Sökt på: fore and
totalt 41 560 träffar
Define and Rule
Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and …
Learning from Foreign Wars
Learning from Foreign Wars examines how the Russian army interpreted, and what lessons it learned from the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This …
Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford
"Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... [This identity] was …
A General History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tatars, Vulgarly Called Tartars. Together With a Description of the Countries They Inhabit. In two Volumes. I. The Genealogical History of the Tatars of 2; Volume 2
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
A General History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tatars, Vulgarly Called Tartars. Together With a Description of the Countries They Inhabit. In two Volumes. I. The Genealogical History of the Tatars of 2; Volume 1
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Jane Austen in 50 Places and Objects
The author of six novels, Jane Austen continues to enamour her readers more than two-hundred years after she wrote them. Now a global phenomenon, her books have sold millions of …
Burke and Wills
The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller.
Inside the Royal Wardrobe
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through …
Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon
What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing …
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
“Muir’s well-informed, entertaining book surveys romantic love and marriage among the real-life counterparts of Austen’s characters in an England threatened with invasion and …
Culture And Imperialism
Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of Edward Said's analytical prowess will not be disappointed . . . Those discovering Said for the first time will be profoundly …
