Europe
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Rick Steves

Near the exit, the treasury fills the four higgledy-piggledy floors of a cellar with the precious, eccentric, and historic mementos of this family that once helped elect the Holy Roman ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums March 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Sherling, Rankin; [Sherling, Rankin;]

(2) “A LAWLESS, TURBULENT, AND DANGEROUS SPIRIT OF INSURGENCY” A second major reason we posited for the slow-down in clerical migration from 1739 to 1769 was that it was a ...
( Category: United States March 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

‘To Muddy Death’ In steadfastly adhering to her own Biblical interpretations, Joan Bocher knew the ultimate retribution that lay in wait, and so she quite consciously sought out death. But ...
( Category: Women in History March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1986-04-15 | Author:Ross E. Dunn [Dunn, Ross E.]

Mongol holocausts or no, Khurasan–Transoxiana remained to the landward commerce of Afro–Eurasia what the Arabian Sea was to the monsoon trade: the complex crossroads of trails connecting all the major ...
( Category: Europe March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-14 | Author:Ibn Battuta

He had five sons, the younger of whom were sShahāb Oddīn and Kotb Oddīn: the eldest he had, during his life time, ordered to be kept in prison.21 When taken ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 15,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Marc Morris

10 Tyrannical Will 1210–1212 The horrific death of Matilda de Briouze and her eldest son clearly dealt a deeply damaging blow to John’s already battered reputation. News of their starvation ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Caldwell, Christopher [Caldwell, Christopher]

Chapter 8 Rules for Sex Sexual freedom as a nonnegotiable European demand—Virginity and violence—Islam or custom?—The appeal of sharia—Arranged marriages—The Danish marriage law—Controversies over the headscarf—The French veil law—Compulsory liberation ...
( Category: Islam March 12,2017 )
epub |ara, eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Plokhy

The key figure in the transfer of the Galician experience to Dnieper Ukraine was a forty-year-old professor of Ukrainian history at Lviv University, Mykhailo Hrushevsky. An alumnus of Kyiv University, ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-16 | Author:David Muggleton

Albion Steam Brewery, Shoreham-by-Sea, c. 1880. (Courtesy of Marlipins Museum, Sussex Archaeological Society) Southwick Jonny Booth and Laurie Vella started out in Essex in 2011 with their Pin-Up Beers contract-brewed ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine March 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Andrew Holt Alfred J. Andrea [Alfred J. Andrea, Andrew Holt]

38. David Hay, “Gender Bias and Religious Intolerance in Accounts of the ‘Massacres’ of the First Crusade,” in Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades, ed. ...
( Category: Europe March 9,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Mark Mazower

In eastern Europe, too, there were extensive purges after the war, but they served a very different purpose and followed a different course to those in the West. They were ...
( Category: Democracy March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Raffaele D’Amato

( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Peter H. Wilson

Table 10. Imperial Taxation, 1521–1613 Although far above what previous emperors had received, this amount still fell far short of Charles’s burgeoning expenses. The 1544 grant provided only 3.7 per ...
( Category: Germany February 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Kenan Trebincevic & Susan Shapiro

CHAPTER SEVEN * * * My Grandpa Murat’s Karma Brcko, Bosnia September 1992 “Those are not for Muslims,” yelled a Serb woman at the makeshift Brcko market, grabbing the red ...
( Category: Europe February 27,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Mazower, Mark [Mazower, Mark]

COUNTER-INSURGENCIES The myth of the ‘good Italian’ did not die in the mountains of Montenegro, as Governor Pirzio Biroli had hoped. After the war it flourished – at least in ...
( Category: World War II February 27,2017 )