In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire, Paperback - Laurence Bergreen

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

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

Reducere. FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely. -New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer o...

Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical account of the British Shipbuilders corporation, first looking at this major in...

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...

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...

Reducere. ``Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining`` (Huffington Post)--the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished ...

**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** 'Laurence Scott ... writes beautifully about the experience of reality in the digital age, and about how grief c...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Reducere. Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of t...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. O carte despre aventurile negustorului venetian, Marco Polo Fara sa fie primul calator european din Evul Mediu care a ajuns in Asia si a scris desp...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Susan (Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK) DoranNumber of pages: 292Publication date: 2015Dimensions...

In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of ...

Reducere. A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire. The evolution of...

DescriptionA roleplaying game of adventure and fantasy in the age of King Arthur and the Britain of folklore.Romance of the Perilous Land is a role...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire and British Raj, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire and British Raj, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: ...

This major new study examines, for the first time, the US, Canadian, and British policies formulated in reaction to the mass atrocities at the birt...

Reducere. This history of the largest block women's organization in the United States is not only the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), but also tel...

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociali...

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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...

Reducere. "Steve Gregg said it best when he wrote, 'Apart from the Kingdom, nothing exists that gives transcendent meaning to world history or human endeavor...

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During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

Provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Strea...

In Search of a Missing Friend - Maureen Simpson

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George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual...

Reducere. This book is the first complete translation into any modern language of the diary kept by Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk who traveled to China in ...

Reducere. This book is the first complete translation into any modern language of the diary kept by Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk who traveled to China in ...