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).
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Hardcover. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century.....
Library, Simon Fraser University, 1978. First Edition. Unknown. 35 pages. 2 maps. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated yellow 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.
William Morrow Paperbacks, June 2009. Trade Paperback. The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the.....
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.....
Harper Perennial, May 2006. Trade Paperback. In the sixteenth century, one of the world's most precious commodities was cochineal, a legendary red dye treasured by the ancient Mexicans and sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors. Shipped to Europe, the dye created.....
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.
Bloomsbury Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 574 pages. First published in the United Kindom by Penguin Books Ltd. in 2007. First American edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A Rise and Fall of the Great Powers for the post-Cold War era--a brilliantly written, sweeping new.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2001. Hardcover. For decades William L. Langer's best-selling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY was the indispensable, authoritative guide to all of human history. Now, under the direction of a distinguished new editor, comes an updated and dramatically improved version for a new generation, the only encyclopedia of.....
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.....
DK, September 2018. Hardcover. Discover the stories behind more than 90 of the world's most significant battles in this lavishly illustrated history book. The most important battles ever to take place are brought to life in the most spectacular way. From the brutal battle of Gettysburg to the epic air-sea.....
Vintage Books, March 2003. Trade Paperback. By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe's old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would.....
Penguin Books, May 2001. Trade Paperback. From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class.....
Penguin Books, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking.... Kershaw documents each and every 'ism' of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism.--The New York Times Book Review.....
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.....
William Morrow, November 1999. Hardcover.
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.....
Vintage, November 1996. Trade Paperback. One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of.....
Oxford University Press, USA, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Of all the centuries in recorded history, none has seen more change, none has ended more differently than it began, than the twentieth. In 1900, Queen Victoria still ruled over England, the Imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over.....
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, March 2005. Trade Paperback. John Lukacs was among the most accomplished historians of his generation. In more than thirty books and hundreds of essays, he shed new light on the political, ideological, intellectual, and military struggles of the twentieth century--and on the very nature of history itself.....
Metro, January 2012. Hardcover.
Atria, May 2006. Hardcover. Hodding Carter writes, "The unsung hero of human history was, of course, the Brain of Drains, the Hub of Tubs, the Power of Showers, the Brewer of Sewers...the humble plumber.... The Irish may have saved civilization, once, but plumbers have done so countless times." When we.....
Da Capo Press, January 1971. Hardcover.