The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Random House, 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies (Volume Four)
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1958. Hardcover. A very good copy with no dust jacket.
Collected What If
Putnam, June 2006. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World -- and Globalization Began
Scribner, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great societies for the first time at the end.....
Remembered Past: John Lukacs On History Historians & Historical Knowledg
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, March 2005. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Among the most accomplished historians of his generation, John Lukacs has written more than twenty books and hundreds of essays and reviews. His scholarship encompasses the history of the modern age, focusing especially on.....
History of the World in 6 Glasses
Walker Publishing Company, May 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. New York Times Bestseller * Soon to be a TV series starring Dan Aykroyd "There aren't many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern history." -Los Angeles Times Beer, wine, spirits.....
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting and the Discovery of the New World
Basic Books, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Penguin Books, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. -- Sold almost 100,000 copies in hardcover -- Sparked worldwide controversy both inside and outside the Catholic Church -- Spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and appeared on the Newsday, Boston Globe, New York Post, San.....
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Random House, January 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. "[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places" (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities--an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of.....
War and Civilization
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.
Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America
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......
Great Men and Famous Women: A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History (8 volume set)
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.....
Die Flugschrift 'onus ecclesiae' (1519) mit einem Anhang uber sozial- und kirchenpolitische Prophetien. Ein Beitrag zur Sitten- und Kulturgeschichte des ausgehenden Mittelalters
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).
The Desktop Digest of Despots and Dictators: An A to Z of Tyranny
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.....
History of Popular Culture
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.
Judgments Reversed. Case I. Borgia
(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......
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