Relics affected everyone in medieval society. In this book, the author illustrates that the pervasiveness and variety of…

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The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland…

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This study of Edward I, first published in 1988, is an account of one of the leading monarchs of the Middle Ages. Examining…

A study of the life and reign of Henry VII. S.B. Chrimes explores the circumstances surrounding Henry's acquisition of the…

This biography provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Henry II, the man and king. W.L. Warren explores a whole range of…

The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern…

Focusing on what the author considers to be the flamboyant personality of Henry VIII, this text explores a king whose impact…

This title paints a portrait of Henry I, son of William the Conqueror. The author vividly describes Henry's life and reign…

William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror. This biography recounts his brief…

\nAn illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor…

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia have fled the projects of the organized state societies…

A groundbreaking history of abolition in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil…

A survey of the Spanish Inquisition, that sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and…

This paperback edition does not contain the appendixes included in the hardcover edition. All appendixes can be found at…

\nA groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and…

The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite…

\nAn experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge\n…

\nA definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple\n…

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A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the…

This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety…

\nHow herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science\n…

\nA highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional…

\nThe first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered…

Presents the global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times. This book examines outbreaks of mass violence…

Celebrating 250 years of male self-expression, investigating the portraiture and wardrobe of the fashionable British man…

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution -…

Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation,…

\nA thoroughly researched assessment of how China\'s economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of…

\nEmotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWII\n…

\nHow a strategist\'s ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain\'s success in the Second World War and…

\nThe first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind\n…

\nA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany-from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual…

\nThe first integrative history of Nazi mass killing-showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime\'s…

\nThe story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union\n…

\nHow the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship,…

A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden…

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