Viking Adult, June 1999. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the world's most distinguished medievalist comes a lively and vivid account of the lords and ladies, saints and scholars, kings and peasants who shaped the history and culture of one of the richest and.....
Anchor, August 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012 Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer In the much-anticipated follow-up.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The classic account of one of the most tragic battles in modern history. "The story is told superbly. Because Mr. Moorehead knows what a battlefield looks, smells, and sounds like, the reader gets the 'feel' of the.....
Ballantine Books, February 2000. Hardcover. An examination of the origins of the modern world looks to a world-wide climatic event that blocked out much of the sunlight for eighteen months, wreaking havoc on civilization.
E. J. Brill, 1962. Trade Paperback. 99 pages. Text in German. On the sociology of the Byzantine monasticism. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Light stains on the cover.
Verlag von Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 164 pp. of text in German and English (Introduction and Plates and Descriptions). 154 full-page plates, 113 monochrome and 41 in color. Band II of Historische Waffen und Kostume. First edition (first printing). Near fine in full moroccan leather.....
Univ of Wisconsin Pr, February 1985. Trade Paperback.
Harvard University Press, January 1971. Hardcover.
Cambridge University Press, July 1983. Trade Paperback. The major emphasis of Volume 1 is on the movements for national sovereignty, the revolutionary activity associated with them, and the place of these events in the international relations of the day for the major nationalities of the Balkan region. Volume 2 deals.....
Cambridge University Press, August 1983. Trade Paperback. This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment.....
Thames & Hudson, May 1984. Trade Paperback. Discusses the rules and local variants of a wide range of folk games played b children in Great Britain.
Routledge, December 1998. Hardcover. 'From about 13,000 BC it began to get warmer in Europe..' begins this all-encompassing survey of European cultural history. This book is a major and original contribution to the idea of Europe and its formation, from its Celtic and German origins, the influence of the Greeks.....
Oxford University Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. This book is a survey and analysis of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century. During this period western Christianity underwent the most dramatic changes in its entire history. From Iceland to Transylvania, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees, the Reformation divided churches and.....
Broadway Books, January 2014. Trade Paperback. A shimmering literary examination of the ghost of communism, a haunting presence of Europe's past Oskar has just killed himself. After waiting a quarter century, he returned to Prague only to find it was no longer his home. With his memorial service, Yale historian.....
Back Bay Books, June 1993. Trade Paperback. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2008. Trade Paperback. In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, Christianity and Islam. In each town he raises the.....
B. H. Blackwell, 1911. Hardcover. 78 pages. 5-1/4 by 7-7/8 inches. A very good hardcover copy.
Picador, September 2008. Trade Paperback. An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties -- set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of.....
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, October 1989. Hardcover.
Hurst and Blackett, 1880. Hardcover. Two volumes. Conversations on Continental politics. First edition (first printing). Two volumes, nicely rebound in stury cloth; minor library markings inside.