The Model T Ford was the first mass produced car and the price because of this was so low that for the first time motorcars were in the hands of people who had little or no engineering skills. This ……続きを見る
著者:Anatole Konstantin
出版社: University of Missouri Press
発売日: 2008年04月28日
Many children growing up in the Soviet Union before World War II knew the meaning of deprivation and dread. But for the son of an “enemy of the people,” those apprehensions were especially compounde……続きを見る
From the eccentric Fairey Battle to the lethal-looking CF-18, from modern airliners that have no defects (and no character) to the classic North Star (which had both), here is the ultimate line-up o……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Boff
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The 'Hundred Days' campaign of 1918 remains a neglected aspect of the First World War. Why was the German army defeated on the Western Front? Did its morale collapse or was it beaten by the improved……続きを見る
Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship.
Includes read……続きを見る
One day in 1845 a man named Tawell, dressed as a Quaker, stepped into a train at Slough Station on the Great Western Railway, and travelled to London. When he arrived in London the innocent-looking ……続きを見る
著者:Sarah Beckwith
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年08月04日
At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional En……続きを見る
著者:Mauricio Obregon
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2001年03月15日
The story of Jason and the Argonauts and Homer's tales of Ulysses' wanderings are among the greatest of the ancient epics, but they are not merely fiction. Following the clues in the classical texts……続きを見る
著者:Edward Gibbon
出版社: Wilder Publications, Inc.
発売日: 2015年06月10日
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ……続きを見る
William Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing t……続きを見る
A history of one of the most picturesque and remote villages in Canada. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly ……続きを見る
IN WHICH CERTAIN SUSPICIONS ARE EXCITED A grey, sunless morning on the Firth of Tay. Across a wide, sandy waste stretching away to the misty sea at Budden, four men were walking. Two wore uniformーo……続きを見る
Livingstone's 1840s expedition into Africa, the "Dark Continent", caught the public's imagination. In 1864 he returned to Africa and all but disappeared. Public interest ran so high, that in 1869 th……続きを見る
Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash i……続きを見る
Canada’s wild frontierーa land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beautyーcomes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British ……続きを見る
著者:T Lethbridge
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年05月23日
Clues to T.C. Lethbridge’s books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion is no exception. In his study of the old pagan gods of Britain, Lethbridge believed that witch cul……続きを見る
著者:Oliver Hayes
出版社: Bretwalda Books
発売日: 2015年05月13日
In the chaos that engulfed Britain after the "Age of Arthur", one battle stands out. This was a key battle fought in the heart of the Dark Ages for control of southern Britain that pitched the King ……続きを見る
著者:Jerry Apps
出版社: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
発売日: 2013年08月09日
In this new edition of his classic book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares a unique perspective on the great barns of rural Wisconsin. Digging deep as both an enthusiast and a farmer, Apps reap……続きを見る
First Published in 2004. This study of the British Political Tradition will be complete in four volumes of which The Ideological Heritage is the second. This is an attempt to show how the basic tens……続きを見る
A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?
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著者:S.P. Turin
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
First published in 1968, the main purpose of this study is to present an account of the Russian Labour Movement, based mainly on original Russian sources. The Labour Movement differed greatly from t……続きを見る
著者:John Davy
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
John Davy (1790-1868) was an English doctor and brother of the chemist Sir Humphrey Davy. After graduating from Edinburgh University, in 1814 Davy became Inspector General of Army Hospitals, and he ……続きを見る
This walk is one of twelve walks in John Wilks' Walks Through History - Birmingham series which contains twelve walks within the city. The whole book is available as an ebook or physical book or you……続きを見る
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1907 edition by Gay and Bird, London.
This edition is published in 4 volumes sold separately.
This is an illustrated edition.
Volume 4: From Lützen to Waterloo, with a d……続きを見る
In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil. This s……続きを見る
著者:Edwin A. Lyon
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2010年05月20日
Recipient of the 1994 Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize
This comprehensive study provides a history of New Deal archaeology in the Southeast in the 1930s and early 1940s and focuses on the project……続きを見る
著者:Kit Poon
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2007年12月11日
On July 1st, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated the 10th anniversary of its return to the People’s Republic of China, but the past decade has been a bumpy ride for both the Hong Kong people and the central ……続きを見る
著者:David W. Beckwith
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2012年11月28日
Explores Mississippi’s school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacher
A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need o……続きを見る
Praise for Bernard Lewis
"For newcomers to the subject[el]Bernard Lewis is the man."
TIME Magazine
“The doyen of Middle Eastern studies."
The New York Times
“No one writes about Muslim history with ……続きを見る