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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the...
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Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessi...
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Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911: Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and Dissent
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /In this thoroughly researched account, Mansour Bonakdarian provides an in-depth exploration of the substantial British support for the Iranian co...
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Lonely Planet Istanbul 10
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Lonely Planet's Istanbul is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. S...
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The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Saracen stronghold throughout the long history of the Crusades, Damascus served as the capital city for Nur al-Deen, Saladin, and other medieval ...
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as t...
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The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /The Ottoman Empire ruled the near East, dominated the Mediterranean, and terrorized Europe for centuries. However, its origins are obscure. The Beg...
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House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent...
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Renowned historian John Julius Norwich has crafted a bold tapestry of Europe and the Middle East in the early sixteenth century, when a quartet o...
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Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A comprehensive history and analysis of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, published in the run up to its 100th anniversary. First published by Lon...
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Travels in Arabia: Travels in Oman
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The ground-breaking visit to Oman by James Raymond Wellsted, in 1835, gave the first comprehensive view of the country to the wider world. This edi...
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In Search of the Dark Ages
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Fully updated and revised with the latest historical research by pre-eminent British Historian Michael Wood for the book's 40th anniversary. From...
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the winner of the Nobel Prize for work that stands as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time" (Swedish Academy). Before the United...
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a...
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constan...
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A "panoramic and thought-provoking" (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West The O...
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Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious ...
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The Innocents Abroad
PaperbackOriginal price $7.95 - Original price $7.95Original price $7.95$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /An acerbic account by one of America's greatest writers of his travels in Europe and the Near East, humorously describing both the places he visi...
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Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /This book focuses on the transitional period in late Koryŏ and early Chosŏn dynasty Korea from the 1270s until 1506, situating the Korean peninsula...
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Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Political Thought in the Mamluk Period covers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayy...
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The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe ...
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Micro Middle Ages
HardcoverOriginal price $129.99 - Original price $129.99Original price $129.99$143.99$143.99 - $143.99Current price $143.99| /Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader c...
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Knowledge True and Useful: A Cultural History of Early Scholasticism
HardcoverOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$77.99$77.99 - $77.99Current price $77.99| /A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the pa...
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The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe The Ottomans have long been ...
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