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For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to th……続きを見る

As one can surmise from the title, the book focuses on discussing the constitutional history of England from 1760 to 1860. This covers several important changes to the constitution of the United Kin……続きを見る

Between the years 3000 BCE and 1500 AD many Ethiopians and Yemenites settled in West Africa. The relationship of these distant regions was remote but powerful. For this reason, Ethiopian traditions,……続きを見る

"History of Morgan's Cavalry" by Basil Wilson Duke offers a comprehensive exploration of Confederate cavalry operations during the American Civil War. As a seminal work in military history and biogr……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

Mr. Hallam’s “Constitutional History” closes, as is well known, with the death of George II. The Reformation, the great Rebellion, and the Revolution, all of which are embraced in the period of whic……続きを見る

When it became public that Osama bin Laden’s death was announced with the phrase “Geronimo, EKIA!” many Native people, including Geronimo’s descendants, were insulted to discover that the name of a ……続きを見る

The Zimmern Chronicle: Nobility, Memory, and Self-Representation in Sixteenth-Century Germany brings the history of the Zimmern family to English readers for the first time. In it the author not onl……続きを見る

In the Survey of Recent Historical Works, which according to custom concludes this IXth volume of the Acta, is a notice of the recent 'Report of the Dutch research, with suggestions for future devel……続きを見る

Alastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political eve……続きを見る

Early in the year 1894 I was a candidate for one of two vacancies in the Consular Service for Turkey, Persia, and the Levant, but failed to gain the necessary place in the competitive examination. I……続きを見る

Woe on you, mothers of nothing! May the scourge of Allah flay you as you go! The mother of Iskender held the doorway of her little house in a posture of spitting defiance. Rancour, deep-rooted and b……続きを見る

At the corner of a lofty housetop overlooking a great part of Cairo, a woman stood with arms uplifted and solemnly addressed a crow which seemed about to settle. The bird, as if the meaning of the c……続きを見る

In the reign of the Sultàn Abdul Mejìd Khan, upon termination of the war with Muscovy, a multitude of faithful Georgians and Circassians chose to cast themselves, their women and children, upon the ……続きを見る

World Order in History argues that historians' ideas about world order have been influential in transforming nations' sense of themselves. Paul Dukes demonstrates how a series of successive historia……続きを見る

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch ru……続きを見る

Once more I had traced my way to Egypt to pass the winter there. Like every European who makes a lengthened sojourn in that ancient but renewed land, I was led to recall the great engineering and ot……続きを見る

When reading this book you will see(inyour minds eye), not only how the slaves suffered on the ship, but how some families and some Royals were lost at sea and separated after landing. The author in……続きを見る

Revised and expanded, the second edition of this fascinating study surveys the first two centuries of Romanov rule from the foundation of the dynasty by Michael Romanov in 1613 to the accession of A……続きを見る

The USA's contribution to the making of the USSR was accidental. In the belief that the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic could not survive, American statesmen strove to keep the former T……続きを見る

The Superpowers traces the development of the USA and Russia (later USSR) from 1898 through to 2000, placing the Cold War, from inception to ending, into the wider social, economic and political con……続きを見る

The theme chosen for the seventh conference of Dutch and British historians - relations between Church and State in the two countries since the Reformation - cannot pretend to any originality. A sub……続きを見る