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  • Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mark Of The Scots - Cl

    Here is the first-ever celebration of all things—and all people—of Scottish descent.While relatively few in number, the Scots have certainly made their mark on the world:· More the seventy-five percent of all American presidents have had Scottish ancestors, although fewer than five percent of the American population is of Scottish descent.· Almost eleven percent of all the Nobel Prizes ever ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

    The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lineages of the Absolutist State

    Series series Verso World History Series
    The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism. It is divided into two parts. The first discusses the overall structures of Absolutism as a state ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Wars of German Unification

    Series series Modern Wars
    The Wars of German Unification is the definitive account of the three of the most decisive conflicts in the history of modern Europe. In this new edition, Dennis Showalter offers a thoroughly updated look at the wars and their context that will be invaluable for those interested in the military, social and political history of the period.Showalter explores how the Schleswig-Holstein conflict of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Heart of Europe

    A History of the Holy Roman Empire

    An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year“Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.”—Tom Holland, The Telegraph“Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history…Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.”—Wall Street JournalMassive, ancient, and powerful, the Holy Roman E... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Thirty Years War

    Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Byzantium

    Edited by Cyril Mango ...
    The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Code Name Caesar

    The Secret Hunt for U-Boat 864 During World War II

    In the waning days of World War II, a little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway . . . and changed the course of the war.In February of 1944, Germany and Japan devised a desperate plan to escape defeat. The Germans would send Japan a submarine—boat U-864—packed with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology. Japan could then reestablish air ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Holocaust in Hungary

    Evolution of a Genocide

    Series series Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
    The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form the largest group of victims who perished in that camp. The complex interplay between German and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • War and Peace

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sexuality in Europe

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Dagmar Herzog ...
    Series Book 45 - New Approaches to European History
    This original book brings a fascinating and accessible account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Grand Spas of Central Europe

    A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing

    The Grand Spas of Central Europe leads readers on an irresistible tour through the grand spa towns of Central Europe—fabled places like Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Gastein, Karlsbad, and Marienbad. Noted historian David Clay Large follows the grand spa story from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present, focusing especially on the years between the French Revolution and World War II, a period in which ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Caucasus

    A History

    by James Forsyth ...
    A fascinating new survey of the Caucasus which provides a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region at the borderlands of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, from prehistory to the present. For thousands of years the Caucasus has formed a hub of intersecting routes of migration, invasion, trade and culture and a geographical bridge between Europe and Asia, subject to recurring ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Conquest Of Okinawa: An Account Of The Sixth Marine Division

    Contains numerous maps.One of a series of monographs prepared by the Historical Division that deals with the activities of Marine Corps units in World War II, this monograph is the work of Captain Carleton. While on Okinawa he lived with the men of the Sixth Marine Division, watched them fight and listened to their accounts of the action. He was with the Twenty Ninth Marines on Motobu Peninsula, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of the Veil

    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The History Of The Knights Templar

    The History of the Knights Templarby Charles G. Addison"This is a mainstream history of the Knights Templars, written in the 19th century. Addison details the rise of the Templars to become, essentially, the first multinational corporation. The Templars were entrusted by the Church and States of Europe to be the spearhead of the crusades. In the process they gained immense wealth and influence, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all.Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pocket Battleship: The Story Of The Admiral Scheer

    The exciting account of the famous German battle cruiser which sank 152,000 tons of Allied shipping.A LUCKY SHIPThe Germans called her their “lucky ship”—the heavily gunned, heavily armoured Admiral Scheer, sister ship of the ill-fated Graf Spee and the Deutschland. With and operational range of 19,000 miles, she quickly became a nightmare to the British Admiralty.This is the dramatic story of one ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The French Revolution: A History in Documents

    Edited by Dr Micah Alpaugh ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Sourcebooks
    The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis to create a moment of new political possibilities unlike any the world had previously seen. In so ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Congress of Vienna

    by Brian E. Vick ...
    Historians have dismissed the pageantry of the Vienna Congress as window dressing when compared with the serious maneuverings of sovereigns and statesmen. By seeing these two dimensions as interconnected, Brian Vick reveals how one of the most important diplomatic summits in history managed to redraw the map of Europe and the international system. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Now Hear This!

    Ships of the U.S. Navy in World War II

    Now Hear This!, first published in 1947, is an account of the combat actions of representative ships of the U.S. Navy during World War II in all theaters of the War. Included are accounts of historic battleships such as the Missouri and Iowa, aircraft carriers such as the Hornet and Saratoga, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, as well as the exploits of lesser known, but vital to the war effort ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Dark Queens

    The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

    by Shelley Puhak ...
    National Bestseller“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden FiguresThe remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Origin and Goal of History

    by Karl Jaspers ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. He was Hannah Arendt’s supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD