Subject: History
The Glory of Christendom, 1100-1517 is the third volume in “The History of Chistendom” series. This series is the only in-print, comprehensive narration of Western history written from an orthodox Catholic perspective.
[ Read more ]The persistent myths of the French Revolution—that the destruction of the old order brought unrivaled freedom and happiness for Europe—are shattered in this rousing study of the political violence and social turmoil that struck France in the late eighteenth century.
[ Read more ]One of the most powerful and compelling figures of all history, Isabel of Spain was a force with which to be reckoned and should rightfully eclipse the better-known Elizabeth of England, both as a woman and as a national leader. The first full scholarly biography of Queen Isabel in English for nearly seventy five years, Isabel of Spain is extensively annotated and eminently readable.
[ Read more ]Why be satisfied with leftist propaganda on the Spanish Civil War? Warren Carroll’s treatment of the events of 1936 is singular in Anglo-American scholarship for seeing the conflict for what it truly was: a death struggle against the Christian faith and a war against Christian civilization.
[ Read more ]Standard histories on the Age of Colonization tell a sad story of the ills inflicted on indigenous peoples by exploitative Western powers. This book offers a realistic corrective. The Spanish conquest of the New World is shown vividly—in its fervor and exuberance, but most importantly with attention to its central evangelical and civilizing impulse, which made the Americas a central part of Christendom.
[ Read more ]The Revolution Against Christendom, 1661-1815 is the fifth volume in “The History of Christendom” series. This series is the only in-print, comprehensive narration of Western history written from an orthodox Catholic perspective.
[ Read more ]English historian and Christian humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the twentieth-century Catholic Right. Poet and social critic T. S. Eliot considered him the foremost thinker of his generation, and the founder of American conservatism, Russell Kirk, wrote that he had been “saturated in Dawsonian historical studies [and] my own books reflect Dawson’s concepts.”
[ Read more ]Swords Around the Cross presents one of the few full-length treatments of the heroic struggle of the Irish clansmen in their effort to defend their faith and country against English encroachment and conquest in the sixteenth century.
[ Read more ]This sixth and most important volume of Sir Martin Gilbert’s authorized biography of Winston Churchill, The Finest Hour probes beneath the surface of each of the crucial decisions in which Churchill was involved from the outbreak of war in September 1939 to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
[ Read more ]The fifth volume of the official biography of Winston S. Churchill opens with Churchill’s return to Conservatism and to the Cabinet in 1924, and, as the story unfolds, presents a vivid and intimate picture both of his public life and of his private world and Chartwell between wars.
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