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Product Description: Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa...read more
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9780300153231 | Yale Univ Pr, January 8, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent.

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9788446025603 | Akal Ediciones Sa, May 30, 2010, cover price $76.95

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9780465054411, titled "The World Crisis, 1635-1665: Thirty Years of War, Famine, Plague, Regicide, And Radicalism, 1635-1665" | Basic Books, July 5, 2010, cover price $35.00

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9780465054428 | Basic Books, October 5, 2009, cover price $16.00

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9788420695884 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $81.95

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9788420629025 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $61.95

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Product Description: What if the Persians had won at Salamis? What if Christ had not been crucified? What if the Chinese had harnessed steam power before the West? Disparaged by some as a mere parlor game, counterfactual history is seen by others as an indispensable historical tool...read more
By Richard Ned Lebow (editor), Geoffrey Parker (editor) and Philip E. Tetlock (editor)
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9780472115433 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 2, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: What if the Persians had won at Salamis?

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9780472031436 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 30, 2007, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: What if the Persians had won at Salamis?

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Product Description: A compelling subject, war is common to almost all known societies and almost all periods of history. The Cambridge History of Warfare is a comprehensive account of war in the West. The combined effort of seven leading experts, this book treats the history of all aspects of the subject: the development of warfare on land, seas, and air; weapons and technology; strategy and defense; discipline and intelligence; mercenaries and standing armies; cavalry and infantry; chivalry and blitzkreig; guerrilla assault and nuclear warfare...read more
By Geoffrey Parker (editor)
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9780521853590 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 29, 2005, cover price $76.00 | About this edition: A compelling subject, war is common to almost all known societies and almost all periods of history.

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9780521618953 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2005, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: A compelling subject, war is common to almost all known societies and almost all periods of history.

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9788477742388 | 1 edition (Oceano De Mexico, July 1, 2005), cover price $37.90

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Product Description: The city has had a rich and tumultuous history, evolving from a powerful political entity in ancient times to its modern role as a local hub of tourism and commerce. Sovereign City examines the nature of the city's ever-changing status, as Geoffrey Parker investigates the city-state as a geopolitical form and explores its distinctive niche within different types of states...read more
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9781861892195 | Reaktion Books, March 1, 2005, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: The city has had a rich and tumultuous history, evolving from a powerful political entity in ancient times to its modern role as a local hub of tourism and commerce.

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A set of lectures celebrating Ohio's bicentenary takes an engaging look at the state's past successes, such as creating the modern oil industry and participating in international reform movements, and invites readers to think anew about its future in the globalization age.
By William Russell Coil (editor), Geoffrey Parker (editor) and Richard Sisson (editor)
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9780814251157 | Ohio State Univ Pr, January 15, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A set of lectures celebrating Ohio's bicentenary takes an engaging look at the state's past successes, such as creating the modern oil industry and participating in international reform movements, and invites readers to think anew about its future in the globalization age.

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The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization--mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics--rather than military "events" such as sieges and battles. Constantly cited since its first publication in English (with translations into Spanish and Dutch), this revised updated second edition includes new sources and references but otherwise remains faithful to the original edition. First Edition Hb (1972): 0-521-08462-8 First Edition Pb (1975): 0-521-09907-2 (view table of contents)
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9780521836005 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 15, 2004), cover price $103.00

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9780521543927 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 15, 2004), cover price $41.00 | About this edition: The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization--mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics--rather than military "events" such as sieges and battles.

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Product Description: A strikingly fresh account of power struggles in early modern Europe by "the finest military historian currently writing." --Reviews in History. The British politician Enoch Powell claimed that "all political lives end in failure" while, according to Winston Churchill, "success is never final...read more
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9780465054787 | Basic Books, September 1, 2004, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A strikingly fresh account of power struggles in early modern Europe by "the finest military historian currently writing.

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Product Description: The idea of a dialogue--sometimes harmonious, sometimes divisive--between the center and periphery of the early modern European state stands at the heart of much of John Elliott's historical writing. This collection of essays by a group of Elliott's former students examines different aspects of this important theme and develops them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521525114 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The idea of a dialogue--sometimes harmonious, sometimes divisive--between the center and periphery of the early modern European state stands at the heart of much of John Elliott's historical writing.

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9788420635880, titled "Felipe II / Philip" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005, cover price $14.95
9788420655758, titled "Felipe II / Philip" | Alianza Editorial Sa, May 27, 2003, cover price $14.95

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The renowned military historian tackles early modern Europe, chornicling the power struggles that defined fifteenth- through seventeenth-century European history. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780465054770 | Basic Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The renowned military historian tackles early modern Europe, chornicling the power struggles that defined fifteenth- through seventeenth-century European history.

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Product Description: The Spanish Aramda is a radical interpretation of why Philip II's Armada of 1588 failed so disastrously. This new edition is based on a fresh examination of archival sources across Europe, combined with the archeaological investigation of some of its wrecked ships off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780719058103 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 6, 2002, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: The Spanish Aramda is a radical interpretation of why Philip II's Armada of 1588 failed so disastrously.

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9781901341140 | 2 sub edition (Manchester Univ Pr, March 6, 2002), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The Spanish Aramda is a radical interpretation of why Philip II's Armada of 1588 failed so disastrously.
9780393309263 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1992), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The reasons behind the disastrous demise of the Spanish Armada are explored four hundred years later using new evidence found in archives and under the sea

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Product Description: In this spellbinding biography, the definitive work on Philip, Geoffrey Parker drew upon a vast, previously untapped collection of the king's private correspondence, in which he expressed his emotions, personal thoughts, and social philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812695199 | 4th edition (Open Court Pub Co, January 1, 2002), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: In this spellbinding biography, the definitive work on Philip, Geoffrey Parker drew upon a vast, previously untapped collection of the king's private correspondence, in which he expressed his emotions, personal thoughts, and social philosophy.

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Product Description: In the new edition of this classic book, Geoffrey Parker draws on material from all over Europe to provide an authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780631220275 | 2 revised edition (Blackwell Pub, January 3, 2002), cover price $136.95 | About this edition: In the new edition of this classic book, Geoffrey Parker draws on material from all over Europe to provide an authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century.

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9780631220282 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, December 1, 2001), cover price $57.95 | About this edition: In the new edition of this classic book, Geoffrey Parker draws on material from all over Europe to provide an authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century.
9780801492099 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In the new edition of this classic book, Geoffrey Parker draws on material from all over Europe to provide an authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century.

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Essays by respected military historians, including James McPherson, Josiah Ober, Theodore K. Rabb, and Geoffrey Parker, consider the consequences if history had turned out differently, such as if the assassination plot against Lincoln had failed, if FDR had been assassinated, or if Patton had struck into the heart of Germany.
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9780743509336 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, October 1, 2001), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A second volume of historical speculation by experts in the field wonders what if Socrates had died on the battlefield at Delium or Eisenhower had finished off the Nazis in 1944, among other intriguing scenarios.

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Product Description: This is the first book to address the topic of mutiny in and of itself, or to present mutiny in a comparative framework. The fourteen contributors, a mixture of military, social, and political historians, examine instances of mutiny that occurred from ancient to modern times and on nearly every continent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jane Hathaway (editor) and Geoffrey Parker (foreword by)
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9780275970109 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 2001, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: This is the first book to address the topic of mutiny in and of itself, or to present mutiny in a comparative framework.

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Ranging from ancient times to the present day, a resource on military history offers a global perspective and includes more than six hundred articles on warfare as presented by some 150 military historians, biographers, and journalists. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Robert Cowley (editor) and Geoffrey Parker (editor)
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9780395669693 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An encyclopedia of military history covers the wars of Asia, South America, and Africa, as well as North America and Europe

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9780618127429 | Mariner Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Ranging from ancient times to the present day, a resource on military history offers a global perspective and includes more than six hundred articles on warfare as presented by some 150 military historians, biographers, and journalists.

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Product Description: This title includes contents such as: Preface; Lecture I: Managing the First Global Empire; Lecture II: The Messianic Vision of Philip II; Bibliographic Guide; Abbreviations; and, Notes.
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9780918954770 | Baylor Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This title includes contents such as: Preface; Lecture I: Managing the First Global Empire; Lecture II: The Messianic Vision of Philip II; Bibliographic Guide; Abbreviations; and, Notes.

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Product Description: World War I, the first "total war" in history, set in motion profound changes in the economics, demographics, and philosophies of the warring states. In this book, leading experts on the Great War discuss its causes, character, and legacy...read more
By Mary R. Habeck (editor), Geoffrey Parker (editor) and Jay M. Winter (editor)
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9780300081541 | Yale Univ Pr, November 10, 2000, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: World War I, the first "total war" in history, set in motion profound changes in the economics, demographics, and philosophies of the warring states.

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