Historical Study & Educational Resources
mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Jeremy Musson

Next, the valet assists with shaving his master and combing his hair. Then when the master has gone down to breakfast, he will ‘set the room in order’, look over ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

23 Faith of our fathers The failure of Wyatt’s rebellion, and the subsequent arrival of Philip, lent confidence to the queen. The pace of religious reform, or perhaps of religious ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Tony Judt

Back in 1970 the École boasted quite a few self-styled “Maoists.” One of them, a talented mathematician, took pains to explain to me why the great Bibliothèque des Lettres should ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:McKay Sinclair

18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife ‘You mustn’t think that it was all harmony at BP,’ says one veteran. ‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

22 Birth and death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

The Maxim Gun, and they have not. There was an imperial coda to this massacre. Five days after the Khalifa’s forces were wiped out at Omdurman, a boat came drifting ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Anne Applebaum

We consumed the half pint of barley coffee we received for breakfast, the soup and vegetable we got for lunch and the vegetable served us as dinner standing on the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1999-12-15 | Author:Simon Winchester

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-02-04 | Author:Joan Druett

JAMES MAHONEY, WRECKED WITH THE SHIP INVERCAULD. MAY 10th ‘64. It was August 12, 1864, almost exactly three months from the time when the Invercauld had foundered. FOURTEEN Equinox Sunday, ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Michael Pearson

Once the Portuguese arrived they engaged in vigorous competition with their Muslim rivals. The situation in Siam in the middle of the sixteenth century was well described in a letter ...
( Category: Historiography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:David Cannadine

THE RISE OF RACE Unlike religious or class identities, which derived from and depend on a limited number of sacred texts, namely the Bible and the writings of Marx and ...
( Category: Historiography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman

We come now to the gaping hole in the argument. It is the assumption that in the conditions prevailing after the Armistice, in the passion of anti-German feeling, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Arthur Herman

But the Scots and Scotch Irish laity loved it, and it became the hallmark of Southern—and American—religion from then until the present. It also forged a link between the Presbyterian ...
( Category: Scotland March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jared Diamond

The 1657 Meireki fire, and the resulting demand for timber to rebuild Japan’s capital, served as a wake-up call exposing the country’s growing scarcity of timber and other resources at ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )