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  • Pirates and Privateers of the Atlantic and the Caribbean

    by Hunt Janin, Nicole Sheehan ...
    This study illuminates the global scope and lived realities of privateering across the Atlantic, revealing how ships, crews, investors, and women shaped wartime maritime history.Pirates and Privateers of the Atlantic and the Caribbean is the most recent and broadest study of international privateering in the 18th and 19th centuries.It first examines ships themselves, which were privately financed ... Read more

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  • Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

    by Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson ...
    In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Medieval Monks and Monasteries

    by Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson ...
    The Middle Ages in Western Europe extended from roughly 500 to 1500 c.e. During these thousand years, hundreds of monastic communities were founded and played important roles in religious, economic, social, literary and even military realms. Each had different emphases and goals, ranging from aristocratic monasteries and nunneries that offered comfort and security, to rural institutions that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Yellowstone

    The History, Ecology and Future of America's First National Park

    by Hunt Janin, Nicole Sheehan ...
    Yellowstone National Park is the focal point of the 22-million-acre, multifaceted Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, located in northwestern Wyoming and in parts of eastern Idaho and Montana. Yellowstone has a uniquely American identity as a place where nature--largely untouched and unmanaged--is allowed to flourish.This is a detailed survey that blends Yellowstone's past into its present and explores ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Paris and the River Seine

    A History

    by Hunt Janin, Nicole Sheehan ...
    The intertwined histories of Paris and of the River Seine are interesting but complicated. It is the Seine, however with all its ports, bridges, boats, commerce, monuments, and vistas, that has always been the keystone in the arch of Paris life, both in the past and now in the present. The great French medievalist Jean Favier (1932-2014) summed up its story in just six words: "Paris is born of the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The California Campaigns of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848

    by Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson ...
    For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly. Mexico surrendered to the United States more than half a million square miles of territory, contributing to a legacy of distrust and bitterness towards the U.S. that has never entirely dissipated.The real prize was California. The Californios--Spanish speaking, non-native inhabitants of the province ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Islamic Law

    The Sharia from Muhammad's Time to the Present

    by Hunt Janin, André Kahlmeyer ...
    The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim's obligations to God and his fellow human beings. Westerners often misunderstand the nature of the sharia, born as it is of a complicated legal and academic tradition that may not always seem relevant to today's world. Written for those unfamiliar with Islam, this volume provides an accurate and objective assessment of the sharia's ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Historic Nevada Waters

    Four Rivers, Three Lakes, Past and Present

    by Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson ...
    The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that includes most of Nevada and parts of five other Western states. The histories of four of the Western rivers of the Great Basin--the Walker, the Truckee, the Carson and the Humboldt--are explored in this book, along with three of the western lakes of the Great Basin: Lake Tahoe, Pyramid Lake, and Walker Lake. Drawing on a range of sources, the coauthors ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Rising Sea Levels

    An Introduction to Cause and Impact

    by Hunt Janin, Scott A. Mandia ...
    The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's political, economic, military and social development took place during a time of relatively stable sea level. That time, however, is now over: The world must begin to cope with rising seas.This book is a wide-ranging introductory survey. It addresses global warming, the hydrologic cycle, why we should care about the rise of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Californios

    A History, 1769-1890

    by Ursula Carlson, Hunt Janin ...
    Before the Gold Rush of 1848-1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier--and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life, raising cattle along the California coast and valleys. Visitors described them as a good-looking, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Overland Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West

    Expeditions and Writers of the American Frontier

    by Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson ...
    In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West. Over three centuries later, the four "Great Surveys" in the United States were consolidated into the U.S. Geological Survey.The frontiers were the lands near or beyond the recognized international, national, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • A Distant Mirror

    The Calamitous 14th Century

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August*Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street JournalThe fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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