Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (Khalidi Rashid I.)(Paperback / softback)

Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (Khalidi Rashid I.)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of Palestine told from the

Hundred Years War Vol 2 - Trial By Fire (Sumption Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the

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

Joan of Arc (Stanley Diane)(Paperback)

Against the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a

Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (Adorno Rolena)(Paperback)

In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva coronica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the

Hundred Years War Vol 1 - Trial by Battle (Sumption Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European

Henry VI Part Two (Shakespeare William)(Paperback / softback)

Part of Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, this second play includes an introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre and provides a separate introduction to Henry VI, Part

Salonica, City of Ghosts - Christians, Muslims and Jews (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi

Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (Mitchell Stephen A.)(Paperback)

The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic

Palestine: From Balfour Declaration to Oslo Accords (Tiwari Sachin)(Paperback)

The last hundred years have been the witness of the battles between the Jews and Palestinians and this has posed a big challenge before the world to establish peace on the region. This seed of conflict emerged around the beginning of 20th century. This book discusses various facts in regard to the

Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Hazkani Shay)(Paperback)

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army

The Hundred Years War: A People's History (Green David)(Paperback)

What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This

A Short History of the Hundred Years War (Prestwich Michael)(Paperback)

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In his vivid new

History of Opera - The Last Four Hundred Years (Abbate Carolyn)(Paperback / softback)

Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? The authors answer this question in their scrupulous and provocative retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the means by which it communicates, and its societal

Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance (Testa M.)(Paperback)

Fascism is not a thing of the past. In this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger. The question is: How do we stop it?According to M. Testa, the fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting. Using a mixture of orthodox history, eyewitness accounts, and unflinching

The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Thucydides)(Paperback)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work 'was done to last forever.' The conflicts between the two empires over shipping,

India Discovered - The Recovery of a Lost Civilization (Keay John)(Paperback / softback)

Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of

White Company (Conan Doyle Sir Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Set during the Hundred Years War, the protagonist of The White Company is a cloister-raised young nobleman who discovers that his father's will stipulated he travelled for a year before taking his

First World War - A New History (Strachan Hew)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant and penetrating history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued for the 100th

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of

The Ill-Made Knight (Cameron Christian)(Paperback)

An action-packed tale of chivalry and betrayal set during the Hundred Years War. September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the King and his son, the

Violeta - Isabel Allende

One extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforgettable story.Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt,

Gentry - Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class (Nicolson Adam)(Paperback / softback)

Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his chosen cast illuminate the grand events of

Hundred Years War Vol 3 - Divided Houses (Sumption Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great achievement, of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism, of extremes of wealth and poverty, fortune and