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City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Guernica: The Life and Travels of a Painting by James Attlee
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Category: Art and Design | Series: The Landmark Library
Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission in 1937 to create a work for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the Paris World Fair when news arrived of the assault by the German Condor Legion on the undefended Basque town of Guernica, in which hundreds of civilians died. James Attlee offers an illumi ...Show more
Hadrian's Wall - Rome and the Limits of Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy
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Category: History | Series: The Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to the west coast of the northern part of Britannia, it ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracyOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgru ...Show more
Messiah: The Landmark Library by Jonathan Keates
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Category: No Category | Series: The Landmark Library
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festi ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
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Category: Technology and Transport | Series: The Landmark Library
The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents, acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
Sinfonia Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony (Beethoven's Third Symphony) by James Hamilton-Paterson
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Category: Music | Series: The Landmark Library
In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual political revolu ...Show more
Stonehenge - The Story of a Sacred Landscape by Francis Pryor
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Category: No Category | Series: The\Landmark Library
Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure. Its purpose - place of worship, sacrificial arena, giant calendar - is unknown, but its story is one of the most extraordinary of any of the world's prehisto ...Show more
The French Revolution by David Andress
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has domi ...Show more
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth ...Show more
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