The Great Seljuk Empire (Peacock A. C. S.)(Paperback)

The Great Seljuk Empire (Peacock A. C. S.)(Paperback)

The first English language general history of the Great Seljuk Empire outlines its chronological history and will explores its religious and institutional

Cyrus the Great (Dando-Collins Stephen)(Paperback)

Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew 'anointed by god.' Cyrus influenced the US

Great Empires of Asia(Paperback / softback)

A unique survey of seven great Asian empires, powerful forces on the world stage during a thousand years of history and that continue to resonate in regional and global politics

Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (Waterfield Robin)(Paperback)

Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting

Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Howe Stephen)(Paperback)

A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And although the great historic imperial systems--the land-based Russian one as well as the seaborne empires

The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800 (Emmer Pieter C.)(Paperback)

How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global empire that stretched along the edges of

The Great Divorce (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis's revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Using his

Reading Planet KS2 - All Aboard the Empire Windrush - Level 4: Earth/Grey band (Powell Jillian)(Paperback / softback)

The Japanese Empire (Paine S. C. M.)(Paperback)

The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland

Black History: African Empires (Lyndon-Cohen Dan)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the great civilisations of the African continent and the people within these complex

The Unbroken (Clark C. L.)(Paperback)

On the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire, two women--a princess and a soldier--will haggle over the price of a nation in this richly imagined, breath-taking sapphic epic fantasy filled with rebellion, espionage, and assassinations. Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to

Great Empires of the Ancient World(Paperback / softback)

In this highly appealing collection, a distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars survey the great empires from 1600 BCE to 500 CE. In ten comprehensive chapters, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, these experts guide readers through the empires of New Kingdom Egypt, the

My Name Is Red (Pamuk Orhan)(Paperback / softback)

The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European

China: A History (Volume 2) - From the Great Qing Empire through The People's Republic of China, (1644 - 2009) (Tanner Harold M.)(Paperback / softback)

The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 (Marcellinus Ammianus)(Paperback)

A Roman historian chronicles Rome on the brink of collapse Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of

Darien - Empire of Salt Book I (Iggulden C. F.)(Paperback / softback)

The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Livy)(Paperback)

'The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many

The Empire Project (Darwin John)(Paperback)

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a

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

The Book of Black Royalty (Ezenwa-Autrey Ada)(Paperback)

The Book of Black Royalty aims to tell the stories of the great Empires from Africa. The Queens and Kings that once ruled the world. The wonderful stories are great for kids to learn about their ancestors and be inspired by the rich history of Africa

The Empire of Gold (Chakraborty S. A.)(Paperback)

Peacock (Bogdan Isabel)(Paperback / softback)

China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (Rowe William T.)(Paperback)

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to

The Mongol Empire (May Timothy)(Paperback)

As the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire looms large in history: it permanently changed the map of Eurasia as well as how the world was viewed. As the empire expanded, the Mongols were alternately seen as liberators, destroyers, and harbingers of apocalyptic doom. At the same