A biography of the Molteno family, political reformers, activists, and civil servants, who helped shape South African history. From the Cape Colonys first prime minister to anti-segregation crusaders, a story of public service, anti-racism, and prog...Loe edasi...
This book was published in 1966, when it was a 100 years since a young man of 20 arrived in London on his way from Dublin to China. A change of plan delayed his departure and, instead of becoming a missionary in the foreign field, he stayed here to...Loe edasi...
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV. Edward IV remains essential reading for all students of late medieval England, the Wars...Loe edasi...
Charting the life and writings of Wadysaw Biekowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Wadysaw Gomuka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Polan...Loe edasi...
Horace Walpole (1964) was widely acclaimed when it first appeared as the best life of Walpole yet written. It is scholarly and thorough, and since then there is no reason to believe that it has been displaced....Loe edasi...
The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four womenConstance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antiochand an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, i...Loe edasi...
With newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated, this book gives a lively account of an undocumented story of WWII, Black American, and Dutch military history....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1988, Rotten to the Core? asks who was the real Neville Heath? The author deals with Heath the psychopath, but it also depicts the curious post-war society which allowed him to take root and to flourish, showing that Heath th...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, in this new approach to the case of William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Francis Selwyn looks both at the career of Joyce, the Irish-American-cum-Fascist bully-boy, and the changing nature of treason, altered by the events of...Loe edasi...
This biography provides a well-rounded analysis of Queen Charlotte by considering her own perspectives on queenship and her role in Britain....Loe edasi...
This book, the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, shows how key turns in Goffmans career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history.The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffmans scholarship which has...Loe edasi...
First published in 1939, Marshal Pilsudski presents a comprehensive biographical history of Józef Klemens Pisudski (1867-1935). This book discusses various facets of his life and is an important historical reference work....Loe edasi...
A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as the most accomplished cavaliero in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly convivial gentleman was an important participant in life at court as Elizabeths tournament champion. He c...Loe edasi...
This is a political biography of William III (1650-1702): prince of Orange; stadhouder in the Netherlands from 1672; and (in a novel joint monarchy with his wife, Mary), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the Revolution of 1688-9....Loe edasi...
This is a fascinating autobiography set before the partition of the subcontinent. Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged to a zamindar or landed family in Bengal. He joined the Congress movement and later, in the 1920s, became more radical. He was brought up as...Loe edasi...
This book is a biography of a Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work; as a teacher, and...Loe edasi...
This book introduces the history of cultural exchanges between East Asia and the West through comparative biographical sketches of sixty personalities from China and Japan....Loe edasi...
First published in 1972, Sheridan is primarily a rounded, colourful portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his triumphs and failures, his ferocious duels and sudden romances, and his rise to oratorical fame in the arena of politics....Loe edasi...
