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How to Achieve True Greatness
Baldassarre Castiglione
Paperback - $15.95
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume features great ideas that have shaped the world.
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice : Twelve Essays on Patrician Society
Stanley Chojnacki
Paperback - $44.95
In "Women and Men in Renaissance Venice" Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with me ...
The Last Judgement : Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance
James A. Connor
Hardcover - $39.95
The Renaissance
James A. Corrick
Library Binding - $65.95
The Renaissance was one of the great cultural movements of history. Beginning in Italy in the 1300s, it saw the growth of banking and trade; the political transformation of European kingdoms into nations; and innovation in art and literature, as well ...
The Measure of Reality : Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
Alfred W. Crosby
Paperback - $51.95
"The Measure of Reality" is an innovative, original exploration of the European mind-set and its impact on history and culture. Written by a bestselling historian, the book appeals to both history students and general readers. With amusing detail and ...
The Egyptian Renaissance : The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy
Brian Curran
Hardcover - $90.95
Fascination with ancient Egypt is a recurring theme in Western culture, and here Brian Curran uncovers its deep roots in the Italian Renaissance, which embraced not only classical art and literature but also a variety of other cultures that modern re ...
The World and the West : The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire
Philip Curtin
Paperback - $51.95
This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries--the age of European empire. Through a variety of case studies, it considers the European threat and the non ...
British Business in Asia Since 1860
R. P. T. Davenport-Hines
Paperback - $96.95
Eight leading business historians examine the role of British business in Iran, India, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Russian Asia, and Japan. The primary focus is on the impact of British commerce in the region, and the essays, based on research in Brit ...
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
Margreta De Grazia
Hardcover - $233.95
This collection of essays brings together leading scholars of the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies has concentrated on the human subject; the essays colle ...