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Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman ...
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The miraculous story of Madrid-how a village became a great world city
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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age.
In 1346, a catastrophic ...
The life and times of Catherine de' Medici, by renowned scholar of the Italian Renaissance Mary Hollingsworth. Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the ...
A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crises.
When World War II ended, about ...
The first full, interpretive synthesis for a generation on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its very beginnings up to the threshold of Classical ...
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world; perfect for fans of Ian Mortimer, who calls this book 'rich and wonderful'
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A cultural history of Europe's response to the Roma
This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history- the rejection of the Roma ...
A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of ...
A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the ...
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond
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Opens a fascinating new window onto medieval and early modern life - a world where it's possible to meet the devil on the road, control ...
