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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...
Undaunted Courage
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 18.00In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author od D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip,... more...
The Discovery of Islands
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00The Discovery of Islands presents a series of linked essays by one of the world's leading historians. Each essay presents British history as that of several nations interacting with an imperial state, a view which has been hugely influential in recent studies. more...
The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 42.00A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...
A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD)
BRILL 2006; US$ 366.00Including more than 8,000 entries, based upon historical records and surviving inscriptions, this comprehensive work provides information on men and women of the Chinese world who lived at the time of Later (or Eastern) Han, from Liu Xiu, founding Emperor Guangwu (reg. 24-57), to the celebrated warlord Cao Cao (155-220) at the end of the dynasty. more...
A Fierce Discontent
Free Press 2010; US$ 30.00The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until... more...
The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00A fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs ? such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism ? illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people. more...
Universities, Academics and the Great Schism
Cambridge University Press 1979; US$ 44.00This book examines the response of the universities to the papal succession crisis of 1378. more...
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 50.00An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. more...
Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c.16401649
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 46.00An investigation into the 'Constitutional royalists' and their role in the English Revolution. more...









