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9780394485164 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1977, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780--1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics.
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9780679729495, titled "Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Studies the forces that led the Dutch on a course of revolution and the grave economic and political problems that befell the Dutch government in its efforts to preserve independence
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9780394510750 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1987, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Describes the cultural and social milieu of seventeenth-century Holland, where, despite great material wealth and general prosperity, an 'anxiety of superabundance' permeated all aspects of the culture
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9780679781240 | Vintage Books, December 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author of Citizens presents an exhaustive, lively history of life in seventeenth-century Holland, the height of Dutch influence, culture, and affluence, accompanied by more than one hundred black-and-white reproductions and illustrations.
9780520061477, titled "Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age" | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Describes the cultural and social milieu of seventeenth-century Holland, where, despite great material wealth and general prosperity, an 'anxiety of superabundance' permeated all aspects of the culture
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Explores the roots and fruition of the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting strained economics frustrating their visions for France
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9780394559483 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1989), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Explores the roots and fruition of the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting strained economics frustrating their visions for France
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9780679726104 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Explores the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting, strained economics frustrating their visions for France
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9781455137664 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 20, 2012), cover price $160.00
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Blending fact and fiction, document and imaginative reconstruction, this study of two true stories of violent death--each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family--explores the nature of history and how history is created
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9780679402138 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Blending fact and fiction, document and imaginative reconstruction, this study of two true stories of violent death--each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family--explores the nature of history and how history is created
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9780679736134 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A study of two true stories of violent death, each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family, explores the nature of history and how history is created
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9780679402558 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1995), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Explores the treasury of myths that have transformed the landscape of Western culture
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9780679735120 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1996), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: The author of The Embarrassment of Riches takes a fascinating journey through time and space to explore the rich treasury of myths that have transformed the landscape of Western culture.
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9780810935228 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: For many years, French photographer Frederic Brenner has travelled the world, documenting the lives of Jews on five continents to create a visual anthology of the Jewish diaspora.
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9780786109364 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987.
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9780786101559 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: [This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.
9780786101566 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: [This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.
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9780312192648 | Thomas Dunne Books, December 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides a compilation of predictions about the world coming to an end by people throughout history, including writings from Plato, Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Jack London, Picasso, and other notables
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9780312252649 | Griffin, May 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: disasters world wide
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9780679402565 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Honoring the genius of Rembrandt, the author first explores the painter's obsession with Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens--a fixation that profoundly influenced the evolution of his work and was not overcome until Rubens' death
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9780375709814 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Honoring the genius of Rembrandt, the author first explores the painter's obsession with Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens--a fixation that profoundly influenced the evolution of his work and was not overcome until Rubens' death
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9780786866755 | 1 edition (Miramax, October 1, 2000), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Britain chronicles battles waged by the British, both at home and abroad, details its role as a global power, and examines key events and personalities that shaped more than two centuries of history.
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9781559276368 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780786867523 | Miramax, October 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Britain chronicles battles waged by the British, both at home and abroad, details its role as a global power, and examines key events and personalities that shaped more than two centuries of history.
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9781559276375 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the nearly two centuries of battles waged by the British, both at home and abroad, on grounds of political or religious conviction, between Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, and colonialists and natives.
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9783775711074 | Hatje Cantz Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Landscape paintings are as diverse as the landscapes painters live in.
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9781854596628 | Rev upd edition (Nick Hern Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Desmond Olivier Dingle gives us the benefit of his huge and devastating knowledge by charting the history of the world in 58 chapters and three prefaces.
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9780786868995 | Miramax, December 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Britain chronicles battles waged by the British, both at home and abroad, details its role as a global power, and examines key events and personalities that shaped more than two centuries of history.
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9780771079221 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, January 1, 2003, cover price $55.01
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9780563487142 | New edition (Ebury Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $26.90 | About this edition: To understand what Britain has become we need to know what it has been.
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9781559277662 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of Great Britain from the American Revolution to the present day, detailing its place as a global power, its role during two world wars, and other key events and personalities that shaped more than two centuries of history.
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9780563487180 | New edition (Ebury Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $26.25 | About this edition: This work is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776.
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9780563487197 | New edition (Ebury Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $26.25 | About this edition: This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire.
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9781891024849 | Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, October 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780304353873 | Cassell, June 1, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: History in Quotations is an exciting and original work of historical reference.
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