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A History of Australia by C. M; Twomey Peel
Category: Australian History | Series: Macmillan Essential Histories Ser.
This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving these issues into the wider global context, Mark Peel and Christina Twomey provide an engaging overview of the country's past, from its first Indigenous people, ...Show more
A History of Australia by Mark Peel
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who sailed and eventually settled into the inlets and river mouths of the northern coast some sixty or eighty thousand years ago via the transportations o ...Show more
A History of China by John A. G. Roberts
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Ser.
This absorbing history of China from earliest times to the present covers the country's complex political and economic structures and culture in a concise yet nuanced manner. The third edition has been revised and expanded in the light of recent research and brings the story right up to date. Photos, ta ...Show more
A History of Denmark by Knud J.V. Jespersen
Category: History | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
The history of modern Denmark is essentially the story of how a once extensive and diverse empire slowly disintegrated under the changing circumstances of the times. Eventually, the dissolution of the component parts resulted in one small core area remaining which is today called Denmark. In this intr ...Show more
A History of Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Essential Histories Ser.
This accessible and engaging new edition continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Fully revised throughout, the author takes a thematic and chronological approach to guide readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience. Episodic acco ...Show more
A History of Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang
Category: History | Series: Macmillan Essential Histories Ser.
This accessible and engaging new edition continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Fully revised throughout, the author takes a thematic and chronological approach to guide readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience. Episodic acco ...Show more
A History of the Baltic States by Andres Kasekamp
Category: History | Series: Macmillan Essential Histories Ser.
In this key textbook, Andres Kasekamp masterfully traces the development of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, from the northern crusades against Europe's last pagans and Lithuania's rise to become one of medieval Europe's largest states, to their incorporation into the Russian Empire and the creation of th ...Show more
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven R. Fischer
Category: History | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholars ...Show more
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven Roger Fischer
Category: History | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia - the ...Show more
A History of the United States by Philip Jenkins
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Essential Histories Ser.
This textbook offers an insightful, introductory overview of the history of American society from its inception right up to present day. With coverage starting at the European Settlement in 1492 right through to the 2016 Presidential Election, this fully revised new edition succinctly depicts the major ...Show more
Caesar's Civil War - 49-44 BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
Category: Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
Fully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to Julius Caesar's Civil War.Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced. Together they had brought vast stretches of territory under Roman dominion. In 49 BC they turned aga ...Show more
Caesar's Gallic Wars (PB) by Kate Gilliver
Category: History | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surv ...Show more