Britain's Rise to Global Superpower in the Age of Napoleon, Hardback - William Nester

Explores all of Britain's key land and sea campaigns and the dynamic relation among them during the Age of Revolution and Napoleon. Reveals how two...

The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and...

A richly illustrated catalogue accompanying a major British Museum exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

No previous book has explored deeper or broader into Napoleon's seething labyrinth of a mind and revealed more of its complex, fascinating, provoca...

Andrew J. Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of perceptions of European powers. ...

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Monumental cornerstone work on the Revolutionary/Napoleonic Army and its commanders. This is a thoroughly documented work of immense scholarship. I...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frank DikoetterNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 40Cover type: Hardb...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from the postwar era to the height of the Cold...

Reducere. A quiet yet profound revolution is taking place right before our very eyes. The rise of virtual reality is consuming objective reality as our gold ...

Reducere. "The story of the future is written in the past."-Lord Acton, 1877. Did you know Greek philosopher Plato predicted democracy would degenerate into ...

An account of how Napoleon Bonaparte came to power through the French Revolution, and then worked tirelessly to end it.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAut...

Structured around four interlocking themes-mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers-this beautifully illustrated book brings new dimens...

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformation...

Publisher: Intellect BooksAuthor(s): Doctor Gjoko (University of Cincinnati) MuratovskiIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of page...

Ioan Biris 978-606-24-0162-7

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Reducere. The controversial history of the Holy Roman Empire is back in print. Attacked by revisionist historians for its integration of church history and t...

This international edited volume examines the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror across the global North and South, its impact on Mus...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry. Prior research on trucking has focused ...

Tourism Itinerary Recommender Systems - In the age of personalization and crowdsourcing - Liviu-Adrian Cotfas

Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowle...

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, wit...

Shakespeare wrote most of his plays with a court audience in mind. This volume sheds fresh light on court entertainment and provides fascinating in...

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to...

The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars - Anthony D'Agostino

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first century.

Contributor(s): Author: Kim Brooks"It might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." --Emily Rapp Black, New York ...

Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholars...

Reducere. A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about...

This book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gen...

Reducere. From the cars we drive to what toothpaste we use, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives "If you're looki...

Reducere. Profound. Insightful. Transformative. Breathe brilliantly shines light on the basic laws of energy by weaving together neuroscience and Eastern phi...

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie G...

Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 - Kate McLoughlin

Reducere. This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more th...

Reducere. The thrilling conclusion to this romantic trilogy about Anya, the reluctant mafia princess - by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere

DescriptionWhile European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas ...

Reducere. The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American ...