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A Nation Without Borders by Steven Hahn
Category: History | Series: The\Penguin History of the United States Ser.
The era from 1830 to 1910 witnessed massive transformations in how people lived, worked, thought about themselves, and struggled to live and thrive. It also witnessed the birth of economic and political institutions that still shape our world. America's population grew more than ten-fold. The country ex ...Show more
An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 by David Mattingly
Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin History of Britain Ser.
The centuries under which Britain was under Roman occupation have always had a contradictory reputation. Generations of British readers were brought up to approve of the Roman Empire as the model for their own empire, but equally it was embarrassingly clear that within the Roman Empire Britain itself wa ...Show more
Conditions of Liberty - Civil Society and Its Rivals by Ernest Gellner
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin History Ser.
Europe in the High Middle Ages: The Penguin History of Europe by William Chester Jordan
Category: History | Series: The\Penguin History of Europe Ser.
The Penguin History of Europe Ser. No. III.With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultur ...Show more
Hope and Glory by Peter Clarke
Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin History of Britain Ser.
Hope and Glory - Britain in the Twentieth Century by Peter Clarke
Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin History of Britain Ser.
The last of nine volumes in The Penguin History of Britain, this volume explains the political changes that transformed Britain in the 20th century and attempts to make sense of the fundamental social and economic changes as well as addressing Britain's position on the world stage.
The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James; James Walvin (Introduction by, Notes by)
Category: History | Series: Penguin History Ser.
In 1789 the West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France. The entire structure of what was arguably the most profitable colony in the world rested on the labour of half a million slaves. In 1791 the waves of unrest inspired by the French Revolution reached across ...Show more
The Dead Sea Scrolls - A Reappraisal by John M. Allegro
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin History Ser.
The Global Age - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
Category: History | Series: The\Penguin History of Europe Ser.
The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back, ' the years from 1950 to 2017 broug ...Show more
The Global Age - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
Category: History | Series: The\Penguin History of Europe Ser.
The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back, ' the years from 1950 to 2017 broug ...Show more
The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
Category: History | Series: Penguin History Ser.
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not ...Show more
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