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About the Book The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green. Illustrated with photos, the ...

About the Book An ancillary package available upon adoption.

About the Book Our sense of history shapes how we think about who we are. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it hold...

About the Book China's astonishing transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy was one of the most remarkable stories of the twenti...

About the Book Buildings of Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through thirteen territories of the British Empire. From Dublin Castle t...

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings bo...

About the Book In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused...

In 1954 reporter Uri Dan met a young military commander named Ariel Sharon and followed him closely for more than half a century. Dan became Sharon...

About the Book The 17th Century Parisian doctor who made blood transfusion history... In 1667 a Parisian doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denis...

About the Book A stupendous feat of reportage.-Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours ""Goldstein's book is packed...

About the Book Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contai...

About the Book Shennan examines the changing criteria upon which European relations were based between 1689 and 1789, a complex period which saw: ...

About the Book Advance Praise for Joseph P. Kennedy "Ted Schwarz gives us a darker, and truer, picture of the founding father (and only Kennedy to ...

About the Book Professional archaeologists have been working in the city of London, and revealing its secrets, since the early 1970s. This book cel...

About the Book In a highly original study, David Wyatt takes a broad, yet personal, look at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative...

About the Book The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity,...

About the Book Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presen...

About the Book Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast his...

About the Book One family's mission "With the fires of hatred rekindled in the North by the assassination and in the South by emancipation, the est...

About the Book A vivid tableau of the American conquest of the Pacific Coast "With Broughton's expedition, the Americans and the British had poste...

About the Book A definitive chronicle of Winston Churchill's crucial role as military leader, Carlo D'Este's biography examines Churchill through t...

About the Book This is the first edition since 1981 of this standard textbook for upper school and undergraduate students of European politics and ...

About the Book The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line ...

About the Book The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities...

This paperback is derived from the last third of the 20th Century Europe text-designed for the increasing number of courses splitting up traditiona...

About the Book Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians ali...

About the Book Letters and first-person narrative accounts relating to the courtship of Elizabeth Wiseman by Robert Spencer in 1686-1687. The docum...

About the Book Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mi...

About the Book A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two St...

About the Book How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-t...

About the Book In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across fi...

About the Book This work look at the British Labour movement in its international context, looking at special interest groups and contacts between ...

About the Book This collection of essays deals with some of the problems posed by the origins of World War II. Was World War II part of a developin...

About the Book The modern manager faces a bewildering range of challenges every single day. Their ability to make critical decisions, often under p...

About the Book Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped historical inquiry in recent dec...

About the Book After the bicentenary of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson, this volume acts both as a summary and a collection of some of the best ...

About the Book A moving and spectacular tale of love, jealousy, and exotic travel, centering on three significant figures in the Surrealist movemen...

About the Book The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation of British politic...

About the Book This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, historians, geographers...

About the Book This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovati...

About the Book The Independence of Latin America is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America Volume 3. The first chapter...

About the Book This book argues that in the work of trained historians, as well as amateurs, English local history is weakened by a pervasive antiq...

About the Book Organized chronologically, this is the second of two volumes which provide an introduction to the Western humanities - art, music, p...

About the Book As the Victorians excavated the earth to create canals and railways in the early part of the nineteenth century, geological discover...

About the Book This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil...

About the Book This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries be...

About the Book In the 28 years since the first publication of this book it has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social i...