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subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, ...
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique bourgeois society from the post-Napoleonic era to the present age and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "primal history" that underlies its ideological mask.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Through the whole history, one senses the gradual rise of a national awareness. Snorri Sturluson is, without compare, the greatest historian of the Middle Ages.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
The classic history of Adolph Hitler's rise to power and his dramatic defeat.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
This text recounts Charlemagne's personal life and his achievements in warfare, learning, art, building, and in the skillful administration of the state.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
The book examines the social life of non-Europeans in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and describes the political outgrowths of their migration to France.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Alchemy, the Noble Art, conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons.