The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

Similar books (20)

• 

  Thermopylae: The Battle for the West

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Revolutionary: George Washington at War

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

  In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
  
  Contrary to what so many Ame…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Washington: A Life

  The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's trouble…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Reformation: A History

  At a time when men and women were prepared to kill--and be killed--for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Day of the Triffids

  This book is fantastic and frightening, but entirely plausible. It doesn't just seem scientifically possible, but its characters are living people shaken out of the civilization they know into the hor…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848

  This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphorist…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017

  A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
  
  In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Kh…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

  The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a cha…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

  Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of ou…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

  From the rear cover of this 738 page "A phenomenal achievement, clear, authoritative and compelling......Thomas Pakenham's fine book tells the story of this particular gold rush with admirable and jud…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Medieval Europe

  The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet di…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

  In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthrallin…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Hegel: A Very Short Introduction

  Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some o…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Marx: A Very Short Introduction

  In Marx: A Very Short Introdution, Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerne…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Age of Capital, 1848–1875

  In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revolution--this time a revolution of values. The author examines the rise of industrial capitalism and the c…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Age of Empire, 1875–1914

  In this third volume of his four-volume history of the modern world, as it has been produced by the development and expansion of the West, Eric Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose s…

  Buy this book on Amazon