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Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition(1995) BURG, B. R.Investigates the social and sexual world of these sea roversVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Dr Johnson's London(2004) PICARD, LIZAThe everyday realities of life in the city of Hogarth, Fielding and Dr Johnson, by the author of the bestselling Elizabeth's London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14(2012) RICHARDSON, J. S. (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history.Vezava: Mehka50,95 € -
English Civil War At First Hand(2011) HUNT, TRISTRAMAlmost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. This title offers a narrative based on the first-hand accounts of those who witnessed these traumatic events.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Troubled Empire(2013) BROOK, TIMOTHYThe Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. This title explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invaVezava: Mehka34,95 € -
Shakespeare's London(2011) PORTER, STEPHENEveryday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Authority and Disorder in Tudor Times, 1485–1603(1999) THOMAS, PAULAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.Vezava: Mehka26,14 € -
Flame Trees Of Thika(2014) HUXLEY, ELSPETHWhen Elspeth Huxley’s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings(1995) HAYWOOD, JOHNVikings were more than just marine warriors. This atlas shows their development as traders and craftsmen, explorers, settlers and mercenaries. It contains over sixty colour maps, and follows the tracks of the Viking merchants who travelled deep into RussiVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Greatest Traitor(2010) MORTIMER, IANThe first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II. One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Philip the Bold(2002) VAUGHAN, RICHARD,VALE, MALCOLMA biography of Philip and a study of the emergence of the Burgundian state under his aegis in the years 1384-1404, paying particular attention to his crucial aquisition of Flanders. There is comprehensive analysis of how Philip'sgovernment worked.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Victorians(2003) WILSON, A.N.People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. WilsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ouidah(2004) LAW, ROBINOuidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Secret State(2010) HENNESSY, PETERWhat were the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and 'breakdown' had occurred? When would the Queen have been informed and where would she have gone? How does the contingency planning for a national emergency work today? This book givVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rome in the Late Republic(2000) BEARD, MARY,CRAWFORD, MICHAEL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK)This textbook outlines the factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period, from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions.Vezava: Mehka40,61 € -
Now It Can Be Told(1983) GROVES, LESLIE"General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military"Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Glencoe(1973) PREBBLE, JOHN'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hostsVezava: Mehka18,21 €










