The Hour of the Women
by Christian Graf Von Krockow and Christian von Krockow
Libussa Fritz-Krockow was forced to live by her wits to survive the harrowing final days of the Third Reich. As waves of invading Russian troops poured into the remote Eastern provinces, sealing them off from the West, all vestiges of order were swept away. Christian von Krockow has used his sister's experiences to write this narrative, written as though with Libussa's voice. The book tells how Libussa kept her baby and ageing parents alive by stealing vegetables from the Russian headquarters, h...
Doncaster, Town and Country Houses (Archive Photographs: Images of England)
by Peter Tuffrey
This book is part of the Images ofEngland series, which uses old photographs and archived images toshow the history ofvarious local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people."
In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concern with the relations between past, present and future. They deal, among many other subjects, with the problems of writing history, its abuses and the historian's responsibilities; with the history of society and 'history from below'; with Marx and...
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Vol. 1
by James Anthony Froude
The Oxford Handbook of World History presents thirty-three essays by leading historians in their respective fields. The chapters address the most important issues explored by contemporary world historians. These broadly fall into four categories: conceptions of the global past, themes in world history, processes of world history, regions in world history. Those chapters on conceptions deal with issues of space and time as treated in the field of world history as well as questions of method, e...
Collection Complete Des Memoires Relatifs a l'Histoire de France, Vol. 11
by Claude Bernard Petitot
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWI
by Malcolm Wright
During World War II navies developed low visibility, horizontal and vertical surface camouflage for their ships. The camouflage served to reduce the visibility of the ships by blending them in with the sea. It also made the identity of the ship confusing by applying more obtrusive patterns. In this the third volume by maritime artist Malcolm Wright, both the official and unofficial paint schemes that adorned the cruisers and minelayers of the Royal Navy and Commonwealth are depicted in detail. W...
A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition)
by William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a politician, philanthropist and evangelical Christian, now best known for his work to end the slave trade. Elected to Parliament in 1780, he campaigned unsuccessfully for penal and electoral reform. In 1787, at the encouragement of William Pitt, he took up the cause of abolition at Westminster, but humanitarian and ethical arguments were slow to overcome the economic interests of those who had made fortunes from the slave trade or the use of slave labour. It...
The Oranges of Sicily: A Culinary History of the World's Most Important Fruit + 30 Curious Recipes
The Fifty Years' Struggle of the Scottish Covenanters, 1638-88
by James Dodds
Die Geschichte und besondere Lebensweise der hutterischen Kommunen
by Sidney Sauer
Histoire Pittoresque Des Cathedrales, Eglises, Basiliques, Temples, Mosquees
by Lib Des Villes Et Des Campagnes
Documents Inedits Pour Servir A L'Histoire de La Domination Venitienne En Crete de 1380 a 1485
by Hippolyte Noiret
The History of the Parish of Kington St. Michael, County of Wilts. - Scholar's Choice Edition
by John Edward Jackson
The Long 1989
The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a “world event,” but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one. The authors of these nine essays consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Af...
Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to grow into a neurotic and unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. Meanwhile France entered upon one of the most glittering periods of her medieval history, years of power and ceremony, astonishing...
Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. 28 (Classic Reprint)
by Unknown Author
Lettre A S. M. Charles X, Roi de France, Contre Le Couronnement de Buonaparte (Histoire)
by Le Quien De La Neufville
Medieval Families (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, #40)
During the past thirty years, the study of medieval families has emerged as a focus of discussion in European history. Largely unexplored in professional publications and teaching curricula until the 1970s, family history is now accepted as an aspect of medieval history essential to the development of the period's institutions and culture, and a field useful to comparative family studies. The present volume brings together essays by historians, art historians, and literary scholars about the st...