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A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
$24.99 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
Great Maps by Jerry Brotton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
The world's finest maps explored and explained. From Ptolemy's world map to the Hereford's Mappa Mundi, through Mercator's map of the world to the latest maps of the Moon and Google Earth, Great Maps provides a fascinating overview of cartography through the ages. Revealing the stories behind 55 histori ...Show more
The Four Points of the Compass: North and South, East and West by Jerry Brotton
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
The Renaissance A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
Provides a wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, seeing the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale. This book guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period, from art, architecture, and literature, ...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
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
Trading Territories - Mapping the Early Modern World by Jerry Brotton
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World--Africa and Southeast Asia--this book shows how the historical preoc ...Show more
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