Features some of Britain's leading historians who tell our nation's story from the Norman Conquest of 1066 onwards. This box set includes: "Volume 1: The Birth of the Nation: 1066-1485"; "Volume 2: The Tudors and Stuart Dynasties 1485-1660"; "Volume 3: The Making of the Nation 1660-1851"; and "Volume 4: A Nation Transformed 1851-2010"....more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780762442775
Slavery is as old as the world itself and expert and professor Jeremy Black will show that its history is one that is central to our understanding of the modern world. This essential guide is a new global history of slavery from ancient times to the present day...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:380
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781849016896
Slavery is as old as the world itself. This book shows that its history is one that is central to our understanding of the modern world. Starting in the ancient world when the Greeks defined slavery...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781861896964
Historian Jeremy Black investigates how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering in the early modern period developed through increasing globalization into a world-shaping force in twenty-first-century politics....more details Format:Hardback Pages:312
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781861898319
Historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. Black charts the course and evolution of diplomacy in all its incarnations...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:312
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780275990398
Black begins by setting the background to British military history, in particular the anti-(large) army ideology, the maritime tradition, and the growing geo-political rivalry with France. After the defeat of the French in North America...more details Format:Hardback Pages:191
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780750947848
This book is a new edition of the highly acclaimed history. It is very accessible. It deals with the highly topical issue of England's position and relationship with Europe. 'Remember that you are an Englishman...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:316
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780582080140
This study both provides a coherent and comprehensive account of British foreign policy during a period that was crucial for the development of Britain as a major power. It uses the study of the factors that played a major role in the formation and execution of foreign policy in order to throw fresh light on the British state...more details Format:Board book
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781861892881
Covers the last 45 years and the most recent developments in American environmental, cultural and political affairs. The triumph of consumerism...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780275977061
How have military actions shaped the history of the United States and the country's role in world history? Noted military historian Jeremy Black examines American military exceptionalism with the critical eye of a foreign scholar...more details Format:Paperback Pages:246
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780275972981
How have military actions shaped the history of the United States and the country's role in world history? Noted military historian Jeremy Black examines American military exceptionalism with the critical eye of a foreign scholar...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:248
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780751307191
Spanning more than 20,000 years from the Ice Age to the Cold War and beyond, this book attempts to create a panorama of global history. Digiotal cartography abd historical research combine to present a visual insight into the rise and fall of empires...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:234
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780230251564
The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context...more details Format:Paperback Pages:234
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781861892010
Well-known historian Jeremy Black examines the most recent developments in British political, social, cultural and economic history. Taking the triumph of consumerism as an organizing theme...more details Format:Paperback Pages:232
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780750931694
Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy but also the Low Countries...more details Format:Paperback Pages:386
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780859896139
This book discusses British diplomats and diplomacy during the formative period in which Britain emerged as the leading world power. Jeremy Black uses the issue of diplomatic representation in order to discuss questions about the professionalism of British government...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780521466844
In 1783 Britain had lost America and was unstable domestically. By 1793 she had regained her position as the leading global power. During the intervening years Britain went several times to the brink of war...more details Format:Paperback Pages:573
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781441104458
Anew account ofthechanging relationshipbetween Britain and America in the 18th Century that helped to define both nations....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:216
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781847252432
A new account of the changing relationship between Britain and America in the 18th Century that helped to define both nations. >...more details Format:Hardback Pages:216
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781852855345
In the eighteenth century England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. This is a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. Not only a matter of leading writers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754658672
It was during the course of the eighteenth century that Britain status as a major maritime and commercial power was forged, shaping the political...more details Format:Hardback Pages:227
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780230537507
Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:314
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780230537491
Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments...more details Format:Hardback Pages:314
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780312225391
A new edition of this highly successful and influential work includes two entirely new chapters on Europe and the Outer World, and on the Revolutionary Crisis...more details Format:Paperback Pages:620
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780333773352
This revised edition includes two new chapters; "Europe and the Wider World" and "The Revolutionary Crisis". It offers a wide-ranging thematic account of the century...more details Format:Paperback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780500251768
Many of the most famous fighting forces in history have been elite units, trained and equipped for particular tasks, whether as imperial guards...more details Format:Hardback Pages:208
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780750925242
English newsbooks had first appeared in the 1620s but in conditions of such tight censorship that the government effectively had a monopoly on the news. The twice-weekly "London Gazette" was established in 1665 as the official vehicle for news. However...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781861894243
This is a succinct and authoritative analysis of the ways in which history and culture, economics and society, have remade Europe in recent times. Whilst this account reaches back to 1945...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780333964507
Offering a thought-provoking combination of analysis and chronological coverage, this book offers a contemporary treatment of a crucial period in the development of European international relations...more details Format:Hardback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780333964514
Offering a thought-provoking combination of analysis and chronological coverage, this book offers an up-to-date treatment of a crucial period in the development of European international relations. The determined engagement with events in Eastern Europe redresses the general tendency to focus on Western Europe. In theoretical terms...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780415394727
This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is made on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict. "European Warfare in a Global Context" offers a comparative approach...more details Format:Hardback Pages:228
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780415394758
This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is made on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict. "European Warfare in a Global Context" offers a comparative approach...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780333786680
The vibrancy of the "new military history" and its focus on the context and implications of warfare have reclaimed this field from dry theory. War...more details Format:Paperback Pages:247
The vibrancy of the "new military history" and its focus on the context and implications of warfare have reclaimed this field from dry theory. War...more details Format:Hardback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780312221188
Having become highly unfashionable in the 1960s and 1970s, military history is now enjoying a remarkable renaissance. Warfare is now seen as a crucial social...more details Format:Paperback Pages:297
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781857281736
This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in the modern period...more details Format:Paperback Pages:234
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780253356604
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control ofNorth America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernan Cort's in modernMexico in 1519 to 1871 when...more details Format:Hardback Pages:470
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781403906908
In this study of the Grand Tour, Jeremy Black relies on archival sources to provide an exploration of the real tourist experience rather than an account that is essentially based on travel literature. While sensitive to wider cultural dimensions...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780859898072
Following closely on the heels of his recent biography of George III, Jeremy Black turns to the reign of his grandfather, George II, to set the record straight. In his new book...more details Format:Hardback Pages:303
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300117325
The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven Years' War with France...more details Format:Hardback Pages:475
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300136210
The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven Years' War with France...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:475
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780415395793
This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case-studies...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780415395809
This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case-studies...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:273
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781852855819
George, the elector of Hanover, inherited the throne of Great Britain on the death of Queen Anne in 1714. George I and his son, George II, continued to spend much time in Germany...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:266
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781403904850
From the earliest pre-history to 2002, Jeremy Black's narrative explores the rich historical influences on the British Isles and the varied stages through which they have passed to achieve their present identity. Giving proper weight to all four...more details Format:Hardback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300099775
For members of the social elite in eighteenth-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:268
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780750947558
This book gives an account of Britain's rise and fall over the past 200 years, painting a provocative picture of a once great nation reduced to a European statelet. Jeremy Black demonstrates that the nation we know today has outgrown the industrial and commercial empire which once made Britain great throughout the world. As he argues...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:247
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300086935
Maps are invaluable for historians. This book -- the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas -- explores the role...more details Format:Paperback Pages:280
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780230202795
Jeremy Black provides a short and accessible account of naval power and its relationship to international relations. Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analyzing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures...more details Format:Hardback Pages:266
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780230202801
Jeremy Black provides a short and accessible account of naval power and its relationship to international relations. Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analyzing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:266
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780521833318
Drawing on a wide range of British and foreign archival sources, this book tackles the role of Parliament in the conduct of eighteenth-century foreign policy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:276
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780521540766
This book tackles the role of Parliament in the conduct of eighteenth-century foreign policy, the impact of this policy on parliamentary politics...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:276
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780275987107
What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain-- the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. Celebrated historian Jeremy Black explores the rise and demise of an era of total war...more details Format:Hardback Pages:202
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781442207004
What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain_the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. In The Age of Total War...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:202
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626824
Dealing with reasons for the end of the slave trade and of slavery, this volume emphasizes abolitionism, and discusses the persistence of the trade...more details Format:Hardback Pages:2000
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781400067374
The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:236
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780415609760
First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:273
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300103861
Sea-power made the British Empire what it was: without sea-power there would have been no empire, or at least no empire in the form it actually took. In this masterful analysis of the role of the sea in the history of the British Empire...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:432
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780521470339
The three centuries following the discovery of the New World was a period of unprecedented global expansion, spearheaded by the lusty armies of the imperial European powers. This volume of The Cambridge Illustrated Atlases of Warfare is a lively and elaborately illustrated study of warfare during the early modern period...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780803262409
The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming's novels were bestsellers in their day...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:228
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780275968595
The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming's novels were best-sellers in their day...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626497
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:500
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626527
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:520
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626343
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:570
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626374
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:484
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626466
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:528
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626435
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world. This work is part of a series that offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:521
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754626404
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world. This work is part of a series that offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:564
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754627319
World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work offers an overview of this complex and volatile era...more details Format:Hardback Pages:3500
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780826440938
This new work demonstrates how the outcome of the First World War has formed the modern world we live in today....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:337
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780060851231
Worldwide warfare might seem like a twentieth-century development, but the colonial empires of Europe fought wars around the globe in the eighteenth. With domains spreading to the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean to Asia...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781847240125
Presented here in chronological order are stories of 50 of the most significant advances in military technology. Each chapter focuses on a specific technology and the author discusses the specific engagements or campaigns where the weapon had most effect...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:207
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781847242204
Author Jeremy Black discusses the specific engagements or campaigns where each weapon had most effect, providing the reader with a course in military history as well as an overview of world history itself.Chapter topics include: Stone and Metal...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780415396066
This new volume examines the influence of trade and empire from 1689 to 1815, a crucial period for British foreign policy and state-building. Jeremy Black...more details Format:Hardback Pages:219
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780340888933
To travel round the world is to be reminded of the very public presence of history, of the past as issue and identity. Yet this is widely underrated. The main reason for the discrepancy is the contrast between the ethos and methods that are central to the modern notion of scholarship that focus on questions...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:206
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781840008340
Illustrated with colour reproductions of the most important maps and charts from around the world, this book explores the way that maps have been used: to distort knowledge; to fool enemies; to build and administer empires; to show the world from different perspectives; and to map the rapidly changing face of the planet in the modern world....more details Format:Hardback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780745648330
In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the history of warfare. Black takes the reader through the limits and prospects of culture as a tool for analyzing war...more details Format:Hardback Pages:200
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780745648347
In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the history of warfare. Black takes the reader through the limits and prospects of culture as a tool for analyzing war...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:200
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780826471246
The second edition of Jeremy Black's War has been completely revised in the light of recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jeremy Black's book prophetically explores the realities of war in a globalized world where growing prosperity can increase the likelihood of conflict and American power is likely to be increasingly challenged...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:178
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780826476357
The second edition of Jeremy Black's War in the New Century has been completely revised in the light of recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jeremy Black's book prophetically explores the realities of war in a globalised world where growing prosperity can increase the likelihood of conflict...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300082852
This brilliant history of warfare is the first to approach the modern era from a global perspective. Investigating both land and sea warfare...more details Format:Paperback Pages:346
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300072020
This brilliant history of warfare is the first to approach the modern era from a global perspective. Investigating both land and sea warfare...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:344
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780750924078
This is a work of powerful synthesis and clear exposition from an experienced and well-established author. Jeremy Black looks at the importance of war in human history...more details Format:Hardback Pages:230
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781597972468
The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. They serve as research tools for librarians...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:122
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781857286885
A collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern and modern periods....more details Format:Paperback Pages:268
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780813336114
Filling a conspicuous gap in the literature, this fascinating survey provides a unique introduction to the growth of military practice across the world for students of international history in the early-modern and modern periods. Here...more details Format:Paperback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780813336121
Filling a conspicuous gap in the literature, this fascinating survey provides a unique introduction to the growth of military practice across the world for students of international history in the early-modern and modern periods. Here...more details Format:Hardback
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780230298583
"War in the World: 1450-1600" offers an account of late fifteenth and sixteenth-century warfare in a global context. Firstly by looking at conflict between non-Western powers and...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:254
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780230298590
"War in the World: 1450-1600" offers an account of late fifteenth and sixteenth-century warfare in a global context. Firstly by looking at conflict between non-Western powers and...more details Format:Paperback Pages:254
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780500251638
War has been the great catalyst of change in the last century, bringingdown empires, triggering revolutions, and transforming society. Here, distinguished military historians from the United States...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781861892164
Jeremy Blacks provocative new book re-evaluates modern warfare in recent times. Moving beyond the Cold War paradigm, the book focuses instead on the variety of post-1945 conflicts and the diversity of goals and methods that have been employed. Central to the book is its global coverage and...more details Format:Paperback Pages:216
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780826422767
The definitive introductory study of war; Professor Black introduces the subject in a broad manner, ranging across historical time periods and geographical boundaries....more details Format:Hardback Pages:184
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781441155412
The definitive introductory study of war; Professor Black introduces the subject in a broad manner, ranging across historical time periods and geographical boundaries....more details Format:Paperback Pages:184
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780754624646
Scholars have tended to underrate the importance of war in the period 165-1792, as there is a feeling that periods before and after were more consequential for military development. This collection of essays sets out to address this problem...more details Format:Hardback Pages:500
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780304362127
With the major European powers ruling territories in North and South America, Africa, India and across the Pacific, the wars of the 18th century were the first truly global conflicts...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
It is an account of how the art of warfare developed over the century - from the restrained military practices of Marlborough and Frederick the Great...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780253340504
In this companion volume to Western Warfare, 1775--1882, Jeremy Black takes his analysis of modern warfare into the 20th century. A distinctive feature of the author's approach is the coverage of both land and naval warfare as well as conflict within the West and between Western and non-Western powers. Beginning with the British conquest of Egypt in 1882...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780253215093
In this companion volume to Western Warfare, 1775--1882, Jeremy Black takes his analysis of modern warfare into the 20th century. A distinctive feature of the author's approach is the coverage of both land and naval warfare as well as conflict within the West and between Western and non-Western powers. Beginning with the British conquest of Egypt in 1882...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781848312333
The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets of all time. Waterloo became a legend overnight and remains one of the most argued-over battles in history. Lord Wellington immortally dubbed it 'the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780253339621
Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, Western Warfare, 1775-1882 offers students an unrivaled account of civil and international conflicts...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780253214720
Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, Western Warfare, 1775-1882 offers students an unrivaled account of civil and international conflicts...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781861890177
In this deeply informed book, renowned historian Jeremy Black addresses the crucial question of why wars happen, bridging the disciplines of history...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780814713334
"A bold and innovative approach to a well-established question. Its principal merit is that it does not restrict itself to examining a few selected case studies or a limited time span...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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John O E Clark;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781402728853
From Ptolemy's projection of the world--still the basic map after 13 centuries--to Tolkien's cartography of Middle Earth (the most printed guide to a non-existent place ever)...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Nicholas Doumanis;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781403986146
Drawing on the latest research into ancient, medieval and modern history, this single-volume traces the history of Greek culture and societies from the Bronze Age to the Present. Written for the general reader and undergraduate student...more details Format:Paperback Pages:260
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Claudia Baldoli;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781403986153
Intertwining the history of art, literature, food, music and religion, Baldoli explores Italy's history from the Middle Ages to the present. The book offers an insight into continuities across past and present day Italian culture...more details Format:Hardback Pages:337
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Claudia Baldoli;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9781403986160
Intertwining the history of art, literature, food, music and religion, Baldoli explores Italy's history from the Middle Ages to the present. The book offers an insight into continuities across past and present day Italian culture...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:337
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Ragnhild Hatton;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780300088830
In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic figure whose real character has long been concealed by anti-Hanoverian propaganda...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Jeremy Black;Tessa Green AnthonyRickards
ISBN:9780292707948
"The authors know their material inside out... The choice of illustrations, both half-tone and line-drawings, and the careful, cross-referencing of entries make this book a compelling compendium of ideas and images." -- Trevor Watkins...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Michael J Turner;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780275973865
The reasons why people arise to express dissatisfaction with their present situation, and how they imagine and work towards an alternative, have enduring relevance. The reform campaigns of 19th-century Britain are of interest not only in their own right...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:315
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Jeremy Black;John Cowling MauriceVincent
ISBN:9780521398060
This book offers a readable yet scholarly account of the life of one of the greatest statesmen of empire, William Pitt the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-78). Chatham is seen as a political outsider who rose to direct British policy in the Seven Years War...more details Format:Paperback Pages:340
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Christopher Marsh;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780312210946
This is a lively and accessible study of English religious life during the century of the Reformation. It draws together a wide range of recent research...more details Format:Paperback Pages:268
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JEREMY BLACK
ISBN:9781574889710
The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. They serve as research tools for librarians...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:118
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Jeremy Holland;Jeremy Blackburn JamesHolland
ISBN:9781853394201
The recent trend of participatory approaches presents challenges to those working in the development sector. " Who Changes?" draws together, for the first time...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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David Fowler;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780333599228
This book traces the history of youth culture from its origins among the student communities of inter-war Britain down to the more familiar world of youth communities and pop culture of the 1990s. Grounded in extensive original research...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:301
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David Fowler;Jeremy Black
ISBN:9780333599211
This book traces the history of youth culture from its origins among the student communities of inter-war Britain to the more familiar world of youth communities and pop culture. Grounded in extensive original research...more details Format:Hardback Pages:301
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Jeremy Black;Sharyn Mallan KerryPearce
ISBN:9780275974091
By examining the cultural spaces occupied by youth--spaces represented in texts produced for youth, about youth, and in some cases by youth--contributors to this volume present challenging ways of applying critical ideas and theoretical frameworks to the crucial issues that surround youth and the cultures they inhabit as evidenced in their literature...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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Black Jeremy
ISBN:9781848311558
The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets of all time. Waterloo became a legend overnight and remains one of the most argued-over battles in history. Lord Wellington immortally dubbed it 'the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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C Burgess;Jeremy Burgess GBlack
ISBN:9780333574102
This is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-reformation Britain, integrated around the theme of confrontation between political thought and political action. G. Burgess looks at a wide range of thinkers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
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C Burgess;Jeremy Burgess GBlack
ISBN:9780333574119
This is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-reformation Britain, integrated around the theme of confrontation between political thought and political action. G. Burgess looks at a wide range of thinkers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Jeremy ed Black
ISBN:9780500251454
A profusely illustrated overview of the careers and campaigns of the world's greatest commanders. This authoritative and magnificently illustrated book examines the entire history of war through the eyes of the leading protagonists...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Jeremy D Black;Mark Wardle Lynn DStrasser
ISBN:9780275976538
Proposals to legalize same-sex marriage evoke strong response from those on both sides of the debate. Much has been written about the legal policy issues over the legal recognition of same-sex unions in the United States...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:408
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Jeremy ed Black
ISBN:9780500251256
Twenty-five military historians from around the world describe the decisive conflicts that shaped history from the fifth century BC to the present. Cannae and Agincourt...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Black Jeremy Et'al
ISBN:9780333801833
The third edition of this best-selling book has been thoroughly revised to reflect the changing nature of the discipline. New forms of history are included in the text...more details Format:Paperback
One of the most common criticisms of current U.S. security policy is that it lacks an overarching strategy, leading to a tendency to address problems and crises individually and in isolation as they arise...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:168
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James Blackburn;Robert Holland JeremyChambers
ISBN:9781853394195
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and related participatory approaches have opened up new ways in which policy can be influenced by the realities of those who are poor...more details Format:Paperback Pages:254