Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century EnglandJust how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraceptio...9999903161738Antonia Fraser
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
jueves, 18 de julio de 2024
The uprooting of the Highland people and the final destruction of their society in favour of wool and mutton.9999903158370John Prebble
Secker & Warburg
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
"In this refreshingly non-Eurocentric book, Jeremy Black examines warfare on a global scale at a time when the face of war was beginning to change. He describes new technology, fro...9999903158295Jeremy Black
Cassell
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New WorldIn April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy...9999903157878Giles Milton
Coronet Books
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of HistoryIn 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly...9999903157861Giles Milton,
Sceptre
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
A journey through Britain then and nowThe Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedral...9999903150954Stuart Maconie
Editors Varis
sábado, 29 de junio de 2024
This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age and evo...9999903147756Geoffrey Russell Richards...
Editors Varis
viernes, 28 de junio de 2024
An American Tragedy"'We were eight years in power' was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacis...9999903143918Ta-Nehisi Coates
Penguin
miércoles, 12 de junio de 2024
Studies in an Age of TransitionThe Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fifteenth-century family. H. S. B...9999903141037H. S. Bennett
Cambridge University Press
viernes, 7 de junio de 2024
This work covers the sad story of thousands of British children sent overseas unaccompanied by parents or friends in the name of God and the Empire.9999903140924Gillian Wagner
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
viernes, 7 de junio de 2024
The Story of the Gauchos of PatagoniaGaucho conjures up an image as iconic as the word cowboy. But according to historians and anthropologists, their semi-nomadic culture disappeared at the end of the nineteenth centu...9999903139812Nick Reding
Three Rivers Press
miércoles, 5 de junio de 2024
Michael Moore is on a mission in his new book: Regime Change. the man who slithered into the White House on tracks greased by his daddy ´s oil buddies in one of many targets in Mik...9999903138341Moore, Michael
Time Warner Book Group
martes, 4 de junio de 2024
The Sarmatians - one of the many nomadic groups to emerge from the great Eurasian Steppe - crossed the Don in about the 3rd century BC to displace their western neighbours, the Scy...9999903137030R. Brzezinski, M. Mielcza...
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
Of all the conquerors who swept out of Central Asia, two names stand out in European memory ?? Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan the Mongol. Both are remembered for massacres and de...9999903137023David Nicolle
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
For more than 2,000 years hordes of mounted nomadic archers from the vastness of the steppe and from Central Asia spewed out into China, the Middle East, and Europe. Feared and rev...9999903137009Antony Karasulas
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
Osprey's study of the Normans during the Middle Ages. Despite the small geographic extent of Normandy its people played a crucial role in the history of the medieval world. Ferocit...9999903136989David Nicolle
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the TudorsPeter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself.In Foundation, th...9999903135777Peter Ackroyd
Picador
jueves, 30 de mayo de 2024
A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth IIn a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, En...9999903135555Stephen Alford
Bloomsbury USA
jueves, 30 de mayo de 2024
The story of the famous battle - from the acclaimed expert on Scottish history. The book begins in the rain at five o???clock on the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 1746, when the R...9999903134299Prebble, John.
Penguin
miércoles, 29 de mayo de 2024
A History ??A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tame...9999903126515Kevin Starr
Random House Trade Paperbacks
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A white, working-class revolutionary, Sam Melville ??s guerrilla bombings set in motion a flood of armed radical actions across the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s....9999903112624Leslie James Pickering
Editors Varis
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
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