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  • The Peoples of Europe

    by Herbert John Fleure ...
    Herbert John Fleure (1877-1969) was a British zoologist and geographer. He was secretary of the Geographical Association, editor of ‘Geography,’ and served as president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association (1924-25), Royal Anthropological Institute (1945-47) and Geographical Association (1948-49). He studied at the University of Wales and the Zoological Institute in Switzerland. Returning to ... Read more

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  • The Shortest History of Europe

    by John Hirst ...
    Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation.The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning, Christianity and German warrior culture. Over the centuries, this unstable blend produced highly distinctive ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Europe

    From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon

    by Gordon Kerr ...
    Series series Short History
    From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible history of the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 yearsThis fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of Europe and the European idea that has led up to this point. A continent of countless disparate ... Read more

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  • European History: From The High Middle Ages, Which Began In Approximately Ad 1000, Until The Modern Day. (Mobi History)

    by MobileReference ...
    European History from the High Middle Ages, which began in approximately AD 1000, until the modern day.TABLE OF CONTENTS:A Background of European History: Thinking Historically Minded Fall of the Roman Empire Barbarians Unite Romanesque and Gothic Art Papal Power in the Middle Ages Society in the Middle AgesThe Crises of the Middle Ages: Introduction New Breeds of Art The Hundred Years War The ... Read more

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  • Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs

    by Archibald R. Colquhoun ...
    THERE is, in reality, no collective title for the agglomeration of territories called Austria-Hungary. The House of Habsburg is merely the connecting link between many distinct parts, not only by virtue of conquest or annexation, but also by inheritance and by the right of long possession. It has to be clearly understood that the fact of mutual dislikes among the various peoples of Austria-Hungary ... Read more

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  • The Northern Crusades

    by Eric Christiansen ...
    The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic and Northern medieval research, this authoritative overview provides a balanced and ... Read more

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  • Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

    A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)

    by Norman Davies ...
    The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished KingdomsVanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies tells the ill-fated story of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Founded in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A History of Warfare

    by John Keegan ...
    Chosen by Time Magazine as one of the Best Books of the Year • The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice has ... Read more

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  • A History of Europe

    From Pre-History to the 21st Century

    by Professor Jeremy Black ...
    A History of Europe is a masterful narrative, bringing together the continent's common threads of history from the end of the ice ages until the present day.Leading historian Professor Jeremy Black takes a journey through the vast sweep of European history, examining events as diverse as the rise of the Roman Empire, the brutal Viking raids, the cultural explosion of the Renaissance period, the ... Read more

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  • Rome's Greatest Defeat

    Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest

    by Adrian Murdoch ...
    In AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments - some 25,000 men - were wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire's imperial pretensions and was Rome's greatest defeat. No other battle stopped the Roman empire dead in its tracks.Although one of the most significant and dramatic battles in ... Read more

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  • The Habsburg Empire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Martyn Rady ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain. Through the Spanish connection, they acquired lands around the Mediterranean and a chunk of the New World, spreading eastwards to include the Philippines. Reaching from South-East Asia to what is now ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Russia (1907)

    by Mary Platt Parmele ...
    First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "If this book seems to have departed from the proper ideal of historic narrative--if it is the history of a Power, and not of a People--it is because the Russian people have had no history yet. There has been no evolution of a Russian nation, but only of a vast governing system; and the words "Russian Empire" stand for a majestic world-power in ... Read more

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