Segregation - A Global History of Divided Cities (Nightingale Carl H.)(Paperback / softback)

Segregation - A Global History of Divided Cities (Nightingale Carl H.)(Paperback / softback)

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow-two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us in this magisterial history, segregation is

Ball is Round - A Global History of Football (Goldblatt David)(Paperback / softback)

Aims to provide a definitive history of global

Great Cities in History(Pevná vazba)

From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization.The Great Cities in History tells their stories, starting with the earliest, from Uruk and Memphis to Jerusalem and Alexandria. Next come the fabulous

House of Islam - A Global History (Husain Ed)(Paperback / softback)

Beginning History: The Life Of Florence Nightingale (Gogerly Liz)(Paperback / softback)

A simple and attractive title on this popular

Illustrated History of Thailand (2nd edition) (Hoskin John)(Paperback / softback)

This fully illustrated history is divided geographically according to the sequence of succeeding Thai kingdoms. Each section follows a historical chronology, covering accounts of major events during each reign, with an assessment of the character of individual kings and their particular

Dirty Cities: Towards a Political Economy of the Underground in Global Cities (Talani L.)(Paperback)

Introduction: Globalization and its impact on the shadow economies in Global Cities; Leila Simona Talani PART I: CAPITAL SINS 1. London: The laundry of choice? Money laundering in the City of London; Leila Simona Talani 2. Crime and No Punishment: Money, Violence and the Neoliberal Transformation

Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within (Galviz Carlos Lpez)(Paperback)

Rest your eyes long enough on the skylines of Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta--even Chicago or London--and you will see the same remarkable transformation, building after building going up with the breakneck speed of twenty-first-century urbanization. But there is something else just as transformative

Nightingales on Call - (Nightingales 4) (Douglas Donna)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of The Nightingale Girls, The Nightingale Sisters and The Nightingale Nurses - perfect for fans of Call the Midwife1937 sees new challenges for the trainee nursesDora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their

Shock Of The Old - Technology and Global History since 1900 (Edgerton David)(Paperback / softback)

Feminisms - A Global History (Delap Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Animation: The Global History (Furniss Maureen)(Paperback / softback)

The first-ever comprehensive history of animation surveys the evolution of this dynamic industry around the world - from Hollywood to Tokyo, from Moscow to

Shakespeare in a Divided America (Shapiro James)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible

Ways Into History: Florence Nightingale (Hewitt Sally)(Paperback / softback)

A simple series that follows the KS1 history curriculum topics and introduces history at a level that really

Connectography - Mapping the Global Network Revolution (Khanna Parag)(Paperback / softback)

An ever-increasing proliferation of cross-border connectivity, between people, companies, cities and nations, is reshaping the world for

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Osterhammel Jrgen)(Paperback)

A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. J rgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth

Secret History of the Blitz (Levine Joshua)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliantly researched, lively and colourful portrait of how we behaved in Britain's cities during the darkest days of the

A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History (Black Jeremy)(Paperback)

A new global history of slavery from its ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present

France in the World - A New Global History(Paperback / softback)

History of Venice (Norwich John Julius)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of Venice of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the busiest and powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon in

Shot (Kerr Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Darkly imaginative alternative history thriller from the global bestseller and author of the Bernie Gunther thrillers.America, 1960. In Washington, DC, John F Kennedy has just been elected President. In Havana, Fidel Castro has been in office for a year, and with Cold War tensions rapidly heating

What Is Global History? (Conrad Sebastian)(Paperback)

The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in

Maoism - A Global History (Lovell Julia)(Paperback / softback)

'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of ChinaSince the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian

Istanbul - A Tale of Three Cities (Hughes Bettany)(Paperback / softback)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN'Richly entertaining and impeccably reserached' Peter FrankopanIstanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the