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A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series "Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession". Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world ...Show more
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
26.99 AUD
Category: History
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Ma ...Show more
The Four Points of the Compass: North and South, East and West by Jerry Brotton
45.00 AUD
Category: History
A sparkling exploration of the four cardinal directions, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps.North, south, east and west- almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these ...Show more
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
55.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the beginning of an extraordinary English alignment with the Muslim powers who were fighting Catholic Spain in ...Show more
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
24.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, receiv ...Show more
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