Brief History of Tea - Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire (Moxham Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Brief History of Tea - Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire (Moxham Roy)(Paperback / softback)

From tea's first discovery in China to the present day, the story of a great world

Brief History of the Roman Empire (Kershaw Dr Stephen P.)(Paperback / softback)

A new look at the rise and fall of the greatest empire the world has ever

Brief History of Ancient Greece - Politics, Society, and Culture (Pomeroy Sarah B.)(Paperback / softback)

Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (Paterson Michael)(Paperback / softback)

From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of

Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires (Peakman Julie)(Pevná vazba)

Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behavior through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience of women (as well as marginalized men), showing how women

Empire And Revolution - A Socialist History of the First World War (Sherry Dave)(Paperback / softback)

War and Gold - A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt (Kwarteng Kwasi)(Paperback / softback)

Talking to My Daughter - A Brief History of Capitalism (Varoufakis Yanis)(Paperback / softback)

Brief History of the Crusades (Hindley Geoffrey)(Paperback / softback)

Islam and Christianity and their ancient struggle for world

Short History of Modern Angola (Birmingham Professor David)(Paperback / softback)

Angola of geopolitical interest and this offers a brief

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Strathern Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling new history of the world through ten major

Brief History of Thought - A Philosophical Guide to Living (Ferry Luc)(Paperback / softback)

The international bestseller; a smart, accessible history of philosophy to inspire readers, young and

London - A Social History (Porter Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics

A Brief History of the House of Windsor (Paterson Michael)(Paperback)

This Brief History tells the story of The House of Windsor. Starting with George V and going through Charles, Prince of Wales, all the way to Queen Elizabeth II. Plus it will touch on the next generations of the monarchy, with Prince William, Duchess Kate, and their son. The book will shed light on

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Strathern Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the

Brief History of the Celts (Ellis Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Uncovering one of the world's greatest

Black Wave (Tea Michelle)(Paperback / softback)

Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird in this riot grrrl take on speculative

A History of Tourism in Africa: Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment (Cleveland Todd)(Paperback)

An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other.Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly

Secret History (Procopius)(Paperback / softback)

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different--and dangerous--history to be

Railways of Peebles (Perkins Roy G.)(Paperback / softback)

This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of the railways in and around Peebles over the last

Jem - Frederik Pohl

A cynical and compelling tale of politics, exploitation and colonisation on another planetThe discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple

The Great Hedge of India (Moxham Roy)(Paperback)

This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author's words his 'ridiculous obsession', arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge was set in place to allow the collection of the

Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation (Banaji Jairus)(Paperback)

Forty years of research in historiography and marxism focused on the concept of 'modes of

Ancient Empires (Cline Eric H.)(Paperback)

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach, it aims to provoke a discussion of an