HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)
Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age
At the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeated his brother Cyrus’s challenge to his…
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
This book will sit on my reference shelf as an extremely useful source of information about Rome and the Roman…
The Trojan War: A New History
This is a wonderful book that will enchant neophytes as well as enthusiasts of the subject. Cornell University professor Barry…
The Concord Quartet
In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds…
Eunice
Novelist and poet William James Rivers (1822-1909) was also one of South Carolina’s first professional historians. Published for the first…
The Witchery
In the final book in James Reese’s Herculine trilogy, the title character roams the Florida territories, the Keys and Havana,…
Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Characters & Horrible Blunders
“Every society has its ‘Rules’ – and where these contribute to good order, and the well-being of all, it is…
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
This is the story of the rollicking world of the great American breweries and those that created them, from poor…
Silent in the Grave
This can only be described as a rich plum pudding of a book, full of everything you would find in…
The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London
During the 19th century the East End of London was peopled by a demimonde of criminals. The divide between the…
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