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Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century
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The book titled Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century by the author Professor of History David Underdown (Yale University). This is a secondhand book....
Creating French Culture
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Author: Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press., 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Slight stains to page edges, previous owner details to FEP.The history of...
Yankee City Series: The Social Life Of A Modern Community; The Status System Of A Modern Community; The Social Systems Of American Ethnic Groups; The Social System Of The Modern Factory
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew sociological projects in American history have proven as ambitious or as enduring as the...
Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades
Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn...
Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.Author: David Downing Format: Hardback Number...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not...
The Fearful Fifties: A History Of The Decade
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Author: David LowBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsLow's The Fearful Fifties: A History Of The Decade chronicles a pivotal era, meticulously...
A Diplomat Looks Back
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Author: Lewis EinsteinBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLewis Einstein (1877-1967) entered the diplomatic service in 1903; serving for 25 years he was...
James "Athenian" Stuart 1713-1788: The Rediscovery Of Antiquity
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Author: Susan Weber SorosBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: HEAVYJames Athenian Stuart: The Rediscovery Of Antiquity by Susan Weber Soros chronicles the...
Survey Of London. South-East Marylebone (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: Philip Temple; Colin Thom Binding: HardbackPublished: Yale , 2017Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative work of architectural history presents South-East Marylebone through a meticulous survey of its...
English Historians: Selected Passages
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Author: Bertram NewmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1957Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsEnglish Historians: Selected Passages by Bertram Newman presents a...
Ancient Traces: Mysteries in Ancient and Early History
In a series of different chapters Michael Baigent examines a number of enigmas surrounding such ancient mysteries as Atlantis and the Pyramids. He investigates such questions as whether there were...
G.M. Trevelyan
G.M.Trevelyan, as well as being a best-selling historian, was Regius Professor of History and Master of Trinity College Cambridge and Chancellor of the University of Newcastle. He was awarded the...
Modern Revolutions: An Introduction To The Analysis Of A Political Phenomenon
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Author: John DunnBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine and general wear and tear, price...
The Story of Tutankhamun: An Intimate Life of the Boy who Became King
A lively new biography of Tutankhamun-published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter...
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
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Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
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The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
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World Prehistory: An Outline
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback, worn spine. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Long before the first cities rose or the first words...
Under Fire
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of AmericaSlave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery....
James Gibbs
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Author: Terry FriedmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work chronicles the influential career of James Gibbs,...
Collected Papers Of N. Denholm-Young
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis volume presents a meticulous gathering of scholarly insights from the renowned historian N. Denholm-Young. Spanning a diverse array of...
Inscriptions In Stone: St. David's Burial Ground 1804-1872
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Author: Richard LordBinding: HardbackPublished: St. Georges Church, Hobart, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Presentation copy. Corrigenda stapled on fep.This meticulous...
The Timetables of American History: History and Politics, the Arts,
Updated to include events through the year 2000, the Millennial Edition of The Timetables of American History -- an entertaining, authoritative survey of our nation's history, presented in the popular...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory
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Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness....
The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea
Author: David N. LivingstoneFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 552 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity.Scientists, journalists, and...
How the World Made the West: 'World history at its best' Simon Sebag
'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' William Dalrymple 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we...
The Underground Sea
The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...
A Little History of Archaeology
The thrilling story of archaeological adventure, and astonishing discoveries around the globe Archaeology tells the story of our ancestors: how they lived, what they believed in and how their cultures...
Historian's Quest
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn Historian’s Quest, Gabriel Jackson offers a deeply personal and intellectually rigorous account of his two-decade journey into the heart...
Rethinking History
This introductory text is written for students faced with the question "what is history?' Polemical in tone, the book argues against a skills-based approach to history in favour of a...
The Outline Of History: Being A Plain History Of Life And Mankind (Two-Volume Set)
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Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards with minor marks and corner bumping....
Church Monuments In Romantic England
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Author: Nicholas PennyBinding: HardbackPublished: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: FEP clipped. Minor foxing,...
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History
Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. Native...
London Under
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In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
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Washington's Circle
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Natural Experiments of History
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for...