In 1495, William, Viscount Beaumont, was declared unfit to take care of himself and given into the care of a guardian, due to unspecified mental health problems. Notably, his treatment was very kind, and runs contrary to many of our ideas of late med...Lasīt vairāk
In 1495, William, Viscount Beaumont, was declared unfit to take care of himself and given into the care of a guardian, due to unspecified mental health problems. Notably, his treatment was very kind, and runs contrary to many of our ideas of late med...Lasīt vairāk
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe Renaissance is famous as a period of intellectual and cultural flourishing associated with the...Lasīt vairāk
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe Renaissance is famous as a period of intellectual and cultural flourishing associated with the...Lasīt vairāk
The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time. The book also examines the extra-legal measures that both th...Lasīt vairāk
An exploration of how popes attempted to construct, maintain, and represent their power beyond Europes eastern frontiers during the Avignon period of the 14th century. After the main, numbered, crusades concluded with the loss of the Holy Land at t...Lasīt vairāk
The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time. The book also examines the extra-legal measures that both th...Lasīt vairāk
An exploration of how popes attempted to construct, maintain, and represent their power beyond Europes eastern frontiers during the Avignon period of the 14th century. After the main, numbered, crusades concluded with the loss of the Holy Land at t...Lasīt vairāk
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThis volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the...Lasīt vairāk
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThis volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the...Lasīt vairāk
A social history of the fifteenth-century German painters influence. Emigrating from southern Germany in the late fifteenth century, painter Hans Memling sought success in the vibrant commercial hub of Bruges. He found an audience, not among the nob...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337608)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040340417)
The Formation of Modern Lebanon (1985) examines the critical period around the 1920 establishment of Greater Lebanon and its impact on the political development of the country. It examines the ramifications of the annexation of the coastal region and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337530)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040340479)
The Formation of Modern Lebanon (1985) examines the critical period around the 1920 establishment of Greater Lebanon and its impact on the political development of the country. It examines the ramifications of the annexation of the coastal region and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341902)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341759)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341612)
The Free and Independent (1949) looks at Parliament from the point of view of the Elector rather than the Elected. After dealing with the early history of elections when the franchise was sometimes considered to be a nuisance rather than a privilege,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341599)
The Free and Independent (1949) looks at Parliament from the point of view of the Elector rather than the Elected. After dealing with the early history of elections when the franchise was sometimes considered to be a nuisance rather than a privilege,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040340318)
Archaic Greece (1976) describes the typical polis, and considers in turn each city-state in mainland Greece, the Aegean and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period -...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040339121)
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040340295)
Archaic Greece (1976) describes the typical polis, and considers in turn each city-state in mainland Greece, the Aegean and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period -...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040339138)
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399505628)
This monograph looks at the various strands of policy and activities which produced the first residential Rent Act in 1915. It looks at the ways in which tenants were removed from the land in Ireland and Scotland leading to a strong aversion to landl...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399505611)
This monograph looks at the various strands of policy and activities which produced the first residential Rent Act in 1915. It looks at the ways in which tenants were removed from the land in Ireland and Scotland leading to a strong aversion to landl...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the history, traditions, and key personalities behind Londons ceremonial regiments, both on parade and at war.Today Trooping the Colour gathers crowds of tourists; along with the pomp and ceremony it is an event filled with tradition that s...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the history, traditions, and key personalities behind Londons ceremonial regiments, both on parade and at war.Today Trooping the Colour gathers crowds of tourists; along with the pomp and ceremony it is an event filled with tradition that s...Lasīt vairāk
An illustrated study of Romes key enemies from the Late Principate and Dominate: the western Visigoths and the eastern Ostrogoths. The Goths were a Germanic people who, under pressure from the Huns, migrated during the 2nd century AD to the Balkans...Lasīt vairāk
An illustrated study of Romes key enemies from the Late Principate and Dominate: the western Visigoths and the eastern Ostrogoths. The Goths were a Germanic people who, under pressure from the Huns, migrated during the 2nd century AD to the Balkans...Lasīt vairāk
Taking in a range of traditions from ancient Britain to the present day, a revealing look at the bristly underside of British folkloric culture. Rough Music explores transgression and shame in British folklore and customs. It takes in a wide array of...Lasīt vairāk
A life of Englands most famous martyr, rooted in the currents of twelfth-century Europe. This book explores the turbulent life and violent death of Thomas Becket, one of the most controversial figures in the Middle Ages: a London merchant s son turn...Lasīt vairāk
The definitive oral history of the raid featuring contributions from Mission Commander Guy Gibson and Bouncing Bomb creator Barnes Wallis. The Dambusters raid was one of the most iconic missions of the Second World War. Three dams along Germanys Ruh...Lasīt vairāk
Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040335994)
In the early twentieth century, a group of writers and publicists began to talk and write about social hygiene or more commonly known as the theory of eugenics. By this they meant the improvement of the quality of the population by a conscious interv...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040334706)
Paris, March 19, 1815; midnight. A line of heavy carriages draws up in the courtyard of the Tuilleries, while a crowd of despairing royalists watch the departure of Louis XVIII. Within 24 hours, amid indescribable enthusiasm, Napoleon was taken from...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337547)
Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S. Olaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other We...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337615)
Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S. Olaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other We...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040329481)
Originally published in 1931 and as a fifth edition in 1952, this book became a classic survey of European history which focusses on the pan-European features and tendencies of the Middle Ages. The book also looks beyond Europe at the history of Isla...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040324417)
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) surveys the Danish economy, examining the effects of the rapid industrialisation which occurred in the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows how Denmark was less seve...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040321089)
Since its first publication in 2005, Ruling England has established itself as an authoritative account of English politics and the growth of royal power from 1042.Using chronicle and administrative records, it focuses on the aims and priorities of th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040330982)
Originally published in 1937 and as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudal...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040334935)
In 1945, the new Labour government in Britain had two choices in pursuit of their programme of social change. They could use government orders and coercion, an extension of wartime siege economy; or they could try to persuade the people that their wa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040335123)
First published in 1951, Britain and the Middle East sets forth briefly the relations which the people and the government of Britain had with the Middle East from the earliest records of such relations until 1950. The term "e;Middle East"e; u...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040326244)
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fieldings prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself, and the one in which he ardently desired to succeed, w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040330753)
Originally published in 1950 and as a third edition in 1967, this volume traces the evolution of the English nation - the amalgamation of differing races and the unification of warring tribal princedoms into one monarchy under the stress of competiti...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040326213)
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fieldings prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself, and the one in which he ardently desired to succeed, w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040325919)
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fieldings prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself, and the one in which he ardently desired to succeed, w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331057)
This volume was originally published in 1931 and revised for the third edition in 1937. The critical events since that date necessitated a further revision, with a large amount of re-writing and the addition of new chapters which brought the book to...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040326985)
Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor. It considers the manor and the church to be key twin parts of this unit, as the church was not only the place of worship but also often the seat of loca...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040330968)
Originally published in 1937 and as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudal...Lasīt vairāk
