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1434
HarperCollins 2008; US$ 12.99The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century. The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result... more...
The Prince
The Floating Press 1908; US$ 4.50Il Principe ( The Prince ) is the famous text by Florentine public servant Niccolo Machiavelli, in which he outlines the best strategy by which a prince can acquire, maintain and protect his state. Published posthumously, the text departs from his previous works, but is that for which he is remembered, and which has produced the adjective "Machiavellian".... more...
Philosophies of Technology
BRILL 2008; US$ 208.00The essays in the present volume attempt to historically reconstruct the various dependencies of philosophical and scientific knowledge of the material and technical culture of the Early Modern era and to draw systematic conclusions for the writing of Early Modern history of science.The divisive transformation of humanist scholarly culture, the Scholastic... more...
France and Islam in West Africa, 18601960
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 44.00A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation. more...
Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 44.00A full history of Bundu, a Muslim state which developed a uniquely pragmatic outlook. more...
Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 114.00This book explores the historical roots of economic nationalism within Japan. more...
Liberalism and the Economic Order: Volume 10, Part 2
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 35.00From a variety of perspectives, this volume offers valuable insights into the nature of liberalism and the problems facing liberal reformers today, such as the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. more...
Afrikaners of the Kalahari
Cambridge University Press 1979; US$ 27.00The popular image of the Kalahari is a romantic one of desert space and untouched Bushmen. more...
Eating Right in the Renaissance
University of California Press 2002; US$ 45.00Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account of the differences between the nutritional logic of... more...
The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 48.00This book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of exiles in the political life of fifteenth-century Italy. It also provides fresh perspectives on the nature and power of governments during this period, and on ideas about the legitimacy of political authority and political action. more...









