Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World, Paperback - Noel Malcolm

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Ma...

Follows the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterland by an eminent 16th century Venetian-Albanian family, illuminating subj...

The remarkable story of the fourteen spies who, in the eyes of Nigel West, had the biggest impact on the events of the 20th Century.Publisher: Pen ...

A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twent...

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

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 ...

This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, securi...

Reducere. Spy on spies--uncover the secret agents of World War 2.Discover World War 2's hidden heroes and villains. Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents e...

DescriptionFrom the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almos...

In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag n and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades ...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices withi...

The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century - Steven Runciman

Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unex...

Wintroub presents a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French s...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award in History Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to Ind...

Reducere. The thrilling true story of the daring double agents who thwarted Hitler's spy machine in Britain and turned the tide of World War II. After the fa...

Reducere. 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 ...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History comes a 'magisterial work of history' TLS

A fun and high-energy blast through history's most incredible events, people and places Take a chronological look at a whole host of spies and secr...

Albania and Kosovo have long, fascinating histories of connection with the wider European world. These essays explore this history from the 15th ce...

Exploring the changing meanings of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance, this volume examines the blurring of boundaries betwe...

Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans within sixteenth-cen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Noel MalcolmThis updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the mo...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Noam AndrewsIllustration(s): 70 figuresNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 29Cover...

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressAuthor(s): Alessandro ZirNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 16Cover t...

Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619,...

Reducere. At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean a...

DescriptionThe musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind clos...

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, U.S.Author(s): Frank KoonceNumber of pages: 188Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 303 x 235 x 16Cover type: BookRed...

Reducere. In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the freque...

Publisher: Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National GalleryIllustration(s): 200 col & b/w illsNumber of pages: 440Publication date: 2019Di...

Reducere. To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excu...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make ...

This is the most comprehensive history of the Netherlands available in the English language. It surveys Dutch history from the 16th century, when t...

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year - the rise and fall of the women who ruled sixteenth-century Europe

Contributor(s): Author: Carlo GinzburgTranslator: Anne C. TedeschiThe Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth...

The explosion of research in the field of ancient and historic glasses has opened up glass studies in recent years.Publisher: Oxbow BooksAuthor(s):...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you liked the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan, you will enjoy this book.Ever wondered what the Greek myths look like through the...

Reducere. The essays in this volume revisit issues of exile and occupation during the sixth century BCE through texts, iconography, and material culture. Unl...

This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of "world renewal" (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokuga...

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

Reducere. DescriptionKwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as B...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel HawleyIn May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158, 800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan...

Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backd...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Jose M. FaraldoNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Did the Reformers lack a vision for missions? In Sixteenth-Century Mission, a diverse cast of contributors explores the wide-reaching practice and ...

A valuable sourcebook for costume designers, dressmakers and those involved in historical reenactments, this book contains all the information you ...

Hope For Tomorrow is the third thrilling adventure for British spy Hope Stapleford, whose latest mission leads her to a Scottish airfield base as t...