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(Hardback, Main)
By: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9781838958558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.
(Paperback)
By: W. Scott Poole
ISBN: 9781640096127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2023
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Hardback)
By: W. Scott Poole
ISBN: 9781640094369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Counterpoint
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"With Dark Carnivals, author W. Scott Poole, an expert in horror and its impact on American history, reveals how the horror genre as a way of seeing the world has become one of the most incisive critiques of America and its history and influence around the globe"--
(Paperback)
By: Mark Mazower
ISBN: 9780140241594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 24th June 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The end of First World War saw old empires swept away and opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. This title overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of twentieth century. It tells the story of a century of division, charting struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind.
(Paperback)
By: Matthew H. Hersch
ISBN: 9780262546720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: E. Amy Buller
ISBN: 9781911350194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2017
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Darkness Over Germany delivers a stark warning from history of how a man with little political experience rose up as a voice of the people, a voice for the disenfranchised who were suffering the injustices of social inequality and unemployment.
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By: Bob Alford
ISBN: 9781472816870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated account of the Japanese aerial assault on the port of Darwin in February 1942--the first attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.
(Hardback)
By: Ulises A. Mejias
ISBN: 9780753560204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Jean Sasson
ISBN: 9780553816938
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2004
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary story, PRINCESS, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Now, the princess turns the spotlight on her two teenage daughters, Maha and Amani.
(Paperback)
By: Gavin Mortimer
ISBN: 9781472134585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The biography of David Stirling, founder of the SAS
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By: James Buchan
ISBN: 9781848540675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An insider's view of one of the events that shaped the modern world.
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By: Hywel Williams
ISBN: 9780857383396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The 50 defining events of world history.
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By: Simon Schama
ISBN: 9781847087324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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Simon Schama sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the 'speculations' surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify -the unpredictable history of stories.
(Paperback)
By: Jeremy Duns
ISBN: 9781849839297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Toby Harnden
ISBN: 9781849164238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War.
(Paperback)
By: Sodei Rinjiro
ISBN: 9780742511163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Zarghuna Kargar
ISBN: 9780099542186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A poignant celebration of human resilience' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud;
(Paperback)
By: Chris Skidmore
ISBN: 9780753827017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The dramatic story of Elizabeth's first ten years on the throne and the unexplained death that scandalised her court.
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By: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9780099546443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts and political compromises which made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
(Paperback)
By: Kate Winkler Dawson
ISBN: 9780316506830
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th December 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A "fascinating, beautifully readable, compulsively readable book" (Douglas Preston) that tells the real-life story of the Great London Smog of 1952--an utterly preventable natural disaster that killed 12,000 people--and the serial killer, John Reginald Christie, who used the smog and its aftermath as a veritable cloak for his crimes.
(Paperback)
By: Dan Snow
ISBN: 9780007286218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britains empire in North America. Military history at its best.
(Paperback)
By: Jack R. Censer
ISBN: 9781472589637
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback, 2nd edition)
By: Florian Bieber
ISBN: 9781350538092
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A concise introduction to the rise and spread of nationalism around the world since the late 18th century through key debates, case studies and primary sources.
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By: James N. Giglio
ISBN: 9780742508347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Debating the Kennedy Presidency examines the successes and failures of Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. The differing viewpoints of the two authors, as well as the supplementary documents, allow readers to examine the issues and draw their own conclusions about America's 35th president.
