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This Gulf of Fire
The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.
On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on...
1847
A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Capture the spirit of an industrial, social and cultural revolution through this invigorating collection of historical portraits from the dawn of the industrialised world!
Though it feels like an era marooned almost irretrievably in the distant past, the 1840s &ndash a decade of blistering...
19th Century Europe
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle....
by Humphrey Pakington
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by Paul Bew
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable.
He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the...
by Asa Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs amongst others, since its original publication....
The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The Mysteries of a Crime of State
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France's Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution, on the orders of the king's council, of the Protestant leaders unleashed a vast...
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early...
Christendom Destroyed
Europe 1517-1648
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
**“The latest volume to appear in the Penguin History of Europe. Like its companion volumes, [Christendom Destroyed] is no breezy survey but a masterly synthesis of depth and breadth."*—*The Wall Street Journal
“The political and religious conflicts of early modern Europe receive...
The Leveller Revolution
Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution
The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings...
by John Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
In industrial Lancashire, as in few other English communities, the turn of the twentieth century could be seen as modern times dressed in bowler hats and moustaches. Photographs of street scenes taken in Manchester and Burnley, Oldham and Accrington in the 1890s take us to a world that had been disciplined...
Our Spiritual Crisis
Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Michael Nagler argues that problems now faced by American society spring from a false way of looking at the world,based on the premise that material things are fundamental, consciousness merely derivative. He advocates a return to the ancient and Eastern spritual view that consciousness is fundamental.
In...
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty.?
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age...
The Tragedy of European Civilization
Towards an Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is ongoing. During this time some of the greatest modern thinkers were active, producing works that both reflected what was happening in history and contributed towards shaping it....