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In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and...
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Swaminarayan Hinduism is rooted in its formation in India at the cusp of the early modern and...
The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova (1531)
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Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest...
The Darkest Side of Politics: Postwar Fascism, Covert Operations and Terrorism: No. 1
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The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion
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An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam...
The Seven Ancient Wonders in the Early Modern World
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have had a lasting impact upon the intellectual landscape of...
The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown: Aeronaut 1827-1870
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This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with...
The Art Book
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The Art Book, an award-winning art survey Spotlighting more than 600 great artists from medieval...