The Serf by Thorne, Guy, 1876-1923

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Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Battle of Bannockburn: Scots defeat the english -- Women, land, and inheritance in england -- Crime -- Trade and the hanseatic league -- Victory at sea -- Anti-semitism in Spain -- Deposing King Richard -- Great schism -- Chapter 2 -- Nobles -- Court life -- Serfs -- Peasants in the hundred years' war -- Wat Tyler's rebellion of 1381 -- Chapter 3 -- Famine of 1315-1322 -- Childhood in the fourteenth century -- Catherine of Siena -- Medieval play -- Food in the fourteenth century -- Petrarch -- Religious thought in the fourteenth century -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Religious life -- Chapter 4 -- Plague and the decameron -- Medicine and the plague -- Long-term effects of the plague on society -- Chapter 5 -- Tensions in Japan -- Tughluq dynasty in India -- Ibn Battuta -- Rise of the Ottomans -- Timur -- Aztec empire -- Chapter 6 -- Mansa musa and the magnificence of Mali -- Life and government in Mali -- Chapter 7 -- Establishment of the ming dynasty -- Early ming wars and successions -- Trade in early ming times.…”

Ruling Russian Eurasia, Khans, Clans, and Tsars by Williams, Robert Chadwell 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Cyril and Methodius (1848) -- The Emancipation of the Serfs (1861) -- Leo Tolstoy on the Families of Anna Karenina (1875-1877) -- Praskovaya Ivanovskaya on the People's Will and the Murder of Alexander II (1881) -- Special Measures for the Maintenance of Order (1881) -- Lenin's Genealogy -- Stalin's Family -- Prince Urusov on the Kishinev Pogrom (1903) -- The Fundamental Laws of Imperial Russia (1906) -- Panmongolism and the Scythians (1899, 1918) -- The Romanov Family on the Abdication of Nicholas II (1917) -- National Declarations of Independence (1918-1919) -- Yurovsky, Lenin, and Yeltsin on the murder of the Romanov family (1918, 1998) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the Gulag Archipelago (1973)…”