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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
301 p. ;
Description
"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--
82) The keep
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From National Book Award finalist Egan comes a spellbinding work of literary suspense enacted in a chilling psychological landscape.
83) Seasons
Publisher
Music Box Films
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Description
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays, Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxi, 616 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette,...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames--with kiosks,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history ... In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all...
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
285 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Description
"Describes the social and economic structure of life in the High Middle Ages (1100-1400), including the ruling classes, the peasantry, the urban dwellers, and members of the Church and the role each group played in shaping European civilization"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
Cities and Statecraft in the Renaissance looks at the rise of trade, commerce, guilds, and the merchant and ruling classes in northern Europe. This influenced the growth of towns, cities, states, and regions, who competed with one another for power, artistic talent, and creativity. At the same time, people rich and poor were struggling to establish new forms of society and government.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 307 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
"A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself."--Dust jacket.
98) The Decameron
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A 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story coveriing 100 tales by ten young people. The bawdy tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Includes tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons and also documents life in 14th-century Italy.
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