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City of Light by Rupert Christiansen
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive book'Sebastian Faulks. 'Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring ... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly a ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$19.98 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracyOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgru ...Show more
Magna Carta - The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
$45.00 AUD
Category: Transport | Series: The Landmark Library
The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents, acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
The French Revolution by David Andress
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has domi ...Show more
The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The Landmark Library
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review ...Show more
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