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Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre N. McCloskey
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Deirdre N. McCloskey [McCloskey, Deirdre N.]

42 Political Ideas Mattered for Equal Liberty and Dignity “One history of Western politics,” writes the political philosopher Mika LaVaque-Manty, citing Charles Taylor and Peter Berger (he could have cited ...
( Category: History & Theory August 23,2016 )
The Giant of the French Revolution by David Lawday
epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:David Lawday

TWELVE The Execution of a King In his heart Danton probably did not want Louis XVI to die. To have told Lameth so was no lie. Less straightforward was his ...
( Category: France August 21,2016 )
Churchill and Company by David Dilks
epub |eng | | Author:David Dilks [Dilks, David]

There were other objections to the proposal, which Eden asked his colleagues to reject.44 The Chiefs of Staff agreed with him, as did the War Cabinet. A happier fate awaited ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2016 )
Almost the Perfect Murder by Paul Williams
epub |eng | 2015-06-03 | Author:Paul Williams

11. Horror Stories As Graham Dwyer was coming to terms with his incarceration inside the walls of a remand prison, there was no relaxation for the investigation team. Having him ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem August 19,2016 )
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos M. N. Eire
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Carlos M. N. Eire [Eire, Carlos M. N.]

Drastic choice. A key meditation in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius concerns the proposition that one cannot avoid choosing between God and devil, or, as Ignatius puts it, between ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2016 )
The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter by James Caskey
mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:James Caskey

Shot of Room 401 taken right before the author had a brush with the supernatural. Tragedy? Or Something Else Entirely? Once we made it safely without incident back to the ...
( Category: France August 19,2016 )
Jack the Ripper: The Murders, the Mystery, the Myth by Stapleton Victor
epub |eng | | Author:Stapleton, Victor

Montague John Druitt. (Mary Evans) Suspects of the Day – The ‘MacNaughten Memoranda’ Three of the four remaining Ripper suspects of the day are named by police official Sir Melville ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2016 )
Air and Sea Power in World War I by Maryam Philpott
epub |eng | | Author:Maryam Philpott [Philpott, Maryam]

Anti-Submarine Developments The navy’s response to German aggression was defensive and a range of ideas was tested during the Great War to protect Britain from the U-boat, with varying degrees ...
( Category: Europe August 13,2016 )
The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman
epub |eng | | Author:John Hardman

The Assembly of Notables The Assembly of Notables was to meet in a newly constructed hall in the Hotel des Menus Plaisirs, in the town which had grown up round ...
( Category: Europe August 12,2016 )
The First Circumnavigators by Harry Kelsey
epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Harry Kelsey

FIVE Following the Leader Once the return route was established by Father Urdaneta, it was no longer necessary for mariners and explorers to risk the treacherous seas and storms of ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal August 7,2016 )
Bf 109 Defence of the Reich Aces by John Weal
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-18 | Author:John Weal

Ex-JG 52 eastern front veteran Oberfeldwebel Ernst Süss, seen here (left) with Major Hermann Graf, had been commissioned and appointed Staffelkapitän on 9./JG11 by the time he was shot down ...
( Category: Military August 7,2016 )
Bf 109 F/G/K Aces of the Western Front
epub |eng | 2011-12-09 | Author:John Weal

How many mechanics does it take to push a Gustav? Eight, if this well-known photograph is anything to go by. 5./JG 2’s ‘Black 12’ (‘Kanonenboot’ Wk-Nr 27803) would be lost ...
( Category: Military August 7,2016 )
Luftwaffe Sturmgruppen by John Weal
epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:John Weal

From the same Fieseler manufacturing block as ‘White 5’ seen in the top photograph on page 76, Hauptmann Moritz’s Sturmbock Wk-Nr. 681382 – complete with ‘blinkers’ – displays IV.(Sturm)/JG 3’s ...
( Category: World War II August 7,2016 )
Customs in Common by E. P. Thompson
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:E. P. Thompson

Plate I. One of the earliest surviving trade union cards, which was filed among the Crown’s affidavits when woolcombers were prosecuted in 1725 in Alton, Hants. (See p. 59.) Note ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 6,2016 )
The Hitler Virus by Peter Wyden
epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Peter Wyden [Wyden, Peter]

BOOK 5 VIRUS CARRIERS 19 WHY THE “HITLER DIARIES” WERE BELIEVED The acclaimed British historian H. R. Trevor-Roper called it “the greatest scoop since Watergate,” and on April 23, 1983, ...
( Category: European August 5,2016 )

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