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  • The Century of Revolution

    1603–1714

    Series series Routledge Classics
    There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution. Stimulating, vivid and provocative, his graphic depiction of the turbulent era examines ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • LES ORIGINES DE LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE

    TOME 2 LA REVOLUTION - LA CONQUETE JACOBINE

    Series Book 3 - LES ORIGINES DE LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE
    Les Origines de la France contemporaine est l'œuvre majeure d'Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosophe et historien français.Profondément ébranlé par la défaite de 1870 ainsi que par l'insurrection et la violente répression de la Commune de Paris, Taine s'est, à partir de 1870, pleinement consacré à son œuvre majeure, Les origines de la France contemporaine et la continua jusqu'à son décès. Il ... Read more

    $2.88 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Diaries of Sarah Hurst 1759-1762

    Life and Love in Eighteenth Century Horsham

    by Sarah Hurst ...
    The Diaries of Sarah Hurst records the day to day life of a young woman who lived in Horsham, Sussex between 1759 and 1762. Consequently, this book can claim to be one of the most important sources of information on life in the 18th century. The Diaries of Sarah Hurst not only create a vivid portrayal of the local town's people they also provide a fascinating insight into the social history of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Speculators in Empire

    Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix

    Series Book 7 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The Iroquois, however, were far from naïve—and the outcome was not an instance of their simply being dispossessed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

    by Sarah Fraser ...
    Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years’ War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous.NOW THE SUBJECT OF BBC2 DOCUMENTARY The Best King We Never HadHenry Stuart, Prince of Wales was once the hope of Britain. Eldest son ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • In de schaduw van de keizerin

    Het leven van Maria Theresia van Oostenrijk en drie van haar dochters

    In ‘In de schaduw van de keizerin’ beschrijft Nancy Goldstone het leven van Maria Theresia van Oostenrijk en drie van haar dochters. Samen vertellen zij het verhaal van Europa in de achttiende eeuw.‘In de schaduw van de keizerin’ van Nancy Goldstone beschrijft het levensverhaal van Maria Theresia van Oostenrijk (1717-1780) en drie van haar dochters. Deze vier uitzonderlijke vrouwen veranderden de ... Read more

    $16.63 USD

  • Independence Lost

    Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

    **A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial societyWinner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award • Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey History Prize • Finalist for the George Washington Book Prize**Over the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Republic of Arabic Letters

    Islam and the European Enlightenment

    Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeA Longman–History Today Book Prize FinalistA Sheik Zayed Book Award FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year“Deeply thoughtful…A delight.”—The Economist“[A] tour de force…Bevilacqua’s extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story…He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity.”—. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Tacky’s Revolt

    The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

    by Vincent Brown ...
    Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Elsa Goveia Book PrizeWinner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book PrizeWinner of the Harriet Tubman PrizeWinner of the Phillis Wheatley Book AwardFinalist for the Cundill Prize“Brilliant…groundbreaking…Brown’s profound analysis and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Rum

    A Distilled History of Colonial Australia

    by Matt Murphy ...
    Australia and its formation - through the distorted view of a rum bottle.Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn't hungover?Would the Eureka Stockade have been different if the rebels weren't pissed?How were prisoners to get drunk if Macquarie closed the only pub in the gaol?And why should sailors under fourteen be deprived of their sixteen shots of rum per day?These are ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Secret Cures of Slaves

    People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

    In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in the Atlantic World, exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge between Europe ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Sun King

    by Nancy Mitford ...
    A “devastatingly witty” biography of Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles—at once a historical record of late 17th- and early 18th-century France and a gossip-filled narrative of lovers and rivals, artists and warriors (The New York Times)The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. With characteristic élan, Nancy Mitford ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 康熙:重構一位中國皇帝的內心世界【史景遷蒙太奇筆法巔峰之作】

    The Emperor of China: Self Portrait of K’ang-his

    Translated by 溫洽溢 ...
    Series series 歷史與現場
    康熙來了恪守史料,布局奇絕,敘事精妙,文筆流暢史景遷獨特歷史書寫風格濫觴之作蒙太奇筆法大膽重建康熙內心世界**◆ 「**三藩之亂」的動盪如何對康熙的治理思想起到重大影響?◆ 求知不輟的康熙****如何適應漢人政治環境,並吸收西方科學與宗教思想?◆ 康熙如何意識到肉體的孱弱,進而追求飲食、醫學和追憶?◆ 「九子奪嫡」的連番爭鬥如何讓康熙晚年身心俱疲、深陷絕望?◆ 康熙的「臨終諭旨」如何體現出他的真摯情感和晚年速寫?《康熙》分別從六個不... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800

    A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes

    by Eric Cochrane ...
    The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impression that Florentine culture suddenly died with the generation of Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Andrea del Sarto.Eric Cochrane shows that the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • George I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Lucky King

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of good fortune to become, first the ruler of a major state in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and then the sovereign of three kingdoms (England, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Club

    Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

    by Leo Damrosch ...
    The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Best Book of 2019“Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities—the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie—to vivid life ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The History of Canada Series: Death or Victory

    The Battle For Quebec And The Birth Of An Empire

    by Dan Snow ...
    Series series History of Canada
    Perched atop a tall promontory and surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St. Lawrence River, Quebec City forms an almost impregnable natural fortress. But in 1759, with the Seven Years War raging around the globe, the capital city of New France came under attack. With the irascible British general James Wolfe in command, a force of more than 100 ships carrying nearly 9,000 men navigated the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Man in the Iron Mask

    The True Story of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner

    A vivid, dramatic, and eye-opening historical narrative, The Man in the Iron Mask reveals the story behind the most enduring mystery of Louis XIV’s reign.The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic jailor, dark and sinister dungeons— and a secret prisoner. It is easy for forget that this ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • W.

    Un uomo solo, un randagio a cui tutti voltano le spalle, si arruola per fuggire alla propria miseria e finisce sul campo di uno dei tanti, atroci conflitti della prima metà del Diciannovesimo secolo. Woyzeck va in guerra, in più guerre, e combatte per tanti eserciti, assistendo a come l’ordine naturale del mondo viene sconvolto: l’esperienza della crudeltà e della violenza è frastornante, e manda ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Sciences, techniques, pouvoirs et sociétés du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle

    Concours d'enseignement CAPES Agrégation 2016

    by Robert Calvet ...
    L'époque moderne a vu naître la pensée scientifique moderne, d'abord dans le champ des mathématiques et de l'astronomie. En même temps, la diffusion des techniques nées du développement des sciences mais aussi basées sur un savoir-faire perfectionné au cours des siècles connaît aussi une embellie, Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur traque les racines de cette révolution de la pensée et des techniques, ... Read more

    $5.54 USD

  • The Brother Gardeners

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    A fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the botanical world—from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature.**“Wulf’s flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio, and a charmingly airy style.... A delightful book—and you don’t need to be a gardener to enjoy it.” —**The New York Times Book ReviewBringing to life the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • White Devil

    A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America

    "A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery."--Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England--both in alliance with Native American tribes--fought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. No confrontation was more brutal and notorious than the massacre of the British garrison of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mémoires et souvenirs sur la Révolution et l'Empire

    Le Tribunal révolutionnaire (1793-1795)

    Extrait : "Je n'ai pas entreprise ce livre pour redire, dans son détail quotidien, la néfaste histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire. J'ai tenté de reconstituer l'aspect et la vie du Palais durant les mauvais jours de la Révolution, de silhouetter le petit groupe de déclassés qui, à cette époque, s'emparèrent, en intrus, de l'antique demeure du Parlement et assumèrent la tâche stigmatisante d ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving Washington's Army

    The Brilliant Last Stand of General John Glover at the Battle of Pell's Point, New York, October 18, 1776

    Learn the little-known history of the forgotten American Revolution Battle of Pell's Point and the heroism of John Glover.General William Howe and the mighty British-Hessian Army possessed the golden opportunity to cut-off, trap, and then destroy General George Washington’s Army before he could retreat north and escape from Harlem Heights, New York, when he landed his army at Pell’s Point north of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD