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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill As Participant Historian
A Transitional Figure in Modern Historiography Who Bridged the Gap Between Writing History from the Perspective of a Participant Historian
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, The Riverwar: An Account of the Re-Conquest of the Sundan, The World Crisis and The Second World War shows proof that Churchill was on the best Historian Participants of our time.
The Franks
A History of European Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Who were the Franks? Anyone who wants to know the history of European nations, must read the history of the Franks. Beyond the Roman Empire, the foundation of medieval Europe also depends on the Franks whose empire evolved into the modern France and other European countries. This book, based on historical...
by Joe Abdo
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The story of Christ spread from Jerusalem all through the world known at that time. The farthest distances traveled on the journey were toward the east, and this was first undertaken by the Apostle Thomas. He reached southern India and reminders of his visit still exist. Over the centuries many missionaries...
by Joe Abdo
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The story of Christ spread from Jerusalem all through the world known at that time. The farthest distances traveled on the journey were toward the east, and this was first undertaken by the Apostle Thomas. He reached southern India and reminders of his visit still exist. Over the centuries many missionaries...
by Sir Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The "Betrothed" did not greatly please one or two friends, who thought that it did not well correspond to the general title of "The Crusaders." They urged, therefore, that, without direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period,...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Do you believe in Predictions? Well, maybe you would be or maybe you don’t, actually, there are things which can make you believe some of them, not each one of them but maybe just some. There is nothing wrong with it as some people actually are skilled enough to make people know their future or...
Before Nature
Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it.
Before the concept of nature formed...
Buried Cities (Illustrated)
Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae (Complete)
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Do you like to dig for hidden treasure? Have you ever found Indian
arrowheads or Indian pottery? I knew a boy who was digging a cave in
a sandy place, and he found an Indian grave. With his own hands he
uncovered the bones and skull of some brave warrior. That brown skull
was more precious to him...
by Peter Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This volume draws together the many discrete studies of tolerance to create a global and comprehensive synthesis. In a concise text, author Peter Stearns makes connections across time periods and key regions, to help clarify the record and the relationship between current tolerance patterns and those...
by Peter Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural societies to industrial societies over the past two centuries. Putting the implications for individuals and societies in global context while simultaneously...
by George Frederick Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Evidences of Glacial Man in Ohio is a short piece written by geologist George Wright concerning discovery of paleolithic artifacts in Ohio.
Atlas of Empires
The World's Great Powers from Ancient Times to Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps of the empires' territories at different stages of their existence...
Legal Histories of the British Empire
Laws, Engagements and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging...
Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals)
Social Studies in the History of Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind’s preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated with the last rite of passage, but also the social attitudes to death and dying...