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The African Poor
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 62.00Professor Iliffe traces the history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa from the thirteenth-century Ethiopia to the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. more...
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 44.00Authoritative account of 400 years of West African history by a leading scholar. more...
Subaltern Lives
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 26.00This fascinating book uses biographical fragments to shed new light on colonial life and convictism in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. more...
The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 30.00A useful book explaining how Japan succeeded in transforming an agricultural economy into an advanced industrial economy. more...
Elizabeth's London
Orion 2013; Not AvailableThe everyday realities and practical details of daily life in Elizabethan London, which most history books ignore - a Sunday Times bestseller. more...
Elizabeth's London
Orion 2013; US$ 22.64The everyday realities and practical details of daily life in Elizabethan London, which most history books ignore - a Sunday Times bestseller. more...
Tudors
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 30.99From Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I, the age of the Tudors comes to vivid life on the page Rich in detail and atmosphere, Tudors is the story of Henry VIII's relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent... more...
Flodden
Birlinn 2013; US$ 8.74In the breadth of bitter-sweet Scottish history there is no more poignant, not more important, battle than Flodden. Before Scotland's disastrous defeat at the hands of the English under the Earl of Surrey, a proud country under its dynamic Stewart king, James IV, was emerging as a distinct and flourishing nation within Europe. With defeat the inevitability... more...
The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableA lively and intriguing tale of the competition between two artists, culminating in the construction of the Duomo in Florence, this is also the story of a city on the verge of greatness, and the dawn of the Renaissance, when everything artistic would change. Florence's Duomo - the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral - is one of the most... more...
The Battle for Marston Moor 1644
The History Press 2013; US$ 18.94On 2 July 1644, six miles from York, 18,000 Royalists led by Prince Rupert, the nephew of King Charles I, fought 27,000 Parliamentarians in an attempt to relieve the Royalist force besieged at York. He failed. The defeat was catastrophic and the North was lost to Parliamentarian troops. John Barratt looks afresh at the battle and explores the disagreements... more...









