Black Death. A New History of the Bubonic Plagues of London, Paperback - Stephen Porter

New B-format paperback - The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the med...

A landmark new history of the infamous Tower tracing its evolution and changing role, the many personalities who lived or were imprisoned there, an...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Panikos PanayiIllustration(s): 32 b-w illus.Number of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 132 x ...

A fascinating insight into one of history's greatest catastrophes

The bubonic plague is a disease spread by fleas that live on rats. Outbreaks of the disease killed millions of people. Read this book to learn more...

Vividly recreates London in the Tudor period, and how the streets and areas developed distinct characteristics. Follows the success of Shakespeare'...

William Shakespeare's London was a bustling teeming metropolis - growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to cu...

Reducere. The bubonic plague wreaked havoc in the fourteenth century. Learn about the germ that causes the illness, how fleas spread it, and how putting sail...

The Black Death in London

A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stati...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst hum...

A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. Sweeping in its scope and c...

Reducere. A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it.Castle, royal palace, pr...

Reducere. The word "German" was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two th...

Reducere. "An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of history with elegance and panache."--Dan Carlin, host of Hardcore His...

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, B...

In November 1519, Hernando Cort�s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That st...

Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most i...

Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Da...

Reducere. The best one-volume history of the United States ever written (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, E...

Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Da...

Reducere. If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. From the bath houses of Roman Londinium to the sexual underground of the twentieth c...

An artist, working with a historian, uses digital techniques to bring to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of the moder...

A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events a...

The Second World War lasted for 2, 174 days and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? Why did the Ax...

Reducere. DescriptionThe history of possibly the most notorious dynasty in papal history is revealed in a new narrative from the author of "The Medici: Rise ...

A brilliantly concise history of London, with a distinctive perspective focusing on the city in its national and, more importantly, international c...

Reducere. "Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects...

Contributor(s): Editor: Adam M. SowardsIdaho's Place is an anthology of the most current and original writing on Gem State history. From the state'...

Reducere. God's War offers a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to r...

The first substantial history of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme since 1898

But the drum of the New Model Army beat ever louder and in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolled in the heavy guns. The Siege of Loyalty House tells...

Reducere. The Bull Pen Chronicles characterize the life and times of Stephen H. Porter. A compulsive outdoorsman since boyhood, his obsession with the natura...

Reducere. A powerful and stirring story. San Antonio Express-News An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would without exaggeration defeat armed ...

Popular author Douglas Boyd provides a rich background to the multitude of plagues and pandemics that have beleaguered the history of humankind, hi...

Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...

"Younger has provided an insightful guide, especially for the general reader, into today's array of nuclear powers and their capabilities."--James ...

A fascinating, illustrated account of the history and sites of the former gates of the City of London including some on the River Thames.Publisher:...

Reducere. The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the ba...

Reducere. The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,...

From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare's women editors lived extraordinary lives and produced editions...

Reducere. Designed to accompany Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, College Edition, by Elizabeth R. Varon, Sources for Armies of Delivera...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Michael SheridanIllustration(s): 16 col platesNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Michael SheridanNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 33Cover type: Paper...

La Violencia exposes the bloody heart of Spain - from its origins in the ancient past to the Civil War and the current crisis in Catalonia.

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, a noted Libya expert and eyewitness to the attack provides a startling reconsider...