Genre search:Academic: History

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, History, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Gus

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
History, Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Greg

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Environmentalism, Socioeconomics, Easter Island, Anasazi, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Vikings, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Greenland — 1 more, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
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Environmentalism, Socioeconomics
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Gus, In Storage

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
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Ireland, British Isles, Eire, Irish History, History, Medieval, Irish Civilization
Collection
Gifts

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Ireland, Dark and Middle Ages, British Isles, Eire, History, Medieval, Irish Civilization, Irish Monks, Scriptoria, Transmission of Texts, Manuscripts — 1 more, Monastic Libraries
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

by Jacques Barzun
Paperback, 2001
Tags
History, Western Civilization
Collection
Gifts

The histories

by Herodotus.
Paper Book, 1972
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Classics, Herodotus, Solon, Greece, Delphi, Oracles, Babylon, Egypt, Persia
Collection
Don

The Twelve Caesars: An Illustrated Edition

by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Paperback, 1982
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Classics, Suetonius, History, Roman, Imperial Rome
Collection
Anna

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

by Tom Holland
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Persia, Athens, Sparta, Babylon, Persian Wars
Collection
Gifts

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

by Norman F. Cantor
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Plague, Black Death, Anti-Semitism, Bibliographies
Collection
Gifts

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee-an Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1972
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North America, Indigenous Peoples, Wounded Knee, American History
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1976
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, Wounded Knee, American History
Collection
Glenn

The Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard J. Evans
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Nazi Occultism, Thule Society
Collection
Gifts

A History of God

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Comparative and Western Religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mysticism
Collection
Gifts

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

by John Kelly
Paperback, 2006
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Dark and Middle Ages, Plague, Black Death, Anti-Semitism
Collection
Gifts

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Galileo

The Battle for Gaul

by Julius Caesar
Paper Book, 1980
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Celtic Studies, Julius Caesar, Gaul
Collection
Rowan

The Gallic War: a new translation

by Julius Caesar
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Classics, Caesar, Gaul, Bibliography, Glossary, Chronology
Collection
Gifts

History of the Peloponnesian war. Translated by Rex. Warner with an introduction and notes by M. I. Finley. (Revised, with a new introduction and appendices.)

by Thucydides
Paper Book, ?
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Classics, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
Collection
Anna

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like At The Turn Of The First Millennium

by Robert Lacey
Paperback, 2005
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Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Dark and Middle Ages, History, England, Great Britain, British Isles, Millennium
Collection
Anna

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World

by robert lacey
Paperback, 2000
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England, Great Britain, British Isles, Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Millennium, Dark and Middle Ages
Collection
Gifts

London: The Biography

by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover, 2001
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Occult London, British Occult Sites, England, Great Britain, British Isles, London, Cultural History
Collection
Anna

London: The Biography

by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Occult London, British Occult Sites, England, Great Britain, British Isles, London, Cultural History
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

by Mark Kurlansky
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Counterculture, Chicago Eight, Anti-war Movement, Black Panthers, Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Civil Rights Movement, Drug Culture, Yippie Movement, Women's Issues, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The autumn of the Middle Ages

by Johan Huizinga
Paper Book, 1996
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Dark and Middle Ages, English History, Middle Ages
Collection
Greg

Waning of the Middle Ages: a Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Dawn of the Renaissance

by J. Huizinga
Paperback, 1954
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Dark and Middle Ages, France, Chivalry, Courtly Love
Collection
Gifts

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

by Maria Rosa Menocal
Hardcover, 2002
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Dark and Middle Ages, Spain, Al-Andalus, Andalusia, Islamic History, Khazars, Kabbalah, Jewish History, Christianity vs. Islam
Collection
Gifts

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (8 vols. in 2 boxed sets)

by Edward Gibbon
Paper Book, 1983
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Late Antiquity, Pagans and Christians, Graeco-Roman World, Rome, Christianity, Islam, Julian
Collection
Don

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Comparative and Western Religion, Axial Age, Monotheism, Vedas, Aryans, Indo-European Culture, Ancestor Worship, Confucianism, Taoism, Judean Monotheism, Greek Rationalism — 5 more, Mycenean World, Canaanites, Phonaecia, Maps, Glossary
Collections
Rowan, In Storage

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Comparative and Western Religion, Axial Age, 900-200 BCE, Monotheism, Sacrifice, Vedas, Aryans, Indo-European Culture, Ancestor Worship, Confucianism, Taoism — 10 more, Judean Monotheism, Greek Rationalism, Mycenean World, Canaanites, Phonaecia, Empathy, Maps, Endnotes, Glossary, Index
Collection
Gifts

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

by Roger Crowley
Hardcover, 2005
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Byzantium, Late Antiquity, Constantinople, Holy War, Islam, Crusades, Middle Ages, Ottoman Empire, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The annals of imperial Rome

by Cornelius Tacitus
Paper Book, 1973
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Classics, Tacitus, Rome, History
Collection
Don

A History of the English Church and People

by Venerable Bede
Paperback, 1976
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Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Anglo-Saxon History, English Church, English People, Venerable Bede (673-735)
Collection
Don

The battle for God

by Karen Armstrong
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
Studies of Religion, Comparative Religion, Fundamentalism, Abrahamic Religions
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

The Battle for God

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
Studies of Religion, Comparative Religion, Fundamentalism, Abrahamic Religions
Collection
Gifts

What went wrong? : Western impact and Middle Eastern response

by Bernard Lewis
Paper Book, 2002
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Islam, History
Collection
Don

A History of Private Life, Volume II, Revelations of the Medieval World

by Phillippe Ariés Editor
Hardcover, 1988
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History, Dark and Middle Ages, Bibliography, Monasticism, Marriage, Literature, Women in History, Knights, Daily Life, Illustrated
Collection
Gifts

The early history of Rome : Books I-V of The history of Rome from its foundation

by Titus Livius
Paper Book, 1971
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Classics, Livy, History, Rome
Collection
Don

In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

by Mary Beth Norton
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
Salem Witch Trials, Witchcraft
Collection
Don

Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History

by James Carroll
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Christianity, Judaism, Antisemitism, Roman Catholic Church, History, Early Christianity
Collection
Gifts

The Templars

by Piers Paul Read
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
Crusades and Orders Militant, Crusades, Islam, Knights Templar, Baphomet
Collection
Don

Albion: Origins of the English Imagination

by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
England, Great Britain, British Isles, Cultural History
Collection
Anna

A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

by Philippe Aries Editor
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
History, Roman Empire, Byzantium, Bibliography, Illustrated, Late Antiquity
Collection
Gifts

Plagues and peoples

by William Hardy McNeill
Ebook, 1998
Tags
Anthropology, Pandemics, Plagues, Ebola, AIDS
Collection
Gifts

A history of western philosophy

by Bertrand Russell
Paper Book, 1945
Tags
Philosophy, Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Metaphysics, Catholic Philosophy, Saint Augustine, Theology, Romantic Movement, Hegel — 3 more, Descartes, Hume, Saint Thomas Aquinas
Collection
Anna

Orientalism

by Edward W. Said
Paperback, 1979
Tags
Orientalism and Egyptomania, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Whealton

The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (based on Werner Stein's Kulturfahrplan)

by Bernard Grun
Paperback, 1979
Tags
History, Reference
Collection
Anna

The Confessions of St. Augustine

by St. Augustine
Paperback, 1951
Tags
Catholicism, Confessions, Saint Augustine
Collection
Glenn

The Confessions of St. Augustine

by Harold C Gardiner
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Roman Catholicism
Collection
Glenn
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