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Armies of the Vikings, AD 793 1066: History, Organization and [...]
Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early...
The Mirror of Venus: Women in Roman Art
Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage, motherhood and political stability was...
Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader
This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to...
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC
Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 203 BC. Most...
Fortress Britain: All the Invasions and Incursions since 1066
As Stuart Laycock's book All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: and the Few We Never got Round to shows, the British have not been backward in coming forward when it...
Design in Italia: The Making of an Industry / Dietro Le Quinte [...]
The modern and contemporary furnishing industry of Italy represents a unique paradigm, on account of its industrial design production created by the most important international architects and designers of the...
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg [...]
From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...
The Book of Holy Medicines: Volume 419
Henry of Grosmont, first Duke of Lancaster, cousin and friend of Edward III, was a soldier, statesman, and diplomat. His Book of Holy Medicines of 1354, an astonishing composition by...
Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America...
Edward IV: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records
Edward IV (king from 1461-83), so often overshadowed by his younger brother and eventual successor Richard III is a controversial figure in his own right. Was he a lazy and...
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
In Fracture, critically acclaimed historian Philipp Blom argues that in the aftermath of the First World War, citizens of the West directed their energies inwards, launching into hedonistic, aesthetic and...
Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity
Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for "Gulliver's Travels" and other satires in verse and prose. In his native Ireland, however, he was most fervently admired as...
Four Days in September: The Battle of Teutoburg
For twenty years, the Roman Empire conquered its way through modern-day Germany, claiming all lands from the Rhine to the Elbe. However, when at last all appeared to be under...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow
On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, [...]
The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional...
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book -...
The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of [...]
On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution. Seventeen hours...
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders
The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy,...
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
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'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...
The Nomads of Mykonos: Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space
This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
Author: Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield, University of Manchester University of Sheffield University of Sheffield University of Sheffield University of Sheffield University of Sheffield University of Sheffield University of Sheffield...
A Tour in Scotland, 1772: And Voyage to the Hebrides
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In the summer of 1772, Thomas Pennant, together with three travelling companions, set out on a five month journey through the north of England, mainland Scotland and the Western Isles....
A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
Upon publication in 2001, Russia's First Civil War by Chester Dunning was greeted by scholars as a "historical tour de force," the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of...
Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History
As he did in 'Britain B.C.' and 'Britain A.D.', eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term...
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in...
Caesar - His Life and Legacy
Even the cliches from the life of Julius Caesar reveal the extent to which his life has become an enduring part of the fabric of western culture. In this book...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one of the few lone voices of conservative...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights
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Author: K.B. McFarlane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 261 This book was originally a series of lectures by McFarlane, which were prepared by G. L. Harriss for book format ....
Dubcek: Dubcek and Czechoslovakia, 1968-90
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Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast
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The Greatest Generation
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
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Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great
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Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor
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Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership
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The Last Irish Plague: The Great 'Flu Epidemic in Ireland
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Alexander the Great: The Story of an Ancient Life
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K Blows Top
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The Elizabethans
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The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
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Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook
An enchanting celebration of Greek provincial life-its charming culture and sublime food-captured in 100 delectable recipes and captivating stories from the Greek-American Tsakiris family, accompanied by more than 100 visually...