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A Brief History of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the Brit ...Show more
A Brief History of Feminism by Patu
$36.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: A Brief History of Feminism
The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but there's so much more. And we need to know about it, especially now. In pithy text and pithier comics, A Brief History of Feminism engages us, educates us, makes us laugh, and makes us angry. It begins ...Show more
A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World by Thomas Crump
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never been seen before. Inventors, businessmen, scientists, explorers all had their part to play in the story of the Industrial Revoluti ...Show more
A Brief History of Khublai Khan by Jonathan Clements
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: A Brief History of
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coastline. His ar ...Show more
A Brief History of The Middle East from Abraham to Arafat by Christopher Catherwood
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of | Reading Level: very good
Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West ...Show more
A Brief History of Venice by Elizabeth Horodowich
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
In this colorful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She exp ...Show more
A Brief History of the Magna Carta by Geoffrey Hindley
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
In 1215, the Barons of England forced King John to sign a revolutionary document which would change the political landscape of Britain and beyond for the next 800 years. Magna Carta was the forerunner of the Constitution that limited the powers of the crown and its echoes can be found in the seventeenth ...Show more
A Brief History of the Universe by J.P. McEvoy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Previous Stock - Popular Science | Series: Brief History of
Since the dawn of humanity, men have attempted to divine the nature of the heavens. The first astronomers mapped the movement of the seasons and used the positions of the constellations for augurs and astrology. Today, the search goes ever deeper into the nature of reality and life itself. In this acces ...Show more
Brief History of the Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward
$35.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
During the fifteenth century England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown. The civil wars consumed the whole nation in a series of battles that eventually saw the Tudor dynasty take power. In "A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses", D ...Show more
Life in Victorian Britain (A Brief History series) by Michael Paterson
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have felt very different from our own and it was only dur ...Show more
The Great Turning Points of British History by Michael Wood
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
Twenty of the most crucial moments in Britain's history "BBC History Magazine" asked a selection of leading historians to choose and describe the twenty most important turning points in British history from AD 1000 to 2000. Collected together, their choices present a new way of looking at our nation's s ...Show more
World War II: The Autobiography by Jon E. Lewis
$34.99 NZD
Category: Sale Books | Series: Brief History of
How will the Second World War be remembered? Not as a series of strategic battles but as a dramatic turning point in world history, recorded through the personal accounts, diaries, and speeches of those that were there. "World War Two: the Autobiography" places centre stage the individual accounts of ov ...Show more
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