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Modern history, 1453-

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  • The World from 1450 to 1700by John E. Wills

    Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99

    In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke,... more...

  • GCSE Modern World History for Edexcelby John Wright; Steve Waugh

    Hodder Education 2011; US$ 20.78

    In-depth support for Unit 1 of Edexcel’s Modern World History specification. more...

  • Europeby Norman Davies

    Random House 2010; US$ 33.37

    From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken. more...

  • The Cold Warby John Lewis Gaddis

    Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 16.00

    The ?dean of Cold War historians? ( The New York Times ) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why ?from the months in 1945 when the U.S.... more...

  • The Oxford History of Modern Europeby T. C. W. Blanning

    OUP Oxford 2000; US$ 15.99

    Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Each chapter portrays both change and continuity, revolutions and stability, and covers the political, economic, social, cultural,... more...

  • 1493by Charles C. Mann

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.95

    From the author of 1491? the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas?a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites... more...

  • History In Focus: OCR GCSE Modern World Historyby Ben Walsh

    Hodder Education 2009; US$ 31.98

    A new OCR specific edition of the best selling textbook for GCSE Modern World History. more...

  • Bill the Bastardby Roland Perry

    Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 18.17

    An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine. more...

  • The Mammoth Book of Modern Battlesby Jon E. Lewis

    Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 5.82

    From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John Pimlott, and John Laffin. All the major conflicts are covered, from two world wars, through... more...

  • Frontsoldatenby Stephen G. Fritz

    The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 19.00

    " Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers?.I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz... more...