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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
The Sultan and the Queen - The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam by Jerry Brotton
$9.95 AUD
Category: History
When Queen Elizabeth was excommunicated by the pope in 1570, she found herself in an awkward predicament. Now England's key markets would be closed to her Protestant merchants. To complicate matters the staunchly Catholic king of Spain was determined to destroy her, bolstered by the gold pouring in from ...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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