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In the glittering salons of early eighteenth-century England, where wit and philosophy danced together in heated debate, one brilliant mind dared to revolutionize how humanity understood itself. Ant……続きを見る

Levina Teerlinck mérite l’attention pour de multiples raisons. Même si c’est un peu anecdotique par rapport à sa carrière, on lui doit sans doute l’invention vers 1569 de l’expression : God Save the……続きを見る

Levina Teerlinck mérite l’attention pour de multiples raisons. Même si c’est un peu anecdotique par rapport à sa carrière, on lui doit sans doute l’invention vers 1569 de l’expression : God Save the……続きを見る

Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature considers how the domestic interior is constituted, imag(in)ed, contested, and mediated in the public forum of advice ……続きを見る

The legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table dominates the mythology of Britain, but could this story prove more fact than fiction? Recent archaeological findings have lead Geoffrey Ashe ……続きを見る

Julia Cooley Altrocchi's Wolves Against the Moon is a sweeping historical novel set against the rugged backdrop of the American frontier. Rich in historical detail and adventure, the novel follows t……続きを見る

In The Elizabethan World Picture, Eustace M. Tillyard provides a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual and cultural framework that shaped Shakespeare's age. Tillyard masterfully explores how Eli……続きを見る

A world where little light penetrates. Of dense vegetation, tangled roots, fetid mud and swamps. Where the helicopter, sophisticated weaponry and technology have revolutionized military combat. But ……続きを見る

En Bolivia la educación fue una gran preocupación durante todo el siglo XX, al igual que en gran parte de América Latina. Peroen este país adquirió una espedtiridad que marcó las trayectorias de los……続きを見る

This book offers a structured and accessible entry point into the historical and literary evolution of Indian writing in English, tracing its roots to the establishment of British colonial rule. Com……続きを見る

Many look to Ireland's Atlantic islands as timeless places, resistant to change. Island Endurance offers an alternative perspective, examining two neighboring islands where people have cultivated th……続きを見る

Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany ……続きを見る

Die zeitgeschichtliche Studie widmet sich dem Anspruch der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche, der größten religiösen Institution Russlands, nicht nur im Inland, sondern auch außerhalb ihres Pastoralgebie……続きを見る

In a tumultuous era defined by power struggles, shifting alliances, and bloody warfare, The Battle for Dominance Between the Welsh Kingdoms and the Anglo-Saxons explores the epic clash between two f……続きを見る

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, on……続きを見る

Rhodesialeaks is the Financial History of Economic Exploitation in Southern Africa. It is the basis of a 〓4,000,000,000.00 Hut Tax Refund claim filed against the British Crown and Government in Jun……続きを見る

It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century. Emily A. Winkler presents a new perspective on previously……続きを見る

A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some……続きを見る

Utilising a wide range of archival correspondence and diaries, this monograph reconstructs the 1974-79 Labour government's policies in Northern Ireland. It covers the collapse of power-sharing in Ma……続きを見る

Elizabeth of York, often overshadowed by her famous descendants, was a strong and influential queen who united the warring houses of York and Lancaster. Elizabeth of York has often been overlooked b……続きを見る

George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent……続きを見る

Rudyard Kipling's "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in t……続きを見る

Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine. The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborou……続きを見る

The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic. Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Fe……続きを見る

Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose – and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won……続きを見る

Nine ebooks from the bestselling historian Antonia Fraser, shedding light on some of the most fascinating and controversial people and events of European history. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS Mary, Queen of……続きを見る

Zachary Stoyanoff: Pages from the Autobiography of a Bulgarian Insurgent offers a gripping, first-hand account of the revolutionary struggle for Bulgarian independence from Ottoman rule in the 19th ……続きを見る

This book explores representations of the extensive violence that characterised British exploratory and colonising forays into the Pacific Ocean in the long eighteenth century, both between European……続きを見る

Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison is a harrowing and unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the brutal realities of trench warfare during World War I. Drawing on his own experiences as a so……続きを見る

Die unrühmliche Wahrheit über die britische Herrschaft in Indien – erstmals erzählt aus indischer Sicht. Das Britische Kolonialreich präsentierte sich nach außen hin als aufgeklärter Despotismus im ……続きを見る