Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 4

Voices from the Tavern, 1500–1800

by Thomas E Brennan, B Ann Tlusty, Beat Kumin, David Hancock, Michelle McDonald ...

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives. ... Read more

$225.99 USD

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.
... Read more
Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 2

Voices from the Tavern, 1500–1800

by Thomas E Brennan, B Ann Tlusty, Beat Kumin, David Hancock, Michelle McDonald ...

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives. ... Read more

$225.99 USD

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.
... Read more
Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 3

Voices from the Tavern, 1500–1800

by Thomas E Brennan, B Ann Tlusty, Beat Kumin, David Hancock, Michelle McDonald ...

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives. ... Read more

$225.99 USD

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.
... Read more
Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 1

Voices from the Tavern, 1500–1800

by Thomas E Brennan, B Ann Tlusty, Beat Kumin, David Hancock, Michelle McDonald ...

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives. ... Read more

$225.99 USD

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.
... Read more
The Article V Amendatory Constitutional Convention

Keeping the Republic in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas E. Brennan ...

This book describes the process of amending the federal constitution as defined in Article V by means of a convention for proposing amendments. It shows that the constitution can be amended in two ways: either by ratifying an amendment proposed by the Congress or by ratifying an amendment proposed by a convention. Article V requires the Congress to call a convention whenever the legislatures of ... Read more

$46.99 USD

This book describes the process of amending the federal constitution as defined in Article V by means of a convention for proposing amendments. It shows that the constitution can be amended in two ways: either by ratifying an amendment proposed by the Congress or by ratifying an amendment proposed by a convention. Article V requires the Congress to call a convention whenever the legislatures of
... Read more

The Faithful Executioner

Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

by Joel F. Harrington ...

The extraordinary story of a renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured ... Read more

$14.39 USD

The extraordinary story of a renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured
... Read more
Death in Brittany

A Mystery

by Jean-Luc Bannalec ...

Series Book 1 - Brittany Mystery Series
"Roll over, Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived."—M.C. BeatonCommissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven—a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one ... Read more

$9.99 USD

"Roll over, Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived."—M.C. BeatonCommissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven—a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one
... Read more
A Hangman's Diary

The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573?1617

by Franz Schmidt ...

From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career.A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about his work, but also an account of criminal procedure in Germany during the Middle Ages. With analysis and ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career.A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about his work, but also an account of criminal procedure in Germany during the Middle Ages. With analysis and
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Summer of Fire and Blood

The German Peasants' War

by Lyndal Roper ...

**Winner of the Cundill PrizeFrom a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe“A balanced, comprehensive survey of the uprising, gripping in its narrative and perceptive in its assessments, making it easily the most accessible study in English for a general readership.” ―Financial Times**A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe ... Read more

Was $19.99 USD Now $14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

**Winner of the Cundill PrizeFrom a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe“A balanced, comprehensive survey of the uprising, gripping in its narrative and perceptive in its assessments, making it easily the most accessible study in English for a general readership.” ―Financial Times**A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Tailor-King

The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster

by Anthony Arthur ...

He was only a Dutch tailor's apprentice, but from 1534 to 1535, Jan van Leyden led a radical sect of persecuted Anabaptists to repeated triumphs over the combined powers of church and state. Revered by his followers as the new David, the charismatic young leader pronounced the northern German city of Muenster a new Zion and crowned himself king. He expropriated all private property, took sixteen ... Read more

$17.29 USD

He was only a Dutch tailor's apprentice, but from 1534 to 1535, Jan van Leyden led a radical sect of persecuted Anabaptists to repeated triumphs over the combined powers of church and state. Revered by his followers as the new David, the charismatic young leader pronounced the northern German city of Muenster a new Zion and crowned himself king. He expropriated all private property, took sixteen
... Read more
Versailles

A Biography of a Palace

by Tony Spawforth ...

"An illuminating portrait" of the palace―its architecture, its scandals, its politics, and its role in France's tumultuous history ( The New York Times Book Review).The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France's old regime, mixed with the high camp and glamour of the European courts, all in an iconic home for the French arts. The palace itself has been ... Read more

$14.39 USD

"An illuminating portrait" of the palace―its architecture, its scandals, its politics, and its role in France's tumultuous history ( The New York Times Book Review).The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France's old regime, mixed with the high camp and glamour of the European courts, all in an iconic home for the French arts. The palace itself has been
... Read more
No Way Back

by Theodor Fontane ...

Translated by Helen Chambers, Hugh Rorrison ...

Series series Pushkin Press Classics
**A count's determination to build a castle by the sea ends in disaster for his family, in this elegantly ironic realist masterpiece from Germany's greatest 19th-century novelist.“One of the finest literary autopsies of a foundering relationship.” — The New Yorker**As war between Prussia and Denmark brews over the territory of Schleswig-Holstein, a German nobleman is called to serve as a gentleman ... Read more

$13.99 USD

**A count's determination to build a castle by the sea ends in disaster for his family, in this elegantly ironic realist masterpiece from Germany's greatest 19th-century novelist.“One of the finest literary autopsies of a foundering relationship.” — The New Yorker**As war between Prussia and Denmark brews over the territory of Schleswig-Holstein, a German nobleman is called to serve as a gentleman
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“thomas e brennan”

Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 4

Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 2

Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 3

Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 1

The Article V Amendatory Constitutional Convention

People who read these also enjoyed

The Faithful Executioner

Death in Brittany

A Hangman's Diary

Summer of Fire and Blood

The Tailor-King

Versailles

No Way Back

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“thomas e brennan”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed