In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, Paperback - Norman F. Cantor

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tr...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): James BelichIllustration(s): 12 maps.Number of pages: 640Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 24...

Reducere. Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material.

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sam JeffersonIllustration(s): Chartlets and colour photography throughoutNumber of pages: 224Publica...

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Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Natasha Bacchus-BuschkielNumber of pages: 112Collection: Girls SurvivePublication date: 2021Dimens...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the plague written by survivors across Europe *Includes a bibliography for further reading "The trend of r...

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Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer l...

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The bubonic plague is a disease spread by fleas that live on rats. Outbreaks of the disease killed millions of people. Read this book to learn more...

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This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe's political, economic and f...

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In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

Mike Roberts reveals how Alexander the Great's Macedonian homeland benefitted so little from the remarkable empire he built and explains its remark...

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A well-planned attack on the U.S. leaves the Hawaiian Islands isolated. After enduring a high casualty first wave attack by a Chinese regime, the i...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Medieval England, then keep reading...Medieval England's history starts with the fall of the...

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A voyage through the culture, people and history of the defining piece of water known as the English Channel.

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What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical questions Heather Pool asks in Poli...

This study serves as a corrective to the myths surrounding a controversial and poorly understood episode in Mexican history, demonstrating how Mexi...

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A history of US public broadcasting, from its initial, idealist attempt to reshape television, to its current state - mediocre and as dependent on ...