Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“martin hume”

Showing 1 - 12 of 53 results for “martin hume”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

    by Martin A. S. Hume ...
    "The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History" by Martin A. S. Hume delves into the lives of the six queens who were married to King Henry VIII of England. Each wife, from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr, played a significant role in the political and religious upheavals of the Tudor period. Hume meticulously examines their individual stories, highlighting their ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times

    Enriched edition.

    by Richard Davey, Cooper Black ...
    In "The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times," Richard Davey delves into the tumultuous life of Lady Jane Grey, who became queen of England for a fleeting nine days in 1553. The book combines meticulous historical research with a vivid narrative style that captures the political intrigue and societal upheaval of the Tudor era. Davey's prose not only brings the events to life but also ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Tudor Succession, Court Intrigue, and Reformation Tragedy in Sixteenth-Century England

    by Richard Davey, Maren Fairbourne ...
    Richard Davey's The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times is a richly textured historical biography that situates Jane Grey's brief reign within the volatile politics, religious conflict, and dynastic anxieties of Tudor England. Combining narrative history with documentary detail, Davey writes in the expansive, dramatic style of late nineteenth-century historical scholarship, attentive ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philip II of Spain

    by Martin Hume ...
    FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment of a system than as an individual man swayed by ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts they Played in History (Illustrated)

    by Martin Hume ...
    The careers of these unhappy women have almost invariably been considered, nevertheless, from a purely personal point of view. It is true that the many historians of the Reformation have dwelt upon the rivalry between Katharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, and their strenuous efforts to gain their respective ends; but even in their case their action has usually been regarded as individual in impulse ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times

    Enriched edition. Intrigue, Power, and Drama: Unveiling Lady Jane Grey's Reign

    by Richard Davey, Rosalind Thatcher ...
    In "The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times," Richard Davey delves into the tumultuous political landscape of 16th century England, chronicling the brief yet poignant reign of Lady Jane Grey. Through a meticulously researched narrative, Davey employs a blend of biographical detail and historical analysis, highlighting not only the virtues of Jane, who ascended to the throne at merely ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philip II of Spain

    by Martin Hume ...
    For three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment of a system than as an individual man swayed by ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wars of Religion in Europe

    by Adolphus Ward, Martin Hume ...
    THE present volume, as its title imports, relates a complicated series of conflicts of which the origin or the pretext has for the most part to be sought in the great religious schism of Christianity. But the cause of the restoration of Catholic unity in the West was, in the minds of both the supporters and the opponents of that cause, inextricably interwoven with the purposes of dynastic ambition ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Elizabethan Diplomacy, Tudor Government, and the Statecraft Behind Protestant England

    by Martin A. S. Hume, Eliza Vardenhall ...
    The Great Lord Burghley: A Study in Elizabethan Statecraft examines William Cecil, Lord Burghley, as the central architect of Elizabeth I's political stability. Hume traces Burghley's management of diplomacy, religion, finance, succession anxieties, and the long contest with Spain, presenting statecraft as patient calculation rather than theatrical heroism. Written in the sober, document-minded ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

    by David Hume ...
    In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone - at times even tactfully ambiguous - the conversations between Hume's vividly realized fictional figures ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Philip II of Spain

    by Martin Hume ...
    FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment of a system than as an individual man swayed by ... Read more

    $1.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots

    A Political History

    by Martin Hume ...
    Whether you’ve seen the recent movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie or the classic 1970’s film starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson, this vibrant work of history will give you new insight into the life of Mary, Queen of Scots and her rivalry with Elizabeth I of England.Mary Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart, was one of the most well-known and controversial monarchs of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD