著者:Tim Jones
出版社: Gwasg Helygain Ltd
発売日: 2013年03月08日
This book will undoubtedly become the definitive work on the Ministry of Supply Factory, Rhydymwyn, North Wales and its important contribution to WWII and the part it might have played had events di……続きを見る
These essays reveal the role of British intelligence in the roundups of European refugees and expose the subversion of democratic safeguards. They examine the oppression of internment in general and……続きを見る
著者:Martin Polley
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年09月11日
Martin Polley provides a survey of sport in Britain since 1945 and examines sport's place in British culture. He discusses issues of class, gender, race, commerce and politics, as well as analysing ……続きを見る
著者:Mark Bevir
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年08月22日
A compelling look at the origins of British socialism
The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstratin……続きを見る
著者:Robert Crawford
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2013年02月04日
Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shang……続きを見る
著者:Emma Marriott
出版社: Michael O'Mara
発売日: 2015年10月27日
From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a wide range of topics, filling in all those embarrassing gaps in your knowl……続きを見る
The English Industrial Revolution was a triumph of ingenuity and invention. New sources of power, better manufacturing methods and expanding transport systems brought fantastic changes affecting eve……続きを見る
著者:Roy Jenkins
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2012年08月23日
Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three o……続きを見る
著者:Oliver Hayes
出版社: Bretwalda Books
発売日: 2015年05月10日
By the spring of 1814 the Peninsular War was nearing its climax. The British army under Wellington was invading southern France, but they were faced by a larage French army under the cunning French ……続きを見る
A cousin could not find a Waymouth ancestor born earlier than 1727.
In my innocence, I wondered why. That is how and why this book came to be written.
Who begat who is of less interest than where th……続きを見る
Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting cri……続きを見る
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
Including a New and Circumstantial Account of the Battle of Long Island and the Loss of New York, with a Review of Events to the Close of the Year, ……続きを見る
著者:Tony Crowley
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年09月11日
For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religi……続きを見る
Bede (672 – 26 May 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Sain……続きを見る
`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, An……続きを見る
著者:Sally Bedell Smith
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年01月10日
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This “excellent, all-embracing” (The New York Times) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a distanceーand a captivating win……続きを見る
In recent years there have been many books
written on the part that the Order of the Temple
(Knights Templar) may have played in the
founding of Freemasonry.
Some of these books have been fanciful i……続きを見る
A charming beautifully illustrated book originally written for English school children. Edith Nesbit attempts and succeeds to make the history of the English royal children (Prince and Princesses) ……続きを見る
`Shimmering in the morning sun, wave upon wave of bombers, driving for London. Stepped above and behind, the serried ranks of Messerschmitts. Covering mile upon mile of sky, as far as the eye could ……続きを見る
著者:David Glover
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The 1905 Aliens Act was the first modern law to restrict immigration to British shores. In this book, David Glover asks how it was possible for Britain, a nation that had prided itself on offering a……続きを見る
Bill Crawford (W.H. Crawford) had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-……続きを見る
What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England? Responding to this question, Conspiracy and Virtue argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political ……続きを見る
Well known in the city of Bristol for his Pirate Walks around the harbourside, Peter James Martin's enduring fascination with the seafaring rogues inspired him to produce this book of swashbuckling ……続きを見る
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I.
Description of the leading forms of the Romance: Conte del Graalー
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CHAPTER X.
The Mora……続きを見る
著者:Norman Davies
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年08月26日
One of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome
A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating well-established facts and pointing ou……続きを見る
A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two ……続きを見る
From beautiful eighteenth century houses to ugly concrete tower blocks Walworth Through Time welcomes you to explore the long and fruitful history of this area of South London, first mentioned in th……続きを見る
A book dedicated to the Battle of Chesterfield that ended the Baronial Wars of King Henry III against Simon de Montfort.
After Simon de Montfort's death at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, his support……続きを見る
This book is the first to focus specifically upon the relationship between refugees and intercultural transfer over an extensive period of time. Since circa 1830, a series of groups have made their ……続きを見る
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.
Tommy tells the story of an epic and terrible……続きを見る