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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Greenblatt, Stephen J.
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A riveting tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.


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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
Manchester, William
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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 narrative... [More...]


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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
Menzies, Gavin
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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... [More...]


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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
Hibbert, Christopher
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It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici,... [More...]


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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
Strathern, Paul
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Ottoman Centuries
Kinross, Lord
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The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was sent into... [More...]


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The Aristocratic Families in Early Imperial China: A Case Study of the Po-Ling Ts'ui Family
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
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Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages.


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Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
McLane, John R.
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This book examines the politics and culture of landholding in eastern India. Professor McLane explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindars, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal empire... [More...]


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Invention: Northern Renaissance Studies in Honor of Molly Faries
Chapuis, Julien
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Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Baj O: Le N 1700 1860
Brading, David
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During the eighteenth century the Bajio emerged from its frontier condition to become the pace-maker of the Mexican economy.


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