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 | Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeTwo centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain’s adventures and explore his emb...
Manufacturer: Picador
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 | The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics)
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castl...
Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
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 | The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in panto...
Manufacturer: Vintage
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 | Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer’s dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A pai...
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Press
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 | Pueblos, Spaniards, and The Kingdom of New Mexico
The first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Kessell's work presents a clearer picture than ever before of events leading to the Pueblo Revolt.
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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 | Two Treatises of Government
This is a new revised version of Dr. Laslett's standard edition of Two Treatises. First published in 1960, and based on an analysis of the whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers. The Introduction and text have been revised to incorp...
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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 | The Scientific Revolution (science * culture)
"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview.
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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 | The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV
Pleasures and palaces are, of course, an enormously entertaining part of this vivid account of France under Louis XIV. More important is the author's exploration of the political, economic, social and artistic forces that developed during the long re...
Manufacturer: Waveland Press
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 | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783
Influential classic of naval history and tactics still used as text in war colleges. Read by Kaiser Wilhelm, both Roosevelts, other leaders. First paperback edition. 4 maps. 24 battle plans.
Manufacturer: BiblioLife
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