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  • "Evil People"

    A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier

    Translated by Laura Stokes ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions—Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier—he provides a nuanced explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • "I Am Not Master of Events": The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles

    Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time took place at the same time and were instigated by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances; and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and Thomas Pitt, Jr., Lord Londonderry, his main partner in England. This book tells the story of these two financial schemes ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • "Men who are Determined to be Free"

    The American Assault on Stony Point, 15 July 1779

    by David C. Bonk ...
    Series series From Reason to Revolution
    During 1779, armies under the command of American General George Washington and British General Sir William Clinton were locked in a strategic stalemate. The entry of the French into the war as American allies had shifted the strategic initiative and caused the British government to order Clinton to dispatch significant forces to the West Indies and southern colonies. The reduction in his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 14 Fun Facts About Pirates

    Series series 15-Minute Books
    Pirates are thieves who roam the seas. They prey on ships to steal their cargoes and valuables.Pirates have been around ever since the invention of boats! There is even an old tale that Caesar Augustus was captured by pirates and held for ransom. This happened before he became Emperor of Rome.However, when we think of pirates, we often think of those dashing adventurers that roamed the seas ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

    Series Book 25 - 1650-1850
    Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 27)

    Series Book 27 - 1650-1850
    Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26)

    Series Book 26 - 1650-1850
    Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 24)

    Edited by Kevin L. Cope ...
    Series Book 24 - 1650-1850
    With issue twenty-four of 1650–1850, this annual enters its second quarter-century with a new publisher, a new look, a new editorial board, and a new commitment to intellectual and artistic exploration. As the diversely inventive essays in this first issue from the Bucknell University Press demonstrate, the energy and open-mindedness that made 1650–1850 a success continue to intensify. This first ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)

    Series Book 28 - 1650-1850
    Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • 1774

    The Long Year of Revolution

    From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1789

    The Threshold of the Modern Age

    by David Andress ...
    The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nations—France; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britain—lay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted by its support for the American Revolution, wrestled to seize the prize of citizenship from the ruins of the old order. Disaster loomed for the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 1789 : silence aux pauvres !

    Histoire de France

    Retour sur un épisode clé de l'histoire de France sous un éclairage inéditL’histoire sérieuse n’a pas encore mis en lumière la place qu’a tenue, dans la Révolution française, et dès le début, la crainte, chez les possédants, d’une menace sur leurs biens. Ce qu’il faut savoir, et capitalement, c’est que, dès la réunion des états généraux, une grande peur s’est déclarée chez les honnêtes gens (les ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1789-1792/1792-1794 : Les deux Révolutions françaises

    Histoire de France

    Les transcriptions des conférences données par Henri Guillemin en 1967 réunies dans un seul ouvrageOn avait bien compris, à la lecture de son Silence aux pauvres, qu’Henri Guillemin ne se contentait pas, quant à la Révolution française de 1789, des versions officielles et convenues. La suite de conférences, données à la Radiotélévision belge en 1967, réunies ici par les soins de Patrick Rödel et ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1796 La campagna d'Italia di Napoleone

    Translated by Marco Veruggio ...
    Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) è noto per il suo capolavoro di teoria militare "Della guerra", che è però solo una frazione dei suoi studi pubblicati. I rimanenti, dedicati alle guerre europee tra 1789 e 1815, sono i testi attraverso i quali Clausewitz andò costituendo la sua struttura teorica e affinando un inconfondibile stile dialettico. Tra essi, il più importante è con buona probabilità ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 1799 Napoli. La rivoluzione

    Series Book 16 - POLLINE
    Un racconto, quello di Valentino Sani, nel quale la passione ed il rigore della ricerca trovano respiro in una scrittura agile e discorsiva; un viaggio avvincente nel labirinto rivoluzionario napoletano con le sue storie, le vicende umane e politiche. Completano il volume una ricca Appendice con un Dizionario biografico dei principali personaggi, la Cronologia della Repubblica Napoletana, l’Elenco ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 18 Brumaire an VIII

    Le coup d'Etat de Napoléon Bonaparte

    Le 18 Brumaire an VIII (9 novembre 1799) dont on commémore en cette fin de siècle le 200e anniversaire, constitue l'un des événements les plus considérables de l'histoire de France. Il a non seulement permis à Napoléon Bonaparte de modifier la carte et la politique de l'Europe, mais il a eu une influence dans le monde entier.Pour certains, ce coup d'État marque la fin de la période révolutionnaire ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1811 Essentia

    This book deals with an ordinary man from the 21st century (Michael), through a fault in the Essentia’s admin database, being time exchanged with the soul of a dead naval lieutenant from another century and there is no going back.In our century, Michael is a sarcastic and cheeky individual, but now, every time he opens his mouth he risks being thought a lunatic and confined to bedlam. This new ... Read more

    $4.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

    by Adam Zamoyski ...
    Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia – history’s first example of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • 1870/71

    Die Geschichte des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges erzählt in Einzelschicksalen

    by Tobias Arand ...
    Im Juli 1870 ziehen Hunderttausende in einen Krieg, der die Landkarte Europas verändern wird. Manche von ihnen erwarten ein Abenteuer, andere haben Sorge um ihr Leben oder die Zukunft ihrer Familie, doch die meisten Männer auf beiden Seiten tun einfach nur das, was sie für ihre Pflicht halten. Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg von 1870 bis 1871 rundet als letzter der drei sogenannten "Einigungskriege ... Read more

    $24.99 USD $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    ?????? ?????????? ????????? (1711 - 1765) ???????? ????? ?? ?????????? ??????? ?????? 18-?? ????. ????? ????????? ??????????? ? ???????????? ?. ???????? ??? ?????? ????????? ??????, ? ????? ? ?????????? ?????? ????????? ? ??????? ????????? ??????? ???????? ???????, ?? ???????? ? ???? ?? ?????? ?????????? ???????? ? ??????? ?????, ????????, ??????????? ? ??????, ? ??? ?? ??????? ??????? ? ????????? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Bad Peace and a Good War

    Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799

    by Mark Santiago ...
    This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the Mescalero Apache attacks on the Spanish beginning in 1795 a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution

    by Craig Symonds ...
    A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution, a second collaboration between Dr. Craig L. Symonds and cartographer William J. Clipson, authors of A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War, is a fresh visual and narrative overview of the principal military engagements of the American war for independence.Symonds narrates each battle in a clear, concise, and readable way. Accompanying two-color, full ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Bold and Dangerous Family

    The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism

    Series Book 3 - The Resistance Quartet
    The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars—a profile in courage that remains relevant today.Members of the cosmopolitan, cultural aristocracy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire

    At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general readers a concise ... Read more

    $23.99 USD