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Hip: The History
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again.... more...
Seductress
Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 16.00In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history?s greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world?from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet Gordon Woodhouse, who lived in a ménage with... more...
Shake Hands With The Devil
Random House Group Ltd 2008; US$ 14.67When Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve a peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide. Dallaire left Rwanda... more...
The Punic Wars
Random House Group Ltd 2008; US$ 25.34The Punic Wars (264-146BC) sprang from a mighty power struggle between two ancient civilisations - the trading empire of Carthage and the military confedoration of Rome. It was a period of astonishing human misfortune, lasting over a period of 118 years and resulting in the radical depletion of Rome's population and resources and the complete annihilation... more...
Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 174.99This is the first comprehensive study of Gangraena, an intemperate anti-sectarian polemic written by a London Presbyterian Thomas Edwards and published in three parts in 1646. These books, which bitterly opposed any moves to religious toleration, were the most notorious and widely debated texts in a Revolution in which print was crucial to political... more...
Savage Continent
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableKeith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil... more...
The Ruling Class of Judaea
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 40.00How Rome's misunderstanding of the status criteria of Jewish society led to the revolt of AD 66. more...
The Barbarous Years
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 35.00Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. They were a mixed multitude?from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states,... more...
1434
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableThe New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as... more...
History In Focus: OCR GCSE Modern World History
Hodder Education 2009; US$ 31.98A new OCR specific edition of the best selling textbook for GCSE Modern World History. more...









