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  • The Crisis of the European Mind

    1680-1715

    by Paul Hazard ...
    Translated by J. Lewis May ...
    Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developmentsin the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    by Stephen Porter ...
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  • How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It

    The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500–1800

    by Benerson Little ...
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  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

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  • To The Hebrides

    Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

    by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ...
    Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, ... Read more

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  • A History of County Wexford

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    by Nicholas Furlong ...
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    Series Book 168 - Warrior
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    Pike and Shot Wargaming Rules

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  • Between Monopoly and Free Trade

    The English East India Company, 1600–1757

    by Emily Erikson ...
    Series series Princeton Analytical Sociology Series
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    by Andrew Sluyter, Ph.D ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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