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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. Explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. This book draws on contemporary writings - on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace treaties - to focus on people and events we thought we knew well. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBWC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845950781
ISBN
9781845950781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001632
ISBN
9781844130801
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Offers an account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. Taking the lessons of Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in fifteenth-century Florence, this title shows how these lessons can still apply today. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; BM; HBJD1; HBLX; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099546092
ISBN
9780099546092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.33

Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612347677
ISBN
9781612347677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.44

Hardback. A wide-ranging yet concise survey of the U.S. Navy from the colonial era through the Civil War Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBTM; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803240520
ISBN
9780803240520
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.81

Paperback. The Seven Years' War was the world's first global conflict, spanning five continents and the critical sea lanes that connected them. Winner of the 2005 France-Ameriques Prize, this book is the account written of the French navy's role in the hostilities. Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. Num Pages: 472 pages, 5 maps, 12 appendixes, index. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803260245
ISBN
9780803260245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.77

Paperback. Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801474514
ISBN
9780801474514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.02

Paperback. A study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history. It shows how US officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications. It sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the United States as the predominant power of the century. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 358 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674725775
ISBN
9780674725775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.38

Paperback. Tells the story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. This title delves into the intricacies of his sermons, speeches, storytelling, exhortations, jokes, jeremiads, taunts, repartee, eulogies, confessions, lamentation, and gallows humor. It explores his performances. Num Pages: 408 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; CFG; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPH; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046986
ISBN
9780674046986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.27

Paperback. Series: Bampton Lectures in America S. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC; HBWC; HRAX; HRC; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231146258
ISBN
9780231146258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.19

Hardback. With his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero. Num Pages: 208 pages, 26, 23 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBH; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890291
ISBN
9780801890291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.41

Paperback. Collects the foremost aticles written about Jews and the Civil War in a single accessible volume Editor(s): Sarna, Jonathan D.; Mendelsohn, Adam D. Num Pages: 445 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
445
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814771136
ISBN
9780814771136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.62

Hardback. Why is the world orderly, and how does order occur? Humans inhabit many systems - natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others - with seemingly obscure origins. In this book, the authors trace the versatile language of self-organization in the eighteenth-century West. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226752051
ISBN
9780226752051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 39.32

Hardback. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 528 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231150323
ISBN
9780231150323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 528 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSG; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 32. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231150330
ISBN
9780231150330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.24

Paperback. A biography that penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distil an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753810712
ISBN
9780753810712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138643482
ISBN
9781138643482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.28

Paperback. The definitive study of the wars in Afghanistan by the veteran reporter who has had exclusive access to all the key players over the last 30 years there from Gorbachev to WikiLeaks. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Portobello Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846274312
ISBN
9781846274312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. Num Pages: 600 pages, 16pp black & white plates, 3 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 231 x 45. Weight in Grams: 916.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
600
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199642427
ISBN
9780199642427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. This second volume on the Hundred Years War traces Edward III's increasing domination of France, from the fall of Calais in 1347 up to 1369. The period is dominated by a succession of crises in French affairs of state; crises that brought it to the verge of ruin. Num Pages: 704 pages, 50pp integrated b&w maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 906.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
691
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571207374
ISBN
9780571207374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 25.65

Paperback. In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful. This title examines the roots of the heresy. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571200023
ISBN
9780571200023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 567 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRAX; HRCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 35. Weight in Grams: 808.
Publisher
Hiddenspring
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781587680250
ISBN
9781587680250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.86

Paperback. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. This book tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 43. Weight in Grams: 904.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571274567
ISBN
9780571274567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 25.65

Paperback. Details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, this book follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Calais in 1347. Num Pages: 672 pages, 38 b&w maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 49. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571200955
ISBN
9780571200955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 25.28

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