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  • A History of Water

    Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History

    av Edward Wilson-Lee ...
    A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 ‘Exhilarating and whip-smart’ THE SUNDAY TIMESFrom award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal.A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them – an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an ... Läs mer

    184,32 kr

  • A Place of Greater Safety

    av 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, ... Läs mer

    111,18 kr

  • The Habsburgs

    The Rise and Fall of a World Power

    av Martyn Rady ...
    'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium.From modest origins, ... Läs mer

    166,83 kr

  • Caliban and the Witch

    Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

    av Silvia Federici ...
    Serie serie 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 ... Läs mer

    147,75 kr

  • Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story

    av Alison Weir ...
    Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story is an introduction to the Six Tudor Queens series by eminent historian Alison Weir. The lives of Henry VIII's queens make for dramatic stories that will offer insights into the real lives of the six wives based on extensive research and new theories that will captivate fans of Philippa Gregory and readers who lost their hearts (but not their heads) to the ... Läs mer

    Gratis

  • The Plantagenets

    The Kings Who Made England

    av 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 ... Läs mer

    120,62 kr

  • Europe's Tragedy

    A New History of the Thirty Years War

    av 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 ... Läs mer

    206,69 kr

  • Sharpe’s Eagle

    The Talavera Campaign, July 1809

    av Bernard Cornwell ...
    Serie Bok 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 ... Läs mer

    80,23 kr

  • Inventing the Renaissance

    Myths of a Golden Age

    av 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, ... Läs mer

    143,09 kr

  • Life in a Medieval City

    av Frances Gies, Joseph Gies ...
    Serie Bok 1 - Medieval Life
    From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ... Läs mer

    104,40 kr

  • The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez

    av Ann Swinfen ...
    Serie Bok 1 - Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez
    England, 1586. Treason threatens the very heart of the nation.England is awash with traitors plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and bring about a foreign invasion.Young physician Christoval Alvarez, a refugee from the horrors of the Portuguese Inquisition, is coerced into becoming a code-breaker and agent in Sir Francis Walsingham's secret service at the behest of the Crown.In the race to ... Läs mer

    24,33 kr

  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    av Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Läs mer

    141,71 kr

  • Thomas Cromwell

    Henry VIII's Great Politician

    av Tracy Borman ...
    THE CAPTIVATING TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO INSPIRED WOLF HALL, MASTERFULLY TOLD: NOW REVISED WITH A NEW CHAPTERKnown widely as Henry VIII's 'right-hand man', Cromwell has captured imaginations throughout the centuries: but who was he really? In this major new biography, leading historian Tracy Borman examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever.Born a ... Läs mer

    124,96 kr

  • Reformation

    Europe's House Divided 1490-1700

    av 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 ... Läs mer

    189,09 kr

  • The Verge

    Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

    av 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 ... Läs mer

    86,49 kr

  • War and the State in Early Modern Europe

    Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States

    av Jan Glete ...
    Serie serie Warfare and History
    The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. War and the State in Early Modern Europe examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe.This important study exposes the economic structures necessary for supporting permanent military organisations across ... Läs mer

    764,59 kr

  • Sharpe’s Fury

    The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811

    av Bernard Cornwell ...
    Serie Bok 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 ... Läs mer

    90,62 kr

  • The Origin of Capitalism

    A Longer View

    av 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 ... Läs mer

    90,41 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Pursuit of Glory

    Europe 1648-1815

    av Tim Blanning ...
    'Let the nations rejoice: this history of Europe is a truly glorious book' John Adamson, Sunday TimesThe Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history – from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and ... Läs mer

    217,61 kr

  • Anna, Duchess of Cleves

    The King's 'Beloved Sister'

    av Heather R. Darsie ...
    Anna was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives - and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's ‘Beloved Sister' looks at Anna from a new perspective, as a woman from the Holy Roman Empire and not as a woman living almost by accident in England. Starting with what Anna’s life as a child and young woman was like, the author ... Läs mer

    84,58 kr

  • A More Perfect Heaven

    How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos

    av Dava Sobel ...
    The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world.'Lively, inventive ... a masterly specimen of close-range cultural history' Wall Street Journal'Fantastic ... A masterly telling of how Copernicus revolutionised science' The TimesIn the 1520s a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copern... ... Läs mer

    131,11 kr

  • The Renaissance: A History from Beginning to End

    av Hourly History ...
    During the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnicity. The experience of maturation was often clumsy and out of step, an evolutionary process that saw the nation's developing at their own pace as they struggled to replace the protection of Rome with their own home-grown strength. What the nations, ... Läs mer

    Gratis

  • Daughters of the Winter Queen

    Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots

    av Nancy Goldstone ...
    'What a compelling read! Nancy Goldstone has brought to life the four female Stuarts in all their tragic glory' Amanda ForemanValentine's Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart, the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Frederick V, a German count and ally of her father, James I of England. In just five years a terrible betrayal will ruin 'the Winter Queen', as Elizabeth will ... Läs mer

    165,99 kr

  • The Reformation as Renewal

    Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

    av Matthew Barrett ...
    A holistic, eye-opening history of one of the most significant turning points in Christianity, The Reformation as Renewal demonstrates that the Reformation was at its core a renewal of evangelical catholicity.In the sixteenth century Rome charged the Reformers with novelty, as if they were heretics departing from the catholic (universal) church. But the Reformers believed they were more catholic ... Läs mer

    374,70 kr