Roger - History 1

"Kapitäne des Abenteuers" von Roger Pocock entführt den Leser in die faszinierende Welt der Entdeckung und Eroberung. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung spannender Erzählungen über mutige Kapitäne und Abent……続きを見る

When war came to the nation in 1861, Michiganians rallied around the Stars and Stripes and readily agreed with a veteran politician who declared, “He who is not for his country is against her.” Even……続きを見る

French History and Society (1974) ranges over French history and society, thought, literature, painting, sculpture and architecture, music, and politics and institutions to examine France as a whole……続きを見る

An illustrated look at life in abbeys and priories, and within the monastic orders, in the middle ages. Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of Britain's medieval heritage.……続きを見る

Churchyards are everywhere, numbered in their thousands. Some have ancient yew trees while others have intriguing structures like parish stocks, charnel houses and medieval crosses. And beneath the ……続きを見る

The Dorset town of Shaftesbury is beautifully sited on a hill overlooking the Blackmore Vale, on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town grew up around its abbey, which was founded in c. 888 by King A……続きを見る

In Cheltenham Through Time, authors Roger Beacham and Lynne Cleaver show some of the different sides of this Spa town, where along with the Regency splendour is a much poorer side often hidden in ot……続きを見る

Wimborne Minster is a market town in Dorset. The settlement grew up around its minster, from which it takes its name and which was originally an Anglo-Saxon foundation. The town is known for its lar……続きを見る

Cranborne Chase is an area of chalk highland and valleys traversing Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Royalty once came here to hunt deer and other game in an area that became known as the Chase. It ……続きを見る

Great Railway Journeys: The Flying Scotsman Route to Edinburgh is the fifth in Roger Mason’s Great Railway Journeys series. It is a captivating record of what can be seen from trains running from Lo……続きを見る

In 2020, a group of European researchers got a European Union (EU) grant to do a project called TRANSFORM. The objective of TRANSFORM was to integrate the principle of responsible research and innov……続きを見る

An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do we set out to remember them? The Pyramids of Giza, the catac……続きを見る

Une équipe de scientifiques, militaires et journalistes se lance dans la traversée du Ténéré, grande étendue encore inexplorée en plein cœur du Sahara. L’objectif principal de la mission est d’ouvr……続きを見る

Les montagnes sont les cathédrales de la Terre. L’homme a tout oublié du passé : les siècles d’isolement et d’obscurité, le monde clos des vallées perdues, le climat rigoureux, l’absence de ressourc……続きを見る

Young Volcano Explorers, The by Edward Stratemeyer offers a concentrated, compelling experience within history / general. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plottin……続きを見る

暢銷歷史學家羅傑．克勞利 《海洋帝國》+《1453》+《財富之城》 經典地中海史詩系列暢銷回歸！ 亞馬遜破千評論☆☆☆☆ 台灣熱銷30000冊 特別收錄台灣版中文序 ◇《海洋帝國》榮獲《紐約時報》最佳暢銷圖書、《經濟學人……続きを見る

The 32-mile railway from Birmingham Snow Hill to Worcester Shrub Hill is still an important line in the lives of many West Midlands travellers. Its route through Birmingham’s north-western suburbs t……続きを見る

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the f……続きを見る

Una novel·la única que transforma la història de la filosofia en una aventura trepidant L'Alícia, com tants joves d'avui, es qüestiona el món que l'envolta i es preocupa pel destí de la humanitat. T……続きを見る

Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society that the Linear B documents reveal……続きを見る

En choisissant cet ebook, vous contribuez à aider l’édition en grands caractères adaptée à la malvoyance. De ses pérégrinations il n’a retenu que les engagements, les faits militaires. Une pensée le……続きを見る

Le mythe américain ne naît pas à la Libération. Depuis la fin du xixe siècle, les États-Unis sont perçus par les Français comme la terre de la modernité et il est devenu presque banal d’aller y obse……続きを見る

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the w……続きを見る

If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and place is explored in Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the com……続きを見る

CALIPHS AND KINGS:  SPAIN, 796-1031 The last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. Caliphs and Kings offers a formidable synthesis of existing knowled……続きを見る

Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares. In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it……続きを見る

This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure. Legends and ……続きを見る

The theme of the essays in this volume is the identification of the resources which between c.1320 and 1642 the English church saw fit to provide for the performance of the music of its liturgy. Ind……続きを見る

In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population. In 1923, when his plans had failed, he offered it free o……続きを見る

Roger Collins deals here with the history of Spain, specifically Christian Spain, in the period from the 6th to the 10th century - from the Visigoths, through the time of the Arab conquests, up to t……続きを見る