Redcoat. The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket, Paperback - Richard Holmes

Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcaste...

Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism i...

DescriptionDiaries, memoirs, and letters by officers of the Napoleonic era abound, but there are few reminiscences by common foot soldiers. This ex...

This book examines crucial aspects of the important cultural relationship between Turin and Britain in the period 1600-1800, when Savoy-Piedmont wa...

Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

A richly illustrated catalogue accompanying a major British Museum exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

Fun informative guides on how people in the past solved technological problems.

Reducere. This book examines the experiences of the British Army soldiers, or 'redcoats', who fought in North America and the West Indies between 1755 and 17...

WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo sca...

Based on the journals of a New Yorker who would become one of Wellington's senior generals, the story of a remarkable military career from The Amer...

The British Horse Society's comprehensive guide to the care and management of horses and ponies. The aim of this volume is to provide a reliable so...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr James (Plymouth University, UK) GregoryIllustration(s): 23 bw illusNumber of pages: 260Publicatio...

Reducere. When a young Hittite charioteer discovers that the chariot accident that killed his father and maimed his grandfather was sabotage aimed at the kin...

Culture and the Soldier offers a long-overdue examination of how culture - defined as reproduced identities, values, and norms - both shapes the mi...

Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume `Sidetracks'.

Reducere. In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the cour...

A long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its 'golden age' to the launch of the liberal Channel 4

Reducere. This is the second volume of a projected four-volume work. In Volume I the author delineated the uniforms, arms, accouterments, and equipment of th...

The timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biography of one of the greatest Romantic poets.

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 ...

A British horse racing thrillerStruggling Malton based racehorse trainer Harry Bolt is drawn into a suspicious death investigation when a potential...

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...

A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greate...

Reducere. For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European strugg...

Ioan Biris 978-606-24-0162-7

Publisher: Intellect BooksAuthor(s): Doctor Gjoko (University of Cincinnati) MuratovskiIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of page...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Fifty-six million years ago, the proto-horse was a “twelve-pound runt” that balanced on feet with four toes. The first glimpse we have of what he l...

Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 - Kate McLoughlin

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry. Prior research on trucking has focused ...

Tourism Itinerary Recommender Systems - In the age of personalization and crowdsourcing - Liviu-Adrian Cotfas

Reducere. The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully ...

Reducere. The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded b...

Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. In this title, the author ...

Following the themes of the Haynes Great War British Tommy and German Infantryman Manuals this book looks in detail at the weapons, uniform, accout...

The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1...

Reducere. A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Pr...

The text studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation to over 6000 years later. Part one discusses how monum...

Opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful internat...

Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowle...