World
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Dyer

iv. Techniques of trade and manufacture The growth in the population and in exchange increased the volume and value of trade with the continent. Records made in the course of ...
( Category: Europe April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Caroline Alexander [Alexander, Caroline]

CONVERSIONS As pagan Anglo-Saxons moved into Britain after the Romans, Celtic Christians retreated westward or were absorbed into the invaders’ Germanic culture. It was only with the advent of Christian ...
( Category: Archaeology April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-11 | Author:Andrade, Tonio.

Experimental Science and European Warcraft Today many prominent historians downplay the role of science in the rise of the West, and the topic has aroused considerable discussion.45 As usual most ...
( Category: Military April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-02-01 | Author:Addison B. Poland & John H. Haaren [Poland, Addison B.]

THE CROWN OF GERMANY IS OFFERED TO HENRY THE FOWLER "It is true," replied the messenger. "Conrad, when dying, advised that the nobles should choose you as his successor." Henry ...
( Category: World April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Andress

The Bounty stayed at Tahiti for five months, far longer than originally planned, as the delay of the failed rounding of the Horn meant it now had to ride out ...
( Category: Europe April 11,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

II In retrospect the movement for emancipation seems natural enough, and even its acceleration in the 1880s is not very surprising at first sight. Like the democratization of politics, a ...
( Category: World April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:Michael Wood

THE KINGS OF WALES SURRENDER: ‘THE ENGLISH ARE OVER-PROUD’ From Cumbria Athelstan rode south during July and launched an attack on the North Welsh kings, who, having given nominal submission ...
( Category: Europe April 11,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Edward A. Engelbrecht [Engelbrecht, Edward A.]

CALVINISM IN THE LOW COUNTRIES While the wars of religion were being waged in France, a religious revolution had started in the Low Countries to the north. The seventeen provinces ...
( Category: Protestantism April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Rennie, James [Rennie, James]

1. Patrolling at the junction of the Springfield Road and the Ballymurphy estate in the early morning. At any other time of day we would sprint across an open area ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Claire Gaudiani

She went so far in her piece as to assert “that ‘missionaries’ were needed among the idle rich [ladies] more than among any other class of citizens” to ensure that ...
( Category: Women's Studies April 11,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Robert Wuthnow

Pushback By the turn of the millennium, then, anyone casually familiar with polls about religion would have known at least three indisputable facts. First, evangelicals, more so than mainline Protestants ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 11,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Dr Donald Johanson & Kate Wong [Johanson, Dr Donald]

Zeresenay Alemseged removing stone matrix from the 3.3-million-year-old Dikika baby at the National Museum of Ethiopia. (Photograph by Don Johanson) Excavation and screening at A.L. 444, the site of discovery ...
( Category: Evolution April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-25 | Author:David M. Friedman

Lindbergh soon made similar arguments elsewhere. In November 1939, an article he wrote, “Aviation, Geography and Race,” appeared in America’s best-selling magazine, Reader’s Digest. The racial views of Carrel—particularly those ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Edward Dolnick [Dolnick, Edward]

High in the mountains, mission nearly accomplished, the gold-seekers paused for breath. Langworthy was drunk on scenery and accomplishment. “Bewildered and lost amidst the boundless expanse,” he gazed in awe ...
( Category: Americas April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Carol Ann Lee

Chapter Six ‘I am afraid of prison cells and concentration camps…’ Anne Frank, Diary, 12 March 1944 Whilst the Frank family were in hiding, the expulsion of the Netherlands’ Jewish ...
( Category: World April 11,2018 )