Books by Jonathan Lyons
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review 1: This book shed new light on the economic situation in the colonies before and after the Revolutionary War. These were not the things that were talked about in US history classes. The dependence on England put the colonists in a desperate situation that led to the kind of frustr...
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review 1: Wonderful book describing the influence and importance of the Islamic Renaissance at the time of the Abbasids. How classical Greek and Roman knowledge was translated, saved and altered by the scholars of the Islamic empire. Without this repository of knowledge the development o...
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review 1: Thoroughly enjoyed this excellent book and have but a single complaint. It does not actually do what it says on the tin. Entitled as it is 'The House of Wisdom' I expected it to be about the advancement of scientific understanding in Baghdad under the Abbasids, but it's not reall...