Decline And Fall Of The British Empire, Paperback - Piers Brendon

Paperback edition of a monumental new history by the Churchill College, Cambridge author of Eminent Edwardians and Dark Valley, full of brief lives...

Reducere. A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greate...

An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into ...

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The first three volumes of Gibbon's Decline And Fall (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993. Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British ...

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in ...

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, iron...

Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical ...

Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in ...

Hardly anyone paid attention when Sultan Khan arrived in London on April 26, 1929. A humble servant from a village in the Punjab, Khan had little f...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 - John Darwin

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imper...

DescriptionFilms for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence...

Trevor Royle does for Culloden what Juliet Barker did for Agincourt, bringing us the definitive account of the battle and its wider role in the cre...

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The Rise and Fall of The British Press present a clinical and provocative overview at the past, present and immediate future of the printed newspap...

Fresh off of X-MEN: DEADLY GENESIS, Ed Brubaker (CAPTAIN AMERICA) takes the helm of Marvel's mighty mutants! And his incredible saga won't just aff...

From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia and South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa, British men and women, with no training, were...

One of the greatest fallacies of the 'modern world' is the notion of 'progress'. We imagine the entirety of history as culminating in a Darwinian m...

Reducere. FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely. --New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this dramatic tale of discovery (San Francisco Chronicle), th...

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

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This book offers a fresh assessment of the Western Roman Empire's ostensible decline. Neil Christie presents a compelling argument that the Roman E...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurou...

For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SPARTAN EMPIRE Limited Time Discount DOWNLOAD TODAY . This book contains the daily life, culture, training, battles, histo...

Tells the story of Britain's scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had...

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-establish...

Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirica...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them pre...

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anatole KonstantinThis book is the story of the men who believed they knew how to create an ideal world, and in its name di...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of the Roman Empire Few societies and historical periods capture our fascination as much as ancient Ro...

The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component...

Publisher: The Merlin Press LtdAuthor(s): Francis BeckettNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 212 x 137 x 21Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. DescriptionAbout the loss of Western art to a false art philosophy, nihilism, industrialization, and a corrupt art establishment. Art, tasteful sth...