For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome star……続きを見る
This is a book about political stasis; the purgatory that Stormont became, and the sins of that long standoff. The story begins in January 2017, with Martin McGuinness’s dramatic resignation as Depu……続きを見る
First published in 1912, "History of English Literature" by Andrew Lang is a massive book that covers English literature from Anglo-Saxon literature all the way through to authors like Anthony Troll……続きを見る
Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Maltaーan action-packed tale ……続きを見る
The second edition of this successful text has been thoroughly updated to take into account recent research, and now begins at 1830. Charmley examines the history of the party and takes the story th……続きを見る
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but sub……続きを見る
THE BEST ACCOUNT OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE BY THE AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR
This is an unrivalled account of sixteenth-century warfare, in which Sir Charles Oman traces the dramat……続きを見る
Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it
**'Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read' Ro……続きを見る
In 'A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals,' the rich tapestry of England's numismatic artistry is explored with scholarly precision. This anthology presents a fascinating journey through the i……続きを見る
著者:Levi Roach
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This engaging study focuses on the role of assemblies in later Anglo-Saxon politics, challenging and nuancing existing models of the late Anglo-Saxon state. Its ten chapters investigate both traditi……続きを見る
著者:Douglas Bush
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2016年05月30日
The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evalu……続きを見る
Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable swing-winged Tornado GR1 provided Britains strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 198……続きを見る
John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy explores the epistemic, or cognitive, character of democratic institutional practices and the protection of basic liberties in Mill's political thought. Mapp……続きを見る
著者:Mel Farrell
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年11月16日
This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland. Interwar Ireland’s politics have been caricatured as an anomaly, with the distinction between Fian……続きを見る
Nine ebooks from the bestselling historian Antonia Fraser, shedding light on some of the most fascinating and controversial people and events of European history.
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
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著者:Durba Ghosh
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年07月31日
In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' ……続きを見る
Despite sustained scholarly interest in the politics of modernism, astonishingly little attention has been paid to its relationship to Conservatism. Yet modernist writing was imbricated with Tory rh……続きを見る
Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, Susan McKay talks again to the people she ‘uneasily’ called ‘her own’, those from a Protestant backgrou……続きを見る
著者:Adrian Stewart
出版社: Pen & Sword Military
発売日: 2015年10月30日
As the saying goes 'it is darkest before the dawn' and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War.During February 1942, bad news of disasters came in an unbroken and ……続きを見る
This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a cle……続きを見る
著者:Joseph Strutt
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2018年08月17日
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England is a voluminous overview of English history, includin……続きを見る
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing cre……続きを見る
著者:Helen Meller
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年08月02日
One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work ……続きを見る
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The old English family of Habingdon, Abingdon, Habington, or Abington traced their pedigree beyond the reign of Henry III., to Philip de Habington, of Abingdon, co. Cambridge: ……続きを見る
Irish Days, Indian Memories offers a unique insight into an unexpectedly momentous facet of Dublin’s political and student life from 1913 to the end of the turbulent year that was 1916. V.V. Giri, f……続きを見る
This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers.
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著者:Tristram Stuart
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2012年10月18日
In the 1600s, European travellers discovered Indian vegetarianism. Western culture was changed forever…
When early travellers returned from India with news of the country’s vegetarians, they trigger……続きを見る
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Index
A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland
Including a full account of the origin and progress of Mr. Gladstone's financia……続きを見る
This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649.The martial aspects of the wars are covered in detail along with a comprehensive overview of……続きを見る