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Ivan the Terrible: a Military History
Ivan the Terrible was the first tsar of Russia, and arguably its most infamous ruler. His reign of terror rivalled Stalin's, and he was responsible for establishing serfdom and devastating...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
Author: Lisa JardineFormat: Hardback, 161mm x 239mm, 1118g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2008A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between England and the Netherlands during...
Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama
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Author: Doyeeta MajumderFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 240 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2019In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the 'tyrant...
Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: Jean DanglerFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 230 pagesPublished: University of Notre Dame Press, United States, 2005In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were...
Indigenous Art in the Collection of the Australian National University
Author: Mick DodsonFormat: Hardback, 208 pagesPublished: Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, 2009With essays by Mick Dodson, Mary Eagle, Howard Morphy, Jon Altman, Luke Taylor, Nicholas Peterson, Alison French and Melinda Hinkson...
In the Garden of Isfahan: Islamic Architecture from the 16th to the 18th Century
Isfahan is a heavenly city of gardens, mosques and palaces for an open-minded architect. In addition to the artful dome constructions over the prayer halls of the larger mosques, the...
Truxtun of the "Constellation": The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S.Navy, 1755-1822
Thomas Truxtun was one of the first six captains President Washington appointed to the United States Navy in 1794. Truxtun therefore ranks with men like John Paul Jones in the...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...