John Marriott: 14 books
by Dr. John Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first theater and to the early stirrings of a mass labor movement;...
Aerotowing Gliders
A Guide to Towing Gliders, with an Emphasis on Safety
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This is an extract from the main text) This book on aerotowing gliders was written because there is little reference material published about the subject worlwide. So because of the lack of published information, I thought it important to gather the wealth of knowledge that is out there on the subject,...
by John Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area.
by John Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention...
History
An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Demystifying the subject with clarity and verve, History: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice familiarizes the reader with the varied spectrum of historical approaches in a balanced, comprehensive and engaging manner. Global in scope, and covering a wide range of topics from the ancient...
Desperado’S Woman
A Western Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Shortly after the end of war with Mexico, Kathleen Adams disgraces her family when she travels west to the New Mexico territory to teach school. In the midst of her travels, the notorious desperado Black Bart holds up her stage and unexpectedly steals something very personal from hera kiss. With that...
A Recipe for Disaster
Four Ways Churches and Parents Prepare Individuals to Lose Their Faith and How They Can Instill a Faith That Endures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The statistics speak for themselves; record numbers of individuals who at one time identified as Christians are deconverting from the faith and identifying as unbelievers. Why is this happening and what can be done to prevent it? A Recipe for Disaster seeks to answer those questions by focusing on...
The other empire
Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence...
The Masks of Imogen
The Strange Chronicle of Imogen Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A gifted pianist and Princeton graduate unaware of her rare beauty, Imogen Edwards innocently catches the eye of Manfred Andreotti, the notorious crime boss of East Clintonwood who controls everything and everyone in the town. A virgin with high ethical standards, Imogen has no intention of becoming...
by Alastair Gunn, William D. O’Connor, James Hain Friswell
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 2 in the series spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains...
by Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...
Revival: Castlereagh (1936)
The Political Life of Robert, Second Marquess of Londonderry
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book represents, on the one hand , the fulfilment of a long-cherished hope; on the other, an act of tardy expiation. The crime for which expiation is offered is partly collective. The reproach which lies on historians at large is considered in the Prologue. The personal crime can be confessed...
Revival: Europe and Beyond (1921)
A Preliminary Survey of World-Politics in the Last Half-Century 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book is intended as a sequel to author’s earlier volume on The Remaking of Modern Europe (1789-1871), first published in 1909, and has been written in response to requests for a continuation of the narrative. It is offered as a preliminary survey of a large tract of country.
by John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This book has been written by an exile deprived by a German bomb of access to all but a fragment of his own library, and to practically the whole of his carefully collected memoranda, and is also denied by circumstances the use of any great library. The book still aims to discuss Anglo Russian Relations between 1689 and 1943.