Western Europe category: 1822 books
Agents of Empire
Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans,...
Blind Impressions
Methods and Mythologies in Book History
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object...
Mark IV vs A7V
Villers-Bretonneux 1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The German A7V and the British Mark IV were similar in weight, size, and speed, but differed significantly in armour, armament and maneuverability. The A7V had thicker armour, and had nearly double the horsepower per ton. The Mark IV's pair of side-mounted 6pdr cannons forced the vehicle to present...
Blundering to Glory
Napoleon's Military Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its portrayal of one of the world's great generals as a scrambler who never had a plan, strategic or tactical,...
by P. Limm
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The Dutch Revolt 1559-1648 begins by illustrating the historical background and causes of the revolt. This is followed by chronological sections devoted to each phase of the revolt and an assesment section that takes a more thematic approach, looking at the military, economic, political and constitutional issues.
by Eric Woehler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
History of Jersey, Pre-History. German Occupation, Invasions and defences. ABook on Jersey. Jersey has been an island for approximately 8,000 years or possibly not quite so long, and at its extremes it measures 10 miles east to west and six miles north to south. The earliest evidence of human activity...
by Eric Woehler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
History of Jersey, Pre-History. Historical Sites and leftover. A Book on Jersey. In the year of grace 1462, being the third year of the reign of Edward IV, King of England, sir Richard Harliston, vice-admiral of the said kingdom, being in the island of Guernsey, and with a certain number of the king's...
The Complete Works of Malatesta Vol. III
"A Long and Patient Work": The Anarchist Socialism of L'Agitazione, 189798
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
The first in AK Press's ten-volume Complete Works of Malatesta. This one (volume three chronologically) focuses on two very important years in Errico Malatesta's life, when he returned to Italy to edit L'Agitazione. This volume begins the series with a bang.
Tyrants
History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
An astonishing compendium of dictators and their crimes against the State. The scope of entries is an all-encompassing chronicle of tyrants. They range from the bizarre to the horrific, from the heartbreaking to the ridiculous. The book includes 100 of history's most infamous despots. In vivid detail...
From Revolt to Riches
Culture and History of the Low Countries, 15001700
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted...
Commercial Visions
Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In Commercial Visions, Dániel Margócsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine—the “big sciences”...
Julius II
The Warrior Pope
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Julius II was one of the most remarkable and colourful men ever to sit on the papal throne. His vigour, determination, ambition, passion for action and notorious temper were more suited to the soldier he would probably have preferred to be, than to the ecclesiastical potentate he became under the...
by Elizabeth A. Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in...
by Roy Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Killing Davy Crockett attempts to answer basic questions concerning the death of the famous hunter, trapper, soldier, and politician. Crockettseveral times a member of the US Congress and foe of President Andrew Jacksonwas ultimately defeated for reelection to Congress and chose to throw his famous...