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The Fall of the Russian Empire - The Story of the Last of the Romanovs and the Coming of the Bolshevik (Paperback): Edmund A... The Fall of the Russian Empire - The Story of the Last of the Romanovs and the Coming of the Bolshevik (Paperback)
Edmund A Walsh S J Ph D, Edmund A Walsh
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A work delving into the end of the Romanov dynasty and the rise of the Bolsheviks by a foremost figure in the field of geopolitics in the early 20th century

Caesar's Gallic War - Interlinear Translation (Hardcover): Julius Caesar Caesar's Gallic War - Interlinear Translation (Hardcover)
Julius Caesar
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Commentaries of Caesar on the Gallic War. The original text reduced to the natural English order with a literal interlinear translation of the first seven books.

Caesar's Gallic War - Interlinear Translation (Paperback): Julius Caesar Caesar's Gallic War - Interlinear Translation (Paperback)
Julius Caesar
R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Commentaries of Caesar on the Gallic War. The original text reduced to the natural English order with a literal interlinear translation of the first seven books.

Activism across Borders since 1870 - Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (Hardcover): Daniel Laqua Activism across Borders since 1870 - Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (Hardcover)
Daniel Laqua
R2,689 Discovery Miles 26 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with activism. Although very different from one another, each of these movements has created alliances across borders, with activists stressing that their concerns are not confined to individual nation states. In this book, Daniel Laqua shows that global efforts of this kind are not a recent phenomenon, and that as long as there have been borders, activists have sought to cross them. Activism Across Borders since 1870 explores how individuals, groups and organisations have fostered bonds in their quest for political and social change, and considers the impact of national and ideological boundaries on their efforts. Focusing on Europe but with a global outlook, the book acknowledges the importance of imperial and postcolonial settings for groups and individuals that expressed far-reaching ambitions. From feminism and socialism to anti-war campaigns and green politics, this book approaches transnational activism with an emphasis on four features: connectedness, ambivalence, transience and marginality. In doing so, it demonstrates the intertwined nature of different movements, problematizes transnational action, discusses the temporary nature of some alliances, and shows how transnationalism has been used by those marginalized at the national level. With a broad chronological perspective and thematic chapters, it provides historical context, clarifies terms and concepts, and offers an alternative history of modern Europe through the lens of activists, movements and campaigns.

A Member of the RAF of Indeterminate Race - WW2 Experiences of a Former RAF Navigator and POW (Paperback): Cy Grant A Member of the RAF of Indeterminate Race - WW2 Experiences of a Former RAF Navigator and POW (Paperback)
Cy Grant
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Machiavelli - A Biography (Paperback): Miles J. Unger Machiavelli - A Biography (Paperback)
Miles J. Unger 1
R527 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Few philosophers are more often referred to and more often misunderstood than Machiavelli. He was truly a product of the Renaissance, and he was as much a revolutionary in the field of political philosophy as Leonardo or Michelangelo were in painting and sculpture. He watched his native Florence lose its independence to the French, thanks to poor leadership from the Medici successors to the great Lorenzo (Il Magnifico). Machiavelli was a keen observer of people, and he spent years studying events and people before writing his famous books. Descended from minor nobility, Machiavelli grew up in a household that was run by a vacillating and incompetent father. He was well educated and smart, and he entered government service as a clerk. He eventually became an important figure in the Florentine state but was defeated by the deposed Medici and Pope Julius II. He was tortured but eventually freed by the restored Medici. No longer employed, he retired to his home to write the books for which he is remembered. Machiavelli had seen the best and the worst of human nature, and he understood how the world operated. He drew his observations from life, and he was appropriately cynical in his writing, given what he had personally experienced. He was an outstanding writer, and his work remains fascinating nearly 500 years later.

Rights of Man (Hardcover): Thomas Paine Rights of Man (Hardcover)
Thomas Paine
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jewish Lives Under Communism - New Perspectives (Hardcover): Katerina Capkova, Kamil Kijek Jewish Lives Under Communism - New Perspectives (Hardcover)
Katerina Capkova, Kamil Kijek; Katerina Capkova, Kamil Kijek, Stephan Stach, …
R3,389 Discovery Miles 33 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
What is property? - An inquiry into the principle of right and of government (Hardcover): Pierre-Joseph Proudhon What is property? - An inquiry into the principle of right and of government (Hardcover)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Operation Ladbroke - From Dream to Disaster - A First-hand Account of the Airborne Assaults on Sicily and Arnhem (Paperback):... Operation Ladbroke - From Dream to Disaster - A First-hand Account of the Airborne Assaults on Sicily and Arnhem (Paperback)
Alec Waldron
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shetland Bus Man (Paperback, New edition): Kaare Iversen Shetland Bus Man (Paperback, New edition)
Kaare Iversen
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Espionage Behind the Wire - The Remarkable Wartime Activities of a Prison Camp Spy (Paperback): Howard Greville Espionage Behind the Wire - The Remarkable Wartime Activities of a Prison Camp Spy (Paperback)
Howard Greville
R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Fourth Part of the World - An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America... The Fourth Part of the World - An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America (Paperback)
Toby Lester
R524 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemuller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.
For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth--until 1507, that is, when Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but Waldseemuller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus's contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, Waldseemuller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci's honor they gave this New World a name: America.
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The Fourth Part of the World "is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester's telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe's early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the Waldseemuller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity's worldview.
One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, "The Fourth Part of the World "is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world.

Nobody Unprepared - The History of No 78 Squadron RAF (Paperback): Vernon Holland Nobody Unprepared - The History of No 78 Squadron RAF (Paperback)
Vernon Holland
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wot! No Engines? - Military Gliders, RAF Pilots and Operation Varsity, 1945 (Paperback): Alan Cooper Wot! No Engines? - Military Gliders, RAF Pilots and Operation Varsity, 1945 (Paperback)
Alan Cooper
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Un Grand Bordel - An RAF Air Gunner's Experiences with Bomber Command and the French Maquis (Paperback): Norman Lee,... Un Grand Bordel - An RAF Air Gunner's Experiences with Bomber Command and the French Maquis (Paperback)
Norman Lee, Geoffrey French
R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Miscellaneous Prose Works Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Life Of Napoleon (Hardcover): Walter Scott The Miscellaneous Prose Works Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Life Of Napoleon (Hardcover)
Walter Scott
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nero (Hardcover): Stephen Phillips Nero (Hardcover)
Stephen Phillips
R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Early Russian History - Four Lectures (Hardcover): W.R.S. Ralston Early Russian History - Four Lectures (Hardcover)
W.R.S. Ralston
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic (Hardcover): Brian Jeffrey Maxson A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic (Hardcover)
Brian Jeffrey Maxson
R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state - the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art - that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.

Five Months on a German Raider - Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' (Hardcover): Frederic... Five Months on a German Raider - Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' (Hardcover)
Frederic George Trayes
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Bird Over Berlin - A World War II Lancaster Pilot's Story of Survival Against the Odds (Paperback): Tony Bird A Bird Over Berlin - A World War II Lancaster Pilot's Story of Survival Against the Odds (Paperback)
Tony Bird
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825 (Hardcover): Benjamin Myer Brink The Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825 (Hardcover)
Benjamin Myer Brink
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Magic Songs of the Finns (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover): Anon Magic Songs of the Finns (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover)
Anon
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ironwork ... - A Complete Survey Of The Artistic Working Of Iron In Great Britain From The Earliest Times (Hardcover): John... Ironwork ... - A Complete Survey Of The Artistic Working Of Iron In Great Britain From The Earliest Times (Hardcover)
John Starkie Gardner; Created by Victoria and Albert Museum Dept of Me
R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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