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Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner for six months in 1794-5 in Brittany. These…

Eva Charlotte Ellis LĂĽckes (1854-1919) was a pioneer of nursing training and friend of Florence Nightingale. In 1880, aged…

• Rok vydání 1924

This 1924 book contains a concise introduction to the study of musical history, providing accessible information on the…

Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America. Gjerde…

• Čeština

This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature…

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this…

This book presents a major new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War. Ian…

This 1912 book provides an introduction to the general background of German heroic poetry and detailed analyses of specific…

Originally published in 1921, this book by distinguished historian Charles Sanford Terry is a streamlined history of…

Jack Goody challenges Eurocentric assumptions about the backwardness of cultural and intellectual development in Asia. His…

Ideology and Spatial Voting in American Elections addresses how the political views of Americans are structured and how…

This study is a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939. A…

Leading military historian Brian Bond challenges popular views of the First World War as catastrophic and futile and the…

This book explores the factors that drive political ambition at the earliest stages. Using data from a comprehensive survey…

Alec de Candole (1897-1918) was a British World War I poet who was killed in action whilst serving as a Lieutenant in the…

The deputy steward of Wakefield manor provided a comprehensive record of the state of the manor and its accounts in 1709. It…

Manchester Fourteen Miles was the inscription on the signpost outside 'Moss Ferry', the village where 'Hilda Winstanley'…

The Irish physician and medical teacher Archibald Billing (1791-1881) was also an amateur artist and antiquarian. In 1867,…

• Rok vydání 2002

This 2002 book, the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, focuses on the period 1521 to 1821, and offers a…

Thisedition of Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America adds a prologue describing…

Originally published in 1918, this book contains an annotated edition of the poems of William Cartwright (1611-43) as…

First published in 1923 and delivered as the Watson Chair Lectures to various British universities in the previous year,…

This book examines contrast analysis, which permits asking more focused questions of data. Through simple computations,…

Originally published in French in 1866, this work, designed for a popular readership, appeared in English translation in…

Originally published in 1955, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Lucan's Pharsalia or De bello civili.…

William Martin Leake (1777-1860) was a British military officer and classical scholar. First published in 1826, this second…

Originally published in 1937, this book was written to provide young readers with an engaging introduction to the central…

In this collection, first published in 2005, twelve prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists offer valuable…

This fresh analysis of Lincoln's life, political career, and presidency reveals how he shaped his personal appearance,…

Sir Herbert George Fordham (1854-1929) was a British writer on cartography and a collector of antique maps. In this book,…

Originally published in 1914 for use in schools, this book contains the Revised Version text of Isaiah 40-66, with critical…

Originally published in 1914, this book contains the text of four lectures delivered at the University of London in March of…

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this…

Staunton was a sinologist and an influential figure in nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinese relations. He worked for the East…

This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a…

Originally published in 1937, this book contains six essays on the teaching and thought of Isaac ben Judah Abravanel. The…

Brown outlines best practice for the preservation of monuments and architectural and natural beauty. The second part, based…

The German poet Mathilde Wesendonck (1828-1902) was the wife of Wagner's patron, the wealthy silk merchant Otto Wesendonck.…

The British colonial administrator Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874-1938) travelled extensively in the Far East,…

Charles Taylor is beyond question one of the most distinctive figures in the landscape of contemporary philosophy. In a time…

• Rok vydání 1889

This 1889 work on prisons, capital punishment, and the need for reform, was based on experience of prison visiting. Skene…

The introduction and four scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story…

In this scholarly compilation, Pearce has searched the muniments of Westminster Abbey to uncover the names, lives and…

This collection brings together a wide variety of contributors with different backgrounds and distinctive skills to explore…

As a left-hander, the archaeologist and anthropologist Daniel Wilson (1816-92) was interested to discover as many…

The first systematic study of Black-Latino intergroup relations at the national level of US politics. Based on the…

This 1916 analysis of the Navy's role in the Restoration of 1660 and its growth in the seventeenth century reveals the flair…

In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical…