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9780198218883 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 15, 1982, cover price $125.00
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9780812280838 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Demonstrating that Columbus's voyage was a new step in a centuries-old process of European expansion, Fernandez-Armesto provides a stimulating account of the broadening of Europe's physical and mental horizons in the Middle Ages.
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9780812214123 | 2 reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Demonstrating that Columbus's voyage was a new step in a centuries-old process of European expansion, Fernandez-Armesto provides a stimulating account of the broadening of Europe's physical and mental horizons in the Middle Ages.
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Offers a revised account of the famous sea battle, arguing for a more balanced view of British 'victory' and Spanish 'defeat' and tracing the development of the traditional view of the battle in the historical context of the era
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9780198229261 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 4, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Offers a revised account of the famous sea battle, arguing for a more balanced view of British 'victory' and Spanish 'defeat' and tracing the development of the traditional view of the battle in the historical context of the era
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9780192851963 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $12.95
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9780192158987 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Discusses Ferdinand and Isabella's royal court, Columbus' religious obsessions, the voyages themselves, and the current controversy regarding his historical meaning
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9780715627068 | Duckbacks, April 1, 1996, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: Christopher Columbus has generated a legend which exceeds even the achievements of his own lifetime.
9780192852601 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In 1992 we mark the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.
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9780062700322 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1991, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Looks at the progress of world exploration over the centuries
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Product Description: Barcelona, like Spain itself, has in recent years attracted the gaze and fascination of the world. Chosen as the host city for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, the international spotlight will soon focus on this beautiful, two thousand year-old city, furthering Barcelona's hopes for a lasting place on the world stage...read more
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9781856190466, titled "Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past" | Trafalgar Square, July 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this book, the author shows how Barcelona's story is mapped out in its artistic and architectural heritage, highlighting especially the identity crisis that it suffers as the first industrial and commercial city of Spain while being the capital of an independence-seeking Catalonia.
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9780192852731, titled "Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past" | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Barcelona, like Spain itself, has in recent years attracted the gaze and fascination of the world.
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Product Description: This is the first volume in the "Expanding World" series. It examines the potential for worldwide expansion by any nation (China, the Middle East, Africa or the Americas) at the end of the Middle Ages, and then explores why these nations failed or gave up the initiative to the Europeans...read more
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9780860785002 | Variorum, April 1, 1995, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This is the first volume in the "Expanding World" series.
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Product Description: A collection of 12 studies in English, three in French, which explain how and why Europeans expanded worldwide. Part One explores the means in terms of science, technology and material resources; Part Two examines the motives; and Part Three assesses the reasons why the expansion continued to grow...read more
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9780860785019 | Variorum, June 1, 1995, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: A collection of 12 studies in English, three in French, which explain how and why Europeans expanded worldwide.
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9780684803616 | Scribner, October 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically
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9780684825366 | Free Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically
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Product Description: As myriad groups rediscover or reassert ancient identities, the historic communities of Europe are re-emerging. Some have attained autonomy or independence; others are calling or fighting for it. Understanding Europe's historic communities is essential for an understanding of Europe itself, and this reference provides a comprehensive survey of every major ethnic group in the region...read more
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9780813329253 | Westview Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $39.85 | About this edition: As myriad groups rediscover or reassert ancient identities, the historic communities of Europe are re-emerging.
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9780723007241 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1996, cover price $40.00
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9780684831046 | Scribner, February 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Suggests the resurgence of Christianity is a result of an ongoing cycle of ebb and flow stemming from the Protestant Reformation
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9780312242534 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Looks at truth in human society, examining how, throughout history, people have tried to distinguish truth from falsehood and explains aspects of humanity's basic assumptions about truth
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9780312274948 | Griffin, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A fascinating look at truth in human society examines how, throughout history, people have tried to distinguish truth from falsehood and explains aspects of humanity's basic assumptions about truth.
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9781842120842 | Phoenix, March 1, 2001, cover price $10.98 | About this edition: A highly readable and controversial portrait of a man driven by religion, influenced by mysticism, and, at best, a primitive navigator who barely knew how to use his ship's instruments.
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9780743202480 | Free Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Argues that geographical, agricultural, and social factors shaped the civilizations which developed in various climatic regions, and explains how the success of civilizations depends on environmental resources.
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9780743202497 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Argues that geographical, agricultural, and social factors shaped the civilizations which developed in various climatic regions, and explains how the success of civilizations depends on environmental resources.
9789990037210 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2002, cover price $0.02
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9780743216500 | Free Pr, September 14, 2001, cover price $13.99
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9780904180725 | Hakluyt Society, June 1, 2002, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina perhaps best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment.
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Charts the course of humanity's relationship with food, discussing such topics as the origins of cooking, the ritualization of eating, the inceptions of herding and agriculture, the rendering of food as a status symbol, and the globalization of it comes from. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780743226448 | Free Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A chronicle of the eight top revolutions in the history of food traces the origins of cooking, from the inception of herding and agriculture, to the industrialization and globalization of food, citing the integral connection between food and the cultures it comes from.
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9780743227407 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Charts the course of humanity's relationship with food, discussing such topics as the origins of cooking, the ritualization of eating, the inceptions of herding and agriculture, the rendering of food as a status symbol, and the globalization of it comes from.
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9780743234153 | Free Pr, June 4, 2002, cover price $13.99
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9780375504761 | Modern lib edition (Modern Library, May 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a history of North, Central, and South America, identifying the common forces at work in the hemisphere and the cross-cultural interactions and conflicts in evidence.
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9780812975543 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, January 10, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed historian traces the historical evolution of the entire Western Hemisphere from prehistoric times to the present day, examining the interconnections among North, Central, and South America and the complex links--among migration, trade, religion, culture, food, and more that have shaped the region.
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9780789496096 | Dk Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From monotheism and women's rights to the afterlife and taboo foods, this overview of human history and philosophy examines how important ideas have shaped civilization.
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9780789499417 | Dk Pub, October 31, 2005, cover price $0.02 | About this edition: From the Publisher: Authoritative, Compelling, provocative: internationally respected historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces you to the key historical and philosophical notions that have shaped our world since the dawn of civilization.
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9780192805751 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A distinguished historian and author of Millennium looks at what it means to be human in an enlightening history of humankind, confronting the dilemma of what it means to be human from a historical perspective and how that perception has been changed by recent discoveries from science and philosophy.
9780192804174 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: You think you're human.
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9780292706071 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 30, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.
9780714150185 | British Museum Pubns Ltd, May 10, 2004, cover price $33.85 | About this edition: Here retold are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.
9780292702042 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.
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9788483065839 | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, May 31, 2004), cover price $19.95
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9780205759316, titled "The World: A History to 1500" | Prentice Hall, December 16, 2010, cover price $49.80 | About this edition: The World: A History interweaves two stories: the story of our interactions with nature and the story of our interactions with each other.
9780131777644 | Pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, August 2, 2006), cover price $107.20 | About this edition: The World gives students the whole story.
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9789990167795 | Prentice Hall, August 4, 2006, cover price $0.02
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