Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847597)
The story of a bold political experiment in nineteenth-century France to establish power through finance. Amid the rise of industrial capitalism and revolutionary turbulence in France, finance was reimagined to be an instrument of e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847573)
The story of a bold political experiment in nineteenth-century France to establish power through finance. Amid the rise of industrial capitalism and revolutionary turbulence in France, finance was reimagined to be an instrument of e...Loe edasi...
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the games early development. This book adds to that debate, providing more information on the early meetings of...Loe edasi...
Moses and Homer explores the eradication of the Jewish tradition from German intellectual history between 1770 and 1800 and analyzes the numerous ruptures triggered by the exclusion of the representatives of Judaism from the German-speaking...Loe edasi...
Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...Loe edasi...
In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich...Loe edasi...
How does the historian track down evidence? For even the most experienced researchers this can be a hard task, often accomplished as much by luck as judgement. Primary Sources in British Archives explains how to locate and gain access to so...Loe edasi...
How does the historian track down evidence? For even the most experienced researchers this can be a hard task, often accomplished as much by luck as judgement. Primary Sources in British Archives explains how to locate and gain access to so...Loe edasi...
This is the first biography to explore in detail the life of Dark Age historian, The Venerable Bede. Based on the most up-to-date research and historical and archaeological evidence, this book pieces together Bedes life and those of the monks and nu...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008699987)
A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gullivers Travels in his bag....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Jonathan Cape, ISBN-13: 9781787333161)
What do we leave behind when we move to a new place and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land? Here are the voices of people who have come to Britain to make a new life: a Czech-Roma lawyer in Reading, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847927583)
A ground-breaking history of modern Britain that puts the experiences of disabled people to the fore for the first time. A timely and enjoyable untold history PHILIPPA GREGORY A rare feat of a book: so many extraordinary sto...Loe edasi...
History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the real people that inspired Gentleman Jack and the gay romances in Bridgerton, long written out of the nations story and now lovingly restored. In this moving and revelatory boo...Loe edasi...
The Périgord of sixteenth-century France is a wild region on the edge of the reaches of royal authority-its steep, forested valleys roamed by bands of brigands and gypsies, its communities divided by conflict between Catholics and converts to the ne...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682476017)
Step into the covert world of Russian espionage with this revealing insiders account of how the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) operate across the globe. Drawing on years of CIA field experience, Sean M. Wiswesser exposes the tactics, tradecraft...Loe edasi...
A book about finding home amidst the ancient mountains and lakes of northern Greece. A story of people, pelicans, borders and bears. A story of shelter, generosity and welcome. A stor...Loe edasi...
The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean.Lords of the Salt Road reveals the dramatic hist...Loe edasi...
Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197791318)
While most people who have waited in grocery or newsstand checkout lines today will recognize the magazines Elle and Marie-Claire, few know that two journalists, Marcelle Auclair and Marcelle Ségal, were critical to the success of these magazines wh...Loe edasi...
While most people who have waited in grocery or newsstand checkout lines today will recognize the magazines Elle and Marie-Claire, few know that two journalists, Marcelle Auclair and Marcelle Ségal, were critical to the success of these magazines wh...Loe edasi...
A history of the Catholic Churchs moral failings throughout the twentieth century including scandalous stories of corruption and their fascinating protagonists...Loe edasi...
A scandalous history of the Catholic Church throughout the twentieth century including sexual abuse, mafia connections and Nazi alliances...Loe edasi...
Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize.Discover the true story of St. Kilda.When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its permanent pop...Loe edasi...
Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion – Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied – from awe and wonder to fear and loathing, from spiritual...Loe edasi...
Relive the battle for a nation.As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But two...Loe edasi...
First published in 1986, this book (now with a new preface by the author) talks about the theory of eugenics. The book offers a critique of Foucaults theory of the development of the sciences of human life, as well as relating the ideas of several s...Loe edasi...
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) shows how Denmark was less severely affected by the Depression of the 1930s and the two world wars than other countries in Europe and how it maintained its position by the skilful exploitation of it...Loe edasi...
Planning and Productivity in Sweden (1976) examines the success of Swedens economy and working arrangements, detailing how a resource-poor nation came to achieve such high living standards. The growth in prosperity was no accident, but involved cons...Loe edasi...
Napoleon Recaptures Paris (first published in English in 1968) describes the Revolution of March 20 which led to Napoleans victory over Louis XVIII and the recapturing of Paris. It gives an hour-by-hour account of one of the strangest days in histor...Loe edasi...
First published in 1972, Portrait of a Decision drawing on materials like- Cabinet minutes, the Lloyd George and Lothian papers, Foreign Office correspondence- provides the first comprehensive reassessment of the negotiations in Paris since those wh...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, Coercion or Persuasion? exposes the deficiencies of Attlee governments propaganda in Britain. Dr Crofts shows how Labour government, in its effort to resolve the conflict between its belief in socialist planning and its relu...Loe edasi...
First published in 1951, Britain and the Middle East sets forth the relations which the people and the government of Britain had with the Middle East from the earliest records of such relations until 1950. The term Middle East used in this book incl...Loe edasi...
The Evolution of the English House (1933) discusses the popular and native art in domestic English architecture, tracing the changes over the years. The focus is on plain wattled huts and combinations of dwelling-house and cattle-stall, as well as t...Loe edasi...
Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor. It considers the manor and the church to be key twin parts of this unit, and by analysing the church and manor, this book provides valuable insight int...Loe edasi...
First published in 1981, Europe and the Decline of Spain deals with the slow ebbing of Spanish power, its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar during the long seventeenth century of pre-industrial Europe....Loe edasi...
Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world econom...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1950 and as a third edition in 1967, this volume traces the evolution of the English nation the amalgamation of differing races and the unification of warring tribal princedoms into one monarchy, the stimulus of foreign inva...Loe edasi...
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this in...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S. Ólaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other W...Loe edasi...
This volume was originally published in 1931 and revised for the third edition in 1937. The critical events since that date necessitated a further revision, with a large amount of re-writing and the addition of new chapters which brought the book to...Loe edasi...
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fieldings prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself was that of the law, and this book takes the man as a w...Loe edasi...
Originally published as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudalism, legal...Loe edasi...
Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization (1959) presents Ziya Gökalps synthesis of nationalism, Islam and Western civilization. Gökalp (18761924) deserves the attention of social practitioners for his insight into the problems of accommodating n...Loe edasi...
