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...
Sari: This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496236203)
Through the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, the U.S. Army and Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia clashed along the Rappahannock River in two major battles. Both demonstrated the height of power for the Confederacy in the eastern theater. T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953786)
In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Essex Publications (Imprint of University of Hertfordshire Press), ISBN-13: 9781912260799)
How did the profession of medicine evolve during Queen Victorias reign? In this book Jane Pearson shows how doctors working in Colchester during the Victorian period developed professionally and also investigates the extent to which they effected m...Loe edasi...
On July 1, 1863, General Robert E. Lee’s Southerners stumbled into General George Meade’s vanguard of Federal troops near the town of Gettysburg but eventually drove them from the field. The second day of July brought with it hopes for a decisive vic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009712910)
In this innovative history of small arms, Maartje Abbenhuis demonstrates how the invention of ready-to-use rifle cartridges in the industrial era made death accessible to all, with revolutionary results. She explains how their lethality influenced p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009178334)
Cardinal Paul Cullen (18031878) was the dominant Irishman of his generation and a figure of global importance. His life is central to understanding the political, social and religious history of mid-19th century Ireland. Drawing on more than 100 arc...Loe edasi...
Sari: New Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880704699)
The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Theara Thun offers one of the first critical and systematic studies of the interface between these two dist...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...
Sari: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198974147)
This is the first full-length study of the relevance of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) to the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Since the publication of his correspondence between 2009 and 2016, Becketts interest in Sade has become more widely k...Loe edasi...
A sweeping, epic and beautifully written new history of the American Revolution that resituates its origins in a global context; published to coincide with the Revolutions 250th anniversary...Loe edasi...
This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats. This volume explores how the quest for security re...Loe edasi...
A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth America is the rare country that was founded on an idea, and it was a truly radical idea for its time: the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Lilliput Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781843519997)
Covering some 150 sites, each photographed by Robert OByrne, The Irish Aesthete: Buildings of Ireland, Known and Unknown serves as the ideal guide for anyone travelling Ireland in search of our rich architectural heritage. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526181206)
Karina Benazech Wendling offers a re-assessment of souperism and of British cultural imperialism by focusing on the use of the Irish language and the Irish Bible in schools....Loe edasi...
The Ragged Edge of Freedom explores the long shadow of slavery in the Lower Midwest. In the decades after the Civil War, elites in southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois constantly raised the specter of “cheap” Black labor to divide workers,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, ISBN-13: 9781913107529)
The macabre, interwoven histories of art and punishment in eighteenth-century London Over the course of the eighteenth century, the visual arts in Britain flourished as never before. The nation’s first art academies were founded; its...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300276923)
Combining architectural, social, and cultural history to explore the significance of the Country House Dining Room during the Georgian era The eighteenth-century country house dining room was a symbol of social status, wealth, and cu...Loe edasi...
