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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Villageby Ronald BlytheISBN 1585790095 (1-58579-009-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village'Book summary:This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared. [via]
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Akenfield:Portrait of an English Village: Portrait of an English Villageby Ronald BlytheISBN 0713901004 (0-7139-0100-4)
Hardcover, Allen Lane The Penguin P.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akenfield:Portrait of an English Village: Portrait of an English Village'Book summary:This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared. [via]
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Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social History: Katherine Scott Sturdevantby Katherine Scott SturdevantISBN 1558705104 (1-55870-510-4)
Softcover, F & W Pubns
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Carnival in Romansby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0807609919 (0-8076-0991-9)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Lifeby Philippe AriesISBN 0394702867 (0-394-70286-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Millerby Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne TedeschiISBN 0801843871 (0-8018-4387-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Softcover, Dorset Press - The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller: ISBN 0801823366 (0-8018-2336-6)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press - The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller: ISBN 0801843871 (0-8018-4387-1)
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Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Centuryby Fernand BraudelISBN 0060148454 (0-06-014845-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeedby Jared DiamondISBN 0143036556 (0-14-303655-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'Book summary:Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.
Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Customs in Commonby E.P. ThompsonISBN 1565840038 (1-56584-003-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Customs in Common'Book summary:Customs in Common is the remarkable companion to E. P. Thompson's landmark volume of social history The Making of the English Working Class. The product of years of research and debate, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working-class institutions emerged in England--a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. [via]
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Customs in Common : Studies in Traditional Popular Cultureby E. P. ThompsonISBN 1565840747 (1-56584-074-7)
Softcover, New Press, The
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry Thompson Rowell, E. O. LorimerISBN 0300101864 (0-300-10186-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry T. RowellISBN 0300000316 (0-300-00031-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Daily Life in Medieval Times: A Vivid, Detailed Account of Birth, Marriage and Death; Food, Clothing and Housing; Love and Labor in the Middle Agesby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 1579120695 (1-57912-069-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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This book takes readers into the fascinating world of medieval life through historic pictures, period illustrations and detailed text that describes everything from castle-storming techniques to villagers' hair styles.
Three real medieval places - a castle in Chepstow on the Welsh border, the city of Troyes in the country of Champagne and the village of Elton in the English East Midlands - are the jumping - off point for this thorough exploration of 13th and 14th century life in Europe.
The authors use recent archeloogical discoveries and historic and contemporary documents in conjunction with diagrams and dramatic photographs to give readers a full understanding of what it was truly like to live 700 years ago. [via]
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel Foucault, Alan SheridanISBN 0679752552 (0-679-75255-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Educationby Liza PicardISBN 0312291531 (0-312-29153-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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This book spans the period from 1740 to 1770-very much the city of Dr. Johnson, who published his great Dictionary in 1755. It starts when the gin craze was gaining ground and ends just before America ceased being a colony. In its enthralling review of an exhilarating era, Dr. Johnson's London brilliantly records the strangeness and individuality of the past--and continually reminds us of parallels with the present day.More editions of Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education:
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Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education: ISBN 0312291531 (0-312-29153-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dr. Johnson's London: Life in London 1740-1770by Liza PicardISBN 0297842188 (0-297-84218-8)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency Englandby Venetia MurrayISBN 0140282963 (0-14-028296-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England'Book summary:Regency England was, according to Venetia Murray, a "glorious paradox": High society placed a premium on civilized living, yet vulgarity, gluttony, and moral vicissitude were considered fashionable--and socially acceptable--vices. In An Elegant Madness, Murray examines this polarity, providing readers with an accurate, entertaining, easy-to-read portrayal that conveys the mood of the period, focusing primarily on the oft-paradoxical social practices and attitudes of the English aristocracy.
Generally understood as a 50-year period beginning, as with the French Revolution, just before the dawn of the 19th century, Regency England (or, more precisely, its uppermost stata) remained, in many ways, oblivious to and safely distanced from the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars consuming the continent. The tone of society, according to Murray, tends to be set by its titular head; thus, the paradox and political detachment of the Regency Period emanated primarily from its leader, the Prince Regent. The carefree Regent, who would reign as King George IV from 1820 to 1830, was known not only as "The First Gentleman of Europe," but also as a dedicated hedonist, drunkard, and lecher. Elegance and vulgarity characterized the rest of the English aristocracy, as well, and Murray's chapters clearly illustrate how Regency high society appropriated for itself the same duality as their leader's. Her chapters, each a freestanding study of its own, examine fashions of the period, the (exorbitant) cost of living, London high society, clubs and taverns, the common practice of taking a mistress, the country home, and the seaside resort. She embellishes her study with cartoons, prints, and caricatures of the period, all of which contribute to our understanding of this unique period of English history. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack [via]
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English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoriaby George MacAulay TrevelyanISBN 058248488X (0-582-48488-X)
Hardcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoria'Book summary:Social history, writes G.M. Trevelyan, is "the history of a people with the politics left out". This book offers an unparalleled portrait of everyday English life, from the emergence of the English as "a racial and cultural unit" in Chaucer's day through six varied and kaleidoscopic centuries to 1901. Beneath the surface of the great changes in political and military history "social change moves like an underground river"; it is Trevelyan's unique achievement in this inspiring and evocative book to capture every tiny detail of its ebb and flow. [via]
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English Society in the Eighteenth Centuryby Roy PorterISBN 0140138196 (0-14-013819-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Society in the Eighteenth Century'Book summary:This is a portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. [via]
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800by Laurence StoneISBN 0060141425 (0-06-014142-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England, Fifteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred Abr. Ed. Illus.by Lawrence StoneISBN 0060907355 (0-06-090735-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Family, Sex, and Marriageby Lawrence StoneISBN 0061319791 (0-06-131979-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companionby Jared DiamondISBN 1586638637 (1-58663-863-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion'Book summary:Scholar and professor Jared Diamond made a huge splash with this fascinating but controversial book, which argues that geography and environment have almost singlehandedly determined the course of human history. Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook:- Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia rather than the other way around?
- Why is geography the most important factor in human history?
- How has the rest of the scientific community received Diamond's theory?
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High Societyby MurrayISBN 0670857580 (0-670-85758-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Society'Book summary:This social history of the Regency Period chronicles the manners, the morals and the attitudes of everyone from dandies to pugilists, duchesses to courtesans. Also, the art of caricature flourished during the Regency and this book contains examples from artists such as Gillray and Cruikshank. [via]
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History of England: The Illustrated Editionby George MacAulay TrevelyanISBN 0582484715 (0-582-48471-5)
Hardcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantiumby Philippe Aries, Georges Duby, Paul VeyneISBN 0674399757 (0-674-39975-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium'Book summary:First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slavesfrom concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces.
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.
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A History of Private Life: III Passions of the Renaissanceby Roger Chartier, Arthurf GoldhammerISBN 067440002X (0-674-40002-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval Worldby Georges Duby, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400011 (0-674-40001-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World'Book summary:All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian Englandby Judith FlandersISBN 0393327639 (0-393-32763-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England'Book summary:"Almost criminal in its housebreaking, burglarizing, second-story genius."James Kincaid, University of Southern California
The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such household drudgery was routinely performed by the grandparents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been.
Judith Flanders's book is laid out like a Victorian house, taking you through the story of daily life from room to room. In each space she depicts the home's furnishings and decoration: from childbirth in the master bedroom, through the scullery and kitchen, the separate male and female domains of the drawing room and the parlor, and ending in the sickroom. A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings fills the rooms with the people and personalities of the age. 100 illustrations, 3 8-page color inserts. 100 illustrations, 3 8-page color inserts [via]More editions of Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England:
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Life in a Medieval Villageby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 0060920467 (0-06-092046-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in a Medieval Village'Book summary:A lively, detailed picture of village life in the Middle Ages by the authors of Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle. "A good general introduction to the history of this period."--Los Angeles Times [via]
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Life in the English Country Houseby Mark GirourardISBN 0140054065 (0-14-005406-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in the English Country House'Book summary:The English country house has flourished over the centuries because of its ability to adapt to the changes in English society. This book is an account of the ways in which the upper-class life style were reflected in the houses in which the wealthy and powerful lived. First published in 1978, this is a history of the English country house from the point of view of its owners and users. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the world of Evelyn Waugh, the author also discusses and illustrates how the life of the upper classes shaped their country hosues, how they entertained and were served, how they ran the country and their estates and how they reconciled personal privacy and public display. [via]
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0300058705 (0-300-05870-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939by Robert Graves, Alan HodgeISBN 0393311368 (0-393-31136-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939'Book summary:A classic social history by two distinguished writers who lived through the time. "The long week-end" is the authors' evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain's social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. From a postwar period of prosperity and frivolity through the ever-darkening decade of the thirties, The Long Week-End deftly and movingly preserves the details and captures the spirit of the time. [via]
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The Making of the English Working Classby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394703227 (0-394-70322-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of the English Working Class'Book summary:This is a book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality. [via]
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Medieval Peopleby Eileen PowerISBN 1428013458 (1-4280-1345-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval People'Book summary:Medieval People is an account of the lives of six individuals who lived during the Middle Ages: a Frankish peasant; Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler; Madame Eglentyne, prioress of Chaucer's Cantervury Tales; a middle-class Parisian housewife; two English merchants, one engaged in the wool trade and the other in Essex clothier. The author has illustrated various aspects of social life of the era by drawing on such sources as account books, diaries, letters, records, and wills. A previously unpublished essay by Eileen Power has been added to the present edition. Entitled "The Precursors," it describes the barbarian conquest of Rome. [via]
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Montaillouby LadurieISBN 0859674037 (0-85967-403-7)
Hardcover, Ashgate Publishing, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou'Book summary:This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters. [via]
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Errorby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0394729641 (0-394-72964-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error'Book summary:"Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historians experience and which is usually reserved for the winner of the Prix Goncourt...Montaillou, which is the reconstruction of the social life of a medieval village, has been acclaimed by the experts as a masterpiece of ethnographic history and by the public as a sensational revelation of the thoughts, feelings, and activities of the ordinary people of the past."Times Literary Supplement.
With a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France, almost destroyed by internal feuds and religious heterodoxy. Ladurie's portrait is based on a detailed register of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers and future Pope Benedict XII, who conducted rigorous inquisition into heresy within his diocese. Fournier was a consummate inquisitor, an acute psychologist who was able to elicit from the accused the innermost secrets of their thoughts and actions. He was pitiless in the pursuit of error, and meticulous in recording that pursuit.
LeRoy Ladurie analyzes the behavior, demography, social mentality, and cosmology of the community of peasants and shepherds, and vividly evokes the daily life of the village and mountain pastures. His portrait of Montaillou is dominated by the personal histories of two men: the curé Pierre Clergue, a brutal and powerful man who placed his enemies in the hands of the inquisitor; and the shepherd Pierre Maury, a friend of the Albigensian perfecti and a fatalist who returned from Spain to disappear in the inquisitor's prison in his own country. Montaillou, which has received even more praise than LeRoy Ladurie's earlier work, provides a portrait of a fascinating place with a dark, intriguing history. [via]More editions of Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error:
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Montaillou, Village Occitan De 1294 a 1324by Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 2070323285 (2-07-032328-5)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou, Village Occitan De 1294 a 1324'Book summary:Sorte de Maigret obsessif et compulsif, Jacques Fournier, évêque de Pamiers et bientôt pape sous le nom de Benoît XII, officie à la tête d'un tribunal poursuivant les hérétiques cathares de son diocèse. À Montaillou, village d'Ariège, vingt-cinq accusés sont interrogés : le tout est consigné par le scribe consciencieux dans les folios du registre d'Inquisition.
Voilà la matière première exceptionnelle qui a nourri Montaillou, village occitan, une monographie dans laquelle Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie raconte le quotidien d'un village au début du XIVe siècle : la vie banale des montagnards comme le gentil pâtre Pierre Maury, une sociabilité villageoise prise aux jeux de l'amour et de l'adultère autour du curé, infatigable coureur de jupons Pierre Clergue, une culture et des croyances populaires profondément ancrées et parfois déviantes.
Avec cet ouvrage majeur, Le Roy Ladurie ramène le lecteur près de sept siècles en arrière, à la rencontre d'un village, de ses habitants et de ses secrets. --Loïs Klein [via]
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The Pastons: A Family In The Wars Of The Rosesby Richard BarberISBN 1843831112 (1-84383-111-2)
Softcover, Boydell & Brewer Inc
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A People's History of the United Statesby Howard Zinn, Ww Norton & Co New PrISBN 1565843797 (1-56584-379-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States'Book summary:For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- its women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Here we learn that many of our country's greatest battles -- labor laws, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against steel-willed resistance. This edition of A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of some of the most important events in this country in the past one hundred years.Featuring a preface and afterword read by the author himself, this audio continues Howard Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. [via]More editions of A People's History of the United States:
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Presentby Howard ZinnISBN 0060838655 (0-06-083865-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present'Book summary:Its a wonderful, splendid booka book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants
[It] should be required reading. Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review
Library Journal calls Howard Zinns iconic A People's History of the United States a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those&whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinns award-winning classic continues to revolutionize the way American history is taught and remembered. Frequent appearances in popular media such as The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Good Will Hunting, and the History Channel documentary The People Speak testify to Zinns ability to bridge the generation gap with enduring insights into the birth, development, and destiny of the nation. [via]
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A People's History of the United States: Teaching Editionby Howard ZinnISBN 1565843665 (1-56584-366-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States: Teaching Edition'Book summary:Few works of American history have done more to change the way in which recent generations have looked at their past than Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Currently in its 25th printing, Zinn's work presents more than five hundred years of American social and cultural history, going well beyond the wars and presidencies of traditional texts to tell the stories of working men and women. For the first time, Zinn has abridged the original text for classroom use. Questions and activities to encourage critical thinking, topics for writing and discussion, and a bibliography of related materials by educator Kathy Emery accompany each chapter covering American history from Columbus to Clinton. [via]
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A People's History of the United States: The Wall Chartsby Howard Zinn, George KirschnerISBN 1565841719 (1-56584-171-9)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts'Book summary:Zinn's classic work in its most innovative format: myth-busting posters.
Few works of American history have done more to change the way in which recent generations have looked at their past than Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. With millions of copies sold, Zinn's social history fleshes out the bare skeleton of traditional historical texts with the stories of working men and women throughout this country's history.
A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts is a set of two posters and an explanatory booklet designed to bring the contents of the original People's History to an even broader audience. Illustrated in full color, they portray over five hundred years of American social and cultural history. Organized thematically as well as chronologically, they allow the reader to trace the developments of specific topicsfrom slavery and resistance to the role of womenthrough images and quotations that go well beyond the wars and presidencies of traditional American history.
A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts creates a unique tool for learning about American history from the celebrated book that turned history on its head. [via]More editions of A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts:
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Restoration London : Engaging Anecdotes and Tantalizing Trivia from the Most Magnificent and Renowned City of Europeby Liza PicardISBN 038073236X (0-380-73236-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration London : Engaging Anecdotes and Tantalizing Trivia from the Most Magnificent and Renowned City of Europe'Book summary:Here is seventeenth-century London as you've never seen it. The Restoration of Charles II marked a period of growth in colonization and trade, the rise of political parties, and an increase in the power of Parliament. Restoration London provides a fascinating look at everyday life in the city during that time. Using diaries, almanacs, newspapers, advice books, government papers, personal documents, and more, Liza Picard brilliantly portrays the human side of both ordinary daily living and catastrophic events. We see a fire out of control, leaving a great and prosperous city buried in its own ruins. We witness an enormous rebuilding, with determination from the people and a Proclamation from Charles that London would be "a much more beautiful city than that consumed."
From the splendor of lovely English gardens to pollution-filled air and streets clogged with waste and rubbish; from graceful living, fashionable clothes, and elegant décor to medical risks, plagues, accidents, and early deaths, this unique book describes the simple pleasures and the overwhelming difficulties of the time. We discover the craft of cabinet making, the art of embroidery, and the revival of theater. We are shown the importance of astrology, magic, and superstition in medical care, the labor of housework and shopping, the pleasures of music and dancing, the hazards of sex, the limitations of education, the nature of the laws, the conflicting views of the churches, and the extremes of poverty and wealth.
With meticulous detail and vivid descriptions, Restoration London shows us the people who lived there and gives us a better understanding of who they were. [via]
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Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rightsby Liza PicardISBN 0312186592 (0-312-18659-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights'Book summary:RESTORATION LONDON is a remarkably thorough and informative picture of everyday life in 17th century London. Picard has provided a detail of everyday life in the era of London, after the House of Stuarts was restored. The streets, houses, gardens, cooking, housework, laundry, shopping, clothes, jewelry, cosmetics, hairdressing, medicine, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular beliefs--the stuff of any era's daily life--are all detailed. Picard's research for RESTORATION LONDON was drawn from sources contemporary to that century: diaries, almanacs, newpapers, books, government papers, even patent registrations. RESTORATION LONDON is for anyone who wants to know more of the interesting details of life in London during the dawning of it's modern era. [via]
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Salt: A World Historyby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0142001619 (0-14-200161-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salt: A World History'Book summary:[via]Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take salt for granted, a common, inexpensive substance that seasons food or clears ice from roads, a word used casually in expressions ("salt of the earth," take it with a grain of salt") without appreciating their deeper meaning. However, as Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates in his world- encompassing new book, saltthe only rock we eathas shaped civilization from the very beginning. Its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind.Until about 100 years ago, when modern chemistry and geology revealed how prevalent it is, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities, and no wonder, for without it humans and animals could not live. Salt has often been considered so valuable that it served as currency, and it is still exchanged as such in places today. Demand for salt established the earliest trade routes, across unknown oceans and the remotest of deserts: the city of Jericho was founded almost 10,000 years ago as a salt trading center. Because of its worth, salt has provoked and financed some wars, and been a strategic element in others, such as the American Revolution and the Civil War. Salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia and have also inspired revolution (Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India); indeed, salt has been central to the age-old debate about the rights of government to tax and control economies.
The story of salt encompasses fields as disparate as engineering, religion, and food, all of which Kurlansky richly explores. Few endeavors have inspired more ingenuity than salt making, from the natural gas furnaces of ancient China to the drilling techniques that led to the age of petroleum, and salt revenues have funded some of the greatest public works in history, including the Erie Canal, and even cities (Syracuse, New York). Salt's ability to preserve and to sustain life has made it a metaphorical symbol in all religions. Just as significantly, salt has shaped the history of foods like cheese, sauerkraut, olives, and more, and Kurlansky, an award-winning food writer, conveys how they have in turn molded civilization and eating habits the world over.
Salt is veined with colorful characters, from Li Bing, the Chinese bureaucrat who built the world's first dam in 250 BC, to Pattillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas who, ignoring the advice of geologists, drilled an east Texas salt dome in 1901 and discovered an oil reserve so large it gave birth to the age of petroleum. From the sinking salt towns of Cheshire in England to the celebrated salt mine on Avery Island in Louisiana; from the remotest islands in the Caribbean where roads are made of salt to rural Sichaun province, where the last home-made soya sauce is made, Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale. -
The Story of Saltby Mark Kurlansky, S.D. SchindlerISBN 0399239987 (0-399-23998-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Salt'Book summary:From the team that created the ALA Notable Book The Cod's Tale comes the fascinating history of salt, which has been the object of wars and revolutions and is vital for life.[via]Based on Mark Kurlansky's critically acclaimed bestseller Salt: A World History, this handsome picture book explores every aspect of salt: The many ways it's gathered from the earth and sea; how ancient emperors in China, Egypt, and Rome used it to keep their subjects happy; Why salt was key to the Age of Exploration; what salt meant to the American Revolution; And even how the search for salt eventually led to oil. Along the way, you'll meet a Celtic miner frozen in salt, learn how to make ketchup, and even experience salt's finest hour: Gandhi's famous Salt March.
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The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possibleby Fernand BraudelISBN 0520081145 (0-520-08114-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible'Book summary:By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.[via]More editions of The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible:
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The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbedby Judith FlandersISBN 0007131887 (0-00-713188-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed'Book summary:Judith Flanders takes a novel approach to rediscovering the lives of our 19th century forebears in her The Victorian House. She pays them a visit. Perhaps mindful of the success of the Channel 4 series, The 1900 House and The 1940s House, Flanders steps back a few decades earlier to embark on a room-by-room guide to a typical mid-Victorian family home. We start in the bedroom and work our way downstairs through the principal parts of a middle-class home. Particular attention is paid to the operations side of the household--the bathroom, the kitchen and the scullery--where the Victorian preoccupation with cleanliness and food is well-described. Flanders is also good at drawing out the decorative functions of the Victorian home, bringing out the separate male and female domains of the drawing room and the parlour.
A wealth of detail--from advice books such as Mrs Beeton's cookbooks, novels, contemporary magazines and autobiographies--is crammed into each room. This is more than an inventory of interior design. Flanders uses the house as a base from which Victorian attitudes towards servants, marriage, illness, death and religion can be explored. There remains a small quibble: this book should really be titled "The Middle-class House of Victorian London". We are not taken to any provincial homes. And a question mark remains over how representative Flanders' rather grand Victorian house is, heaving as it does with servants, hot water and ornate furnishings. As she herself notes, few Victorian families could afford more than one servant at the very most, many married couples still lived with their older relatives and hardly anyone owned their own home. --Miles Taylor [via]
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The Weaker Vesselby Antonia FraserISBN 0394259319 (0-394-25931-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Weaker Vessel'Book summary:Drawing from a wondrously deep well of diaries, letters, and papers from 17th-century England, the gifted historian Antonia Fraser gives the image of the "softer sex" a drubbing, plunging readers into the lives of "heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress." Prophetess Jane Hawkins, called "a witty crafty baggage" by one angry bishop, got around the ironclad law forbidding women to preach by claiming inspiration from God, while Catholic Mary Ward risked her neck repeatedly to found a string of convents and schools for girls on the European continent. Although several good wives of London beat the Lord Mayor in 1649 for his part in trying to arrest five members of Parliament, it's certainly true that most Englishwomen of the time were hemmed in by the whims and fears of men. Wealthy girls were routinely used as chips to bolster family fortunes through marriage, and any old, poor woman unfortunate enough to have "a furred brow, a hairy lip, a squint eye, a squeaking voice or a scolding tongue" lived under suspicion of witchcraft, wrote one contemporary observer. In Fraser's sure hands and supple prose, memorable and execrable historic moments spring to life. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
The Weaker Vessel : Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century Englandby Antonia FraserISBN 0394513517 (0-394-51351-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life Innineteenth-Century Englandby Daniel PoolISBN 0671882368 (0-671-88236-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steelby Jared DiamondISBN 848306667X (84-8306-667-X)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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LA Otra Historia De Los Estados Unidosby Howard ZinnISBN 1583220542 (1-58322-054-2)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Otra Historia De Los Estados Unidos'Book summary:La obra de Howard Zinn ha inspirado a estudiantes y activistas de todas las edades, afirmando que la gente tiene el poder de cambiar la historia. En La otra historia de los Estados Unidos, la version definitiva en español del clásico de Zinn La historia del pueblo de los Estados Unidos, Zinn asume la narrativa típica de la historia americana y nos muestra la mentira que se esconde detrás de la historia "oficial" -- revelando a Cristóbal Colón no como descubridor sino como asesino; los fundadores de la nación norteamericana no como liberadores sino como la fundación de una nueva elite adinerada -- y a la vez aboga por héroes americanos alternativos, desde Bartolomeo de las Casas hasta Tecumseh y César Chávez, quienes desafiaron el poder norteamericano imperialista y vencieron.
Actualizado y ampliado incluyendo la presidencia de Bush, La otra historia de los Estados Unidos nos vuelve a recordar que la grandeza verdadera de America se encuentra no en los generales militares, sino en sus voces disidentes. [via]More editions of LA Otra Historia De Los Estados Unidos:
El Queso Y Los Gusanosby Carlo GinzburgISBN 9706512071 (970-651-207-1)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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