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by Laura Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Memphis is a city founded on some of the great vestiges of our past. City staples such as steamboats, cotton plantations and exchange centers, relics symbolic of the city’s rich industrial and agrarian legacy, have either been forgotten or completely lost. Every city, especially one as thoroughly modern...
The Denver Folk Music Tradition
An Unplugged History, from Harry Tuft to Swallow Hill and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In 1962, Harry Tuft founded the Denver Folklore Center to bring together contemporary folk music fans and performers such as Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and so many more. In the following decade, a core of folk enthusiasts established the Swallow Hill Music Association. These two organizations...
From Farquhar to Field Day
Three Centuries of Music and Theatre in Derry~Londonderry
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Derry (or Londonderry) has a distinctive cultural history which reflects its unique position in the history of Ireland. This ground-breaking book examines three centuries of music and theater in the city, highlighting the key figures and turning points in its cultural life. It documents the rich diversity...
by Harold Shukman
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Stalin was one of the most rulthless and authoritarian dictators in world history. This concise title presents Lenin's heir from his beginnings for priesthood to General Secretary of the Communist Party.
by D.G. Amphlett
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Discover the rich and colorful history of Bath with this collection of tales from across the city. Featuring a story for every day of the year, it includes famous historical events, such as the building of Bath's Royal Crescent and Circus, and the founding of the Royal Bath and West Show, alongside...
by The History Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra had six children. Of the five who reached maturity, only one, the future King George V, has received much attention from biographers. The eldest son, Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, a backward youth and a subject of scandal, died before he was thirty. The three...
Clash of Thrones
The Power-Crazed Medieval Kings, Popes and Emperors of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
An approachable and engaging account of 450 years of savagery, treachery, triumph, and disaster Starting with the Great Schism in 1053 and ending with the discovery of the New World in 1492, A Clash of Thrones shows how kings relied on military campaigns and political intrigue while the Popes exploited...
Dracula's Wars
Vlad The Impaler and His Rivals
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
According to Stoker novel, Dracula was a cultured man. In reality he was a Romanian warlord of the 15th century. He gained his name, Vlad the Impaler, because his favored execution method was to run a spear through his victim's lower body, then stand them upright so the spear pierced the vital organs....
King Zog
Self-Made Monarch of Albania
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
King Zog was a curiosity, and so he has remained the most unusual European monarch of the 20th century, a man entirely without royal connections who created his own kingdom. By contemporaries, he was variously labeled "the last ruler of romance," "an appalling gangster," "the...
by Peter Stubley
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Investigating the countless crimes that have bedeviled Islington throughout its history, this book explores the area’s transformation from idyllic village and middle-class pleasure ground, to unfashionable region of urban poverty, before its renaissance after the ravages of the Second World War....
Van Diemen's Women
A History of Transportation to Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
On September 2, 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land, with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On December 3, the ship arrived into Hobart. While the book looks at the lives of all the women, it focuses on two women in particular; Eliza Davis, who was...
by Neil Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Tunbridge Wells is a town steeped in history—and history, of course, means ghost stories. Join Neil Arnold for a unique and spinetingling excursion into the darkest corners and eeriest locations of this old town. Be chilled by all manner of sinister tales and things that do more than just bump in...
Secret Queen
Eleanor Talbot, the Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his son, Edward (one of the "Princes in the Tower"). The crown passed to Edward's undoubtedly legitimate younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. But those who believed in...