British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800. Comparisons and Contrasts, Paperback - Peter Rushton

"The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of th...

Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book invest...

Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the busine...

Reducere. For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European strugg...

This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain...

A bold new interpretation of the 'consumer revolution' in the eighteenth century, when European elites, middling classes, and even certain labourer...

Reducere. For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European strugg...

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. Th...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

Examining the domestic politics of imperial expansion these essays question the role of the Industrial Revolution and British imperial leadership b...

A reconstruction of the 'Strand palaces', where England's early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathed...

Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religi...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how all three cultures--Indian,...

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring ...

Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd...

Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and p...

Reducere. This book explores the exchange of music, musicians and musical practice between Britain and the Continent in the period c.1500-1800. Inspired by P...

Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

Looks at the clothing orders of the British late Georgian army.

The follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying Power

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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 ...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

This book examines major political movements during the Cold War through the rhetorical trope of the Nazi analogy. The examination pits ideas conce...

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Examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becomi...

This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncAuthor(s): Peter NeumannIllustration(s): 19 Black-and-White Illustrations in Text / Chronology, Notes, IndexN...

Exploring the successes and setbacks for the British aviation industry from 1945-1975

An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s. -- .Illustrations: 1...

Studies the British infantry at a crucial period when it absorbed the harsh lessons of the American Revolutionary War to become the efficient, high...

M. O. Grenby's book offers an insight into the society which produced and consumed anti-Jacobin novels. He examines the strategies used by conserva...