Why History?. A History, Hardback - Donald Bloxham

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thous...

Should historians make value judgements about the past? Many historians think not, but Donald Bloxham contends that it is legitimate, often unavoid...

Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald A. RitchieDoing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historia...

"Information" has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital ...

Reducere. Block Island explores the evolution of the small, 7-by-3-mile island that lies between Point Judith, Rhode Island, and Montauk Point, New York. In ...

A vibrant history of the castle in England, from the early Middle Ages to the present dayPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): John GoodallIll...

The story of the evolution of the 'European project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why...

The seldom-considered origin story of the world's most popular drug, illuminating the natural and historical factors which have coloured its journey.

Publisher: Crucible BooksAuthor(s): John F. WilsonIllustration(s): 149 monochrome illustrations, 18 full colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 464Pu...

Reducere. From the ancient city of Jerusalem to the mountains of New York, the Scrolls of Onteora, known as the Cremona Document, tell the story of the Knigh...

Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, ma...

Reducere. The Conestoga River meanders for sixty miles through the fertile farmlands of Lancaster County. From early Native American inhabitants to the Europ...

The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and ...

Reducere. DescriptionEgmont Key has been a sentinel for ships entering Tampa Bay from the Gulf of Mexico for hundreds of years. Early European explorers reco...

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 ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Christopher (Florida Atlantic University, USA) ElyIllustration(s): 14 bw illusNumber of pa...

Reducere. DescriptionHow can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In th...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Malyn NewittIllustration(s): 32 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 424Publication date: 2022Dime...

The most comprehensive and best-illustrated history of watercolour painting ever published

This coursebook examines the material history of human communication, allowing students and teachers to examine how communication's production, for...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Markus FriedrichIllustration(s): 30 b/w illus.Translator: John Noel DillonNumber of pages: 872Publi...

In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colorised photographs from ...

Including a range of contemporary examples from Brexit to child sexual abuse to the impact of the internet, this is an important and practical intr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jovan (Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade) CavoskiIllustration(s): 6 bw illusNumber of...

The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, an...

Based on original and previously unavailable documents, Yuri Kostenko's account of the negotiations surrounding the Budapest Memorandum agreement b...

Filling a huge void in the history of education, American Public School Librarianship provides essential background information to members of the n...

Covers the division's precursor 10th Mechanized Cavalry Brigade (10BKS).Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Evan McGilvrayIllustration(s): 2...

Reducere. True-life tragedies jump off the page in this dynamic collection of graphic novels. From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the surprise atta...

Driven into exile from Carmena, Spain, in 1577, to escape the threat of death by the Inquisition, the Robledo family immigrates first to New Spain ...

Reducere. This is the story of the fighter mission that changed World War II. It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor---Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto-...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald R. BurgettCurraheeA Screaming Eagle at Normandy. Donald R. Burgett is a real Screaming Eagle, who jumped with that f...

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 ...

This is the first attempt to understand the broad scope of the USSR's offensive biological weapons research from its inception in the 1920s. Gorbac...

This first complete history of Dr Williams's Trust and Library, deriving from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716) ...