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History of the American Economy
(Cengage Learning, 2010)
Tying America's past to the economic policies of today and beyond, HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY 11e presents events chronologically for easy understanding. Get a firm foundation in the evolution of the American economy ...
The Russian Empire, 1450-1801
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys ...
Small dictionaries and curiosity. Lexicography and fieldwork in post-medieval Europe
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Small Dictionaries and Curiosity' tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth ...
World History (Eyewitness Companions)
(Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2010)
This title offers more than 10,000 years of history in the palm of your hand. From the early beginnings of human civilization in prehistoric times, to the first manned space flight and beyond, discover all about the things ...
Living the revolution: urban communes and Soviet socialism, 1917-1932
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Offers a pioneers insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book is a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. First banding together ...
Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in your Hand
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable sundial that has ...
The Turing Guide
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media ...
The Middle Ages
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015)
Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from ...
A New History of the Sermon: the Nineteenth Century
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)
The latest installment in Brills A New History of the Sermon series offers innovative studies of sacred rhetoric in the nineteenth century. The three sectionsTheory and Theology, Sermon and Society in the British Empire, ...
Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume II : From the 1400s
(Cengage Learning, 2010)
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, Seventh Edition, maintains a firm grounding in political history, while covering intellectual history (particularly the significance of ideas and contributions) to a greater and deeper ...