Embroidering Her Truth - Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her.At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cathol ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East. Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.In ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries ...Show more
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe by Verena Krebs
$200.00 AUD
Category: European
This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. D ...Show more
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
Lost Paradise is a book about a unique and pivotal European city. Although there are a number of interesting biographies of major cities such as London, Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Barcelona, this is the first narrative history of the city of Granada for English-speaking readers, which celebrates and ...Show more
Britain Alone - The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit.'Admirably lucid and measured, as well as studded with sharp pen portraits of the key players, Britain Alone gives us the fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain' ...Show more
London and the Seventeenth Century - The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I's execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentou ...Show more
The Fall of Robespierre - 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones
$56.95 AUD
Category: European
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was plan ...Show more
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
$55.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations base ...Show more
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an ...Show more