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  • Captives and Corsairs

    France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean

    by Gillian Weiss ...
    Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival materials, writings, and images produced by contemporaries, the book fundamentally revises our ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Jewish Fantasy Worldwide

    Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile

    by Cameron Barrows, Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang, Bettina Burger, Ilana Goldstein, Akiva Hoffman, Judy Klass, Evonne Marzouk, Patti McCarthy, Martine Mussies, Gillian Polack, Michaela Weiss0, Stephen M. Cohen1, Steven B. Frankel2, Julie A. Hawkins3, Mara W. Cohen Ioannides4, Katharina Hadassah Wendl5, Valerie Estelle Frankel7, Marat Grinberg8 ...
    Series series Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • The Black Count

    Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

    by Tom Reiss ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “richly imagined biography” (The New York Times Book Review) of General Alex Dumas, who rose from slavery to command vast armies in the French Revolutionary Wars—and whose exploits were immortalized in his son’s novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers“Fascinating [and] entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal“Remarkable.... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Nostradamus: the Truth Be Told

    A Complete History of Europe

    by Clarence Gregory ...
    This is the definitive work on Nostradamus and how his predictions relate to known historical fact. Within these pages the secret order of the quatrains is revealed as well as the codes the prophet used to describe a future that he had no known way to predict.The writings of Nostradamus were far more exact and telling than we have, up till now, imagined. This work not only illustrate this but will ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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  • The Essential Nostradamus

    by Richard Smoley ...
    A handsome, compact new edition of the singularly reliable translation of the writings of history's most famous seer-now published with a new afterword on Nostradamus and 2012.The prophecies of Nostradamus have ignited intense fascination throughout the West since they were first published in the sixteenth century. These enigmatic quatrains have gained special meaning for many during our current ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An Imam in Paris

    Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

    by Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi ...
    Translated by Daniel L. Newman ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    In the 1820s, Rifa`a Rafi` al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European thought, introducing ... Read more

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  • Nostradamus 2242 Judgment Day

    by Benoit d'Andrimont ...
    NOSTRADAMUS The code Revealed Quatrain 3-94 For five hundred years more they will take notice of him, Who was the ornament of his time: Then suddenly a great revelation will be made, Which will make people of that century well pleased. One of the most important quatrain written by Nostradamus about his fame for five hundred years, then suddenly the discovery and revelation of his code enabling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Prophecies

    A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

    by Nostradamus, Richard Sieburth ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholarsThe mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Arab France

    Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831

    by Ian Coller ...
    Many think of Muslims in Europe as a twentieth century phenomenon, but this book brings to life a lost community of Arabs who lived through war, revolution, and empire in early nineteenth century France. Ian Coller uncovers the surprising story of the several hundred men, women, and children—Egyptians, Syrians, Greeks, and others—who followed the French army back home after Napoleon’s occupation ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

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  • A NEW HOMELAND

    The Massacre of The Circassians, Their Exodus To The Ottoman Empire and Their Place In Modern Turkey.

    by Fabio L. GRASSI ...
    In this work famous Italyan historian Fabio L. Grassi addresses Russian conquest of North-Western Caucasus, the massacre and expulsion of the natives, their forced migration into the Ottoman lands and the economic, political and socio-cultural impact of these events along with the struggle of the Circassians for acknowledgement and remembrance.“A New Homeland” enlightens the tragic concequences of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD