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  • William II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Red King

    by John Gillingham ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • 1215: The Year of Magna Carta

    by Danny Danziger, Danny Danziger, John Gillingham ...
    On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him.This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document. Never before had royal authority been so fundamentally challenged. Nearly 800 years later, two of the charter's sixty-three clauses are still a ringing ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Richard I

    by Professor John Gillingham ...
    Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten version of a classic account of the reign of Richard The Lionheart, John Gillingham scrutinizes the reasons for the King’s fluctuating reputation over successive centuries and provides a convincing new interpretation of the significance of the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Industry and Politics in the Third Reich (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

    Ruhr Coal, Hitler and Europe

    by John Gillingham ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
    When originally published in 1985 this was the first detailed study of business in Nazi Germany. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from government and private archives, the book throws light on the important role played by Germany heavy industry in preserving traditions valuable for the post-Nazi future.Contrary to widely held beliefs, the industrialists of the Ruhr did not master-mind the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The E.U.

    An Obituary

    by John R. Gillingham ...
    Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU?Fully updated and revised, this new edition of John R. Gillingham’s swingeing study explains why the European Union is so profoundly unsuited to the modern political economy. In a devastating historical account of political failure, he takes readers back to the union’s postwar origins, when it was considered the best means to guarantee peace, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare

    Edited by Peter Connolly, John Gillingham, John Lazenby ...
    The Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare provides a comprehensive guide to the battles and wars, commanders, tactics, formations, fortifications, and weapons of war in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Japan from the beginning of recorded history to the 16th century. More than 3,000 entries, written by expert military historians, cover all aspects of warfare from the ... Read more

    $419.13 CAD

  • Magna Carta and the England of King John

    by Janet S. Loengard, R V Turner, Barbara A Hanawalt, David Crook, David Crouch, James A Brundage, James Masschaele, John B Gillingham, John Hudson ...
    Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Henry I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Father of His People

    by Edmund King ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'To be a medieval king was a job of work ... This was a man who knew how to run a complex organization. He was England's CEO'The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I came to unchallenged power only after two of his brothers died in strange hunting accidents and he had imprisoned the other. He was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Crusader King

    by Thomas Asbridge ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart', reflecting a carefully cultivated reputation for bravery, prowess and knightly virtue, but ... Read more

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  • Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Reign of Anarchy

    by Carl Watkins ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another problem, too: Stephen himself.With the nobility of England and Normandy anxious about the ... Read more

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  • Henry II (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Prince Among Princes

    by Richard Barber ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Henry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to rule England, he was brought down both by his catastrophic relationship with his archbishop Thomas Becket and his debilitating arguments with his sons, most importantly the future Richard I and King John. His empire may have ... Read more

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