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Godfrey Library’s Books for Sale Topic: World History Buy online through the ebay link provided or call the library at (860) 346-4375 Price does not include shipping or tax. The Timetables of History, by Bernard Grun, based on Werner Stein’s Kulturfahrplan New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, First Touchstone Edition, 1982 The year starts from 5000 BC to 1978 $3.00 The Timetables of History, The New Third Revised Edition by Bernard Grun, New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1975, 774 pages 2 copies $2.00 Wonders of the Past $4.00 The Political and Cultural History of the Ancient World by Van Sickle 2 Vol. set $9.00 The Age of Ambition by F. R. H. Du Boulay $3.00 A History of the Arab Peoples, 1991, Albert Hourani, 551 pages no region in the world today is more important than the Middle East; no people more misunderstood than the Arabs. In this definitive masterwork, Hourani offers the most lucid, enlightening history ever written on the subject. From the rise of Island to the Palestinian issue, from the Prophet Mohammed to Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi, A History of the Arab Peoples chronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutions of this civilization through thirteen centuries of war, peace, literature, and religion. $0.50 The Romans: by Donald R. Dudley $0.50 The Complete Roman Drama 2 volumes $10.00 Sir William Smith’s Smaller History of Rome $3.00 The Annals of Imperial Rome, translated by Michael Grant $0.50 The Roman Emperors, A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 31 BC – AD 476 by Michael Grant 367pp pub. 1985 $1.00 A History of Private Life (From Pagan Rome to Byzantium) by Paul Veyne, Editor, Arthur Goldhammer, Translator 670 pp published in 1987 Subjects include Marriage, Slavery, Patrimony, Church and Leadership, Body and Heart, Violence and Death, and much more $6.00 World History Books 7/29/16 Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D. 100-400), MacMullen $0.50 Diocletian and the Roman Recovery, by Stephen Williams $6.00 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire copyright 1946 Vol 1, 2, 3 total of 2537pp by Edward Gibbon Gibbons' classic work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. This complete three volume set features beautiful illustrations by Italian artist Gian Battista Pirenesi on each cover. $35.00 Click Here to Purchase Sources of Chinese Tradition, 1999, Second Edition volume 1, compiled by William Theodore deBary and Irene Bloom. Subjects include The Shang Dynasty, The Oracle Bone Inscriptions, The Legacy of Shang, Transformation and Transcendence in the Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Legalist Theories in Practice, Codigying of the Confucian Canon, The Record of Rites and the Ritual Tradition, the Reforms of Wang Mang, Records of the Grand Historian, Wang Bi, Basic Teachings of Buddhism, The Great Tang Code, and much more. 998 pages $20.00 Click Here to Purchase The History of Ancient Israel, by Michael Grant $0.50 History of the Hebrew Commonwealth by Baily and Kent $0.50 Five Hundred Years, A History of South Africa, edited by C. F. J. Muller., D. Phil, Extraordinary Professor of History, University of South Africa, Pretoria (632 pages) Subjects include First movements towards the south, arrival of Van Riebeeck at the cape, settlement under the Van Der Stels, domestic strife, the Anglo-Boer War, reconstruction, Hertzog in power, Smuts in Power, the Republic of South Africa and much more including many illustrations. $25.00 South Africa by Gerald Cubitt & Arnold Helfet $1.00 Panoramic South Africa, C. Struik Publishers 1979, $2.00 The Last Plantagenets by Thomas B. Costain $0.50 Every One A Witness, The Plantagenet Age, Commentaries of An Era by A. F. Scott $5.00 Eclipse of Kings, European Monarchies in the Twentieth Century by Denis Judd, copyright 1976 224pp $6.95 The Waning of the Middle Ages $2.00 Life on a Mediaeval Barony, by William Stearns Davis $3.00 World History Books Click Here to Purchase 7/29/16 A Sourcebook of Mediaeval History edited by Frederic Austin Ogg $1.00 Mediaeval Feudalism: by Carl Stephenson, Cornell University Press, 1942 - 116 pages. An explanation of the historical significance of the feudal system. $0.25 The Crucible of Europe: the Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History: by Carl Stephenson, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1976, 180 pages. $0.50 Renaissance in Italy: The Age of the Despots, by Peter Smith $4.00 Reform & Reformation England, 1509-1558 $0.50 The Gunpowder Plot, The Narrative of Oswald Tesimond 1605 plot by Guy Fawkres to assassinate James I $3.00 The Spirit of Britain by Roy Strong Book Condition: Very Good, 708 pp, color and black and white illustrations throughout. Sir Roy Strong's cohesive, passionate and timely chronicling of the movements which have shaped all that is best in British art and culture serves to remind us what we have and to preserve in all its richness and diversity. $10.00 Click Here to Purchase English Social History, A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoria by George M. Trevelyan Subject include Chaucer’s England, Tudor England, Shakespeare’s England, Restoration of England, Cobbett’s England, The Growth of London, London during the Napoleonic wars, The Countries of England and Wales before 1974 and much more. This book is filled with beautiful pictures, drawings, and maps 555pp $10.00 Click Here to Purchase A Concise History of England, by R. J. White $0.50 Kingdoms of Europe, pub. 1982 by Gene Gurney 627pp An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ruling Monarchs from Ancient Times to the Present This book is handsomely illustrated with subjects that include: The Roman Empire and Italy, England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Imperial Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, and Prussia, the Empires of Austria, The Kingdom of Hungary, the Yugoslav Kingdom and the Kingdoms of Spain, the Portuguese Monarchy, the Kingdom of the Netherlands-Denmark-Norway-Sweden-RomaniaBulgaria-Albania- Belgium, the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, and the Sultanates of Turkey and much more $6.50 "The Scottish Nation" is the most comprehensive history of modern Scotland ever published the first examination of this period (from 1700 to the present) to appear in our generation. Drawing on a huge range of research, "The Scottish Nation" takes both the World History Books $10.00 Click Here to Puchase 7/29/16 "traditional" topics of Scottish history and new themes and makes them fascinating and accessible to a wide new audience. (696 pages) The Norman Fate 1100-1154 by David C. Douglas $0.50 The Old Regime in France by Frantz Funck-Brentano, translated by Herbert Wilson 1970, 376pp Subjects include Feudal State and Tradition, The King, Franchises, Liberties, the Reign of Louis XVI, Public Opinion and much more. Funck-Brentano writes a book which explains the fundamental ideas of the old social system in France and their influence on the government of the Monarch. $10.00 Click Here to Purchase France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu, by Victor-L. Tapie, translated and edited by D. McN. Lockie Subjects include France in Decline and Prey to Factions, Richelieu in the Service of King and Nation, The Interest of the State (1630-43) published in 1974 622pp. $10.00 Click Here to Purchase The Monarchy of France, Claude De Seyssel $2.00 The Age of Louis XVI $2.00 The Mongol Empire, Its Rise and Legacy, by Michael Prawdin $1.00 The Devil’s Horsemen, The Mongol Invasion of Europe $4.00 The First Crusade, Sir Steven Runciman This work is based on the first of the three-volume History of the Crusades. The author abridged the introductory chapters and brought the book to a close with the Crusaders’ capture of Jerusalem, so as to concentrate on the extraordinary story of the First Crusade Chronicles of the Crusades, by M. R. B. Shaw $4.00 The Northern Crusades, The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier, 1100-1525 by Eric Christiansen $4.00 The Muslim Discovery of Europe, by Bernard Lewis The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history. 350pp $10.00 A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918 $2.50 The Slavs in European History and Civilization by Francis Dvornik, 688 pages $1.00 World History Books $4.00 Click Here to Purchase 7/29/16 Russia and the Golden Horde, by Charles J. Halperin $2.00 The Land and Government of Muscovy, a sixteenth century account, translated and edited by Thomas Esper (142pp) 1967 copyright $4.00 The Etruscans, translated by F. Cremona $3.00 The Etruscans, translated from the German by Alexander and Elizabeth Henderson $3.00 The Phoenicians, Gerhard Herm $2.00 Art in the Age of Exploration Circa 1492, edited by Jay A. Levenson, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 671 pp $10.00 Maya, by Charles Gallenkamp $2.00 Letter to a King, A Peruvian Chief’s Account of Life Under the Incas and Under Spanish Rule by Huaman Poma $4.00 A Concise History of Bolivia – Herbert S. Klein Columbia University 2003; 320 pages $9.00 Bolivia – Its People and Scenery, photographs by Herbert Kirchhoff, second edition, 1944 - 105 pages $5.00 The Andean Republics: William Weber Johnson and the Editors of Life, Time Inc., 1965 - 160 pages. This book contains maps and photographs. Good insight on the history of Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. World History Books Click Here to Purchase $5.00 7/29/16