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  • Christendom Destroyed

    Europe 1517-1648

    Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous changeThis latest addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it.From peasants to princes ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • France in the Age of Henri IV

    The Struggle for Stability

    Series series Studies In Modern History
    This study was the first systematic attempt to reach behind the myth of Henri IV - famous for having brought order to France after long civil war - and explores the reality of his achievement. This Second Edition has been substantially updated. ... Read more

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  • The Virtual Representation of the Past

    Edited by Mark Greengrass, Lorna Hughes ...
    Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
    This unique book critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. A distinguished team of leading experts in the field approach digital research in history and archaeology from contrasting viewpoints, including philosophical, methodological and technical. They illustrate the challenges involved in representing the past digitally by focusing on specific cases of a ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Nostradamus

    A Healer of Souls in the Renaissance

    Translated by Mark Greengrass ...
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    One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for forgetting that Michel de Nostredame, 1503-1566, was a figure firmly rooted in the society of the French Renaissance.In this bold new ... Read more

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    Europe, 1815-1914

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  • Roller-Coaster

    Europe, 1950-2017

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  • To Hell and Back

    Europe, 1914-1949

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    'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a chaotic savagery ... Read more

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  • Europe in the High Middle Ages

    The Penguin History of Europe

    'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily TelegraphThe years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most formative period in European history: a time of intense social, political, cultural and religious change. In this definitive work one of the world's leading ... Read more

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  • The Hundred Years War Vol 4

    Cursed Kings

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  • The Pursuit of Glory

    Europe 1648-1815

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  • The Birth of Classical Europe

    A History from Troy to Augustine

    To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures.As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical ... Read more

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  • Global Crisis

    War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

    The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century.Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and ... Read more

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