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The Viking Age in Scotland
The Viking Age in Scotland reviews two decades of research that have taken place since the last archaeological survey of the Vikings in Scotland, published in 1998. Advances in …
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
“Muir’s well-informed, entertaining book surveys romantic love and marriage among the real-life counterparts of Austen’s characters in an England threatened with invasion and …
Knights and the Golden Age of Chivalry, The Illustrated History of
In battle, the medieval knight was the equivalent of the modern tank. A knight could plough his way through ranks of foot-soldiers, and on massive warhorses in tight formation, a …
Captain La Buse: The Golden Age of Piracy
Olivier LeVasseur de la Buse was a French pirate in the Golden Age of Piracy. This book includes a description of his life and career, from the time he left Port Saint-Louis in …
The Little Ice Age (Revised)
The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of …
The Viking Age
In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century …
The Age of the Borderlands
In The Age of the Borderlands, acclaimed historian Andrew C. Isenberg offers a new history of manifest destiny that breaks from triumphalist narratives of US territorial expansion. …
The Age of Innocence
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York’s most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged …
Bronze Age Metalwork: Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC
Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The …
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the …
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival
The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the …