Woolf - History 1

A man who rose from nothing. A duchess with everything to lose. One irresistible transaction that exposes the truth behind luxury and desire. In this witty and incisive short story, Virginia Woolf p……続きを見る

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that jo……続きを見る

In the glittering world of high society, everything has a price. In this sharp and witty short story, Virginia Woolf explores the intersecting lives of Oliver Bacon, London's most successful jewelle……続きを見る

Tracing the origins of daily prayer from the New Testament and Patristic period, through the Reformation and Renaissance to the present, this book examines the development of daily rites across a br……続きを見る

〓 Deceit sparkles in high society. In The Duchess and the Jeweller, Virginia Woolf unpacks a world where diamonds and deception go hand in hand. This sharply satirical short story peels back the la……続きを見る

〓 In a glittering room of pearls and prestige, a deal is struckーbut who holds the real power? In The Duchess and the Jeweller, Virginia Woolf unveils a biting and elegant short story about a cunni……続きを見る

'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...' In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passion……続きを見る

This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spann……続きを見る

En octubre de 1928, Virginia Woolf fue invitada por dos universidades de mujeres para impartir una clase magistral sobre literatura feminista y la lucha por la igualdad de género. Durante su discurs……続きを見る

Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ……続きを見る

Warum zieht es den Menschen in die Stadt, weshalb sind Städte überhaupt entstanden und warum gehören sie zum Menschsein dazu? Greg Woolf geht diesen Fragen nach und erzählt vom Aufstieg und Fall ant……続きを見る

A cornucopia of some of Britain's oldest and most beloved native trees, this book weaves together their rich history, folklore and traditions. This lovely book will enable the reader to identify Bri……続きを見る

First Published in 1979, A History of Italy 1700-1860 provides a comprehensive overview of Italy’s political history from 1700-1860. Divided in five parts it deals with themes like the re-emergence ……続きを見る

First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions betw……続きを見る

Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete t……続きを見る

In this book, first published in 1940, Leonard Woolf lays out the necessity for the establishment of a system providing for the rule of international law and cooperation, control of international po……続きを見る

The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation o……続きを見る

To understand Alabama history one must appreciate the impact of the failure of secession of the state in the subsequent half century as well as the causes for the success of the Civil Rights Movemen……続きを見る

America stands to-day among the greatest and most progressive of the nations of the earth; and as the law of nations from earliest times has been the decline and fall of one, as another rises to prë……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf is an English writer, one of the leading modernist writers of the twentieth century, and a feminist 続きを見る

The land that now comprises Middleton Place lies in one of the earliest areas inhabited by Englishmen in South Carolina. In 1674, just four years after the first colonists settled at Charles Town, L……続きを見る

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach. ……続きを見る

The tower of Caister Castle still rises ninety feet into the air, and the arch still stands from which Sir John Fastolf's barges sailed out to fetch stone for the building of the great castle. But n……続きを見る

In this title, originally published in 1920, Leonard Woolf traces the history of economic imperialism and explores the relations of Europe and Africa since 1876. This analysis of economic imperialis……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father’s ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America.……続きを見る

Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient mate……続きを見る

Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath. During the first w……続きを見る

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers’ clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud……続きを見る

Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programm……続きを見る

Who was this scalawag? Simply a native, white, Alabama Republican! Scorned by his fellow white Southerners, he suffered, in his desire for socioeconomic reform and political power, more than mere ve……続きを見る