Comprehensive, illustrated history of Renaissance life. Edited by R.M. Ketchum. Author, J.H. Plumb.

Most of this book is devoted to the hard and bitter lives of ordinary men and women, and to those men of genius and talent who made it a time for hope."-Publisher.

Pachen, a leader of the resistance during the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and was held as a prisoner for 21 years before her release in 1981.

Chronicles the Revolutionary War, describing the making of the army, the search for allies overseas, and the roles of the military and civilians in the fight against the British.

This enormously influential book by three leading historians was a revolution in the understanding of commercialisation and the economy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and the consumer revolution.