ISBN: 9780198847076 | Paperback
Pippa Virdee considers the history of Pakistan, created as a new nation state in 1947, placing it in the context of the region's four-thousand-year-ol... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781840917413 | Paperback
The Design Museum looks of the fifty design icons of Berlin - icons that, when viewed together, form an intricate visual history of this unique city, ... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198706151 | Paperback
Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign h... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199238484 | Paperback
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell ex... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192854032 | Paperback
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age cov... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9789049201999 | Paperback
King is al een halve eeuw de meesterverteller en schrijft in Duistere zaken over het lot, sterfelijkheid en geluk. In zijn korte verhalen buigt hij de... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192802231 | Paperback
A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enou... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780197696323 | Paperback
Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a tran... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198792963 | Paperback
The Habsburg Empire reached at various times across most of Europe and the New World. At all the critical moments of European history it is there - co... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199656523 | Hardcover
Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concent... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198794523 | Paperback
The first systematic study of the 'Dachau School', Hitler's first concentration camp and a national academy of violence. Dillon analyses recruitment t... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198704058 | Hardcover
What happened to slavery in Europe in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire? This book is the only history of slavery and serfdom to sp... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199685363 | Paperback
Fascism is notoriously hard to define. In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore unravels the paradoxes of one of the most im... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781350267244 | Hardcover
Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA cur... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192801616 | Paperback
The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history. Th... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192854117 | Paperback
A. C. Grayling's accessible introduction to Wittgenstein's work describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199230983 | Hardcover
This book constitutes a major reappraisal of the late Anglo-Saxon state on the eve of its demise. Its principal focus is the family of Ealdorman Leofw... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781405169585 | Paperback
"An extremely sure-footed and gracefully written interpretation of the last sixty years of Soviet/Russian history. Lovell exhibits much razor-sharp wi... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199697298 | Paperback
The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199546428 | Hardcover
How Russia Learned to Talk offers an entirely new perspective on Russian political culture, showing the era from Alexander II's Great Reforms to early... Meer informatie
