Verso, April 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human.....
Vintage, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and.....
Oxford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 165 pages. Selections from the author's six-volume set, A Study of History, with a focus on the dangers of militarism. Selected by Albert Vann Fowler. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Harper Perennial, 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us." -- Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Great Plague is.....
Univ Of Minnesota Press, October 2015. Trade Paperback. What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a......
Selmar Hess, 1894. Hardcover. Complete set. Each volume about 200 pages. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. Short, illustrated essays about famous people of history. Black-and-white plates with printed tissue guard protectors. Brown cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine and covers, with gilt page edges. Volumes I - II with.....
J. Ricker'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1901. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 106 pages. Text in German. First edition (first printing). Very good in tan printed wrappers (paperback).
J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green cloth with black lettering. Mild edge wear. Pencil notes in margins. No dust jacket.
Vintage, October 1967. Trade Paperback. Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected for scrutiny. Millions have crossed the Rubicon, but the historians tell.....
Skyhorse, January 2013. Hardcover. The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to history's most notorious absolutist rulers and authoritarian regimes. In a handsome hardcover format, this handy encyclopedia of totalitarians is as informative as it is titillating, a lurid panorama of history's most.....
Vintage, January 1989. Trade Paperback. About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.
HarperCollins, June 2000. Hardcover. A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat. -- William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions.....
William Morrow, November 1997. Hardcover. What a terrible disappointment the twentieth century has been, was Winston Churchills comment in 1922. One world war was over, more than 6 million soldiers had been killed, and four vast empires had been destroyed. A second mass slaughterin which more than 46 million would.....
Vintage, January 1985. Trade Paperback. An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way.....
Da Capo Press, January 1971. Hardcover.
Macmillan Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. xxxiii, 788 pages. The complete text (also issued in two separate volumes). First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
(n.p.), (n.d., but 1912). First Edition. Hardcover. 85 pages. A case for the reevaluation of the Borgias, issued (based on the introduction) for Christmas 1912. The author is noted as C. G. K. only. A bit of research shows that someone signing himself (or less likely, herself) C. G. K......