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The Cairngorms - A Secret History

Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It look...

The Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan and the Philippines for the year 1870

The Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan and the Philippines for the year 1870 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original ...

Theory of the History Classroom

This volume proposes a theory of history education in formal classroom settings. Specifically, it aims to outline how the particular sett...

Letters to Thos. A. Morris

Letters to Thos. A. Morris is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature ...

Lyrical Poems

Lyrical Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different ...

Stowe - A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingham

Stowe - A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingh...

English Travellers and Italian Bringands: - A Narrative of Capture and Captivity, in Two Volumes, Vol. II

English Travellers and Italian Bringands: - A Narrative of Capture and Captivity, in Two Volumes, Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality r...

Thomas Cromwell - A Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography...

Napoleon and Bluecher

Napoleon and Bluecher is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on di...

The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament

The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor o...

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on differe...

The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell - Volume II

The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is ed...

The American Revolution - Volume II

The American Revolution - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the li...

Roba di Roma - Volume I. Fifth Edition

Roba di Roma - Volume I. Fifth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the...

Familiar quotations: - Being an attempt to trace to their source passages and phrases in common use

Familiar quotations: - Being an attempt to trace to their source passages and phrases in common use is an unchanged, high-quality reprint...

Essays, Educational and Historic - Or X-rays on some important episodes

Essays, Educational and Historic - Or X-rays on some important episodes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of ...

Babyn Yar: Past, Present, Future - Past, Present, Future

Babyn Yar: Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft fasst die Forschungs- und Gedenkbemühungen des Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center seit sein...

Elizabethans

The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr

Winston Churchill - A Life in the News

A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and novelty played into hi...

TRESMINAS - Eine kurze Einführung in das römische Goldbergwerk

Das römische Reich benötigte für seine Truppen jährlich 400 bis 500 Millionen Sesterzen, wobei der grösste Teil dieser Summe aus logistis...

In the Gray Zones of History - The Prague Pediatrician Berthold Epstein (1890-1962)

The Jewish pediatrician Berthold Epstein qualified scientifically in Prague, where he rose to become chair and director of the renowned 2...

Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) - From Playboy Prince to Warrior King

Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the poli...

A Short History of Europe - From Pericles to Putin

Simon Jenkins is author of the bestselling A Short History of England, A Short History of Europe, Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations, En...

The Ship Asunder - A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Three and a half millennia of British Maritime history, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early 20th cen...

1922 - Scenes from a Turbulent Year

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect u...

A Short History of the World in 50 Books

Discover the power of the book through fifty of the most influential texts ever written from around the world and throughout time. Books ...

Time's Witness - History in the Age of Romanticism

From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Between the fall of the Bastille in ...

Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery h...

Future Stories - A user's guide to the future

'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill Gates A user's guide to t...

Learning from the Germans - Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world stru...

Rivers of Power - How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel Rivers, more than any...

Prisoners of Time - Prussians, Germans and Other Humans

An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's T...

Time of the Magicians - Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy

AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose id...

Time's Monster - History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that s...

This is Not Normal - The Collapse of Liberal Britain

What just happened and how did we get into this mess?

Emmy Rubensohn - Musikmäzenin/Music Patron (1884-1961)

Emmy Rubensohn (1884-1961) was a music patron, concert manager, salonnière, and letter writer. Born in Leipzig in 1884 to the Jewish Fran...

Historicizing the French Revolution - The Two Hundred Years' War

This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in...

Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U...

The Kingdom of Georgia; Notes of Travel in a Land of Woman, Wine and Song, to Which are Appended Historical, Literary, and Political Sketches, Specime

The table talk of Martin Luther

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Mecklenburg Signers and their Neighbors

By: Worth S. Ray, Pub. 1946, reprinted 2022, 250 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-053-4. Mecklenburg county was formed in 1763 from Anson ...

Stone Voices - The Search For Scotland

This is the story of Neal Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity as Ascherson weaves togeth...

Resisting Persecution - Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or p...

Pioneers in Bloomers - The True Story of the Pedestriennes - British Sport's First Female Celebrities

Women's sport is finally flourishing in Britain. But still largely unrecognised are the pioneering efforts of the Victorian era 'pedestri...

History and Morality

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

Blood and Ruins - The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILI...

In the Shadow of the Gods - The Emperor in World History

From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by ...

We Shall Be Masters - Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin

Generations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political influence into Asia...

A Short History of London - The Creation of a World Capital

Paperback editon of the concise history of London, which follows on from Ackroyd's "A Short History Of Europe" and "A Short History Of En...

Liverpool: A Potted History

An accessible history of Liverpool from prehistory to the present day highlighting the cityâEUR(TM)s significant events and people.

Secret Perth

Secret Perth explores the lesser-known history of the city of Perth through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attract...

A-Z of Chiswick - Places-People-History

Explore the West London town of Chiswick in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

Celebrating Lancaster

A celebration of Lancaster's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Celebrating Evesham

A celebration of Evesham's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Honoured by Edinburgh - Beneficiaries of the Freedom of Edinburgh since 1459

A fascinating history of conferring the Freedom of Edinburgh, and the influential individuals and organisations honoured by the civic aut...

Secret Burnley & Pendle

Discover the lesser-known and secret hidden illustrated heritage of Burnley and Pendle in Lancashire.

Celebrating Chester

A celebration of Chester's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Small Island - 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain

Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fa...

Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung : Zeitschrift... / 2023, Band 28, Heft 2 - Medieval Animal Studies. Reflexionen, Imaginationen und Praxisformen von Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen im Mittelalter

Wie positioniert sich die interdisziplinäre Mediävistik zu aktuellen Entwicklungen der ¿Animal Studies¿? Welches Potential haben die Meth...

The Story of Russia - 'An excellent short study'

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book ...