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Canto Classics eBook Series

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  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    A novel

    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Medieval Castles: Fascinating Facts About Famous Castles in England from the Medieval Times

    by James K. Rowen ...
    Series series "Quick Start Guide" Series
    **UPDATED for 2019**Medieval Castles: Fascinating Facts About Famous Castles in England from the Medieval TimesA fascinating and historical look at twenty one famous castles in England from the medieval era. You will be transported back in time to the era of knights and jousting, wars and warriors in Medieval Europe.Enjoy your trip! ... Read more

    $6.97 USD

  • Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

    A Global Ecological History

    by Gregory T. Cushman ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

    by Ada Palmer ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Collected Works of Erasmus

    Adages: I i 1 to I v 100, Volume 31

    by Desiderius Erasmus, R.A.B. Mynors ...
    Translated by Margaret Mann Phillips ...
    Series Book 31 - Collected Works of Erasmus
    Erasmus' Adagia has been called 'one of the world's biggest bedside books,' and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on by Erasmus, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays, have great appeal for both scholar and educated layman. The aim of the Adages was to recapture, in this handy portmanteau form, the outlook and way of life of the classical ... Read more

    $64.09 USD

  • Dynasties

    A Global History of Power, 1300–1800

    by Jeroen Duindam ...
    For thousands of years, societies have fallen under the reign of a single leader, ruling as chief, king, or emperor. In this fascinating global history of medieval and early modern dynastic power, Jeroen Duindam charts the rise and fall of dynasties, the rituals of rulership, and the contested presence of women on the throne. From European, African, Mughal, Ming-Qing and Safavid dynasties to the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Reign of Mary I

    by Robert Tittler, Judith Richards ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Until recently, the reign of Mary Tudor was generally seen as a ‘sterile interlude’ in the Tudor century, with Mary herself dismissed as ‘Bloody Mary’. Extensive research in the past several decades has overturned these assumptions in almost every respect. In this succinct and up-to-date introduction to Mary’s reign, Tittler and Richards provide new insight into the circumstances of Mary’s ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Charles I and the People of England

    by David Cressy ...
    The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of secular and ecclesiastical courts, to explore the aspirations and expectations not only of the king and his followers, but also the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

    Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    by Alan Lester, Fae Dussart ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Wars of the Roses

    Revised Edition

    by David Grummitt ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Now in its second edition, A Short History of the Wars of the Roses is an accessible history of the English civil wars of the mid-15th century. It offers a comprehensive account of the major political events, detailing the 30-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, and analysing the formal clashes of royalist and rebel armies, such as the battles at St Albans, Towton, and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Heinrich Glarean's Books

    The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist

    Edited by Iain Fenlon, Inga Mai Groote ...
    This collection of essays investigates the work of Heinrich Glarean, one of the most influential humanists and music theorists of the sixteenth century. For the first time, Glarean's musical writings, including his masterwork the Dodekachordon, are considered in the wider context of his work in a variety of disciplines such as musicology, history, theology and geography. Contributors reference ... Read more

    $126.29 USD