White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, Paperback - William Dalrymple

Reducere. White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and p...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): William DalrympleNumber of pages: 2200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 174 x 211 x 134Cover type: M...

Reducere. From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious...

Publisher: Spinifex PressAuthor(s): Rose ZwiNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 1993Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India

An unconventional view of the First World War from inside the glittering social salon of Downing Street: a story of unrequited love, loss, sacrific...

Reducere. The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and...

Reducere. DescriptionThe French Traveler -- Letters to "Ch re Madame" Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada The First English Tra...

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Peter (University of Kent, UK) GoodNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 22Cov...

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As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company offi...

Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the ...

William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d. 1759), is an important fig...

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Kohinoor. Istoria controversata a celui mai faimos diamant din lume Prima istorie completa si documentata a Koh-i-Noor-ului, probabil cea mai celeb...

To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.

Argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish soci...

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion du...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Reducere. In 1832, the captain of the brigantine Catalina ordered Scotsman James Black, dying of typhus, abandoned at Monterey, California. Nursed by J. B. R...

Many more people encountered newspapers, business press products or jobbing print than the glamorous books of the Enlightenment. This book looks at...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

A unique perspective on the resistance: focussing on five men, their accomplices, and their execution shortly before the liberation.Illustrations: ...

'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Pa...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Rowena SummersNumber of pages: 368Collection: The Cornish Clay SagasPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 27Cov...

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One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of `Return of a King', which has been shortliste...

Trust is a non-negotiable for high performing relationships and organizations. Yet trust is fragile, and ninety percent of the behaviors that break...

Reducere. A value-priced omnibus of the first two novels of Daniel Abraham's classic Long Price Quartet--groundbreaking, unique fantasy of rare power and ori...

Courage and betrayal in Occupied France, involving British Intelligence, the Gestapo and the French ResistanceIllustrations: Maps, 8-page greyscale...

New B-format paperback edition. The murders but also the exciting escapes of the wider Romanov family - the Tsar's mother, siblings and cousins. Di...