Author: Jeremy Black
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A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Wester...
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Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Britains key importance in world history was a product of its constitution and its empire, but both, in turn, were sustained and supported by Brita...
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Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 16881815
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to Britis...
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Cavalry: A Global History
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €25.08Original price €28.50An original and unique work that will fill a huge gap in the field of military history, and be of interest to both scholars and general readers, an...
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Defoe`s Britain
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50The Weight of Words Series continues with Daniel Defoe, as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain in the late 1600s, and like...
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Britain''s Naval Route to Greatness 1688-1815
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €25.08Original price €28.50The key importance of naval success in Britains rise to being the leading power in the world was a hard-won process, one that linked fighting effec...
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The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centurie...
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War in the Eighteenth-Century World
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in ...
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A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serv...
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The War for American Independence, 1775-1783
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The bitter and often bloody fight which accompanied the emergence of the United States of America as an independent force on the world stage has al...
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A History of Britain in 100 Maps
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99In A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the British Library Map Room to tell a new...
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A Short History of War
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future Forty short chapters . . . describe war from th...
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A Brief History of London
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This ...
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France: A Short History
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France''s sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fascinates the...
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France: A Short History
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and polit...
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A Brief History of the Atlantic
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...
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Britain and Europe: A Short History
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britains past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious hi...
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Maps of War: Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onwards, military commanders and strateg...
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Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeares worlds through maps
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50William Shakespeares lifetime (15641616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and t...
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Mapping Naval Warfare: A visual history of conflict at sea
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping. Naval operations and warfare were, and rem...
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The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €31.44Original price €36.99Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country''s ability to acquire kno...
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A Brief History of Germany: Indispensable for Travellers
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, p...
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Exeter''s University: A History
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the histor...
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Culloden and the ''45
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99There is little doubt that the 45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it ...
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Culloden and the ''45
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50There is little doubt that the 45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it ...
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England in the Age of Dickens: 1812-70
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to s...
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Waterloo: The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The bat...
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Logistics: The Key to Victory
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Logistics is an essential aspect of warfare and this is an original and much-needed contribution. All commanders know that an army (or navy) cannot...
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A History of the British Isles
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A core introductory textbook that provides students with a concise overview of the full sweep of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh history, from p...
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The Little Book of Big History: The Story of the Universe, Human Civilization, and Everything in Between
Ian CroftonCurrent price €19.98Original price €23.50The Little Book of Big History is an endeavor to encapsulate the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the current day, into an engaging...
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Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commenta...
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Metropolis: Mapping the City
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The city: a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and order. The first city atlas, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, was publishe...
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The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything
Ian CroftonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encomp...
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Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A fascinating, illustrated history of forts and castles from their earliest origins to the 20th century. Ever since humans began to live together ...
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War in the Modern World, 1990-2014
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99In War in the Modern World, 1990-2014, Jeremy Black looks at the most modern of conflicts from the perspective that war is a central feature of the...
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The City on the Hill: A Life of the University of Exeter
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99In 1955 the former University College of the South West was granted a royal charter and became the University of Exeter. Its development over the ...
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