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“anna contadini”

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  • The Renaissance and the Ottoman World

    Edited by Anna Contadini ...
    This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic, political, cultural, and personal interactions between Western European Christian states and the Eastern ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

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  • Cromwell's War Machine

    The New Model Army, 1645–1660

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  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)

    Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement

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  • Edgehill 1642

    The Battle Reinterpreted

    by Christopher L. Scott, Alan Turton, Eric Gruber von Arni ...
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    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Isaac Newton in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and work of Isaac Newton. Although this English scientist and mathematician is best known for his theory of universal gravitation, he worked in a variety of domains and made major discoveries that ... Read more

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    Edited by Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown ...
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  • The True Story of Bloody Henry Morgan

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  • Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History

    by Alexandra Kess ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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