The English and French Navies, 1500-1650. Expansion, Organisation and State-Building, Hardback - Benjamin W. D. Redding

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

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...

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Principles of Adaptive Optics describes the foundations, principles, and applications of adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. This l...

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Reducere. Since its original publication in 1969 by Yankee, Inc., Vrest Orton's classic book on fireplace design has gone through numerous printings and has ...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Reducere. Collected Poems in English and French, Paperback

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President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked...

The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government-even in the face of...

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

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This volume is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological co...

Presents both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developi...

Reducere. No one believed it was possible to commandeer an airliner in flight from a land-based location, then Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared ove...

In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe amazing prophecies of the "Seer of Provence" are presented here in both the original French and English translations. Covering such ...

Kareem Rabie examines how Palestine's desire to fully integrate its economy into global markets through large-scale investment projects represented...

DescriptionHow American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of th...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship studies the invisibility of visible minoriti...

The title describes the Chinampa Agricultural System, its history and its role in Aztec empire-building. It contains a chapter on the history of Az...

Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate ...

Reducere. Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized ...

A fascinating history of illuminated manuscripts within the Holy Roman Empire.Publisher: D Giles LtdAuthor(s): Joshua O'DriscollIllustration(s): 15...

Examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becomi...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe process of telling time has a long and fascinating history. From the ancient sundials to the invention of sophisticated mechanical c...

Examining the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function ...

Reducere. I.A.A.Thompson, Emeritus Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is the author of War and Government in Habsburg Spain, a seminal study of the impa...