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  • Reformation

    Europe's House Divided 1490-1700

    kirjoittanut Diarmaid MacCulloch ...
    The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down. Just about everything which followed in European history can be traced back in some way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation ... Lue lisää

    12,99 €

  • Caliban and the Witch

    Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

    kirjoittanut Silvia Federici ...
    Sarja sarja Penguin Modern Classics
    'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hu ... Lue lisää

    10,99 €

  • France

    A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle

    kirjoittanut John Julius Norwich ...
    'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPHI can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly ... Lue lisää

    5,49 €

  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

    kirjoittanut Ian Mortimer ...
    Sarja sarja Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
    The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would ... Lue lisää

    10,99 €

  • Inventing the Renaissance

    Myths of a Golden Age

    kirjoittanut Ada Palmer ...
    The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.In Inventing the Renaissance, ... Lue lisää

    12,59 €

  • The Verge

    Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

    kirjoittanut Patrick Wyman ...
    The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author ... Lue lisää

    9,49 €

  • Becoming Leonardo

    An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci

    kirjoittanut Mike Lankford ...
    A Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year“A truly intimate portrait of one of the greatest creators in human history,” this Leonardo Da Vinci biography brings both artist and Renaissance Italy to life (Noah Charney, author of The Art of Forgery).Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines ... ... Lue lisää

    13,95 €

  • Sharpe’s Fury

    The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811

    kirjoittanut Bernard Cornwell ...
    Sarja Kirja 11 - The Sharpe Series
    ‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday TelegraphSpain, March 1811Cadiz is under siege – the last city standing in France’s conquest of Spain. So Captain Richard Sharpe must navigate the spymasters and murderous factions within its walls – and see off deadly threats from more than one enemy.Deserted by their ailing Spanish allies, the British are heavily outnumbered as they prepare ... Lue lisää

    8,61 €

  • The World of All Souls

    A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life

    kirjoittanut Deborah Harkness ...
    Discover the truths, the history, the myths and the magic behind the first three novels in the spellbinding All Souls series**. Fall under the spell once more with this all-encompassing insider's guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life.**The first three novels in the All Souls series by Deborah Harkness, featuring historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist ... Lue lisää

    3,99 €

  • The Ottoman Empire

    1300-1600

    kirjoittanut Halil Inalcik ...
    Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans, growing to become the most powerful Islamic state after 1517 when it incorporated the old Arab lands. ... Lue lisää

    3,99 €

  • Dogs of God

    Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

    kirjoittanut James Reston Jr. ...
    From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort to consolidate its own burgeoning power by throwing off the yoke of the Vatican. By waging war on ... Lue lisää

    11,23 €

  • The Plantagenets

    The Kings Who Made England

    kirjoittanut Dan Jones ...
    Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen – from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt – this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today – great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over ... Lue lisää

    11,79 €

  • Sharpe’s Eagle

    The Talavera Campaign, July 1809

    kirjoittanut Bernard Cornwell ...
    Sarja Kirja 8 - The Sharpe Series
    ‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday TelegraphSpain, July 1809Lieutenant Richard Sharpe faces not only great danger on the battlefield but also, even more dangerous, treachery within his own ranks. But as the enemy approaches, he must pick up his rifle and prepare to lead his men against the French at one of the biggest, bloodiest fights of the war – the Battle of Talavera.Out ... Lue lisää

    8,47 €

  • A Place of Greater Safety

    kirjoittanut Hilary Mantel ...
    An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.**Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, ... Lue lisää

    10,88 €

  • Europe's Tragedy

    A New History of the Thirty Years War

    kirjoittanut Peter H. Wilson ...
    The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting ... Lue lisää

    12,99 €

  • Religion and the Decline of Magic

    Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England

    kirjoittanut Sir Keith Thomas ...
    Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new ... Lue lisää

    12,99 €

  • Thomas Cromwell

    A Life

    kirjoittanut Diarmaid MacCulloch ...
    **A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel**'A masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday TimesThomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After ... Lue lisää

    10,99 €

  • Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    kirjoittanut Stephen Porter ...
    Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw the development of English opera and the first public concerts. Pepys lived through a time of ... Lue lisää

    9,86 €

  • The Origin of Capitalism

    A Longer View

    kirjoittanut Ellen Meiksins Wood ...
    In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late ... Lue lisää

    9,76 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Mary Queen Of Scots

    kirjoittanut Lady Antonia Fraser ...
    'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph**'**Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday TimesAn infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed at the absolute court of France - plunged her country into a maelstrom of intrigue, marriage ... Lue lisää

    4,49 €

  • Alexandria

    The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' – Daily Telegraph

    kirjoittanut Islam Issa ...
    'Fascinating and important' Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind 'Monumental and vividly imagined' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Wonderfully entertaining' SUNDAY TIMESA SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAROn a sparsely populated Egyptian coastline, Alexander the Great sketched his vision of a metropolis into the sand. Situated on the cusp of three co... ... Lue lisää

    3,99 €

  • How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

    A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

    kirjoittanut Ruth Goodman ...
    Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman’s uproarious history for mischievous Anglophiles.With this “impeccable” (BBC History) chronicle, acclaimed popular historian Ruth Goodman reveals a Renaissance Britain particularly rank with troublemakers. From snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting “thee,” to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table ... Lue lisää

    13,44 €

  • The Enterprise of England

    kirjoittanut Ann Swinfen ...
    Sarja Kirja 2 - Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez
    A devastating threat looms on the horizonFacing the threat of King Philip's Enterprise of England a Spanish invasion and annexation of the country Sir Francis Walsingham's espionage service spreads a vast spy network across Europe.Young physician and code-breaker Christoval Alvarez is among those agents.After caring for hundreds of maimed and wounded soldiers returning from the fall of Sluys, ... Lue lisää

    2,49 €

  • A Fistful of Shells

    West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

    kirjoittanut Toby Green ...
    Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award'Astonishing, staggering' Ben Okri, Daily TelegraphA groundbreaking new history that will transform our view of West AfricaBy the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally conn... ... Lue lisää

    9,49 €