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The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700

A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth centur...

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The Making of a Terrorist: Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution

Much has been written about the French Revolution and especially its bloody phase known as the Reign...

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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City

A sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice—from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the pr...

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Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings

Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of phi...

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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlig...

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A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which litera...

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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where...

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Economy in European History: Words, Contexts and Change over Time

Prompted by the 'linguistic turn' of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians c...

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The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts fo...

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Montesquieu: Let There Be Enlightenment

Since the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton, Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarshi...

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La Serenissima: The Story of Venice

'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary – her aspect is like a dr...

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Europe: The History of a Continent

Whether as an epic battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an enduring imprint on...

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City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People

In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of t...

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Tudor England: A History

A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England W...

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The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation

Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations b...