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  • BAYONETS FOR HIRE
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    BAYONETS FOR HIRE
    WILLIAM URBAN / WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    An exploration of the changing role of mercenaries in early modern Europe from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution—"A fascinating scholarly work" (Stuart Asquith). "Urban gives a careful and highly readable survey of the highways and byways of18th century warfare, with an enjoyable and arresting emphasis on the individual's experience of war." —John France From the Gr...

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  • THE PURSUIT OF POWER
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    THE PURSUIT OF POWER
    WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow—banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another—to the...

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  • EUROPE'S STEPPE FRONTIER, 1500-1800
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    EUROPE'S STEPPE FRONTIER, 1500-1800
    WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twent...

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  • HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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    HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
    WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    A compact yet thorough one-volume narrative of the entire history of the development of Western civilization With this book, renowned historian William H. McNeil provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its sociopolitical as well as cultural aspects. Sweeping in its coverage but careful in its attention to detail, and up...

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  • HUTCHINS' UNIVERSITY
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    HUTCHINS' UNIVERSITY
    WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNe...

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  • VENICE
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    VENICE
    WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081–1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political ...

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  • THE RISE OF THE WEST
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    THE RISE OF THE WEST
    WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD One of the most important works of history from the twentieth century, The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, William H. McNeill challenges the then-prevalent view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues...

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