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Byzantium

The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

2008 || Paperback || Judith Herrin || Penguin

For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe’s transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilization which for centuries held in check the armies of Islam. Judith Herrin’s concise and compelling book replaces the standard chronological approach of most histories of Byzantium.

Instead, eac...

28,95

Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

2024 || Paperback || Geoffrey Parker || Yale University Press

The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.

17,99

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece

Myths and Legends from the Baddies That Started it All

2025 || Paperback || Lizzy Tiffin || HarperCollins

You’ve heard all about the ‘brilliant men’ of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow?

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The Greek Philosophers

from Thales to Aristotle

2024 || Paperback || W. K. C. Guthrie || Taylor & Francis Group Limited

With an new foreword by James Warren

Long renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy - foundations that underpin Western thought today.

Guthrie explores the great age of Greek Philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - whilst combining comprehensiveness with brevity. He unpacks the ideas and arguments of Plato and Arist...

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Geographies of Developing Areas / 2nd Edition

The Global South in a Changing World

2014 || Paperback || UK) Glyn (University of Sheffield Williams e.a. || Taylor & Francis

Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to poverty, this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in shaping and responding to current global change. The core contents of the book integrate 'traditio...

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Voices of Early Modern Japan

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns

2020 || Paperback || Constantine Nomikos Vaporis || Taylor & Francis

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Pea...

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Childhood in World History

2021 || Paperback || USA) Peter N. (George Mason University Stearns || Taylor & Francis

Now in its fourth edition, Childhood in World History covers the major developments in the history of childhood from the classical civilizations to the present and explores how agricultural and industrial economies have shaped the experiences of children.