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Boris Godunov: The Tragic Tsar
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Author: Ian GreyBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union, Newton Abbot, 1974Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography, Boris Godunov: The Tragic Tsar, chronicles...
Roman Domestic Buildings
Intended as a companion to "Roman Public Buildings"(0-85989-239-5) by the same editor, this volume completes the architectural picture of Roman society. The text covers the political, social and economic significance...
How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe,
An examination of how the Jews real and imagined so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new...
Rome: Day One
Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas,...
Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective
A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that...
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
The lives of England's Kings and Queens, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. This painstakingly illustrated book celebrates the Great Dynasties of English Royalty, from the establishment of the...
Facts And Figures: Notes Of Progress, Statistical And General
$30.00 AUD
Author: William Henry ArcherBinding: HardbackPublished: Queensberry Hill Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No. 309 of 500....
The Rise Of Modern Europe: The Dawn Of A New Era 1250-1453
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Author: Edward P. CheyneyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Harper Torchbooks, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEdward P. Cheyney's The Rise Of Modern Europe:...
World War II: Prelude to War
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Author: Robert T. Elson And The Editors Of Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1977Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWorld War II: Prelude To War chronicles the tumultuous political and social...
The Aftermath: Europe
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Author: Douglas BottingBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1984Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe historical account The Aftermath: Europe chronicles the tumultuous period following World War II, detailing the continent's struggle for...
The Second Front
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Author: Douglas Botting And The Editors Of Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account The Second Front: World War II meticulously chronicles the strategic...
Battles For Scandinavia
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Author: John R. Elting And The Editors Of Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1985Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsBattles For Scandinavia: World War II chronicles the intense military campaigns that...
Creating French Culture: Treasures From The Bibliothèque Nationale De France
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Author: Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press., 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Water damage to various pages and edges, foxed edges, previous...
The Hermitage Western European Painting: Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
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Author: A. KostenevichBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers., 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Hermitage, one of the world's biggest treasuries of Western European art, already had a wide...
Studies in Ancient Technology: Volume III
"Studies in Ancient Technology" forms a series of books, each containing a number of essays on ancient technology, covering both the preclassical and classical period and demonstrating the continuity and...
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous,...
Churchill
During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of sceptics who had...
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800
This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.
Edward VII: Image of an Era, 1841-1910
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How did Edward VII, whose reign lasted for only nine years, become one of the most popular and well-known of British monarchs? This biography, combining informative text with illustrations, provides...
In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology
A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important...
The West: The History of an Idea
A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners"...
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era,...
La Roja
La Roja is bestselling author Jimmy Burns tremendous opus on Spanish soccer. From its early beginnings when the first soccer on the shores of Bilbao and Buenos Aires was played...
Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation
The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child...
Orsay: Masterpieces Of 19Th-Century Art
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Author: Musée d'OrsayBinding: PaperbackPublished: San Francisco, CA Munich; New York [Paris, France]: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; DelMonico Books/Prestel Publishing; Musée d'Orsay, 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No...
Europe: Privilege And Protest 1730-1789
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Author: Olwen H. HuftonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Fontana Press, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical analysis, Europe: Privilege And Protest 1730-1789, chronicles...
The Last Attachment: The Story Of Byron And Teresa Guiccioli As Told In Their Unpublished Letters And Other Family Papers
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Author: Iris OrigoBinding: HardbackPublished: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained book block. The acclaimed historical work The Last Attachment:...
Denmark
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Author: Compiled By The Editors Of The Danish National EncyclopediaBinding: HardbackPublished: The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1996Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume presents an...
The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. George...
A Stranger In Spain
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Author: H. V. MortonBinding: HardbackPublished: METHUEN & CO. LTD, LONDON, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsA Stranger In Spain...
Europe In The Eighteenth Century: 1713-1783
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Author: M. S. AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: LONGMANS, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative historical account, Europe In The Eighteenth Century: 1713-1783, chronicles a pivotal...
Europe And A Wider World: 1419-1715
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Author: J. H. ParryBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson University Library, 1949Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the transformative period between 1415 and 1715, detailing Europe's burgeoning global...
Earlier Diplomatic History: 1492-1713
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Author: Sir Charles Petrie, Br.Binding: HardbackPublished: Hollis and Carter Ltd., 1949Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsEarlier Diplomatic History: 1492-1713 presents a comprehensive account of...
The Catacombs: Rediscovered Monuments Of Early Christianity
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Author: J. StevensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work, The Catacombs: Rediscovered Monuments Of Early Christianity, presents a meticulous examination of the...
Europe In The Seventeenth Century
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Author: David OggBinding: HardbackPublished: Adam & Charles Black, 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Glue stain on endpapers. David Ogg's Europe...
The Portrait In The Renaissance
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Author: John Pope-HennessyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly volume chronicles the evolution and significance of portraiture...
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author: Donald McleanBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe World Turned Upside Down chronicles a pivotal era...
Target De Gaulle: The True Story Of The 31 Attempts On The Life Of The French President
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Author: Pierre Démaret And Christian PlumeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Dial Press, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: dust jacket has some tears...
English Historical Documents Volume XII 1833-1974 (Two-Volume Set)
$140.00 AUD
Author: David C. DouglasBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis two-volume reference set presents a curated archive of primary source material documenting British political,...
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
A fascinating historical investigation that brilliantly illuminates a macabre episode in 1830s London and brings the capital's underclass roaring back to life. Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed...
The New Russia
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking...
Kings & Queens of England and Scotland
New edition of the drama and history of Britain's royal lineage from the Saxons to the Windsors From the Saxons to the Windsors, from the Tudors to Hanovers, Britain's royal...
Bonnie Prince Charlie
This biography portrays the Young Pretender's struggle to rally the clans and restore a Stuart monarch to the British throne. How he nearly succeeded in changing the course of British...
The 'Call Yourself British?' Quiz Book: Could You Pass the UK
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Find out just how British you jolly well are: 500 multiple choice questions based on the Home Office Citizenship test Can you beat the 51% of British 18- to 24-year-olds...
World War One: Five Continents in Flanders
Much has been written about the horrors of the First World War, however this is the first book to offer an overview of the more than 50 different cultures present...
How to Think Like Churchill
Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to 'never surrender', along with his stirring speeches and radio broadcasts, helped inspire British resistance to the Nazi threat...