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By: Ferdinand Addis
ISBN: 9781781853047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history.
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By: Robert Aldrich
ISBN: 9781526109385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Travel by European and native monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters.
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By: Tom Holland
ISBN: 9780349115634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2004
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, Guardian
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By: Paul Betts
ISBN: 9781788161107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A major new history of post-war Europe
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By: Lorraine Daston
ISBN: 9780691254081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Lorraine Daston
ISBN: 9780691156989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Matt Murphy
ISBN: 9781460759424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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By: Elsa Richardson
ISBN: 9781788167550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The secret history of the body's most fascinating organ: the gut
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By: Emily Cockayne
ISBN: 9781781258521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An original exploration of all the ordinary, extraordinary and totally mad things we've thrown out and redeemed through the ages.
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By: Dana Arnold
ISBN: 9780719068201
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This original and innovative book examines an intensive period in the development of London, when in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was made to transform the metropolis into a modern European capital -- .
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By: Dominic Lieven
ISBN: 9780141984605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Samir Puri
ISBN: 9781785907708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2022
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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Russia's Road to War with Ukraine is a concise entry-level account of the path to the conflict that now dominates our headlines. It offers an objective and lively narrative, peppered with eye-witness accounts, of the key moments of drama leading to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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By: Abraham Ascher
ISBN: 9781786071422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A revised edition of this popular and brilliantly concise guide to Russia's turbulent history - from Peter the Great to President Vladimir Putin.
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By: Sir Rodric Braithwaite
ISBN: 9781800811898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it today
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By: Antony Beevor
ISBN: 9781474610162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Beevor's biggest book yet - The dramatic story of Russia's revolution and civil war, from Antony Beevor, the bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad.
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By: Professor Eliot Borenstein
ISBN: 9781350399396
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781444737042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 22nd May 2014
Publisher: John Murray Press
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1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin's plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. The spies, under Mansfield Cumming, were the unsung founders of the present-day MI6.
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By: Katie Cooper
ISBN: 9781776711116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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A look through the kitchen window into early rural life in Aotearoa.
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By: Eva Taylor
ISBN: 9780008519186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery
A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times. Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
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By: Marcelino Truong
ISBN: 9781551526898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
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Sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little War: growing up Vietnamese in swinging London as the Vietnam war intensifies.
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By: Geoffrey Troughton
ISBN: 9781776561643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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This book focuses on Christian peacemaking and opposition to war in the period from the nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War. It provides critical insights into New Zealand Christianity, as well as peace activism, politics, and New Zealand society more generally.
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By: Professor Eamon Duffy
ISBN: 9781472909176
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Professor Eamon Duffy explores the broad sweep of the English Reformation, and the ways in which that Reformation has been written about, remembered and retold.
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By: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9780099281993
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Wars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India.
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By: Paul Ham
ISBN: 9781864711417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Random House Australia
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