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Day of the Assassins - A History of Political Assassination by Michael Burleigh
40.00 NZD
Category: History
The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations - from Gaius Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy - the phenomenon it ...Show more
Earthly Powers : Religion and politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War by Michael Burleigh
27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
This is a major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the present day's War on Terror. In this dazzling and hugely relevant book, Michael Burleigh explores the way in which religion, broadly construed, functions wi ...Show more
Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to al-Qaeda by Michael Burleigh
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, Sacred Causes provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'. Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape in which religious bel ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 by Michael Burleigh
27.00 NZD
Category: History
The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the Middle East -whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for commo ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places - The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 by Michael Burleigh
40.00 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: History
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggl ...Show more
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath an ...Show more
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In the decades since the end of World War II, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the 21st century--first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the fi ...Show more
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