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  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

    Volume I: Peoples and Place

    Edited by Hamish Scott ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

    Volume II: Cultures and Power

    Edited by Hamish Scott ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Forming Aristocracy

    The Reconfiguration of Europe's Nobilities, 1300–1750

    by The Late Hamish Scott ...
    The deeds (and misdeeds) of aristocrats, past and present, never lose their appeal, whether on our screens or in real life. But who are they, and why do they matter? Forming Aristocracy is the story of the great aristocratic lineages of Europe: families such as the Salisbury in England, the Campbell in Scotland, the Radziwill in Poland-Lithuania, the Liechtenstein in the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815

    by Hamish Scott ...
    Series series The Modern European State System
    The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system.H.M. Scott demonstrates how the well-known and dramatic events of these decades - the emergence of Russia and Prussia; the three partitions of Poland; the continuing retreat of the Ottoman Empire; the unprecedented territorial expansion of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Napoleonic Wars

    A Global History

    by Alexander Mikaberidze ...
    Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. ... Read more

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  • The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815

    by Dr David Gates ...
    Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day.There is a ... Read more

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  • Wars Against Napoleon Debunking The Myth Of The Napoleonic Wars

    Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars

    by Franceschi General Michel ...
    Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon a brilliantly written and researched study that turns our understanding of the French emperor on its head.Avoiding the simplistic clichés and ... Read more

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  • The Baltic

    by Alan Palmer ...
    Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic culture and the early attempts at Baltic unification by Sweden and Russia. The Baltic also dissects the ... Read more

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  • Galileo's Daughter

    A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • I Used to Know That: History

    by Emma Marriott ...
    Series Book 18 - I Used to Know That
    If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, ‘Hmm, I’ve heard of that – what was that again?’, then this is the book for you.This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the invasions of Britain, the Renaissance and the Cold War, to the American, French and Russian ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Prussia

    by Sebastian Haffner ...
    The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 60,000 words)Sebastian Haffner regarded himself as “a Prussian with a British passport.” In this overview of Prussia’s 170-year history as an independent state, he depicts Prussia’s evolution from a sensational 18th century success story – “a state based on law, one of the first in Europe” – to its ... Read more

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