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  • The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. - A.D.235) by Roth
    Jonathan Roth

    The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. - A.D.235)

    Relying on a variety of literary, documentary and archaeological sources, this work explores the Roman military supply system from the Punic Wars to the end of the Principate. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of logistics: supply needs and rations; packs, trains...
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  • The Idea of Decline in Western History by Herman, Arthur
    Arthur Herman

    The Idea of Decline in Western History

    Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula...
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  • I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford by Snow, Richard
    Richard Snow

    I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

    A fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford, the Model-T, and the invention of the American car industry in the early twentieth century that "will make you rethink the man whose legacy sits in your garage" (Parade). From the acclaimed popular historian Richard...
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  • Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific by Childress, David Hatcher
    David Hatcher Childress

    Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific

    Was there once a continent in the Pacific called Lemuria or Pacifica by ecologists, and Mu or Pan by the mystics? There is now ample mythological, geological and archaeological evidence to 'prove' that an advanced and ancient civilisation once lived in the central Pacific....
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  • The Egyptian Origins of King David and the Temple of Solomon by Osman, Ahmed
    Ahmed Osman

    The Egyptian Origins of King David and the Temple of Solomon

    An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon - Identifies King David as Pharaoh Tuthmosis III of the 18th Dynasty and David's son Solomon as Pharaoh Amenhotep, Tuthmosis's successor - Shows how the...
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  • Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects by Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

    Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects

    In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the...
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  • A History of Civilizations by Braudel, Fernand
    Fernand Braudel

    A History of Civilizations

    Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the "event-based" technique of most other texts.Author: Fernand BraudelISBN-10: 0140124896ISBN-13: 9780140124897Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage:...
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  • Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler

    If you want to discover the captivating history of Romania and Vlad the Impaler, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Romania: A Captivating Guide to Romanian History, Including Events Such as the First Roman-Dacian War, Raids of Vlad III Dracula...
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  • Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era by Scalvini, Barbara
    Barbara Scalvini

    Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era

    Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a veritable encyclopedia of philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics. Aristotle's astonishing range and depth made...
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  • The Black Death: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Pandemic in Medieval Europe and Human History by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    The Black Death: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Pandemic in Medieval Europe and Human History

    If you want to discover the captivating history of The Black Death, then keep reading...The Black Death was the first recorded pandemic in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. All across the continent, people learned just how gruesome and horrific disease could...
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  • Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History by Chaline, Eric
    Eric Chaline

    Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History

    "Uncovers some of the most interesting stories of how animals ... have impacted human civilization in economic, political, and industrial history. This is an original approach that links the biological sciences to the social sciences and students and general readers will find many interesting...
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  • Book of the Glory of the Black Race by Starr, Simon
    Simon Starr

    Book of the Glory of the Black Race

    Book of the Glory of the Black Race is a book written by Al-Jahiz, who was a famous Afro-Iraqi scholar, believed to have been of East African descent and an acclaimed prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu'tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics....
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  • The Negro Question Part 5 Joseph and the 12th dynasty of Egypt by Cummings, Lee
    Lee Cummings

    The Negro Question Part 5 Joseph and the 12th dynasty of Egypt

    This book gives indisputable evidence that the 12th dynasty of Egypt and Pharaoh Amenhetet is the Egyptian dynasty that contains the famine story. I will also in detail prove that the 18th dynasty of Egypt is the Exodus story along with Thutmose 1 as...
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  • Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Morris, Ian
    Ian Morris

    Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

    The best-selling author of Why the West Rules--for Now examines the evolution and future of human values Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during...
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  • Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World by Thompson, Peter
    Peter Thompson

    Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World

    Seeds have influenced evolution, and for millennia they have influenced and sometimes determined where and how we live. This is an epic tale, given added enchantment by the fact that to most of us seeds mean little more than tiny objects in paper packets:...
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  • Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
    Aeschylus

    Greek Tragedy

    Three masterpieces of classical tragedy Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. This volume also includes extracts from Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs and a...
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  • The Wonderful Century: the Age of New Ideas in Science and Invention by Wallace, Alfred Russel 1823-1913 N.
    Alfred Russel 1823-1913 N. Wallace

    The Wonderful Century: the Age of New Ideas in Science and Invention

    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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Lieven, Dominic
    Dominic Lieven

    In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History

    A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE...
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  • The Decline of the West, Vol. I: Form and Actuality by Spengler, Oswald
    Oswald Spengler

    The Decline of the West, Vol. I: Form and Actuality

    "The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time and space, we now perceive to be a philosophical problem that, when comprehended in all its gravity, includes within itself...
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  • The Mis-Education of the Negro by Woodson, Carter Godwin
    Carter Godwin Woodson

    The Mis-Education of the Negro

    An Unabridged Edition to include a Foreword by the Author and all Eighteen Chapters with Appendix: The Seat of the Trouble - How We Missed the Mark - How We Drifted Away from the Truth - Education under Outside Control - The Failure to...
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  • The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West by Walsh, Michael
    Michael Walsh

    The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West

    Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something...
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  • Eden in the Altai: The Prehistoric Golden Age and the Mythic Origins of Humanity by Ashe, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Ashe

    Eden in the Altai: The Prehistoric Golden Age and the Mythic Origins of Humanity

    Reveals how humanity's first advanced culture originated in the Altai-Baikal region of southern Siberia - Explores how this prehistoric culture is the source of the pervasive mythic symbolism of the number 7, found in ancient cosmologies and myths around the world - Traces the...
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  • Global Humanities Reader: Volume 1 - Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives by Hook, Brian S.
    Brian S. Hook

    Global Humanities Reader: Volume 1 - Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives

    The Global Humanities Reader is a collaboratively edited collection of primary sources with student-centered support features. It serves as the core curriculum of the University of North Carolina Asheville's almost-sixty-year-old interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Its three volumes--Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 1), Engaging Premodern...
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  • Africa and the Discovery of America by Wiener, Leo
    Leo Wiener

    Africa and the Discovery of America

    This book is about an event in history that changed the world for all times. It is a sad story that did not have to be. What Africans and the indigenous Americans have given to the world is a part of total humanity that...
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  • A Brief History of the Mediterranean: Indispensable for Travellers by Black, Jeremy
    Jeremy Black

    A Brief History of the Mediterranean: Indispensable for Travellers

    A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home.'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.'Samuel Johnson, 1776 The Mediterranean has...
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  • 100 Treasures / 100 Emotions: The Macquarie University History Museum by Bommas, Martin
    Martin Bommas

    100 Treasures / 100 Emotions: The Macquarie University History Museum

    100 Treasures / 100 emotions celebrates the inauguration of the Macquarie University History Museum Sydney, NSW, Australia. This entirely new volume focuses on 100 works from a vast collection of 15,000 objects, to highlight the new museum's focus on social history and the human...
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  • The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned about a Wider World by Pyne, Stephen J.
    Stephen J. Pyne

    The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned about a Wider World

    For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that...
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  • The Magyars: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Tribes that Established the Kingdom of Hungary by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Magyars: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Tribes that Established the Kingdom of Hungary

    *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Having crossed the Danube, they encamped beside the Danube as far as Budafelh v z. Hearing this, all the Romans living throughout the land of Pannonia, saved their lives by flight. Next day, Prince...
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  • Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 by Quinlan, Heather E.
    Heather E. Quinlan

    Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19

    Pandemics can come in waves-like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that...
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  • The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order by Devine, Donald J.
    Donald J. Devine

    The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order

    Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide economic cornucopia and higher standards of living than any other system, yet its legitimacy is often questioned by its beneficiaries. Boston University Emeritus Professor Angelo M. Codevilla, proclaims Donald Devine's The Enduring Tension between Capitalism...
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  • Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, Ancient Pyramids, Temples, Egyptian Mythology, and Pharaohs such as Tutankham by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, Ancient Pyramids, Temples, Egyptian Mythology, and Pharaohs such as Tutankham

    Explore the Captivating History of Ancient EgyptAncient Egypt is one of the most fascinating and sophisticated civilizations in the known history. The Ancient Egyptians are remembered by their gods, pyramids, pharaohs, mummification, hieroglyphs, agriculture and much more.This book reveals the secrets of the captivating...
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  • Native American History: A Captivating Guide to the Long History of Native Americans Including Stories of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Native Ame by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Native American History: A Captivating Guide to the Long History of Native Americans Including Stories of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Native Ame

    If you want to explore the shocking history of the Native Americans then keep reading..."History is written by the victors," said the victor Winston Churchill. But does that compromise the truth of what really happened?Propaganda has always played a crucial role in turning tides...
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  • Machu Picchu: The History of Peru's Lost Inca City by Titans, History
    History Titans

    Machu Picchu: The History of Peru's Lost Inca City

    Considered to be one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2019, Machu Picchu is a man-made structure situated in the Andes Mountains in Peru. One of the things that makes it so special is that even though it was built in...
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  • Mission of the Jews: High Antiquity of Judeo-Christian Legacy by Seraya, Simha
    Simha Seraya

    Mission of the Jews: High Antiquity of Judeo-Christian Legacy

    Quotes from SAINT-YVES D'ALVEYDREExcerpts from MISSION OF THE JEWS (Tome 1) "One of the main purposes of this book is to prove that Judeo-Christian intellectual and social esoterism is rightly the continuation, the fulfillment, of the whole antique theosophical tradition, of which the two...
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  • From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire by Briant, Pierre
    Pierre Briant

    From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire

    Around 550 B.C.E. the Persian people--who were previously practically unknown in the annals of history--emerged from their base in southern Iran (Fars) and engaged in a monumental adventure that, under the leadership of Cyrus the Great and his successors, culminated in the creation of...
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  • Listening For Ancient Gods: Archaeoacoustics: A study of the world's oldest buildings and the archaeology of sound, with new implications for how by Eneix, Linda C.
    Linda C. Eneix

    Listening For Ancient Gods: Archaeoacoustics: A study of the world's oldest buildings and the archaeology of sound, with new implications for how

    Non-Fiction. What drove the building of the first megalithic monuments? Here is new perspective for anyone with an interest in prehistory and human development in its most pivotal days.From Gobekli Tepe in Anatolia to the megalithic temples of Malta to the passage tombs of...
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  • Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Morris, Ian
    Ian Morris

    Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

    The best-selling author of Why the West Rules--for Now examines the evolution and future of human values Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during...
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  • The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian by Potter, David
    David Potter

    The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian

    Beginning with the Roman army's first foray beyond its borders and concluding with the death of Hadrian in 138 CE, this panoramic history of the early Roman Empire recounts the wars, leaders, and social transformations that lay the foundations of imperial success. Between 264...
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  • On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to Ad 1500 by Cunliffe, Sir Barry
    Sir Barry Cunliffe

    On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500

    For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While...
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  • A History of the Wife by Yalom, Marilyn
    Marilyn Yalom

    A History of the Wife

    How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of...
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  • Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? by Adams, R. J. C.
    R. J. C. Adams

    Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution?

    Shadow of a Taxman investigates how the unrecognised Irish Republic's money was solicited, collected, transmitted, and safeguarded, as well as who the financial backers were and what might have influenced their decision to contribute. The Republic's quest for funds took its emissaries as far...
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  • A Concise History of Western Civilization: From Prehistoric to Early Modern Times: Third Edition by Forsythe, Gary
    Gary Forsythe

    A Concise History of Western Civilization: From Prehistoric to Early Modern Times: Third Edition

    A Concise History of Western Civilization: From Prehistoric to Early Modern Times: Third EditionBy: Gary Forsythe This volume is designed to serve as the textbook for an undergraduate college course that surveys the history of Western Civilization up to the Early Modern Period. It...
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  • Making Civilizations: The World Before 600 by Gehrke, Hans-Joachim
    Hans-Joachim Gehrke

    Making Civilizations: The World Before 600

    Distinguished historians of the ancient world analyze the earliest developments in human history and the rise of the first major civilizations, from the Middle East to India and China. In this volume of the six-part History of the World series, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, a noted...
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  • The Ancient Egyptian Culture Revealed by Gadalla, Moustafa
    Moustafa Gadalla

    The Ancient Egyptian Culture Revealed

    This book reveals several aspects of the Ancient Egyptian culture, such as the very remote antiquities of Egypt; the Egyptian characteristics and religious beliefs and practices; their social/political system; their cosmic temples; the richness of their language; musical heritage and comprehensive sciences; their advanced...
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  • How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by Goldman, David
    David Goldman

    How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)

    You've heard about the Death of the West.But the Muslim world is on the brink of an even greater collapse. WILL WE GO DOWN IN THE IMPLOSION? Thanks to collapsing birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed self-extinction. The untold story...
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  • Anunnaki Homeworld: Orbital History and 2046 Return of Planet Nibiru by Breshears, Jason M.
    Jason M. Breshears

    Anunnaki Homeworld: Orbital History and 2046 Return of Planet Nibiru

    The Anunnaki is a legendary race that appears in the oldest documents preserved by mankind. They are said to inhabit an outermost planet that orbits our sun in an extremely elliptical orbit. Each time this planet gets near to the earth it creates planetary...
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  • History of Greek Culture by Burckhardt, Jacob
    Jacob Burckhardt

    History of Greek Culture

    This monumental work by a distinguished European scholar presents a scrupulously realistic approach to ancient Greek civilization. Professor Burckhardt dispenses with superficial and sentimental views of ancient Greece to embrace a more sophisticated and accurate vision of a complex culture that practiced both the...
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  • Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian by Fox, Robin Lane
    Robin Lane Fox

    The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian

    The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architecture, drama and epic, philosophy and politics -- these are the foundations of Western civilization. In The Classical World, eminent classicist Robin...
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  • The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Cochran, Gregory
    Gregory Cochran

    The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

    Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years. Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago...
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  • The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society by Souyri, Pierre Fran
    Pierre Fran Souyri

    The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society

    In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil wars, and warriors from the Kanto Plain rose up to restore the military regime of their shogun, Yoritomo. The whole...
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