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Mediterranean in the Ancient World(2002) BRAUDEL, FERNANDPresents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to appreciVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Setting the East Ablaze(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'A gripping account of the terrible, confused struggle for mastery of Central Asia that followed the Russian Revolution' Evening StandardVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings(2001)Were the Vikings, as contemporary description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or were they unusually successful merchants, extortionists, and pioneer explorers? This book, byVezava: Mehka34,33 € -
Pompeii(2009) BEARD, PROFESSOR MARYContains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Rome and Jerusalem(2008) GOODMAN, MARTINIn 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its ruin was completed when Emperor Hadrian built a new city on top of it that Jews were forbidden even to enter. This title explores tVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Pakistan(2012) KHAN, IMRANBorn only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, the author has lived his country's history. This title provides an insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a western audience.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hope and Glory(2004) CLARKE, PETERChallenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. This title examines the political, social and economic changes that transformed Britain. It looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Making of Modern Colombia(1993) BUSHNELL, DAVIDThis historical study traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation and reform in the 19th century, to economic development and social and political democratization in the 20th century.Vezava: Mehka43,62 € -
1776(2006) MCCULLOUGH, DAVIDPresents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazingVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Magnificent Obsession(2012) RAPPAPORT, HELEN'Rappaport uses new sources to give a vivid account of Albert's death . Drawing widely on contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs, Rappaport brings new light to bear on the causes of Albert's death and tracks Victoria's mission to commemorate her husbanVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Britons(2009) COLLEY, LINDAHow was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire.Vezava: Mehka34,20 € -
Sisters Who Would Be Queen(2010) LISLE, LEANDA DEThe dramatic untold story of the Grey sisters, heirs to the Tudor throne. 'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' PVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Globe(2016) ARNOLD, CATHARINEA fascinating portrait of life in Shakespeare's London, seen from the theatrical perspective, by popular historian, Catharine Arnold.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Graves are Walking(2013) KELLY, JOHNWell-meaning civil servants were eager to modernise Irish agriculture and to improve the Irish moral character, which was utterly lacking in the virtues of the new age of triumphant capitalism.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Scotland Re-formed, 1488-1587(2007) DAWSON, JANE (PROFESSOR OF REFORMATION HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)This book encompasses the long sixteenth century, starting with James IV’s accession and concluding with Mary, Queen of Scots’ execution. At its heart is Scottish political life viewed from local and regional perspectives as well as the centre.Vezava: Mehka41,69 € -
In Search Of The Trojan War(2005) WOOD, MICHAELDetailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the moVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Henry VIII and His Six Wives: A Guide to Historic Tudor Sites(2014) PETER BRAMLEYVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Charles the Bold(2004) VAUGHAN, RICHARD,PARAVICINI, WERNERErudite but highly readable.... An attractive and timely repackaging of an unrivalled classic of Burgundian studies. MEDIUM AEVUMVezava: Mehka46,32 € -
In Search of the Dark Ages(2005) WOOD, MICHAEL'With In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV.' The Times 'Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history and archaeology.' Times Literary SupplementVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
History of England(1979) MACAULAY, THOMASBegins with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and concludes at the end of the reign of William III in 1702. This book presents a time of deep struggle throughout Britain and Ireland in vivid prose. It offers a gripping narrative, and draws on a wide range oVezava: Mehka18,21 €











