The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions, Hardcover - Gabriel Paquette

DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

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The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda ...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Samuel R GardinerNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 22Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing t...

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The battlefield of 17th Century Europe On land, the Thirty Years War was fought primarily in Germany. It was one of the most destructive conflicts ...

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DescriptionWhile European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas ...

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The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking o...

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years' War, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Hundred...

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In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

Many believe the recent deterioration in US-China relations represents a 'New Cold War' rooted in ideological differences. In this Element, Ho-fung...

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Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

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Publisher: Peter Lang LtdAuthor(s): Michael BroersIllustration(s): 7 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2017Dimensions...

Reducere. A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of internat...

DescriptionHow the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation o...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people ...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Persian EmpireStudents of ancient history are well aware of the Persians. A still-present cultural and lingu...

DescriptionTim Cassedy's fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identi...

Presents papers from Parts 1 and 2 of Session XXXIII of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The first part, 'Siliceous rocks: procure...

Reducere. Experts from around the world share the history and current state of near-death experience (NDE) knowledge. They explore controversies in the field...

A great choice for readers who munched through Ripley's Believe It or Not: Fun Facts and Silly Stories and the National Geographic Kids: Weird but ...

Atlantic Wars is the first work to comprehensively explore how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until ...