Crucible of Fire: Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service, Hardcover - Bruce Hensler

Reducere. Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-ce...

A history of British theatre fires. Foreword by Matthew KellyPublisher: Headfield PublishingAuthor(s): Rodney HardcastleNumber of pages: 295Publica...

Reducere. Journey back to a bygone era when city streets and country roads were thronged with a rich assortment of horse-powered vehicles: ice wagons, drays,...

DescriptionIn March of 1967, Ken Killmeyer became a crew member of USS Forrestal CVA-59, the first of the super aircraft carriers. In 1995, Ken was...

Reducere. A detailed look at the apparatus and the aircraft of the New Jersey Forest since they began to use motorized equipment in the 1930's. Over 150 page...

The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 19...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

DescriptionThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and exp...

The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

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 ...

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

Firefighter, medic and author Michael Morse bares his soul with first-person accounts from a 25-year career vividly defining the first responder's ...

Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

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. In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice i...

Reducere. Wicca is an initiatory magickal tradition incorporating both Pagan spiritual philosophies and witchcraft practices, with ceremonial magick. In doin...

An inspiring, aspirational and practical guide to building fires both indoors and out.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Sally CoulthardIllustration...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

Begins with a study of important early figures in the life of the Catholic Apostolic Church, including Edward Irving, Henry Drummond, and John Bate...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James R. MooreNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Reducere. This book is for everyone who wonders why fire engines are red, why a chief has five "bugles" while a captain has two, why fire hydrants are someti...

Reducere. By the age of fifteen, Arthur Rimbaud was already one of the most brilliant poets of his time. And for the next four years - and four only - Rimbau...