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  • A Vanished World

    Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment

    by Christopher Lowney ...
    In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture.In 711, a ragtag army of Muslim North Africans conquered Christian Spain and launched Western Europe's first Islamic state. In 1492, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

    by Susanna Clarke ...
    In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world.In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity.Another practicing magician ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

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  • The Goldfinch

    A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    by Donna Tartt ...
    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Basque Country

    A Cultural History

    by Paddy Woodworth ...
    Series series Landscapes of the Imagination
    The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe's oldest peoples and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic modern energy, with the reinvention of Bilbao creating a model for the twenty-first-century city. In The Basque Country, Paddy Woodworth takes us on a sweeping tour of this ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The voyages and adventures of Vasco da Gama

    by George Makepeace Towle ...
    Vasco da Gama, born at Sines, a small seaport of Portugal, of a noble family, discovered the route to the East Indies by sea — a discovery of the greatest importance, not only in regard to commerce, but to the civilization and political relations or Europe, and which laid the foundation of the commercial power of Portugal in the Indian seas. ... Read more

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  • Napoleon: a History of the Art of War Vol. II

    from the Beginning of the French Revolution to the End of the 18th Century [Ill. Edition]

    by Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge ...
    Series series Napoleon: a History of the Art of War [Ill. Edition]
    Includes over 200 maps, plans, diagrams and uniform printsLt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a soldier of long and bloody experience, having served with the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War losing one of his legs during the battle of Gettysburg. After the end of the war he settled down in retirement to write, he produced a number of excellent works on the recently ended ... Read more

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  • Courtly Encounters

    Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Napoleon and the Fair Sex

    by Frédéric Masson ...
    Translated by Anon. ...
    Frédéric Masson stands as one of the foremost historians that France has ever produced. His specialist subject was the era of Napoleon, and few men have written such brilliant and penetrating studies of the Emperor. In this volume, translated from his book 'Napoléon et les femmes', Masson charts the Emperor's amorous adventures throughout his life.It is a wonder that Napoleon had any time to ... Read more

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  • GENERAL FRANCO MADE ME A TERRORIST

    (The interesting years abroad of a West of Scotland ‘Baby-boomer’)

    by Stuart Christie ...
    Series Book 2 - The Christie File: part 2, 1964-1967
    On the last day of July 1964 Stuart Christie, a newly-turned 18-year-old Glaswegian anarchist, left London for Paris and Madrid on a mission whose objective was to kill the last of the Axis dictators — General Francisco Franco. This was to be the last of at least 30 attempts on the fascist leader’s life. This second volume of ‘The Christie File’ takes us through the prison years which followed ... Read more

    $3.36 USD

  • Ready for Revolution

    The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938

    by Agustín Guillamón ...
    Translated by Paul Sharkey ...
    Seeing the writing on the wall, one of Spain's largest unions began secretly arming workers throughout the country. The anarcho-syndicalist union evolved from overseeing workers' defense to organizing armed resistance to the Fascist coup. From there, it administered entire militias and finally coordinated industrial self-management and food distribution, leading a revolution within the Spanish ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creating Christian Granada

    Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600

    by David Coleman ...
    Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • António Vieira

    Six Sermons

    by Liam Brockey, Mónica Leal da Silva ...
    This volume is the first English translation and annotation of the sermons of António Vieira, a major cultural figure in the Portuguese-speaking world. Born in Lisbon in 1608, Vieira was a Jesuit who lived and worked in both Europe and Brazil in the service of the church and the Portuguese crown. His sermons are among the most renowned pieces of baroque oratory in the Portuguese language. These ... Read more

    $22.79 USD