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The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 85.00The first book-length history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the Atlantic slave trade. Specifically, this volume provides a historical framework for the relationship between Ghana's coastal forts and castles and local African societies during this complex period. more...
The Second World War
Orion 2012; US$ 49.82A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. more...
Medieval Life
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 50.00"An important and timely volume... an elegant summary of complex theory, and synthesis of an impressive body of material. It will be eagerly read by current and future generations of archaeologists, and will demonstrate the significance of historical archaeology to a much wider scholarly audience." Dr Kate Giles, University of York. The aim... more...
My Revision Notes Edexcel AS History: Britain, c.1860-1930: The Changing Position of Women
Hodder Education 2012; Not AvailableRevision guide which combines course content with activities to develop exam skills to help students effectively revise for this AS unit. more...
World War Two
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableA pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light The Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress and a conflict which still haunts us seventy years on. Norman Stone's... more...
Alaimein
Aurum Press 2013; US$ 13.11El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in October, after 12 days of attritional tank battle and artillery bombardment, Montgomery's Eighth... more...
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not AvailableA revelatory and racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip, published to coincide with his 90th birthday more...
Opium Regimes
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. more...
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 16.00Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry?s last great charge and inventor of the tank?Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is... more...
The Last Mughal
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.95In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar?a... more...









