Modern (16th-21st Centuries)
epub |eng | 2020-05-27 | Author:Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron [Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron]

* * * BRITISH EXPEDITION IN ABYSSINIA 1867–1868 Belligerents: Great Britain. Abyssinia. Cause: From 1855 Abyssinia came under the powerful rule of the Emperor Theodore. He subdued the neighbouring kingdoms ...
( Category: 19th Century March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Charles Oman [Oman, Charles]

The Sergeant’s Self-Respect The gap between the sergeant and the men in the ranks was necessarily a well-marked one. The non-commissioned officers kept together and formed messes of their own. ...
( Category: 19th Century March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Bloomsbury Publishing [Publishing, Bloomsbury]

Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square London WC1B 3DP UK 1385 Broadway New York NY 10018 USA www.bloomsbury.com Introduction and selection copyright © J. H. ...
( Category: 16th Century March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-28 | Author:Adrian Greaves, Ian Knight [Adrian Greaves, Ian Knight]

After the war he continued to serve in B Company which was posted to Gibraltar and India. He returned to England in November 1881 and passed onto the Army Reserve. ...
( Category: 19th Century March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:Tracey A. Sowerby, Jan Hennings [Tracey A. Sowerby, Jan Hennings]

Figure 8.2 Untitled (Shah Jahan in durbar, holding a ruby in his right hand), c. 1650. BL Add.Or.3853 fo. 1 © British Library Board, London. The welcome given to Budaq ...
( Category: 16th Century March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-06 | Author:M.A.R. Graves [Graves, M.A.R.]

The autocratic tendencies of early modern hereditary rulers The institutional diversity, decentralisation and even independent jurisdictions of late medieval territories encouraged the growth of autocratic tendencies which were necessary to ...
( Category: 16th Century March 4,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-04-13 | Author:Alan James [James, Alan]

Chapter Five Social Order French kings craved social order. This meant they wished to see an end to peasant and urban rebellions, certainly. But, more than anything else, this order ...
( Category: 16th Century March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:C. H. (Charles Harding) Firth [Firth, C. H.]

CHAPTER XIII IRELAND 1649–1650 The Second Civil War had its counterpart in Ireland, where in May, 1648, Lord Inchiquin and the Munster Protestants threw off obedience to the Parliament and ...
( Category: 17th Century March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Naomi Hetherington, Clare Stainthorp [Naomi Hetherington, Clare Stainthorp]

Note 1Generation, degeneration, regeneration,—in these three terms is comprised the whole process of the soul’s history. 25 ALICE OLIPHANT AND LAURENCE OLIPHANT, SYMPNEUMATA, OR EVOLUTIONARY FORCES NOW ACTIVE IN MAN ...
( Category: 19th Century March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:R.H. Major [Major, R.H.]

1 Nicholas of Bari. RERVM MOSCO-VITICARVM CO-MENTARII. IN HIIS COMKNTARIIS SPARSIM CONTENTA HABEBIS, CANDIDE LECTOR, RUSSIE & QUE NUNC EJUS METROPOLIS EST, MOSCOVIE, BREVISSIMAM DESCRIPTIONEM, DE RELIGIONE QUOQUE VARIA INSERTA ...
( Category: 16th Century March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-30 | Author:S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston [S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston]

Critical factors for the development of a Smart Nation It is one thing to announce a policy, but it is another to translate the ideas into practice. In the case ...
( Category: 19th Century March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Christopher J. Tozzi [Tozzi, Christopher J.]

FOR FOREIGN TROOPS IN THE FRENCH ARMY, the era of the Directory and the Consulate was a relatively unremarkable one, despite the dramatic overseas expeditions that constituted much of France’s ...
( Category: 18th Century March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christina Meyer, Monika Pietrzak-Franger [Christina Meyer, Monika Pietrzak-Franger]

Part II Crossroads of fact and fiction 6 Transmedia practices toward a popular cultural sphere Lippard, Thompson, and nineteenth-century serialities Lisanna Wiele DOI: 10.4324/9781003222941-8 Introduction Perhaps no genre in the ...
( Category: 19th Century March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-05 | Author:Catherine Ballériaux [Ballériaux, Catherine]

4 Assimilation versus Segregation Two Competing Missiologies Missionaries did not operate in a vacuum. The social, political, and religious reforms that they wished to implement amongst native societies often violently ...
( Category: 17th Century February 28,2023 )