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The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present

10 best books like The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present (Felix Gilbert): The Treasure of the City of Ladies, Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914, Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68, The Child Buyer, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Shamans Through Time, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

The Treasure of the City of Ladies
AuthorChristine de Pizan
ISBN0140449507
Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century...
Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
AuthorEugen Weber
ISBN0804710139
France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them.

The author of this lively, often witty,...
Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
AuthorCrimethInc.
i havent read it in a while, its funny to me, the folks who foam at the mouth, hating on the crimethinc. kids, and the fan club who take this book as gospel. the funniest thing about the whole thing is that i doubt the authors even give this book the creedence that either of those groups do. i gave 5 stars for what...
Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
AuthorJohn Sutherland
ISBN0192838849
In this sequel to his popular works Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?, John Sutherland unravels thirty-four new literary puzzles, once again combining erudition with bold investigative speculation. In addition to these new conundrums, Professor Sutherland revisits some previous...
The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
AuthorRoland H. Bainton
ISBN0807056952
Roland H. Bainton presents the strands of the Reformation in a single coherent account. He discusses the background for Luther's breach & its ramifications for 16th Century Europe, giving accounts of the Diet of Worms, the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome & William...
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
AuthorTaylor Branch
ISBN0684857138
At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement...
The Child Buyer
AuthorJohn Hersey
ISBN0394756983

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism
AuthorMark Morford
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...
Shamans Through Time
AuthorJeremy Narby
ISBN1585423629
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.

This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
AuthorKevin Kerrane
ISBN0684846306
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both...
The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant
AuthorStanley Rosen
ISBN0375720111
An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise that all human beings are curious about their existence, Rosen's collection brings...
Is Anyone There?
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0441374174
Una obra de divulgación en la que su autor, célebre por sus obras en el campo de la ciencia-ficción, da un repaso divulgador de la historia de la vida, al tiempo que atisba un posible futuro, vinculado al estado de las cosas en el momento de la elaboración de este libro. Algunos capítulos son ensayos...
The Foundations of Early Modern Europe: 1460-1559
AuthorEugene F. Rice Jr.
ISBN0393963047
In this compact study of the Renaissance and Reformation, Eugene F. Rice, Jr. draws together the main lines of change that account for a period of rapid transition from medieval civilization to early modern. From a chapter on science, technology, and the voyages of exploration, Professor Rice goes...
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
AuthorMarina Warner
ISBN0394711556
You are my light; my life’s illumination: you are my refuge, O mother!
Please don’t forsake me, Virgin Mary, you abode of kindness...

So runs one of the popular film songs from my youth – and it pretty much symbolises what the Virgin means to me.

Kerala, unlike other states...
The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
AuthorEdwin Arthur Burtt
ISBN0451627113
With its origins in ancient India, Buddhism is a system of thought that has enriched the religious lives of billions -- and in more recent times, swept through the Western world as well. Now anyone who wants to learn more about Buddhism can go directly to the source, with this collection of original documents...
A Short History of the World
AuthorJ.M. Roberts
Here is a compact and affordable edition of J. M. Robert's acclaimed world history. Vividly written and beautifully illustrated, it brings the outstanding breadth of scholarship and international scope of the larger volume within the grasp of most readers. Completely up-to-date, comprehensive...
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
AuthorAndrew Roberts
ISBN0060875984
In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Meanwhile, the British Empire was in decline but did not yet know it. Any number of other powers might have won primacy in the twentieth...
The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings
AuthorBernard Mandeville
ISBN0872203743
This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert's Introduction...
The Strange Death of Liberal England
AuthorGeorge Dangerfield
ISBN0804729301
At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906, the Liberals formed the government of the most powerful nation...
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
AuthorJohn Boswell
ISBN0226067122
In The Kindness of Strangers, John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a wide variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines...
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918
AuthorA.J.P. Taylor
ISBN0198812701
The fall of Metternich in the revolutions which swept Europe in 1848 heralded an era of unprecedented nationalism, which culminated in the collapse of the Habsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern dynasties at the of the First World War. In the intervening seventy years which are the subject of this book,...
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe
AuthorJames J. Sheehan
ISBN0618353968
In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe’s history: its transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous society. For centuries, war was Europe’s defining narrative, affecting every aspect of political,...
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill)
AuthorDavid Cay Johnston
ISBN1591841917
The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé.

How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time,...
The Coming of the French Revolution
AuthorGeorges Lefebvre
ISBN0691121885
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened...
A Shortened History of England
AuthorGeorge Macaulay Trevelyan
ISBN0140233237
Why English majors should read history:

For many centuries after Britain became an island the untamed forest was king. Its moist and mossy floor was hidden from heaven's eye by a close-drawn curtain woven of innumerable tree-tops, which shivered in the breezes of summer dawn and broke into...
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