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How the Old World Ended The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300243598, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 maps
Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for...
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£25,00
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In Space We Read Time On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
ISBN: HB: 9781941792087, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2017
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones
History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlogel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlogel relishes space th...
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£34,00
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Those Who Hold Bastogne Inside the Biggest Battle of the Bulge
ISBN: PB: 9780300216141, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost certainly would have, were it not for one small Belgian town and its tenacious...
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£9,99
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Ship of Death A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300194524, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, one small British ship that circled the Atlantic Ocean in 1792 and 1793, transformed Atlantic World history. This extraordinary book tells the just-uncovered story of the Hankey, from its altruistic begin...
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£27,00
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Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781584659921, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2011
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Sanjay Subrahmanyam's "Three Ways to Be Alien" draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"...
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£28,00
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Alexander the Great A Life in Legend
ISBN: PB: 9780300164015, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 46 black&white illus.
<p>Alexander the Great (356-323 B. C. E. ) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther – across foreign cultures,...
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£12,99
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