Western Europe - General
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
$19.00 Add to cartIn an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment-an extraordina
- Author: Himmelfarb, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2005
- ISBN10: 1400077222
- Language: English
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Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Death and Mourning
$29.00 Add to cartThe visual history of how we deal with death – the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies – is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and trave
- Author: Gambino, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004222
- Language: English
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89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem
$25.99 Add to cartTwo newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.
Translating a work from its original language can
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063436434
- Language: English
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Dark London: A Journey Through the City’s Mysterious and Macabre Underworld
$22.99 Add to cartFrom dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian s?ances and haunted houses – not far beneath London’s everyday bustle and glitter there ha
- Author: Gray, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004249
- Language: English
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The West: The History of an Idea
$39.95 Add to cartA comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West
How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” beg- Author: Varouxakis, Georgios
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 069117718X
- Language: English
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The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History
$35.00 Read more2025 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARDS WINNER: EUROPEAN HISTORY
In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province o- Author: Machielsen, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1350441503
- Language: English
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A Concise History of the Netherlands
$35.00 Add to cartThe Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historica… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Kennedy, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 502
- Publish Date: July 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0521699177
- Language: English
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
$32.99 Add to cartConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this… [more below]
- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 019931599X
- Language: English
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Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
$20.00 Read moreAn endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesqu- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743756
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Fascism
$19.00 Add to cartWhat is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.
From the first violent uniformed bands b- Author: Paxton, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033918
- Language: English
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
$19.00 Add to cartA vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring m… [more below]
- Author: Dash, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 30 2001
- ISBN10: 060980765X
- Language: English
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The True Europe: Its Identity and Mission
$19.95 Add to cart“The ecological movement discovered that ‘nature’ prescribes for us a moderation that we cannot ignore with impunity. Unfortunately, ‘human ecology’ has still not been made concrete. A human being, to
- Author: Benedict XVI, Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1621645959
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Fascism
$18.00 Read moreWhat is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.
From the first violent uniformed bands b- Author: Paxton, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033918
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Italy: Tracing the Renaissance, Unification, and the Lively Evolution of Art and Culture
$30.99 Add to cartJourney to the romantic land of Italy and meet the artists, warriors, and leaders who forever left their mark on Western culture.
Perhaps no country has had such a lasting impact on Western culture as
- Author: Haynes, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 191571043X
- Language: English
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Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth
$31.99 Add to cartThe story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198861559
- Language: English
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The Stars of the Magdalene: Extended Chapter From The Secret Dossier of a Knight Templar of the Sangreal
$12.99 Add to cartThe Stars of the Magdalene is a richly expanded chapter from The Secret Dossier of a Knight Templar of the Sangreal: Relaunched as a Revised Edition to include discoveries & images.
The author wanted t
- Series: Stars MM
- Author: Cornwall, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: December 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1912971046
- Language: English
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The Secret Dossier of a Knight Templar of the Sangreal: Revised Edition
$34.99 Add to cartThe Revised Edition includes New Photos, Star Charts & Information in the last chapter:
The Stars of the Magdalene
The wild breadth of information reaches from King Arthur in Cumbria, the marriage of M
- Author: Cornwall, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1912971003
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Switzerland
$32.00 Add to cartDespite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland’s history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging histo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Church, Clive H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 339
- Publish Date: May 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0521143829
- Language: English
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The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
$29.95 Add to cartWhen World War I ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to work for the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920s and 1930s, these veteran-gardeners married local
- Author: Deangelis, Caitlin Galante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1633888991
- Language: English
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Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932) & Mayflower Descendants. Bound with Supplement
$39.00 Add to cartThis genealogy is a study in the old world as well as the new. Extensive references have been given, countless books have been consulted, nearly all procured from New England Historical and Genealogic… [more below]
- Author: Rixford, Elizabeth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 1596411163
- Language: English
