Category: World History

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 totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history.
"Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows."...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

By: David McCullough

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1978

Seller ID: 38507

ISBN: 0671244094

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise.

The Path Between the Seas t...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By: Diamond

Price: $8.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 0001

Seller ID: 20636

ISBN: 0393317552

Condition: Used - Very Good

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 War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

By: Ferguson, Niall

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 2007

Seller ID: 333859

ISBN: 0143112392

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower

Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansin...
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Annals of Imperial Rome

By: GRANT

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Hippocrene Books: June 1985

Seller ID: 332084

ISBN: 0880290242

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

By: Harrington, Joel F.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: March 2013

Seller ID: 319225

ISBN: 0809049929

Condition: Used - Very Good

Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's "The Faithful Executioner" takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many hundreds more. But the picture that emerges of Schmidt from his personal papers is not that of a monster. Could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate even progressive?
I...
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Hobsbawm, Eric

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Vintage: November 1996

Seller ID: 321560

ISBN: 0679772545

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.
Although it pulses with great events--failed revolutions, catastrophic wars, and a global depression--The Age of Capital is most outstanding for its analyis of the trends that created the new order. With the sweep and sophistication that have made him one of our greatest historians, Hobsbawm inden...
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

By: John Mack Faragher

Price: $8.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2005

Seller ID: 326436

ISBN: 0393051358

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native M kmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the Bri...
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Plagues and Peoples

By: McNeill, William H.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Anchor: January 1976

Seller ID: 342486

ISBN: 0385121229

Condition: Used - Very Good

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNei...
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The Handy History Answer Book

By: Rebecca Nelson (editor)

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Visible Ink Press: January 1999

Seller ID: 136548

ISBN: 157859068X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Penguin History of Europe

By: Roberts, J. M.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: December 1998

Seller ID: 336246

ISBN: 0140265619

Condition: Used - Very Good

Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, The Penguin History of Europe traces the development of European identity in its many guises, through the age of Christendom, the Middle Ages, early Modern history and the old European order.
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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

By: Thomas, Evan

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: April 2010

Seller ID: 331129

ISBN: 031600409X

Condition: Used - Very Good

On February 15^th, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm.
A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across the seas. Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge were influential politicians dismayed by the "closing" of the Western frontier. William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal falsely heralded that Spain's "secret infernal machine" had destroyed the battleship as Hearst himself sa...
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Category: World History