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  • Paris and the River Seine
    Hunt Janin / Nicole Sheehan
    The intertwined histories of Paris and of the River Seine are interesting but complicated. It is the Seine, however with all its ports, bridges, boats, commerce, monuments, and vistas, that has always been the keystone in the arch of Paris life, both in the past and now in the present. The great French medievalist Jean Favier (1932-2014) summed up its story in just six words...
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    57,44 €

  • Medieval Monks and Monasteries
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    The Middle Ages in Western Europe extended from roughly 500 to 1500 c.e. During these thousand years, hundreds of monastic communities were founded and played important roles in religious, economic, social, literary and even military realms. Each had different emphases and goals, ranging from aristocratic monasteries and nunneries that offered comfort and security, to rural ...
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    57,48 €

  • Yellowstone
    Hunt Janin / Nicole Sheehan
    Yellowstone National Park is the focal point of the 22-million-acre, multifaceted Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, located in northwestern Wyoming and in parts of eastern Idaho and Montana. Yellowstone has a uniquely American identity as a place where nature--largely untouched and unmanaged--is allowed to flourish. This is a detailed survey that blends Yellowstone’s past in...
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    42,94 €

  • Overland Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West. Over three centuries later, the four 'Great Surveys' in the United States were consolidated into the U.S. Geological Survey. The frontiers were the lands near or beyond the recognized i...
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    64,98 €

  • Historic Nevada Waters
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that includes most of Nevada and parts of five other Western states. The histories of four of the Western rivers of the Great Basin--the Walker, the Truckee, the Carson and the Humboldt--are explored in this book, along with three of the western lakes of the Great Basin: Lake Tahoe, Pyramid Lake, and Walker Lake. Drawing on a range of...
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    79,49 €

  • The Californios
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    Before the Gold Rush of 1848-1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier--and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life, raising cattle along the California coast and valleys. Visitors described them...
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    42,92 €

  • The California Campaigns of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly. Mexico surrendered to the United States more than half a million square miles of territory, contributing to a legacy of distrust and bitterness towards the U.S. that has never entirely dissipated. The real prize was California. The Californios--Spanish speaking, non-native i...
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    42,88 €

  • The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century
    Hunt Janin
    From 1823 to 1860 a fleet of small, fast brigs and schooners carried chests of opium from India to China, often facing the challenges of pirates and typhoons along the way. This shadowy trade, conducted by American, British, and Indian firms, thrived despite its moral and legal consequences. Drawing largely on primary sources, the story of the opium trade comes through in...
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    42,84 €

  • Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercena...
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    42,89 €

  • Rising Sea Levels
    Hunt Janin / Scott A. Mandia
    The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world’s political, economic, military and social development took place during a time of relatively stable sea level. That time, however, is now over: The world must begin to cope with rising seas. This book is a wide-ranging introductory survey. It addresses global warming, the hydrologic cycle, why we should ca...
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    42,89 €

  • Trails of Historic New Mexico
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    This is a survey of the major historic trails of New Mexico and other parts of the American Southwest. These trails were used by Indians, prospectors, soldiers, buffalo hunters, immigrants, and cattle and sheep drovers, and, unlike other, more famous Western trails, were used as a network of two-way trade routes instead of one-way avenues for westward migration. Introductory...
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    57,44 €

  • Medieval Justice
    Hunt Janin
    A primer on medieval justice, this book focuses on France, Germany and England and covers the thousand years between the transformation of the Roman world in Western Europe, which took place around the 4th and 5th centuries, and the European Renaissance of the 14th and 15th centuries. It highlights key elements in the intricate, overlapping legal systems of the Middle Ages a...
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    51,33 €

  • The University in Medieval Life, 1179-1499
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    The university is indigenous to Western Europe and is probably the greatest and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages. Much more than stodgy institutions of learning, medieval universities were exciting arenas of people and ideas. They contributed greatly to the economic vitality of their host cities and served as birthplaces for some of the era’s most effective minds...
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    42,84 €

  • Islamic Law
    André Kahlmeyer / Hunt Janin
    The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim’s obligations to God and his fellow human beings. Westerners often misunderstand the nature of the sharia, born as it is of a complicated legal and academic tradition that may not always seem relevant to today’s world. Written for those unfamiliar with Islam, this volume provides an accurate and objective assessmen...
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    28,35 €

  • The Pursuit of Learning in the Islamic World, 610-2003
    Hunt Janin
    Islam scares the West. Militant conservatism and the horrific acts of violent fundamentalists evoke outrage, but the reprehensible few reinforce a longstanding Western stereotype of all Muslims as 'incorrigibly fanatical, violent and morally and culturally different.' Overlooked is the long history of Muslim intellectual and cultural achievement, and its potential to flower ...
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    58,58 €

  • Claiming the American Wilderness
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    In the early sixteenth century, as voyages across the Atlantic became more feasible and consequently more frequent, international competition for possession of the New World intensified. Occupied by numerous Indian tribes, western North America was home to vast natural resources, alleged riches and a fabled waterway that would connect the Mississippi with the Pacific Ocean. ...
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    57,24 €

  • Four Paths to Jerusalem
    Hunt Janin
    Jerusalem has long been one of the most sought-after destinations for the followers of three world faiths and for secularists alike. For Jews, it has the Western (Wailing) Wall; for Christians, it is where Christ suffered and triumphed; for Muslims, it offers the Dome of the Rock; and for secularists, it is an archeological challenge and a place of tragedy and beauty. This...
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    58,72 €