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 Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the WorldBest Price: $15.95 Mr Crowley has captured the brutal and grim conflict that spanned from 1521 to the fateful fight... |  A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an AgeBest Price: $8.01 I was expecting a history book. I love history books. This was more of a history story, a... |  1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the RenaissanceBest Price: $15.39 His earlier book, 1421, was very good but this one falls very short of the mark. Mostly, it's... |  Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented ArchitectureBest Price: $6.30 No, this isn't a book about an Italian guy with a big head, although Filippo Brunelleschi... |  Western CivilizationBest Price: $92.10 this book is packed with info.. it's the longer version of "a brief history" and how... |
 The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the VaticanBest Price: $13.46 An amazing work full of new and plausable ideas and theories.Kudos to authors Rabbi Benjamin... |  The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050Best Price: $22.86 This book contains an awful lot of wisdom for such a slim volume (it clocks in at just under 200... |  The Life and Death of Anne BoleynBest Price: $12.26 i loved this book, very accurate and insightful, great read for all anne boleyn fans. |  The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century MillerBest Price: $11.00 The Cheese and the Worms has got to be the most ridiculously over-rated academic work of history... |  Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History)Best Price: $11.67 The title of this book embodies a bait and switch: the "Mysteries" of the title, you... |
 Western Civilization: Volume I: To 1715Best Price: $50.00 This is a good basic introduction to the history of Western Civilization up to 1715. It is... |  The Humanistic Tradition, Book 3: The European Renaissance, The Reformation, and Global Encounter (Humanistic Tradition)Best Price: $24.00 " The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to... |  Short Account of the Destruction of the IndiesBest Price: $7.10 This first person account of the aftermath of Columbus and the Spanish is an important read from... |  The House of Medici: Its Rise and FallBest Price: $7.00 Good read although I was surprised to find typos which is more a comment about the... |  The Portable Enlightenment Reader (The Viking Portable Library) (The Viking Portable Library)Best Price: $10.64 The Enlightenment was the turning point that created the World as we know it. The transition... |
 Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500Best Price: $23.00 Very easy explanation in book.........dont try to read whole book otherwise you will get sleep |  Western Civilization: Alternate Volume: Since 1300Best Price: $103.78 Nothing to do with "Eye Problems". Please remove from "Eye Problems"... |  Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeBest Price: $4.65 Initially I imagined reading this book from time to time, knowing I would "eventually"... |  The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the RenaissanceBest Price: $13.39 Comics, an almost ancient medium, somehow endure in our digital era of short attention spans.... |  A History of Modern Europe, Second Edition: From the Renaissance to the Present (One-Volume Edition)Best Price: $56.67 I picked up this volume many years ago and have read it in fits and starts, one chunk at a time.... |
 Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance FlorenceBest Price: $12.50 Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence is an account of lovers... |  The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the RenaissanceBest Price: $14.50 Amazon shipped this book in a timely manner. Customer service was great but I did have to call... |  The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.18 Christopher Columbus in his own writings, translated though, what could be more exciting? Well,... |  Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' MediciBest Price: $14.45 This is an absorbing account of one of history's greatest characters. Unger brings to life not... |  Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)Best Price: $15.91 This is really the first book I read in depth on the subject of the Maya. I have read... |
 The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost LibraryBest Price: $14.99 THE BOOK WAS NOT WHAT I EXPECTED. WHEREAS I DO USUALLY LIKE SCHOLARLY BIOGRAPHIES, I FOUND THIS... |  The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)Best Price: $5.97 There really was a Camelot. But it was in Italy. Urbino in northern Italy to be exact, in the... |  The Western Heritage: Since 1300 (9th Edition)Best Price: $90.64 I have used this text for six years with my AP Euro students and they have done well. It has... |  The World: A History, Combined Volume (The World: A History)Best Price: $44.89 First of all, whatever you think of the way he pursues history, the author is without question a... |  Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620Best Price: $25.57 This book is very informative and has wonderful pictures of actual clothes. It was helpful to... |
 The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver StreetBest Price: $3.15 If you want to learn more about a brief moment in WS's life, and a good deal more about London... |  The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturyBest Price: $11.81 This is by far my favorite historical account of a witch hunt. The book looks at a northern... |  The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery DecodedBest Price: $13.00 I am not a historian or expert in the topic, but as a lay person, this is one of the most... |  Global Experience, The, Volume 2 (5th Edition) (Global Experience)Best Price: $39.90 This integrated, global collection of primary source documents illustrates the variety of... |  The Renaissance in EuropeBest Price: $55.19 I used this in a Renaissance/Reformation course and it works reasonably well. The author (King)... |
 The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715 (Norton History of Modern Europe)Best Price: $19.57 This book is a good overview of the main events of the period. Dunn does a great job explaining... |  Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.00 I didn't know anything about this real story until I watched BBC Conquistadors. When I learned... |  Ottoman CenturiesBest Price: $7.49 Unless you're an absolute Ottomaniac, this one-volume history of the great Turkish Empire should... |  The Portable Renaissance ReaderBest Price: $10.37 There are an amazing number of pieces that are included in "The Portable Renaissance... |  Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance FlorenceBest Price: $10.28 This is a book about the politics of Renaissance Florence, not a book about religion or... |
 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.50 Burckhardt's brilliance is undeniable. His erudition is obvious and his synthesis of numerous... |  Short History of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, A (4th Edition)Best Price: $53.99 Dr. Zophy's textbook over Europe's Renaissance and Reformation is beyond excellent. It is a... |  Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (Cambridge Latin American Studies)Best Price: $12.99 This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European... |  The Italian RenaissanceBest Price: $4.95 Plumb's work is very readable and paints an overview of the Italian Renaissance with a broad... |  Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of ModernityBest Price: $7.00 The book is a inspiring discussion on modernity and basic aspects of our view of world. It's an... |
 The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706Best Price: $19.99 Just finished reading it and loved it. Information on pre-colonial Africa is so hard to come... |  The World: A History, Volume 2 (since 1300) (The World: A History)Best Price: $57.74 The World gives students the whole story. It is a new kind of history text ??? not just a... |  European Renaissance Second Edition: Age of Recovery and ReconciliationBest Price: $59.50 These popular volumes offer a comprehensive, challenging introduction to the politics, economic... |  Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic EuropeBest Price: $19.85 I enjoyed Cahill's previous works immensely. This one is also good, taking the reader on a... |  The Renaissance: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)Best Price: $7.36 There is real value in this little book. And while I wouldn't call it "exciting", if... |
 Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $11.34 |  Worldly Goods: A New History of the RenaissanceBest Price: $11.24 Lisa Jardine shows us that the Renaissance featured just as much competition, consumerism,... |  History of the Jews in Modern TimesBest Price: $19.95 Lloyd Gartner provides a vivid description of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of... |  Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the Institute of Early AME)Best Price: $16.16 Dunn does an excellent job of explaining the planter class in the West Indies. His research is... |  Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (New Approaches to European History)Best Price: $25.19 Nauert does an exceptional job of making accessible a vaporous topic. In the process he... |
 The Old World and the New: 1492-1650 (Canto)Best Price: $7.25 Some rather fascinating information about the exchange of materials and ideas between Europe and... |  The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and SocietyBest Price: $24.75 The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the... |  April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the MediciBest Price: $2.50 The politics of the 15th century Italian states was complex, confusing and in a state of... | ||
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