A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870, Paperback - Joan Evans

Reducere. The history of jewelry has closely paralleled the history of mankind. Used as amulets to protect against harm and worn for ceremonial occasions, je...

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ni...

Reducere. Celebrate 300 years of New Orleans history Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive...

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860–1870 - Frederick Burkhardt, Alison M. Pearn, Samantha Evans

The Dutch art historian and jewellery expert Marjan Unger died back in 2018, at the age of seventy-two. Through her teaching and her myriad project...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Martin (Newcastle University, UK) PughIllustration(s): 42 bw illusNumber of pages: 616Publ...

This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, examining the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change wh...

Reducere. DescriptionMisty Shadows Of Hope is the 14th book in the Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series. As of today, there are 14 books in the serie...

An exhilarating chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary storyPublisher: Yale Uni...

Reducere. "Was she a saint or a witch? A visionary or a madwoman? Or an extraordinary peasant girl who, at God's bidding, led an army, saved France, and paid...

Reducere. From the recovery after the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s to the booming Celtic Tiger of the 1990s, a revival of the ancient traditions of Celti...

Reducere. Romance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century European ad...

Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also involved assassination, abd...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. The first major biography of an actress with a long and lustrous career Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the eff...

German Social Democracy through British Eyes uses diplomatic reports sent from Germany to Britain to document the rise of social democracy as well ...

Reducere. As Long As This Land Shall Last is a thorough document of Treaty 8 (1899-1900) and Treaty 11 (1921) between the Canadian Government and the Indigen...

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelli...

Reducere. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of...

Since her death at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination. She was a teenager of a...

Reducere. A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of hi...

DescriptionAs new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously mi...

Reducere. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...

Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

This book offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay. Esse...

The standard of congregational singing in mid-18th-century parish churches was often in a parlous state, a situation viewed with alarm by many cler...

Reducere. DescriptionGrowing up 'European' in 1930s and '40s South Africa, Joan leads a privileged life ... though marred by family tragedy. After she escape...

Reducere. From both Jewish and non-Jewish viewpoints, this study presents the developing interrelationship between Jews and their Gentile environment from 17...

Reducere. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.Riveting, moving, and impo...

Reducere. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.All kinds of people are co...

This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with ...

This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siecle Germany, Kocku ...

Reducere. The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880, Douglas C. McChristian describes the development of army uniforms, equipment, and small arms during a pivotal...

For as long as there have been nations, there has been an "international"--a sphere of cross-border relations. But for most of human history, this ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Owners of estates and titles in the peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland were more, rather than less, likely than ordinary people to experienc...

Definitive, comprehensive overview of costume jewellery that follows the evolution of costume jewellery from bourgeois France to the present day. c...

Reducere. Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the...

A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, written by experienced teachers who are also ...

DescriptionWith over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green r...

Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If you w...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If you w...

This series is for the Cambridge International AS History syllabus (9489) for examination from 2021.

In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlig...