Early Modern History (c1400-1700)

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The First Frontier: The Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788-1816

The First Frontier: The Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788-1816

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The arrival of the First Fleet heralded monumental and often catastrophic changes to the lives of the indigenous peoples living between the Blue Mountains and the sea. As British settlement...
Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose: Tudor Rose Novel 1

Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose: Tudor Rose Novel 1

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The captivating new historical novel from Alison Weir, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series . 'With Elizabeth of York, Alison Weir gives us her most compelling...
Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War

Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War

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This is the first book to cover all aspects of sexuality during the Civil War. It is based on area original sources, including the soldiers' jokes, songs, letters, and diaries.
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

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Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's...
Fields of Glory: a History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign

Fields of Glory: a History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign

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traces the 1864 campaign and leads readers on a driving tour of Sherman's path. Franklin Garrett of the Atlanta Historical Society calls it "a difficult job well done" A History...
European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, before and

European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, before and

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This is a documented narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in the Cape Horn area, Tierra del Fuego, by the native Yamana and Charles Darwin, explorers, sealers,...
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

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From the author of 'Britons', the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh -- an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism,...
The Cambridge History of World Literature

The Cambridge History of World Literature

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World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the...
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

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This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British...
Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-Speaking

Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-Speaking

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How did the Irish stay Irish? Why are Irish and Catholic still so often synonymous in the English-speaking world? Ireland's Empire is the first book to examine the complex relationship...
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment

Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment

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The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to...
The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre

The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre

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Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession...
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American

Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American

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This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author...
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

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There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together...
A History of British Art

A History of British Art

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Although its painters and sculptors have mostly been overshadowed by their contemporaries in mainland Europe, Britain has produced many outstanding artists, who are often overlooked in European studies. This phenomenon...
The Normans are Landing!: Hastings - 1066

The Normans are Landing!: Hastings - 1066

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There, at about forty meters high and on a tray of some hundred meters wide, extends a fortress even more formidable than those of Pevensey and Hastings. It is the...
The Pure Heart

The Pure Heart

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A stunning classic horror story - perfect for fans of Mary Shelley! '[A] wonderful twisted gothic novel ... [an] evocation of a weird and wonderful world with compulsive characters and...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 2)

Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 2)

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* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery and, with Sir...
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

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A thrilling and highly-acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Tracy...
Capitalism and Slavery

Capitalism and Slavery

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The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn

Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn

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An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen...
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia

1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia

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Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential...
A Short History of Russia

A Short History of Russia

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An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of...
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

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A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

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Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it It is only in the last...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition

The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great

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The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition

The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition

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The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life

Thomas Cromwell: A Life

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'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney, Thomas Cromwell became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey. After Wolsey's fall,...
Conquistadores

Conquistadores

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A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends...
Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living

Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living

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Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

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An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...
London

London

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A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Find out the truth about Henry VIII's wives

The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Find out the truth about Henry VIII's

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Thoroughly researched and with a real understanding of the times these six fascinating women lived through, Alison Weir's book reveals a Tudor England where personal needs and private emotion could,...
Adventures in Time: The Fall of the Aztecs

Adventures in Time: The Fall of the Aztecs

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Travel back to a vanished world with the celebrated children's history series The Aztec Empire had been blessed by the gods. Its pyramid temples were warmed by the sun, its...
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

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'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth...
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

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Young law student Rodion Raskolnikov lives in poverty in St. Petersburg. Indesperation, he sells the last of his valuables, a watch, to an elderly pawnbroker. Butwhat the pawnbroker doesn't know...
Terrifying Tudors

Terrifying Tudors

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Discover all the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors with history's most horrible headlines. All the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors are ready to uncover, including: who invited Queen...
Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold

Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El

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A "rollicking," "vividly re-created," and "enticing romp" that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

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Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian...
Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens 5

Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens

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'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling SIX TUDOR QUEENS series, relates one of the...
Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens 5

Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens

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'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The Times Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of...
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows

Mary I: Queen of Sorrows (SIGNED)

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'A must for Tudor fans everywhere' Tracy Borman'Thrilling, captivating . . . unforgettable' Kate Williams'A gripping story that's underpinned by a wealth of research . . . this is Alison...
The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery

The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery

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The Santa Maria di Firenze, an ancient, venerable Benedictine abbey (called the Badia) located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of Anne Leader's new book. In 1418, 17...
The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker

The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker

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Before the age of multi-media, how did the invention of a new technology affect the careers of Renaissance artists? In this groundbreaking book, Evelyn Lincoln examines the formation of the...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

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The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
Forgotten Fortress: Fort Millard Fillmore and Antebellum New Mexico 1851-1862

Forgotten Fortress: Fort Millard Fillmore and Antebellum New Mexico

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Fort Millard Fillmore, named for the thirteenth President of the United States, was the first U.S. Army fort established in southern New Mexico Territory. Its primary purpose was to control...