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The story of two archaeological sites in Greater Manchester shows how people lived and worked the rural landscape in post-medieval period.Publisher...

Explores significant medieval remains in Preston identified as the Franciscan friary of St Clare.

Reducere. This volume explores 15, 000 years of indigenous human history on the North American continent, drawing on the latest archaeological theories, time...

The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth...

The literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations is explored and lavishly illustrated through the unique collection of manuscripts, early prints, map...

Reducere. Oxford and Lafayette County were formed from the Pontotoc Treaty and the Chickasaw Cession of 1832 and the revised agreement in 1834. This treaty w...

A new comprehensive account of British and North American chemical and biological weapons development over the last century. Using previously top s...

The first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, charting the course of ...

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The R...

Reducere. For five decades, Medieval Europe: A Short History has been the best-selling text for courses on the history of Medieval Europe. This acclaimed boo...

Reducere. With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Mark Evan (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Profe...

Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popul...

Contributor(s): Author: David E. StannardFor four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 149...

'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American ...

Reducere. "Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever...

The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and ...

Reducere. Focusing on the twentieth century, this collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analy...

Contributor(s): Author: Julian D. RichardsThe Viking reputation is one of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles ...

During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of ...

Reducere. In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to pro...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Contributor(s): Editor: F. H. HinsleyEditor: Alan StrippFamiliar to anyone versed in the history of World War II or interested in the study of mode...

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...

Reducere. It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a ...

Reducere. In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on...

Reducere. DescriptionEmbracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the Debating American History series encourages students to participate in a con...

Reducere. The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

Reducere. In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "read the s...

Reducere. In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in ...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...

John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, conve...

Reducere. Description"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril, " wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribu...

Reducere. No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with g...