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A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by Hindley, Geoffrey
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe. The society inspired by the warrior world of the Old English poem Beow ...Show more
A Brief History of the Atlantic by Jeremy Black
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world. Black discusses the importance of ...Show more
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers by Jeremy Black
Category: Travel | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its mainland coastal states, with a focus on the past f ...Show more
A Brief History of the Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a T'ang horse or a Ming vase in its social or cultural contex ...Show more
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World by Tom Phillips
Category: Conspiracies | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
"Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn't going to be around f ...Show more
A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean by Jeremy Black
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the 1530s to 1890 with its greater Western coastal and ...Show more
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition by Michael Paterson
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of t ...Show more
A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories Ser.
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia ...Show more
A Concise History of Bosnia by Cathie Carmichael
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories Ser.
A Concise History of Bosnia integrates the political, economic and cultural history of this fascinating, beautiful, but much misunderstood country. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary literature, this objective and engaging history covers developments in the region up to the present day and ...Show more
A Concise History of History - Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present by Daniel Woolf
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories Ser.
This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in the ancient Near East right through to the present a ...Show more
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