The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927 - C. I. Hamilton

A compelling account of the crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling }The Peacemake...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

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Description'The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy' includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of special characteristics ...

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deep...

Reducere. In timp ce studiul de fata isi propune sa analizeze dezvoltarea intelectualului modern dintr-un punct de vedere predominant literar, se acorda si o...

A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

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Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Philip BowringNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 31Cover type: Hardba...

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Reducere. From sociologists to political theorists and literary critics, psychologists and anthropologists, there has been a rich legacy of perspectives on t...

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

Reducere. Joseph Arthur Simon's The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867-1942), a Louisiana native ...

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

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

Reducere. In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders....

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device,...

Reducere. It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries aft...

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...

Retaining all the well-loved features, this book explores in depth the key political, economic, social and international changes which helped to mo...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.Publisher: Profile Boo...

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring tim...

Reducere. Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-ce...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ussama MakdisiIllustration(s): 3 mapsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 ...