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Bing: From Farmer's Son to Magistrate in Han China
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 11.50Much is known of life during the Han Empire, but the historical evidence remains fragmentary, and nowhere do we find a continuous account of the life of any one individual. In this engaging volume, Michael Loewe mines the written and material records to depict the imagined life of an ordinary person, Bing Wu, from the hardships of his earliest years... more...
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 49.95The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers... more...
Thermopylae
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 8.95'Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie' Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warriors who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the ?hot gates? of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal dearer to them than life itself ? the ideal of freedom.... more...
Iron, Steam & Money
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 33.36In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes,... more...
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'. more...
World History, A Concise Thematic Analysis
Wiley 2012; US$ 32.95World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts Offers a comparative analysis of the great civilizations... more...
The First World War
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 26.95The First World War examines the outbreak, events themselves and aftermath of the Great War, and the political, social and economic effects on the European countries involved. Important themes explored include : * recruitment and propaganda * women's involvement in the war * protest and pacifism * the links between the war and the revolutions in... more...
Introduction to Global Military History
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 38.95Completely unique in its global scope, this major text does what no other book in the field does: provides students with an excellent account of modern military history with analysis of strategy, as well as tactical and operational developments in the field of war. Carefully written by a highly renowned author, this book has been widely praised by... more...









