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The Crusades
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 16.99The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge?a renowned historian who writes with ?maximum vividness? (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker )?covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods... more...
The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00A fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs ? such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism ? illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people. more...
Universities, Academics and the Great Schism
Cambridge University Press 1979; US$ 44.00This book examines the response of the universities to the papal succession crisis of 1378. more...
Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c.16401649
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 46.00An investigation into the 'Constitutional royalists' and their role in the English Revolution. more...
Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 16601685
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 49.00A balanced portrait of the dark byways of Restoration politics. more...
Catholic and Reformed
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 76.00Challenging account of religious controversy between Catholic and Protestant before the Civil War. more...
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 50.00An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. more...
The Swerve
Random House 2011; US$ 14.67WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed... more...
Undigested Past
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 20.00This is a most honest, balanced and tactful attempt to promote self-reflection and self-understanding in two nations involved in a brutal genocide. If you are a Lithuanian or a Jew, after reading this book you have no other choice but to redefine your personal identity in order to answer the questions: What does it mean to be a Lithuanian? What... more...
Frontsoldaten
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 19.00" Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers?.I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz... more...









