"The author of this account, as well as being a Forces Chaplain, was a prolific military historian. His scholarly account of the first Afghan War begins with a detailed description of Afghanistan's ……続きを見る
This important and long-awaited study is the first full-scale biography of Charlemagne's grandson, King of the West Franks from 843 to 877, and Emperor from 875. Posterity has not been kind to Charl……続きを見る
Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire
'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, crueltie……続きを見る
著者:Greg King
出版社: Turner Publishing Company
発売日: 2007年06月01日
Power, pageantry, and pride
Queen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface, reigning over subjects on every continent, and exe……続きを見る
著者:Boris Johnson
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年05月31日
The exhilarating story of how London came to be one of the most exciting and influential places on earthーfrom the city’s colorful, witty, and well-known mayor.
Once a swampland that the Romans coul……続きを見る
In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious dis……続きを見る
著者:William Dalrymple
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年04月16日
From William Dalrympleーaward-winning historian, journalist and travel writerーa masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of……続きを見る
Elizabethan Era England Life: All major aspects of life in England during Elizabethan era. Includes biography of Elizabeth I, daily life of people, crime and punishment, theaters, plays, costumes, r……続きを見る
The Viking Age in two volumes as a broad study of the early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations. He labored for eight and a half years and carefully read h……続きを見る
Previously published as Our Vinnie.
In Cold Blood can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.
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A small free eBook by Swain Wodening and GardenStone.
The names Helia, Heile, Helið and Helith are recorded in several medieval and later publications as names for a pagan deity who was venerated in……続きを見る
著者:Mr Nick Jones
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2016年10月20日
Matchbox toys were ubiquitous items for children across the Western world. Originally labelled Christmas-cracker trash by retailers and shopkeepers, the small-scale 1-75 series soon began to see unp……続きを見る
A History of Epidemics in Britain in two volumes is the most significant work of Charles Creighton, British physician and medical author. The work is divided in two parts. First volume covers the hi……続きを見る
著者:Donna Brunero
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2006年03月02日
This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China's defeat in the Opium Wars (1842 to 43), and a cent……続きを見る
著者:Peter Gay
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2013年10月07日
With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's……続きを見る
In recent decades, scholars have uncovered the vital contributions made by non-elite figures, including women, artisans, and indigenous peoples, to the development of early modern natural philosophy……続きを見る
著者:Kate Fox
出版社: Hodder & Stoughton
発売日: 2014年04月24日
**THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD.
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Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domestic……続きを見る
Lane was the author of Spitfire!, originally published in 1942 under the pseudonym B.J. Ellan. The book is a first hand account of his experiences as a front line Spitfire pilot and is one of only a……続きを見る
This book aims to bring alive the happiness and hardship of an English village where people have lived for over 7,000 years.
Why did early man choose Downton? Celts,Romans,Saxons and Normans chose D……続きを見る
A Special Forces expert reveals the illustrated story of the SAS since the Falklands War, including their operations in the Gulf War and the War on Terror.
Highly trained and immensely skilled, the ……続きを見る
The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of im……続きを見る
The Path to Lidice is a series of ebooks that looks into the relationships between Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, and the USA following the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his bullying of Allied f……続きを見る
The Viking Great Army that landed in East Anglia in late 865 had a lasting impact on English society, culture, politics, and economy. The Viking Great Army landed in East Anglia in late 865 and over……続きを見る
著者:Sidney Painter
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2020年02月03日
Originally published in 1949. Lacking the warlike bluntness of his predecessor, Richard the Lionheart, John came to the throne of England at a time when economic forces in the realm were threatening……続きを見る
著者:Kathleen Rankin
出版社: Ulster Historical Foundation
発売日: 2012年06月01日
By the late nineteenth century, Belfast had developed into one of the great industrial cities in the Empire. Much of this new-found wealth was based on the manufacture of linen, principally in both ……続きを見る
著者:Robert Brown
出版社: Seaforth Publishing
発売日: 2024年04月18日
"Several pages of plan drawings are provided and there is also a very nice section on the varied camouflage schemes carried by these ships." ー ModelingMadness.Com The 'ShipCraft' series provides in……続きを見る
In putting extraterritoriality into practice in the treaty ports, the British state did not simply withdraw rights from the Chinese state; it inhabited the space made by extraterritoriality by build……続きを見る
著者:Mark Donoghue
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年07月07日
This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics an……続きを見る
A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.
Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who mastermin……続きを見る