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A Short History of Ancient Greece by P. J. Rhodes
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual c ...Show more
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic by Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeff ...Show more
A Short History of The Troubles by Brian Feeney
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.It details the motivation behind the IRA ''armed struggle'', the Civ ...Show more
A Short History of the Phoenicians - Revised Edition by Mark Woolmer
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and bo ...Show more
A Short History of the Tudors by Richard Rex
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Combining an expertise on the Tudor dynasty with an authoritative understanding of its religious and political make-up, A Short History of the Tudors provides a fresh and accessible perspective of one of the most formative periods of British history.Rex considers the ways in which the Tudors shaped the ...Show more
Corruption - A Short History by Carlo Alberto Brioschi
Category: World History | Series: The\Short Histories Ser.
From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world. In Corruption: A Short History, Carlo Brioschi provides a thorough and entertaining look at how corruption was born and has evolved over time, without ever being stamped ...Show more
Patrice Lumumba by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Category: History | Series: Ohio Short Histories of Africa Ser.
Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in the deco ...Show more
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