wired - History 88

The discovery of the existence of the Bi-literal Cipher of Francis Bacon, found embodied in his works, and the deciphering of what it tells, has been a work arduous, exhausting and prolonged. It is ……続きを見る

British India's Relations with the Kingdom of Nepal (1970) uses original documents and confidential papers never before available to examine the relations between Nepal and British India from 1857 t……続きを見る

The spring and summer of 1864 in Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and in the Trans-Mississippi Department proved one of the most sanguinary periods of the war. During this time, Joseph E. J……続きを見る

Nazizm, kontrowersyjny niemiecki ruch polityczny, na zawsze kojarzy się z morderczym szaleństwem i destrukcyjną potwornością rasistowskiej i antysemickiej ideologii. Historia szczególnie zapamiętała……続きを見る

History of the Conquest of Peru (1959) contains a detailed analysis of the political, religious and social organisation of the Incas prior to the arrival of the Spanish colonisers, and then moves on……続きを見る

A Well-Dressed Lie: Following the Breadcrumbs to an Uncomfortable Truth By: S. Jernard Parker A book full of history, philosophy, and spirituality, S. Jernard Parker provides a corrective historical……続きを見る

The great thrilling, throbbing spirit of war did not reach the United States until that memorable spring of 1918. Then it came in a mighty tidal wave of vitalized force and energy. Our country, woef……続きを見る

West Africa (1977) surveys the first century of European enterprise – rivalry, and exploitation – in West Africa. It examines the achievements of the Portuguese during the century following their ex……続きを見る

‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI Winston Churchill followed his own……続きを見る

The true story of how federal law enforcement flipped the playbook and convicted a corrupt unit of Baltimore police. Silver Medalist for the IPPY Book Award Regional North-East Non-Fiction by the In……続きを見る

A history of genealogical knowledge-making strategies in the early modern world. In The Maker of Pedigrees, Markus Friedrich explores the complex and fascinating world of central European genealogy ……続きを見る

THE mediæval pilgrim to Moscow, getting his first glimpse of the Holy City from Salutation Hill, saw before him much the same sight as the tourist of to-day may look upon from the same spot. Three m……続きを見る

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and ……続きを見る

Toledo, former capital of Spain until 1560, is now one of the most monumental of Spanish cities. In Roman times, it was originally a modest tribal township, which was eventually elevated to a nation……続きを見る

In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history “the cruelest goddess of all.” This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless play……続きを見る

This monograph provides a much-needed history of the Arab print media as well as an in-depth study of translated Arab media sources, remedying a remarkable gap in Western intellectual culture. Setti……続きを見る

Rekonkwista, wielowiekowa walka religijna o wyzwolenie Półwyspu Iberyjskiego spod dominacji muzułmańskiej, zakończyła się 6 stycznia 1492 roku zwycięskim wkroczeniem Izabeli I i Ferdynanda III do mi……続きを見る

William Pearson is a retired design engineer who for much of his life has been an amateur historian and archaeologist. Articles by him on these subjects have appeared in the journals of various soci……続きを見る

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the presen……続きを見る

Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased t……続きを見る

This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical in……続きを見る

All our endeavours were taxed to the utmost to render our departure on the 1st of September possible; one day’s delay would have cost us a whole month, and this month it was necessary to gain by red……続きを見る

First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William B……続きを見る

First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William B……続きを見る

Diese Biografie ist mehr als ein Rückblick in die glorreiche Ära des deutschen Motorrad-Rennsports der frühen Trümmerjahre nach 1945. Verbunden mit vielen bekannten Namen und interessanten Persönlic……続きを見る

Edith Stein’s Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916 is a treasure trove for the study of Stein’s youth and early adulthood, her approach to writing autobiographically, and her intricate relationship wi……続きを見る

This research delivers a conceptual reconstruction of the trajectory of concepts used to mark qualitative differences among identities from the 16th to the 21st century in central Europe and the Ame……続きを見る

This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a ‘public square’ was t……続きを見る

Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and deter……続きを見る

Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, William Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passi……続きを見る