World History

	London - Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. Illustrated.	ZAR 125.00
	Iron Curtain -Anne Applebaum Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum is the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gulag." Here acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.	ZAR 195.00
	Mapping the New World - Anne Armitage and Laura Beresford Mapping the New World: Renaissance maps from The American Museum in Britain by Anne Armitage and Laura Beresford showcases the core collections of the American Museum in Britain. Illustrating the changing shape of the Americas as Renaissance cartographers (working from ancient and medieval sources) learned more of the New World, Dr.	ZAR 175.00
	Fields of Blood - Karen Armstrong Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong amasses a sweeping history of humankind to explore the perceived connection between war and the world’s great creeds—and to issue a passionate defence of the peaceful nature of faith.	ZAR 98.00
	The First Eden - David Attenborough The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man by David Attenborough explores the history and current state of this fascinating region which became the cradle of civilisation. Fully illustrated in colour.	ZAR 90.00
	Double Eagle and Crescent - Thomas M Barker Double Eagle and Crescent: Vienna's Second Turkish Siege and Its Historical Setting by Thomas M Barker is a very good and all encompassing account of Europe during the 17th century and highlighting the siege of Vienna. Well illustrated.	ZAR 90.00
	The Blood Telegram - Gary J Bass The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten Genocide by Gary J Bass is a thrilling chronicle of a pivotal chapter in American foreign policy.	ZAR 135.00
	Hong Kong - Alan Birch Hong Kong: The Colony That Never Was by Alan Birch is a history of the territory from 1841 to its return to China in 1997. Lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w.	ZAR 110.00
	Avoiding Armageddon - Jeremy Black Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 by Jeremy Black is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold War.	ZAR 175.00
	A Short History of the 20th Century - Geoffrey Blainey A Short History of the 20th Century by Geoffrey Blainey is another outstanding work by Australia's most eminent historian.	ZAR 135.00
	Collegium Divi Johannis Evangelistae 1511-1911 - Bonney et al This presentation copy of Collegium Divi Johannis Evangelistae 1511 - 1911 by Bonney et al commemorates the 400th anniversary of the College of St John the Evangelist.	ZAR 250.00
	Mr Selden's Map of China - Timothy Brook Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart & the South China Sea by Timothy Brook. In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar.	ZAR 120.00
	The National Geographic Society - CDB Bryan The National Geographic Society:100 Years of Adventure and Discovery by CDB Bryan covers the entire history of the Society, focusing on the guiding personalities behind it and the flamboyant explorers and innovative photographers. Beautifully illustrated.	ZAR 250.00
	This Seat of Mars - Charles Carlton This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746 by Charles Carlton is an innovative and moving book. Charles Carlton explores the glorious and terrible impact of war at the national and individual levels.	ZAR 150.00
	Around the Walls of Pompeii - Annamaria Ciarallo and Ernesto De Carolis Around the Walls of Pompeii: The Ancient City in its Natural Environment edited by Annamaria Ciarallo and Ernesto De Carolis was published on the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the excavation at Pompeii. This is a very well illustrated guide to and history of the ancient city. Illustrations by Ludovico Bisi	ZAR 60.00
	The Economics of Slavery - Alfred H Conrad & John R Meyer The Economics of Slavery: And Other Studies in Econometric History by Alfred H Conrad & John R Meyer is an argument for and a demonstration of the point of view that the restricted approach of "measurement without theory" is not necessary in history, or at least not necessary in economic history.	ZAR 135.00
	A Great and Glorious Adventure - Gordon Corrigan A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England by Gordon Corrigan is a captivating new history of a conflict that raged for over a century. The author reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relations.	ZAR 160.00
	Che's Travels - Paulo Drinot Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America edited by Paulo Drinot is a collection of essays regarding Che's travels. Ernesto "Che" Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s.	ZAR 135.00
	1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War - Charles Emmerson 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this “prelude to war” narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity.	ZAR 175.00
	Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing - Bill Fawcett Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today by Bill Fawcett proves once again that when global leaders drop the ball, the whole world shakes.	ZAR 85.00
	A Kim Jong-Il Production - Paul Fischer A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History by Paul Fischer is a non-fiction thriller with a plot so jaw-dropping even Hollywood couldn't make it up. Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry.	ZAR 110.00
	Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.	ZAR 85.00
	Mapping England - Simon Foxell Mapping England by Simon Foxell tells the story of how England's position in the world has evolved and, in so doing, entails new ways of seeing and expressing such findings in graphic form. England has been continuously mapped from Medieval times to the present; politically, administratively and functionally as well as creatively and imaginatively.	ZAR 435.00
	Freedom's Daughter - Sonia Gandhi Freedom's Daughter: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922-1939 edited by Sonia Gandhi is the first volume of the extensive father-daughter correspondence between Jawaharial Nehru and his daughter Indira (who was to become Mrs Gandhi). Illustrated with b&w Photos.	ZAR 90.00
	Modernism - Peter Gay Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay (acclaimed cultural historian) traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century.	ZAR 175.00