The Normans in the South, 1016-1130: The Normans in Sicily Volume I by John Julius Norwich
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Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between the times of Caesar and Napoleon. In one year, 1084, he had both the Eastern and Western Emperors ...Show more
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
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An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories.A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings, the Norse m ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
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'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian 'Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US rethink ...Show more
The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters by Barbara Burman
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Category: History
From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity, community, and deep meaning sewed into every stitch. Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point of the Needle redresses t ...Show more
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
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The definitive, single-volume history of the Russian Revolution, from an award-winning scholar In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Rus ...Show more
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet
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A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries--and how much has not. On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel--t ...Show more
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
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Category: History
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
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Category: History
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
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Category: History
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more
The Verso Book of Dissent - Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance by Andrew Hsiao (Editor); Audrea Lim (Editor)
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Category: History
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest--rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosopher ...Show more
The Viking Hondbók - Eat, Dress, and Fight Like a Warrior by Kjersti Egerdahl
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
Learn what it was like to live as a Norseman in this fun and fascinating look at Vikings and the Viking Age. Vikings, those ancient Norse seafarers, have inspired plenty of pop culture phenomena, from the A&E hit show Vikings to Thor: Ragnar k, to the ever-expanding world of Viking LARP. Known for b ...Show more