In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, ...

Through the whole history, one senses the gradual rise of a national awareness. Snorri Sturluson is, without compare, the greatest historian of the Middle Ages.

The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique bourgeois society from the post-Napoleonic era to the present age and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "primal history" that underlies its ideological mask.

A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.

The classic history of Adolph Hitler's rise to power and his dramatic defeat.

He displays everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens "Peter Green's The Year of Salamis is deservedly famous, combining scholarship and imagination with the ability to tell a stirring tale."—J.

Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived.

This important book further asserts that although fascist ideology was grounded in a revolt against the Enlightenment, it was not a reactionary movement.

"Braudel's Mediterranean is a tour de force, one of the classics of this century's historical writing."—Charles Tilly, author of As Sociology Meets History

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy.