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A Short History of Disease by Sean Martin
Category: World History | Series: Short History Ser.
In 2014, the world faces a global crisis as the Ebola epidemic threatens to spread from Western Africa across the planet. Even before recorded history began, disease has plagued human civilisations, claiming more lives than natural disasters and warfare combined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sea ...Show more
A Short History of Disease: Plagues, Poxes and Civilisations by Seán Martin
Category: History | Series: Short History Ser.
This second edition contains an afterword on COVID-19, looking at the origins and nature of the virus, and how governments across the globe dealt with the most serious public health emergency in a century.A Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and n ...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 Imperial Egypt by Robert Morkot
Category: General Fiction | Series: I.B. Tauris Short Histories
New Kingdom Egypt represented the zenith of Egyptian power and imperial prestige. Between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries BCE the civilization straddling the Nile articulated its renewed self-confidence and self-assertiveness in a quest for fresh dominions in Canaan and Syria; in the colossal statu ...Show more
A Short History of India : From the Earliest Civilisations and Myriad Kingdoms, to Today's Economic Powerhouse by Gordon Kerr
Category: History | Series: Short History
The world's largest democracy and second most populous country, 21st century India is a dynamic nation with a thriving economy, made up of a variety of beliefs and peoples united under one flag. Its history is a unique story of ancient empires and civilisations, some dating back to humankind's earliest ...Show more
A Short History of Japan by Curtis Andressen (Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies and Languages, Flinders University, Australia)
Category: Travel | Series: A\Short History of Asia Ser.
From the dawn of time when the first settlers arrived in the islands of Japan, through feudalism with its heavy imprint of authoritarianism to 20th-century adventurism, American occupation and contemporary uncertainty, the author traces Japan's history and its social and political manifestations.
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 Middle East: From Ancient Empires to Islamic State by Gordon Kerr
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Short History Ser.
Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilization and religion, but also some of the great struggles of history. A S ...Show more
A Short History of the Normans by Leonie V. Hicks
Category: History | Series: I.B. Tauris Short Histories
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
A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith
Category: History | Series: A\Short History of the World Ser.
The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining what lies beyond our known world. Books ultimately provide an invaluable and comprehensive record of what ...Show more