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Anglo-Norman Warfare: Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Military Organization and Warfare

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: BOYE6: November 2000

Seller ID: 355052

ISBN: 0851153283

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The influence of war on late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman society was dominant and all-pervasive. Here in this book, gathered together for the first time, are fundamental articles on warfare in England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries, combining the work of some of the foremost scholars in the field. Redressing the tendency to study military institutions and obligations in isolation from the practice of war, equal emphasis is given both to organisation and composition of forces, and to strategy, tactics and conduct of war. The result is not only an in-depth analysis of the nature of...
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World History (Minipedias)

By: Black, Jeremy (editor)

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Parragon Inc: March 2005

Seller ID: 336113

ISBN: 1405447664

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Castle Explorer's Guide

By: Bottomley, Frank

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing: November 1983

Seller ID: 354678

ISBN: 0517421720

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Saxon and Norman Kings

By: Brooke, Christopher

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books: May 1996

Seller ID: 355053

ISBN: 0760700001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

By: Charles Van Doren

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books: March 1992

Seller ID: 15271

ISBN: 0345373162

Condition: Used - Very Good

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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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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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?
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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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A History of Warfare

By: Keegan, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: October 1993

Seller ID: 354558

ISBN: 0394588010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written."--The New York Times Book Review.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 105050

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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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