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Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence. Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the present by Lawrence James
77.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. James ...Show more
Churchill and Empire - Portrait of an Imperialist by Lawrence James
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army of ...Show more
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa by Lawrence James
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The one hundred year history of how Europe coerced the African continent into its various empires--and the resulting story of how Africa succeeded in decolonization. In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China - A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part t ...Show more
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