Chronological Period/15th Century
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
$30.00 Add to cartThe Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples o… [more below]
- Author: Newitt, Malyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0521159148
- Language: English
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
$22.00 Add to cartEngland’s Tudor monarchs–Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I–are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their politic… [more below]
- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0802127541
- Language: English
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartTelling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, Admiral of the Ocean Sea is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the wo… [more below]
- Author: Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 12 1991
- ISBN10: 0316584789
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age
$28.00 Add to cartA “lively and engaging” history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion.
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity o- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0316545317
- Language: English
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Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times
$21.99 Add to cartThe infamous Vlad Dracula, 15th-century Prince of Romania, was the basis for Bram Stoker’s fictional character. This biography covers the ‘Impaler’s’ life and subsequent legend and examines how closel… [more below]
- Author: McNally, Raymond T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: October 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0316286567
- Language: English
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The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
$34.99 Add to cartA new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace–Renaissance Italy
The period between 1492–resonant for a number of reasons–and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle o- Author: Fletcher, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0190908491
- Language: English
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, Political Science, History & Theory, Literary Collections, Philosophy
$16.95 Add to cart“Machiavellianism” is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince.
The Catholic Church banned The Prince. Humanist
- Author: Machiavelli, Nicolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1598189360
- Language: English
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The Craftsman’s Handbook
$14.95 Read moreThis is D. V. Thompson’s definitive English translation of Il Libro dell’Arte, an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. Embodying the secrets and techniques
- Series: Dover Art Instruction
- Author: Cennini, Cennino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 1954
- ISBN10: 048620054X
- 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 Women of Colonial Latin America
$45.33 Add to cartIn this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book – incorporating new topics and illustrative cases… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to the Americas
- Author: Socolow, Susan Migden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0521148820
- Language: English
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The Women of the Cousins’ War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King’s Mother
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford;… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1451629559
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
$17.99 Add to cartPart of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher–history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and b… [more below]
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0061768928
- Language: English
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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
$21.99 Add to cartThe 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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Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
$80.00 Add to cartA magnificent, never-before-published collection of every painting and fresco on display in the Uffizi, the Galleria Palatina of the Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo, and more — nearly 2,00… [more below]
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1631910019
- Language: English
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 – 1870
$30.00 Add to cartAfter many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade.
Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hug- Author: Thomas, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: February 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0684835657
- Language: English
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Incantation
$12.99 Add to cartBestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0316154288
- Language: English
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The Planets Within
$24.95 Add to cartThe Planets Within asks us to return to antiquity with new eyes. It centers on one of the most psychological movements of the prescientific age–Renaissance Italy, where a group of “inner Columbuses”
- Series: Studies in Imagination
- Author: Moore, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0940262282
- Language: English
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Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition Through the Salem Trials
$17.95 Add to cartThis in-depth and comprehensive resource explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World. Witch Hunts in the We… [more below]
- Series: Extraordinary World
- Author: Pavlac, Brian A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 080323290X
- Language: English
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The Last Jew: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition
$19.99 Add to cartIn the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews – who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days
- Author: Gordon, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0312300530
- Language: English
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Notre-Dame of Paris
$15.00 Add to cartMore commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo’s Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love
In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchba- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443533
- Language: English
