Europe - Renaissance
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself em… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0192801635
- Language: English
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Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History
$55.25 Add to cartFor centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia, and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revoluti… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Environment and History
- Author: Cushman, Gregory T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 02 2014
- ISBN10: 110765596X
- Language: English
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The Unbound Prometheus
$45.00 Add to cartIn this new edition of his classic history on revolution and economic development in Europe, David Landes reasserts his original arguments in the light of current debates about globalization and compa… [more below]
- Author: Landes, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 590
- Publish Date: June 26 2003
- ISBN10: 052153402X
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
$29.99 Add to cartThe Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?
Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and lea- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Campbell, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198862660
- Language: English
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Marsilio Ficino, Three Books on Life: A Critical Edition and Translation: Volume 57
$45.00 Add to cart- Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies #57
- Author: Kaske, Carol V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 086698822X
- Language: English
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
$25.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. – “Cahill is our king of popula… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #06
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0385495587
- Language: English
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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
$21.99 Read moreThe creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West
- Author: Wyman, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701197
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$16.00 Add to cartBartolom? de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus’s voyages, Las Casas was so horrified… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Las Casas, Bartolom? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445625
- Language: English
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Leonardo’s Brain: Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius
$18.95 Add to cartBest-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military st… [more below]
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1493009397
- Language: English
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
$39.99 Add to cartBeginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume–the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World–chronicles the co… [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0393059766
- Language: English
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The House of Medici
$19.99 Add to cartIt 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 pope… [more below]
- Author: Hibbert, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 19, 1999
- ISBN10: 0688053394
- Language: English
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The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
$59.99 Add to cartA holistic, eye-opening history of one of the most significant turning points in Christianity, The Reformation as Renewal demonstrates that the Reformation was at its core a renewal of evangelical cat
- Author: Barrett, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 031009755X
- Language: English
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The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
$29.95 Read moreAn original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart.
It is generally accepted that the European Renaissa- Author: Strathern, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363939
- Language: English
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
$18.95 Add to cartIn the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and or… [more below]
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343405
- Language: English
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The Voynich Manuscript
$55.00 Add to cartThe first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle
“For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, fe- Author: Clemens, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0300217234
- Language: English
