A Brief History of France by Cecil Jenkins
$12.95 AUD
Category: REM History | Series: Brief Histories
When we think of France we often evoke images of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris, the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, it is a place of huge diversity. The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged from over 2000 years of history and it is a riveting story from Ro ...Show more
Ostend - Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark by Volker Weidermann
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: very good
It s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria searched by the police two years earlier no longer feels like home. He s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of ...Show more
The Pope and Mussolini : The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: General Adult
CITIES OF EMPIRE THE BRITISH COLONIES AND THE CREATION OF THE URBAN WORLD by HUNT TRISTRAM
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Category: REM History
An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the econo ...Show more
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History by Susanna Forrest
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Category: REM History
Anthropologist and equestrian expert Susanna Forrest presents a singular, sweeping panorama of the horse's prominent role across time and in societies around the world. Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth-and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, it ...Show more
The Deluge: The Great War by Adam Tooze
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Category: REM History
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - HistoryFinalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world be ...Show more
The Pursuit of Power Europe 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
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Category: REM History | Series: The\Penguin History of Europe Ser.
An Economist Best Book of the Year "Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating."--Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street JournalFrom the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly accou ...Show more
Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911 by Nathan Woolley
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Category: REM History
Celestial Empire shows the wealth and cultural richness of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China for nearly three centuries, as seen through rare materials from the National Library of China and the National Library of Australia. The book is illustrated with stunning images, from woodblock printed books t ...Show more
The Mistresses of Cliveden Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
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Category: REM History
For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden estate ...Show more
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas by Alison Weir
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Category: REM History
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader? The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some ...Show more
The Rival Queens - Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
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Category: REM History
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable wo ...Show more
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
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Category: REM History
In this gripping narrative of Putin's rise to power, Steven Lee Myers recounts Putin's origins--from his childhood of abject poverty in Leningrad to his ascent through the ranks of the KGB, and his eventual consolidation of rule in the Kremlin. As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the ...Show more