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Absolute Destruction: Military Culture And the Practices of War in Imperial Germanyby Isabel V. HullISBN 0801472938 (0-8014-7293-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Age of Reformation.by Elmore Harris HarbisonISBN 0801498449 (0-8014-9844-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirsby Elie WieselISBN 078620673X (0-7862-0673-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imaginationby Denis CosgroveISBN 0801874440 (0-8018-7444-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from spaceto see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apolloimages of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.
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Attila King of the Huns: The Man and the Mythby Patrick HowarthISBN 0786709308 (0-7867-0930-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Austrians: A Thousand-Year Odysseyby Gordon Brook-ShepherdISBN 0786711027 (0-7867-1102-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Barcelona: The Great Enchantressby Robert HughesISBN 079226794X (0-7922-6794-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Beowulfby Harold BloomISBN 0791040828 (0-7910-4082-8)
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Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England's Terrorby Jasper RidleyISBN 0786709863 (0-7867-0986-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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A Brief History of the Druidsby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0786709871 (0-7867-0987-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?by Jonathan ClementsISBN 0786715995 (0-7867-1599-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experienceby R.Bin WongISBN 0801483271 (0-8014-8327-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Churchill at War 1940-1945: Lord Moranby MoranISBN 0786710411 (0-7867-1041-1)
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Cities & the Sea: Port City Planning in Early Modern Europeby Josef W. KonvitzISBN 0801820383 (0-8018-2038-3)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945by Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0788160508 (0-7881-6050-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Communards of Paris, 1871by Stewart EdwardsISBN 0801491401 (0-8014-9140-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791by Jeffrey S. RavelISBN 080148541X (0-8014-8541-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Crusades: Islam and Christianity in the Struggle for World Supremacyby Geoffrey HindleyISBN 0786713445 (0-7867-1344-5)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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The Dawn of Empire:Rome's Rise to World Power: Rome's Rise to World Powerby Robert Malcolm ErringtonISBN 0801406897 (0-8014-0689-7)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battlesby Christopher MaynardISBN 0789429632 (0-7894-2963-2)
Softcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Accountby Bartolome De Las Casas, Herma BriffaultISBN 0801844304 (0-8018-4430-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelistsby Daniel PoolISBN 0788193147 (0-7881-9314-7)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Dutch Revoltby Geoffrey ParkerISBN 080141136X (0-8014-1136-X)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Early Growth of European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuriesby Georges Duby, Howard B. ClarkeISBN 080149169X (0-8014-9169-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Eastern Europe in Revolutionby Ivo BanacISBN 0801499976 (0-8014-9997-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Estates and Revolutions: Essays in Early Modern European Historyby H. G. KoenigsbergerISBN 0801406056 (0-8014-0605-6)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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Europe Reshaped, 1848-1878by J. A. S. GrenvilleISBN 0801492076 (0-8014-9207-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Everyday Life in Ancient Romeby Lionel CassonISBN 0801859921 (0-8018-5992-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Friars and the Jews: Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaismby Jeremy CohenISBN 0801492661 (0-8014-9266-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Fuhrerby Ralph Manheim, Kondrad HeidenISBN 078670683X (0-7867-0683-X)
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Gender and Class in Modern Europeby Laura L. Frader, Sonya O. RoseISBN 0801481465 (0-8014-8146-5)
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German Calvinism in the Confessional Age: The Covenant Theology of Caspar Olevianusby Lyle D. BiermaISBN 0801021111 (0-8010-2111-1)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Gorgiasby Plato, James H. NicholsISBN 0801485274 (0-8014-8527-4)
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The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalismby Heiko Augustinus ObermanISBN 0801020379 (0-8010-2037-9)
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Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romansby Peter RichardsonISBN 0800631641 (0-8006-3164-1)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 Bc-Ad1603by Simon SchamaISBN 0786866756 (0-7868-6675-6)
Hardcover, Miramax
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He tells the official version of Britain's island story--from Roman Britain, through the Norman conquest, the struggles of the Henrys and Richards with their barons and clerics, Edward I and the subjugation of Wales, King Death (the plague), and on to the Henrician reformation, before closing with the remarkable reign of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. But, while sticking to a script familiar to anyone who sat up and listened in history lessons at school, Schama brings it all alive, with memorable prose--Simon de Montfort's rebel parliament is described as inaugurating the "union between patriotism and insubordination"; with Henry VIII, Schama says, "you could practically smell the testosterone." And with fine sensitivity, too, particularly on the symbolism of buildings, memorials, language, and ceremonies, and on the complex relations between England and her Celtic and Catholic neighbors. If history must have gloss, then let it be written and presented like this. --Miles Taylor, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2002by Simon SchamaISBN 0786868996 (0-7868-6899-6)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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The Fate of Empire tells the eventful and exhilarating story of Britains rise and fall as an imperial power, from the political turmoil of the 1770s to the struggle of present day leaders to find a way to make a different national future. The volume also examines the Romantic generation, the role of women in Victorian England, industrialization, and the liberal empire from Ireland to India, which promised material improvement, but delivered coercion and famine. As in the previous volumes, Schama vividly portrays the lives of extraordinary personalities Queen Victoria, Churchill, Dickens, and ordinary individuals including the author of the first British travel guide, and Elizabeth Anderson, the first woman doctor.
Finally, Schama asks an essential question: what kind of Britain can hold together when its island isolation and its imperial dominion have both vanished? An examination of the legacy of the British ideal of freedom is at the heart of this entertaining and well-researched book. With The Fate of Empire, Simon Schama has proven himself, again, as a masterful writer of narrative history. [via]More editions of A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2002:
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History of Britain: The Wars of the British, 1603 - 1776by Simon SchamaISBN 0786867523 (0-7868-6752-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars -- full of blighted idealism, shocking carnage, and unexpected outcomes -- startlingly to life. These conflicts were fought unsparingly between the nations of the islands -- Ireland, England, and Scotland -- and between parliament and the crown. Shattering the illusion of a "united kingdom," they cost hundreds of thousands of lives: a greater proportion of the population than died in the First World War.
When religious passion gave way to the equally consuming passion for profits, it became possible for the pieces of Britain to come together as the spectacularly successful business enterprise of "Britannia Incorporated." And in a few generations that business state expanded in a dizzying process that transformed what had been an obscure, off-shore footnote to Europe's great powers into the main event -- the most powerful empire in the world.
Yet somehow, it was the "wrong empire." The British considered it a bastion of liberty, yet it was based on military force and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans. In America, the emptiness of British claims to protect "freedom" was thrown back into the teeth of colonial governors and redcoat soldiers, while the likes of Sam Adams and George Washington inherited the mantle of Cromwell.
Simon Schama grippingly evokes the horror of the battle, famine, and plague; the flames of burning cities; the pathos of broken families, with fathers and sons forced to choose opposing sides. But he also captures the intimacies of palace and parliament and the seductions of profit and pleasure. Geniuses like John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and Benjamin Franklin stalk vividly through his pages, but so do Scottish clansmen, women pamphleteers, and literate, eloquent African slaves like Olaudah Equiano. [via]
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Homer's Iliadby Harold BloomISBN 0791082407 (0-7910-8240-7)
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The Imaginative World of the Reformationby Peter MathesonISBN 0800632915 (0-8006-3291-5)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedocby James Buchanan GivenISBN 0801487595 (0-8014-8759-5)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Inside The Vaticanby Bart McDowell, James L. StanfieldISBN 0792252977 (0-7922-5297-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside The Vatican'Book summary:This lavishly illustrated guide through the Vatican captures the people, the treasures, and the inner workings of the center of the Roman Catholic Church. Bart McDowell takes readers through centuries of Vatican history, describing the days of the Roman Empire, the glorious years of the Renaissance, the power struggle between Church and State that endured from the late 7th century until 1929, and much more. Since the center of the Roman Catholic Church is also the world's smallest nation, McDowell explains religious matters, such as the process of canonization, and governmental operations of the Vatican-highlighted by a visit with Pope John Paul II as he attends to his many daily duties.
Photographer James L. Stanfield spent nearly a year inside the Vatican with unprecedented access to its museums, ceremonies, and people. His full-color photographs show art that few visitors to the Vatican have the chance to see-works of such masters as Michelangelo and Raphael-and provide private viewings of Pope John Paul II's quarters, the necropolis beneath St. Peter's Basilica, and world-renowned libraries. Through these beautiful and exclusive photographs and the revealing text that accompanies them, Inside the Vatican celebrates a small, dynamic community unique in the world. [via]
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The Kings and Queens of England and Scotlandby Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Plantagenet Somerset-FryISBN 0789442450 (0-7894-4245-0)
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The Late Middle Ages: Art and Architecture from 1350 to the Advent of the Renaissanceby Wim SwaanISBN 0801411416 (0-8014-1141-6)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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Library: An Unquiet Historyby Matthew BattlesISBN 0786268506 (0-7862-6850-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Louis Agassiz: A Life in Scienceby Edward LurieISBN 080183743X (0-8018-3743-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens: The Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings and Queens of Britainby Michael AshleyISBN 0786704055 (0-7867-0405-5)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queensby Mike AshleyISBN 0786706929 (0-7867-0692-9)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens'Book summary:Now in paperback, the most complete record of Britain's kings and queens ever compiled. In one compendious volume, The Mammoth Book of Kings & Queens offers the first royal biographical A-Z, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, usurpers, and regents. Monarchs from Queen Boadicea of the early Britons to Elizabeth II fill these pages, including various tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066, the semi-legendary figures of the Dark Ages, and all those who helped to forge the kingdom of Great Britain. Author Mike Ashley presents in chronological order all the kings and queens of Britain as well as other powerful nobles and dignitaries; he includes, too, genealogies showing the family descent of all the leading royal families as a further bonus. His resulting superb and authoritative one-volume reference is now available in an affordably priced Trade Paper edition. "A unique Domesday Book of the British monarchy. A reference work without peers" - Peter Berresford Ellis "Everything its title promises. The pages are filled with maps, charts, time lines, and everything anyone might ever want to know about the royals from ancient times to the present." - Publishers Weekly "Written in a lively style and covering more than 2,000 years and 1,000 monarchs (more than any previous compilation)" - Booklist[via]More editions of The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens:
Mediaeval Feudalismby Carl StephensonISBN 0801490138 (0-8014-9013-8)
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Medieval Marriage: Two Models from Twelfth-Century Franceby Georges Duby, Elborg ForsterISBN 0801843197 (0-8018-4319-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Melanchthon in Europe: His Work and Influence Beyond Wittenbergby Karin MaagISBN 0801022231 (0-8010-2223-1)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europeby Edward Muir, Guido RuggieroISBN 0801841836 (0-8018-4183-6)
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Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europeby Richard HodgesISBN 0801492629 (0-8014-9262-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe'Book summary:The archaeology of the period A.D. 500-1000 has taken off in the Mediterranean (where prehistoric and classical studies formerly enjoyed a virtual monopoly in most areas) and in the Islamic world. Here, as in northern Europe, field survey, careful excavation and improved methods of dating are beginning to supply information which now is not only more abundant but also of much higher quality than ever before. The 'New Archaeology', pioneered in the United States in the 1960s, has taught the archaeologist the value of anthropological models in the study of the past. The new data and models positively compel us to take a new look at the written sources and reconsider the 'making of the Middle Ages'.
Mohammed, Charlemagne, and the Origins of Europe attempts to prove the point. Henri Pirenne's classic history of Europe between the fifth and ninth centuries, Mohammed and Charlemagne, although published on the eve of the Second World War, remains an important work. Many parts of its bold framework have been attacked, but seldom decisively, for until now the evidence has been insufficient. In their concise book, Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse review the 'Pirenne thesis' in the light of archaeological information from northern Europe, the Mediterranean and western Asia.
In doing so, they have two objectives: to tackle the major issue of the origins of the Carolingian Empire and to indicate the almost staggering potential of the archaeological data. This book, then, is an attempt to rekindle interest in an important set of questions and to draw attention to new sets of data-and to persuade readers to look across traditional boundaries between classical and medieval, east and west, history and archaeology.
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Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe: Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesisby David Whitehouse, Richard HodgesISBN 0801416159 (0-8014-1615-9)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe: Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis'Book summary:The archaeology of the period A.D. 500-1000 has taken off in the Mediterranean (where prehistoric and classical studies formerly enjoyed a virtual monopoly in most areas) and in the Islamic world. Here, as in northern Europe, field survey, careful excavation and improved methods of dating are beginning to supply information which now is not only more abundant but also of much higher quality than ever before. The 'New Archaeology', pioneered in the United States in the 1960s, has taught the archaeologist the value of anthropological models in the study of the past. The new data and models positively compel us to take a new look at the written sources and reconsider the 'making of the Middle Ages'.
Mohammed, Charlemagne, and the Origins of Europe attempts to prove the point. Henri Pirenne's classic history of Europe between the fifth and ninth centuries, Mohammed and Charlemagne, although published on the eve of the Second World War, remains an important work. Many parts of its bold framework have been attacked, but seldom decisively, for until now the evidence has been insufficient. In their concise book, Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse review the 'Pirenne thesis' in the light of archaeological information from northern Europe, the Mediterranean and western Asia.
In doing so, they have two objectives: to tackle the major issue of the origins of the Carolingian Empire and to indicate the almost staggering potential of the archaeological data. This book, then, is an attempt to rekindle interest in an important set of questions and to draw attention to new sets of data-and to persuade readers to look across traditional boundaries between classical and medieval, east and west, history and archaeology.
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Moscow and the Italian Communist Party: From Togliatti to Berlinguerby Joan Barth UrbanISBN 0801493420 (0-8014-9342-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Odysseyby Homer, Richard P. Martin, Edward McCrorieISBN 0801882672 (0-8018-8267-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place: when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea, only this man longed for his wife and a way home." Homer's Odyssey , at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style. Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century. To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey , its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniq [via]
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The Odysseyby Richard P. Martin, HomerISBN 0801868548 (0-8018-6854-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom
and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,
only this man longed for his wife and a way home."
Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style.
Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century.
To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notesfar more extensive than those in other editionsaddressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.
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Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italyby Lauro MartinesISBN 0801836433 (0-8018-3643-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Reckoning With the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mindby James TurnerISBN 0801866774 (0-8018-6677-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Reform And Conflict: From the Medieval World to the Wars of Religion, Ad 1350-1648by Rudolph W. HeinzeISBN 0801012775 (0-8010-1277-5)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Rise of the Atlantic Economiesby Ralph DavisISBN 0801491436 (0-8014-9143-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Rise of Universitiesby Charles Homer HaskinsISBN 0801490154 (0-8014-9015-4)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Sharpe's Battleby Bernard CornwellISBN 0786205725 (0-7862-0572-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Sharpe's Trafalgarby Bernard CornwellISBN 078623699X (0-7862-3699-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Socialism in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to the Present Dayby Thomas Leckie JarmanISBN 0800872401 (0-8008-7240-1)
Hardcover, Taplinger
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The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysisby Madelon SprengnetherISBN 080149611X (0-8014-9611-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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To the Last Man: Spring 1918by Lyn MacdonaldISBN 0786707976 (0-7867-0797-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic Historyby Manfred JonasISBN 0801498902 (0-8014-9890-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Vienna in the Biedermeier Eraby Robert WaissenbergerISBN 0792457382 (0-7924-5738-2)
Hardcover, Bdd Promotional Book Co
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The War of Wars: The Great European War 1793 to 1815, an Epic Historyby Robert HarveyISBN 0786718579 (0-7867-1857-9)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Western Church in the Later Middle Agesby Francis OakleyISBN 0801493471 (0-8014-9347-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flightby Paul HoffmanISBN 0786885718 (0-7868-8571-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Witchcraft in the Middle Agesby Jeffrey Burton RussellISBN 0801492890 (0-8014-9289-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witchcraft in the Middle Ages'Book summary:All the known theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century are brilliantly set forth in this engaging and comprehensive history.Building on a foundation of newly discovered primary sources and recent secondary interpretations, Professor Russell first establishes the facts and then explains the phenomenon of witchcraft in terms of its social and religious environment, particularly in relation to medieval heresies. He treats European witchcraft as a product of Christianity, grounded in heresy more than in the magic and sorcery that have existed in other societies. Skillfully blending narration with analysis, he shows how social and religious changes nourished the spread of witchcraft until large portions of medieval Europe were in its grip-"from the most illiterate peasant to the most skilled philosopher or scientist."A significant chapter in the history of ideas and their repression is illuminated by this book. Our growing fascination with the occult gives the author's affirmation that witchcraft arises at times and in areas afflicted with social tensions a special quality of immediacy. [via]
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Women's Life in Greece and Romeby Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. FantISBN 080182866X (0-8018-2866-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translationby Mary Lefkowitz, Maureen B. FantISBN 0801883105 (0-8018-8310-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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