The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815, Hardcover - Jonathan R. Dull

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...

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...

Reducere. The Ship of the Line takes the best models from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to tell the story of the evolution of the ship of the lin...

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. Th...

Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd...

DescriptionThe French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars encompassed a period when rival European fleets vied for naval supremacy, and naval tactics...

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...

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

Praise for BROADSIDES""Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immor...

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previ...

"The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of th...

Reducere. El barco de los muertos es la entrega final de la trepidante trilog a de aventuras basada en la mitolog a n rdicaMagnus Chase y los dioses de Asgar...

Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

An investment banker and professor explains what really drives success in the tech economy Many think that they understand the secrets to the succe...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reducere. This original and "meticulously researched retelling of history's most infamous voyage" (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses th...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): W Hyde KellyNumber of pages: 124Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 147 x 225 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...

Reducere. The final instalment of the Magnus Chase series sees Loki initiate Ragnarok against the Norse gods, with Magnus' attempt to stop him dependent upon...

The Age of Reconnaissance, as JH Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. This book examin...

Major reassessment of the battle from one of the world's leading authorities originally written to commemorate the bi-centenary in 2015Publisher: T...

Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven ...

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is home to both time and space: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the Prime Meridian. But have you ever stopped to a...

Reducere. Praise for BROADSIDES""Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immor...

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

An active-participant account of the final ten years of Swindon Works - bringing to an end 147 years of railway engineering

Reducere. An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. Wha...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fai...

Reducere. When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and...

A reconstruction of the 'Strand palaces', where England's early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathed...

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

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

Looks at the clothing orders of the British late Georgian army.

Reducere. DescriptionIn the second half of the 19th century, two brothers living in Ukraine, both Hasidic rabbis, became fabulously wealthy within a short ti...

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