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Shcharansky - Hero of Our Time by Martin Gilbert
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Medieval Europe - A Short History by C. Warren Hollister; Judith M. Bennett
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
For more than three decades, C. Warren Hollister nurtured this classic text of Medieval European History, which was profoundly marked by his clear historical vision and engaging teaching style. The ninth edition seeks to introduce today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. Judith Bennett ...Show more
Paris Reborn - Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City by Stephane Kirkland
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napoléon III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. This is the vivid and engrossing account of the greatest transformation of a major city in modern history. T ...Show more
Olaus Magnus - A Description of the Northern Peoples 1555 - Volumes I, II & III by Olaus Magnus; P G Foote (Editor)
$85.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 182, 187, 188 | Reading Level: near fine
The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile. His devotion to his country and his people never faltered, nor his determination to give them a glorious place on the European cultural map by his writings. On his ...Show more
Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings 1589-1605 - Volumes I and II by W. E. D. Allen (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series No. CXXXVIII-CXXXIX | Reading Level: very good
By the early 16th century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarchy of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighbouring Ottoman and Safavid empires and by ...Show more
Myth, Legend and Romance - An Encyclopedia of the Irish Folk Tradition by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
$20.00 NZD
Category: Mythology | Reading Level: very good
Kristallnacht - Prelude to disaster by Martin Gilbert
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Making History | Reading Level: very good
In KRISTALLNACHT, Martin Gilbert seamlessly combines a moving account of the suffering of the victims of the Nazi regime with a sophisticated analysis of the gradual process which made the horrors of the Third Reich possible. Broadening his canvas, Gilbert also powerfully depicts how the rest of the wor ...Show more
The Golden Century - Europe 1598-1715 by Maurice Ashley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Although 17th century Europe experienced continuous war and revolution, it was also a time when creativity flourished: Cervantes and Velasquez in Spain, Shakespeare and Milton in London, Rubens in Antwerp, Rembrandt in Amsterdam, and Moliere in Paris. The vast changes in art, science and religion ultima ...Show more
The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century by Charles Webster (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Past and Present Series | Reading Level: good-very good
Sophie, Electress of Hanover - A Personal Portrait by Maria Kroll
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Amsterdam - A Brief Life of the City by Mak Geert
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
England and the Continent in the Eighth Century - The Ford Lectures 1943 by Wilhelm Levison
$30.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good