Annals and Histories

Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. His portraits - especially those of Tiberius, Nero, and Nero's immediate circle - are unfor...

Reducere. Annals of the Famine in Ireland is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the effects and contributing causes of the Great Famine. B...

Reducere. What if the history of America's largest Indian nation is actually a polite modern fiction, one invented by "anthropologists and other friends"? In...

Reducere. Colin Rafferty's Execute the Office uses lyric prose and formal invention to explore the humanity, or lack thereof, that thrived in each of the for...

Reducere. Description"L. Ann Wheeler's powerful debut examines why we leave and what happens to those who stay. This richly layered multi-genre book digs dee...

Reducere. The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398-1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was "the beginning and origin" of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-ce...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

Reducere. Ancient Roman senator and historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus is known throughout Western history as one of the greatest historical writers of the ...

Reducere. If you only read one book on the Iraq invasion THIS IS IT " -- Command Sergeant Major Dennis Woods, author of Black Flag Journals TAKING BAGHDAD is...

Reducere. The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gerald HorneWinner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention)The Mexican Revolution was a defining...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is an ancient account of the Britons in Britannia during Roman times. From the intro: "Be it known to your charity, that being dull...