A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Br...Loe edasi...
DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson Prize The story of a vi...Loe edasi...
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by Frances greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198852209)
An up-to-date, one-volume account of American history which takes readers from the beginning of human settlement in North America to the second Trump administration. The fifteen chapters offer fresh perspectives on familiar events in American histor...Loe edasi...
When her marriage to Earl Cowper soured, she took a string of lovers, eventually taming a rake: the promising, promiscuous Lord Palmerston. Emilys life resembled real life Bridgerton - she even inspired the character Cressida Cowper....Loe edasi...
The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition in 2026. The men who inspired the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel and above all Prince Albert himself - were at the centre of an extr...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. B...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
From the New York?Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nations beginnings and championing the un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197931)
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enr...Loe edasi...
An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded....Loe edasi...
Focusing on the scandalous affair of the buried alive, this book shows how the governing authorities in Naples managed the development of news and stories around current events through their systems of courts and bureaucracies....Loe edasi...
Through a microscopical lens, the book delves into the lives of some of the migrants linked to the Agata, either as members of the crew a ship, after all, is a moving workplace, as passengers, or as people sending letters through the ship....Loe edasi...
This book offers the first major analysis of William Wilberforce’s clerical networks, demonstrating that while a devoted Anglican, he was deeply intertwined with evangelicals of various ecclesiastical traditions. This book offers th...Loe edasi...
Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Redrawing Europes Literary Map sets out to uncover which female a...Loe edasi...
This book is for readers with an interest in law or history, especially those curious about the Revolution and the origins of American government. It draws on a wide variety of primary sources to explain how the Declaration of Independence founded a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009789035)
This book is for readers with an interest in law or history, especially those curious about the Revolution and the origins of American government. It draws on a wide variety of primary sources to explain how the Declaration of Independence founded a...Loe edasi...
A new introduction to the Constitution written on the semiquincentennial of American Independence, this book is packed with novel and surprising insights about the Constitutions original meaning, structure, and separation of powers, suitable for al...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009485715)
A new introduction to the Constitution written on the semiquincentennial of American Independence, this book is packed with novel and surprising insights about the Constitutions original meaning, structure, and separation of powers, suitable for al...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849485)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849492)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668236918)
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America with this collector’s edition of David McCullough’s 1776—the unforgettable saga of the people and events that forged American independence.America’s beloved and...Loe edasi...
A unique study on the relationship between state administration and politics, examining how the office of the Czech Landsmannminister became the primary vehicle for the politicization of the Habsburg state....Loe edasi...
This volume, the first of its kind, investigates the representation of women in the travel accounts of European travellers from the Age of Explorati...Loe edasi...
This lecture explores the pivotal role of suppression in shaping the course of mid-19th-century rebellions in China. It emphasizes the significance of the suppression efforts, which ultimately dismantled the Chinese state and ushered in a new era of...Loe edasi...
This lecture explores the governments attitude towards the Boxers, which varied depending on the personal views of governors, with some supporting them as a local militia. It also discusses the escalating anti-foreign sentiment leading up to the Em...Loe edasi...
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by Frances greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous...Loe edasi...
An original and outstanding new history of the New World... Magisterial Spectator An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198852209)
An up-to-date, one-volume account of American history which takes readers from the beginning of human settlement in North America to the second Trump administration. The fifteen chapters offer fresh perspectives on familiar events in American histor...Loe edasi...
For Americas 250th birthday, a provocative argument that a Long Revolution formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776...Loe edasi...
When her marriage to Earl Cowper soured, she took a string of lovers, eventually taming a rake: the promising, promiscuous Lord Palmerston. Emilys life resembled real life Bridgerton - she even inspired the character Cressida Cowper....Loe edasi...
The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition in 2026. The men who inspired the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel and above all Prince Albert himself - were at the centre of an extr...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. B...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250851079)
New York Times journalist Jesse Wegman tells the story of James Wilson, a Founding Father whose bold vision shaped American democracy but whose legacy was lost to scandal.As a young lawyer, James Wilson made a celebrated case...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
From the New York?Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nations beginnings and championing the un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197931)
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enr...Loe edasi...
An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded....Loe edasi...
Focusing on the scandalous affair of the buried alive, this book shows how the governing authorities in Naples managed the development of news and stories around current events through their systems of courts and bureaucracies....Loe edasi...
