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Medieval cities;: Their origins and the revival of trade. Translated from the French by Frank D. Halsey

Medieval cities;: Their origins and the revival of trade. Translated from the French by Frank D. Halsey

by Henri Pirenne

Henri Pirenne is best known for his provocative argument--known as the "Pirenne thesis" and familiar to all students of medieval Europe--that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long distance commerce accelerated the decline of the ancient... (more)

The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization

The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization

by Max Weber

The Middle Ages, Volume I, Sources of Medieval History

The Middle Ages, Volume I, Sources of Medieval History

by Brian Tierney

This volume of translated source materials from the late Roman Empire to the mid-15th century introduces students to the diversity of medieval culture, covering all aspects of medieval life--social, religious, economic, intellectual, institutional.

The Making of the Middle Ages

by R. W. Southern

The Viking Achievement: The Society and Culture of Early Medieval Scandinavia (Sidgwick & Jackson Great Civilizations Series)Peter Godfrey Foote, D. M. Wilson

The Viking Achievement: The Society and Culture of Early Medieval Scandinavia (Sidgwick & Jackson Great Civilizations Series)

by Peter Godfrey Foote

St. Anselm and the Handmaidens of God: A Study of Anselm's Correspondence With Women (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy)

St. Anselm and the Handmaidens of God: A Study of Anselm's Correspondence With Women (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy)

by Sally N. Vaughn

St Anselm's surprising number of letters to women included all estates from young girls to mothers and mature wives or widows, retired women, nuns, abbesses, nobles, countesses and queens. To understand his views of, beliefs about and relationships with women, and whether he collected and edited his own correspondence is to be determined. This study argues that he did - that he both addressed real women and... (more)

Mohammed and Charlemagne

by Henri Pirenne

Remarkable classic that developed the revolutionary theory of how the advance and influence of Islam caused the Europe of the Roman Empire to evolve into the Europe of the Middle Ages. A masterly study that is essential reading for history students and medievalists. "... an important ... seminal book, worthy to close one of the most distinguished careers in European scholarship."--Saturday Review of Literature.

The Principles of Scientific Management

by Frederick Winslow Taylor

"This book is not merely the precursor of modern organization and decision theory, it is in many respects its origin. . . . A seminal work: an often misinterpreted work: and an indipensable source of administrative theory." —Arch T. Dodson, Cornell University This brief essay by the founder of scientific management has served for nearly a century as a primer for administrators and for students of managerial... (more)

The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

by Bernard Bailyn

In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, which covers the British migration in the years just before the American Revolution and is the first... (more)

The Historian's Craft

by Marc Bloch

Arab Historians of the Crusades (The Islamic World Series)

Arab Historians of the Crusades (The Islamic World Series)

The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of the Acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happening were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. For the first time contemporary accounts of the fighting between Muslim and Christian have been translated into English, and the Western reader can learn 'the other side' of the Holy War.... (more)

The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad, Additional Enactments (Sources of Medieval History)

The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad, Additional Enactments (Sources of Medieval History)

by Walter R. Cuskey, William Krasner, Arnold William Klein

Text: English, Latin (translation)

The Lost Trappers

by David H. Coyner

The subtitle says it all: "A Collection of Interesting Scenes and Events in the Rocky Mountains Together With a Short Description of California: Also, Some Account of the Fur Trade, Especially as Carried on About the Sources of the MIssouri, Yellow Stone, and on the Waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains." First published in 1850 (original editions are almost impossible to find), this may well be... (more)

Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)

Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)

by Edmund N. Bacon

The LA Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River: A Lost Manuscript of Nicolas De LA Salle, 1682

The LA Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River: A Lost Manuscript of Nicolas De LA Salle, 1682

by Nicolas de La Salle

The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River presents the definitive English translation of Nicolas de La Salle's diary account of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's 1682 discovery expedition of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This previously unknown manuscript copy was discovered recently in the collection of rare books in the Texas State Archives. It provides the most... (more)

Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890

Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890

by Larry McMurtry

In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres -- Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded... (more)