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In the world where the horse lives there is one god. This god is only a human creature, soldier by trade, stockrider, groom, or drayman, but from him all things proceed. So far as the horse knows hi……続きを見る

This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience. Conveni……続きを見る

Pocono Township got its name from the Native Americans, meaning "water between the mountains." Many small towns and villages dotted the landscape along the Native American trails, notably Tannersvil……続きを見る

One man’s journey from tragedy to find happiness. By prize winning author Reece Pocock Essential reading for fans of #Ken Follett, #Raymond Khoury and #Clive Cussler. Refugee is a moving, stunning p……続きを見る

Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and ……続きを見る

Secoli prima della Commedia dantesca, Giovanni Scoto Eriugena, monaco, teologo, insigne traduttore e filosofo irlandese alla corte di Carlo il Calvo, produsse uno sforzo simile per esprimere «la del……続きを見る

Margaret, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India. In the Year of our Lo……続きを見る

That is exactly what the bugle said to a man who was sitting on the edge of the bench-land in the evening calm. He was a very big man, dressed in a grey woollen undershirt, worn-out riding-breeches ……続きを見る

Memoirs of a Millennium is an engaging and unconventional history of the last millennium, told through the lives of ten individuals across ten centuries. The characters and their compatriots are bro……続きを見る

The Story of Durham traces the evolution of a city that medieval writers likened to Jerusalem, which Ruskin termed one of the wonders of the world, and which Pevsner, more modestly, called one of th……続きを見る

This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associat……続きを見る

What is an adventurer? One who has adventures? Surely not. A person charged by a wild rhinoceros is having an adventure, yet however wild the animal, however wild the person, he is only somebody wis……続きを見る

Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, Wild Bill Hickok and Deadwood, George Custer and the Little Big Horn, Davy Crockett and the Alamo, Bat Masterson and Dodge City; Names and locations forever linked to the l……続きを見る

1927 an der italienischen Riviera: Es ist ein neuer Sommer in Portofino, wo das britische Upperclass-Ehepaar Cecil und Bella Ainsworth ein gleichnamiges Hotel eröffnet hat. Nach der Trennung des Paa……続きを見る

This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbo……続きを見る

This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy……続きを見る

Os estudos reunidos neste volume, situados no cruzamento da história e da política, sinalizam alguns dos momentos marcantes do investimento historiográfico de John Pocock. Um investimento que, para ……続きを見る

When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to pol……続きを見る

My Beloved South is the recollections of Mrs. T.P. O'Connor, a native of Texas born in 1850. She recounts the South before the War. 続きを見る

La narrazione della conquista d’Etiopia, spesso requisita dall’epica di regime, è stata di norma una prerogativa di ufficiali e generali. Quasi mai i soldati semplici hanno reso pubbliche le loro es……続きを見る

Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War; the award-winning and best-selling author of books that vividly combin adventure a……続きを見る

To make a dogsnose, the publican explained, "you spices the ale, so. You laces it with a dash of rum, thus, then you proceeds to pour it into this yere metal cone, this way"ーhe crossed to the firep……続きを見る

I, José de la Mancha y O'Brien, was born on the ninth day of November, 1865, in Spain, of an Irish mother and a Spanish sire. Ten years later my parents entered the service of God, my father from a ……続きを見る

Even today none of us takes the decision lightly to leave our family and friends and go and try our hand in another country. But if we do; thanks to those who have gone before us, there is often a c……続きを見る

In 'The Wolf Trail' by Roger Pocock, the reader is taken on a thrilling adventure through the Canadian wilderness as two protagonists, a Canadian trapper and a female frontier doctor, navigate the d……続きを見る