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  • The Romans

    A 2,000-Year History

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    **An acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century“A sweeping historical survey that spans two millennia…Those intrigued by the ebb and flow of political power…will find in this book a cornucopia."—Wall Street Journal**When we think of “ancient Romans” today, many picture the toga-clad ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hypatia

    The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mortal Republic

    How Rome Fell into Tyranny

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

    by Edward Watts ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short stories, novels, poems, plays, and historical publications, Indian Haters were white settlers on the western frontier who to kill ... Read more

    $92.29 CAD

  • The Final Pagan Generation

    Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    Series Book 53 - Transformation of the Classical Heritage
    The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • The Christian Recovery of Spain

    by Henry Edward Watts ...
    Henry Edward Watts' The Christian Recovery of Spain ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christmas Boxed Set: 400+

    by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Thomas Nelson Page, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Wheelock, Olive Thorne Miller, François Coppée, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Wallace, Alphonse Daudet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Fra Filippo Lippi, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Oliver Bell Bunce, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Canton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, Nora Archibald Smith, John Mason Neale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Tusser, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Topaz McGonagall, John Donne, Charles Wesley, Carolyn Wells, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Mary Austin, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Henry Vaughan, Martin Luther, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Robert Browning ...
    «Christmas Boxed Set: 400+», by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) ; 1. Burzee ; 2. The Child of the Forest ; 3. The Adoption ; 5. The Master Woodsman. ... Read more

    $0.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colonizing the Past

    Mythmaking and Pre-Columbian Whites in Nineteenth-Century American Writing

    by Edward Watts ...
    After the Revolution, Americans realized they lacked the common, deep, or meaningful history that might bind together their loose confederation of former colonies into a genuine nation. They had been conquerors yet colonials, now politically independent yet culturally subordinate to European history and traditions. To resolve these paradoxes, some early republic "historians" went so far as to ... Read more

    $47.89 CAD

  • Ship Registration: Law and Practice

    by Edward Watt ...
    Series series Lloyd's Shipping Law Library
    Ship Registration Law and Practice is fully updated and now entering its third edition. Part of Lloyd’s Shipping Law Library, it is the most authoritative guide to the theory and practice of ship registration in the most popular jurisdictions. It contains the reference material needed to submit a vessel for registration at the leading ship registries world-wide, as well as extracts from key ... Read more

    $1,051.26 CAD

  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection

    by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Thomas Nelson Page, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Wheelock, Olive Thorne Miller, François Coppée, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Wallace, Alphonse Daudet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Fra Filippo Lippi, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Oliver Bell Bunce, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Canton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, Nora Archibald Smith, John Mason Neale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Tusser, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Topaz McGonagall, John Donne, Charles Wesley, Carolyn Wells, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Mary Austin, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Henry Vaughan, Martin Luther, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Jerome K. Jerome, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

    $0.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In This Remote Country

    French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860

    by Edward Watts ...
    When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities. Images of these French settlers saturated nearly every American text concerned with the West. ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD