History of English, Paperback

Reducere. But in September of the same year we find a cloud on the horizon, the prelude of a coming storm. The Trade Union Congress had just been held and th...

Reducere. This revised version of A Cause of Trouble seeks a fairer assessment of the colonial beginnings of the Sisters of Charity than one made by a beleag...

Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence.

This concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and article...

A sumptuously presented personal history of English food, from medieval times to the present day, by a beloved food writer of the Two Fat LadiesIn ...

Reducere. This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charge...

Reducere. "Exemplary...Hitchings has created a fascinating, wholly readable, and gratifyingly informative book."---Financial Times (London) The English langu...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowl...

Reducere. DescriptionNot since Roscoe Conkling Fitch wrote his History of the Fitch Family in 1930 has anyone published an authoritative account of the antec...

Reducere. The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of En...

Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial points in its linguistic his...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1202, Fibonacci's Liber abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arab...

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre SengesAuthor: Antonio de GuevaraTranslator: Jacob Siefring"Few or none of them heard of a book entitled Refutatio ma...

This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacl...

A Handbook exploring how the events of the English Revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three...

Henry of Huntingdon's History is a major source for events in England and Normandy during his lifetime, including the Battle of Hastings, the reign...

Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century - 'Magnificently provoking' New Statesman

DescriptionThe study of the history of the English language (HEL) encompasses a broad sweep of time and space, reaching back to the fifth century a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. There have been...

DescriptionThis lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twent...

Reducere. This deluxe edition of The Art of War by Sun Tzu features both English and Chinese side by side for easy reference and bilingual support. The Art o...

Contributor(s): Author: John Graham JonesIn the years since its original publication, John Graham Jones's The History of Wales has become the stand...

Reducere. The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanc...

In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a History of the Danes, an account of thei...

A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder P...

Reducere. Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of...

Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to J...

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Rola...

A History of English Literature has received exceptional reviews. Tracing the development of one of the world's richest literatures from the Old En...

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide c...

Reducere. DescriptionIn early 1969, word reached London that the little Caribbean island of Anguilla had become a hotbed of rebellion and a haven for gangste...

'With God's help, I, Bede ... have assembled these facts about the history of the Church in Britain ... from the traditions of our forebears, and f...

The definitive biography of the famous English outlaw who rebelled against William the Conqueror

A history of chess in the English Civil Service