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Powers And Thrones - A New History of the Middle Ages (Paperback): Dan Jones Powers And Thrones - A New History of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
Dan Jones; Narrated by Dan Jones
R415 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator, Books of the Year 'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year 'An amazing masterly gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A badass history writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan 'A triumph' Charles Spencer Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book identifies three key themes that underpinned the success of the West: commerce, conquest and Christianity. Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones's trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting - or stealing - the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations - Rome, Paris, Venice, Constantinople - and it features some of history's most famous and notorious men and women. This is a book written about - and for - an age of profound change, and it asks the biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we come from? What made us? Where do we go from here? Also available in audio, read by the author.

Life and Times in Nazi Germany (Hardcover): Lisa Pine Life and Times in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
Lisa Pine
R4,247 Discovery Miles 42 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lisa Pine assembles an impressive array of influential scholars in Life and Times in Nazi Germany to explore the variety and complexity of life in Germany under Hitler's totalitarian regime. The book is a thematic collection of essays that examine the extent to which social and cultural life in Germany was permeated by Nazi aims and ambitions. Each essay deals with a different theme of daily German life in the Nazi era, with topics including food, fashion, health, sport, art, tourism and religion all covered in chapters based on original and expert scholarship. Life and Times in Nazi Germany, which also includes 24 images and helpful end-of-chapter select bibliographies, provides a new lens through which to observe life in Nazi Germany - one that highlights the everyday experience of Germans under Hitler's rule. It illuminates aspects of life under Nazi control that are less well-known and examines the contradictions and paradoxes that characterised daily life in Nazi Germany in order to enhance and sophisticate our understanding of this period in the nation's history. This is a crucial volume for all students of Nazi Germany and the history of Germany in the 20th century.

The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 - Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover): Brian L. Davies The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 - Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
Brian L. Davies
R4,592 Discovery Miles 45 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Russo-Turkish War""was one of the most decisive conflicts of the 18th century. In this book, Brian Davies offers a thorough survey of the war and explains why it was crucial to the political triumph of Catherine the Great, the southward expansion of the Russian Empire, and the rollback of Ottoman power from southeastern Europe. The war completed the incorporation of Ukraine into the Russian Empire, ended the independence of the great Cossack hosts, removed once and for all the military threat from the Crimean Khanate, began the partitions of Poland, and encouraged Catherine II to plan projects to complete the "liberation" of the lower Danubian and Balkan Slavs and Greeks. The war legitimated and secured the power of Catherine II, finally made the Pontic steppe safe for agricultural colonization, and won ports enabling Russia to control the Black Sea and become a leading grain exporter. Traditionally historians (Sorel, for example) have treated this war as the beginning of the "Eastern Question," the question of how the European powers should manage the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A thorough grasp of the Russo-Turkish War is essential to understanding the complexity and volatility of diplomacy in 18th-century Europe. This book will be an invaluable resource for all scholars and students on European military history and the history of Eastern Europe.

Bibliotheca Meadiana, Sive Catalogus Librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. qui Prostabunt Venales sub Hasta, apud Samuelem Baker, in... Bibliotheca Meadiana, Sive Catalogus Librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. qui Prostabunt Venales sub Hasta, apud Samuelem Baker, in Vico Dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die lunae, 18vo. Novembris, M.DCC.LIV. Iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M.DCC.LV (Hardcover)
Samuel Baker
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Greek Mythology - A Guide to Greek Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, Heroes, and the Best Mythological Tales (Hardcover): Adam Angelos Greek Mythology - A Guide to Greek Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, Heroes, and the Best Mythological Tales (Hardcover)
Adam Angelos
R599 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Organizing the 20th-Century World - International Organizations and the Emergence of International Public Administration,... Organizing the 20th-Century World - International Organizations and the Emergence of International Public Administration, 1920-1960s (Hardcover)
Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Haakon Andreas Ikonomou, Torsten Kahlert
R3,562 Discovery Miles 35 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

International Organizations play a pivotal role on the modern global stage and have done, this book argues, since the beginning of the 20th century. This volume offers the first historical exploration into the formative years of international public administrations, covering the birth of the League of Nations and the emergence of the second generation that still shape international politics today such as the UN, NATO and OECD. Centring on Europe, where the multilaterization of international relations played out more intensely in the mid-20th century than in other parts of the world, it demonstrates a broad range of historiographical and methodological approaches to institutions in international history. The book argues that after several 'turns' (cultural, linguistic, material, transnational), international history is now better equipped to restate its core questions of policy and power with a view to their institutional dimensions. Making use of new approaches in the field, this book develops an understanding of the specific powers and roles of IO-administrations by delving into their institutional make-up.

Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk Memorial Book (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) - Translation of Sefer Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk... Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk Memorial Book (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) - Translation of Sefer Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk (Hardcover)
Zvi Harkavi, Yaakov Goldburt; Translated by Yocheved Klausner
R1,238 R1,056 Discovery Miles 10 560 Save R182 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century - Astronomic Emotions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Howard Carlton Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century - Astronomic Emotions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Howard Carlton
R3,631 Discovery Miles 36 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines the available primary sources which provide insight into the lives of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and physicists to study the complex interactions within their 'biocultural' brain-body systems which drove parallel changes of perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so, he also explores three topics of great scientific interest during this period: the question of the possible existence of life on other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as a theory of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates about the ages of the earth and sun. From this body of evidence we gain a greater understanding of the underlying phenomena which actuated intellectual developments in the past and which are still relevant to today's knowledge-making processes.

Second Treatise of Government (Hardcover): John Locke Second Treatise of Government (Hardcover)
John Locke
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Early history of the Christian church - from its foundation to the end of the fifth century (fourth edtion) (Volume II)... Early history of the Christian church - from its foundation to the end of the fifth century (fourth edtion) (Volume II) (Hardcover)
Louis Duchesne
R1,201 R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Save R121 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Japan's Russia - Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Hardcover): Olga V Solovieva, Sho Konishi Japan's Russia - Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Hardcover)
Olga V Solovieva, Sho Konishi
R3,551 Discovery Miles 35 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The War on Coffee - Volume One (Hardcover): Glenn Robinette The War on Coffee - Volume One (Hardcover)
Glenn Robinette
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Heiress of Holocaust - How my family survived the holocaust and the lasting effects on my life (Hardcover): Sarah Segal An Heiress of Holocaust - How my family survived the holocaust and the lasting effects on my life (Hardcover)
Sarah Segal
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Outwitting the Hun - My Escape From a German Prison Camp (Hardcover): Pat O'Brien Outwitting the Hun - My Escape From a German Prison Camp (Hardcover)
Pat O'Brien
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ukraine's Quest for Identity - Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 (Hardcover): Maria G.... Ukraine's Quest for Identity - Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 (Hardcover)
Maria G. Rewakowicz
R2,777 Discovery Miles 27 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest for identity Ukraine has followed a path similar to other postcolonial societies, the main characteristics of which include a slow transition, hybridity, and identities negotiated on the center-periphery axis. This monograph concentrates on major works of literature produced during the first two decades of independence and places them against the background of clearly identifiable contexts such as regionalism, gender issues, language politics, social ills, and popular culture. It also shows that Ukrainian literary politics of that period privileges the plurality and hybridity of national and cultural identities. By engaging postcolonial discourse and insisting that literary production is socially instituted, Maria G. Rewakowicz explores the reasons behind the tendency toward cultural hybridity and plural identities in literary imagination. Ukraine's Quest for Identity will appeal to all those keen to study cultural, social and political ramifications of the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and beyond.

An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va. (Hardcover): W H (William Henry) Newlin An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va. (Hardcover)
W H (William Henry) Newlin
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the East Suffolk, Regiment of Foot (Hardcover): Richard Cannon Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the East Suffolk, Regiment of Foot (Hardcover)
Richard Cannon
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stalin - The Enduring Legacy (Hardcover): Kerry Bolton Stalin - The Enduring Legacy (Hardcover)
Kerry Bolton
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21 - Protest, Revolution and Commemoration (Hardcover): Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe,... Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21 - Protest, Revolution and Commemoration (Hardcover)
Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe, Corinne Painter
R3,032 Discovery Miles 30 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes related to women and revolution, such as anti-militarism and violence, democracy and citizenship, and experience and life-writing, this book sheds new and necessary light on the everyday lives of socialist women in the early 20th century. The participants of the 1918-1919 revolutions in Europe, and the accompanying outbreaks of social unrest elsewhere in the world, have typically been portrayed as war-weary soldiers and suited committee delegates-in other words, as men. Exceptions like Rosa Luxemburg exist, but ordinary women are often cast as passive recipients of the vote. This is not true; rather, women were pivotal actors in the making, imagining, and remembering of the social and political upheavals of this time. From wartime strikes, to revolutionary violence, to issues of suffrage, this book reveals how women constructed their own revolutionary selves in order to bring about lasting social change and provides a fresh comparative approach to women's socialist activism. As such, this is a vitally important resource for all postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in gender studies, international relations, and the history and legacy of World War I. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

The Heirs to the Savoia Throne and the Construction of 'Italianita', 1860-1900 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Maria... The Heirs to the Savoia Throne and the Construction of 'Italianita', 1860-1900 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Maria Christina Marchi
R3,626 Discovery Miles 36 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the evolution of the role of the heirs to the throne of Italy between 1860 and 1900. It focuses on the future kings Umberto I (1844-1900) and Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947), and their respective spouses, Margherita of Savoia (1851-1926) and Elena of Montenegro (1873-1952). It sheds light on the soft power the Italian royals were attempting to generate, by identifying and examining four specific areas of monarchical activity: firstly, the heirs' public role and the manner in which they attempted to craft an Italian identity through a process of self-presentation; secondly, the national, royal, linguistic and military education of the heirs; thirdly, the promotion of a family-centred dynasty deploying both male and female elements in the public realm; and finally the readiness to embrace different modes of mobility in the construction of italianita. By analysing the growing importance of the royal heirs and their performance on the public stage in post-Risorgimento Italy, this study investigates the attempted construction of a cohesive national identity through the crown and, more specifically, the heirs to the throne.

A History of London (Hardcover): Walter Besant A History of London (Hardcover)
Walter Besant
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Broken Glass, Broken World - Glass in French Culture in the Aftermath of 1870 (Hardcover): Hannah Scott Broken Glass, Broken World - Glass in French Culture in the Aftermath of 1870 (Hardcover)
Hannah Scott
R2,575 Discovery Miles 25 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Hardcover): Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Hardcover)
Benjamin Franklin
R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Jewish Community of Roman (Roman, Romania) - Translation of Obstea Evreiasca? Din Roman (Hardcover): Pincu Pascal The Jewish Community of Roman (Roman, Romania) - Translation of Obstea Evreiascaă Din Roman (Hardcover)
Pincu Pascal; Edited by Yocheved Klausner
R1,086 R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Save R155 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sir William Alexander And The Scottish Attempt To Colonize Arcadia[!] (Hardcover): George Patterson Sir William Alexander And The Scottish Attempt To Colonize Arcadia[!] (Hardcover)
George Patterson
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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