Man, John

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 2001-12-21

Seller ID: V1-859f

ISBN: 067400678X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

This dazzling book takes us on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity. Islam bridged Eurasia, western Europe, and North Africa. Vikings, with links to Scandinavia and Russia, had just arrived in North America. These and other peoples reached out to create links and put isolated cultures unwittingly in touch. John Man vividly captures these epochal events, and depicts the colorful peoples that defined the world's mix of stability and change, of isolation and contact. In an immensely learned portrayal...
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Treasure Seekers: The World's Great Fortunes Lost and Found

By: McIntosh, Jane

Price: $5.79

Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group: 2000-10-01

Seller ID: F2-4038f

ISBN: 1842220640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

This book recounts the fascinating stories behind the quest for the worlds lost fortunes.
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