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  • The Habsburg Empire 1700-1918

    by Jean Berenger, C.A. Simpson ...
    This is the eagerly awaited second volume of Jean Bérenger's history of the Habsburgs. It covers the last two centuries of their rule and provides a compelling account of the fluctuations of Habsburg dynastic power and its disintegration after World War One. Bérenger gives a rich portrait of Habsburg greatness under Maria Theresa and Joseph II and shows how their successors proved more adroit at ... Read more

    Was $116.99 CAD Now $104.42 CAD

  • A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273-1700

    by Jean Berenger, C.A. Simpson ...
    The first part of a two-volume history of the Habsburg Empire from its medieval origins to its dismemberment in the First World War. This important volume (which is self-contained) meets a long-felt need for a systematic survey in English of the Habsburgs and their lands in the late medieval and early modern periods. It is primarily concerned with the Habsburg territories in central and northern ... Read more

    $153.90 CAD

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    The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

    by Christopher Clark ...
    Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world.Prussia began as a medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until it was finally ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Europe

    From Pericles to Putin. Discover the perfect gift for readers of European history!

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of EnglandEurope is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volumes to tell its story, right? Wrong. From warring peoples to peace, wealth and freedom, Andrew Jenkins distils its evolution into this short, single-volume history.From Greece and Rome, through the French ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood

    by Joseph Wechsberg ...
    The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Joseph Wechsberg (80,000 words, 18 illustrations)Wechsberg’s memoir of pre-World War II mittel-Europa recounts with charm and irony life in the dying Habsburg Empire, family stories of wealth gained and lost, the subtleties of coffeehouse culture and the dynamics of Viennese society where one “is at the same time an actor, his own audience, ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Europe's Tragedy

    A New History of the Thirty Years War

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Poland

    A history

    by Adam Zamoyski ...
    Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Europe

    From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon

    by Gordon Kerr ...
    Series series Short History
    From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible history of the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 yearsThis fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of Europe and the European idea that has led up to this point. A continent of countless disparate ... Read more

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  • The Shortest History of Germany

    From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe - A Retelling for Our Times

    by James Hawes ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    A highlight reel of the must-know moments across two millennia of world-changing history—from the Roman age to Charlemagne to von Bismarck to Merkel. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the ... Read more

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  • The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918

    A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary

    by Professor A J P Taylor ...
    A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Teutonic Knights

    by William Urban ...
    The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years.This major new book ... Read more

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  • European History: From The High Middle Ages, Which Began In Approximately Ad 1000, Until The Modern Day. (Mobi History)

    by MobileReference ...
    European History from the High Middle Ages, which began in approximately AD 1000, until the modern day.TABLE OF CONTENTS:A Background of European History: Thinking Historically Minded Fall of the Roman Empire Barbarians Unite Romanesque and Gothic Art Papal Power in the Middle Ages Society in the Middle AgesThe Crises of the Middle Ages: Introduction New Breeds of Art The Hundred Years War The ... Read more

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