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The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)) by Barbara B. Diefendorf
azw3 |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Barbara B. Diefendorf [Diefendorf, Barbara B.]

As you can imagine, news of the event caused great excitement, especially at court. Everyone supposed it had been done by order of the duke of Guise to avenge his ...
( Category: France March 5,2023 )
Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan by Curtis Anderson Gayle
epub |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Curtis Anderson Gayle [Gayle, Curtis Anderson]

The role of Shinozaki Masaru and the Modern History Institute Like the examples of Tokyo and Nagoya, in Ehime too we find a prototype history-writing organization from within which the ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 5,2023 )
The Workhouse System, 1834 1929: The History of an English Social Institution by M. A. Crowther
epub |eng | 1983-09-01 | Author:M. A. Crowther [Crowther, M. A.]

( Category: other March 5,2023 )
The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 3: Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by HMS Beagle (1839) by Paul H Barrett
epub |eng | 2016-06-03 | Author:Paul H Barrett [Barrett, Paul H]

NOTES 1 Dampier’s Voyage, vol. i, p. 101. 2 Both Charles and James Islands take their names from the Stuarts. See Cowley’s Voyage in 1684. 3 Magazine of Zoology and ...
( Category: African History March 5,2023 )
Writing History for the King by Charity Urbanski
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Charity Urbanski [Urbanski, Charity]

CHAPTER 4 The Chronique des ducs de Normandie Sometime around 1174, Henry II transferred the commission for a history of his Norman ancestors from Wace to Benoît de Sainte-Maure.1 Obviously ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 5,2023 )
The Work of History by Kalle Pihlainen
epub |eng | 2017-09-22 | Author:Kalle Pihlainen [Pihlainen, Kalle]

The Seepage of Reality into Story Where textual differences between genres are admittedly hard to pin down, there is, for history writing as contrasted to literary creation, a definitive difference ...
( Category: Study & Teaching March 5,2023 )
Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe by David S. Bachrach Bernard S. Bachrach
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:David S. Bachrach, Bernard S. Bachrach [David S. Bachrach, Bernard S. Bachrach]

Military households of magnates Bruno routinely identifies by name numerous magnates, both secular and ecclesiastical, who served in the armies of both Henry IV and of his opponents. Bruno also ...
( Category: History March 5,2023 )
The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 2: Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by HMS Beagle (1839) by Paul H Barrett
epub |eng | 2016-06-03 | Author:Paul H Barrett [Barrett, Paul H]

Notes 1 The bizcacha (Calomys bizcacha) somewhat resembles a large rabbit, but with bigger gnawing teeth and a long tail: it has, however, only three toes behind, like the agouti. ...
( Category: History March 5,2023 )
Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance by Mary Spongberg
epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:Mary Spongberg [Spongberg, Mary]

The European Experience Europe was slower in advancing the cause of women’s education and opposition to women’s higher education was both more widespread and more entrenched, as older universities with ...
( Category: History March 5,2023 )
Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England by Paul Cavill Alexandra Gajda
epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Paul Cavill, Alexandra Gajda [Paul Cavill, Alexandra Gajda]

Chapter 6 Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament Ian W. Archer Chronicles, annalistic in form and eclectic in content, remained the dominant form of historical writing for much of Elizabeth’s reign, only ...
( Category: 16th Century March 5,2023 )
Writing History in Late Imperial Russia: Scholarship and the Literary Canon by Frances Nethercott
epub |eng | 2019-12-26 | Author:Frances Nethercott [Nethercott, Frances]

8 Historical and Literary Historical Scholarship: A Hybrid Science? Across Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century, conventional wisdom had it that folklore is deeply, even uniquely, expressive ...
( Category: Historiography March 5,2023 )
The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
epub |eng | 2018-05-23 | Author:Flavius Josephus [Josephus, Flavius]

CHAPTER 10. How Taricheae Was Taken. A Description Of The River Jordan, And Of The Country Of Gennesareth. 1. And now Vespasian pitched his camp between this city and Taricheae, ...
( Category: History March 5,2023 )
What Isn't History? by Ian Mortimer
epub |eng | 2017-04-09 | Author:Ian Mortimer [Mortimer, Ian]

9. Historical Novelists Should Not Be Ashamed of Telling Lies [First published in BBC History (July 2010), p. 47] It can hardly have escaped notice that a number of historians ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 5,2023 )
Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History Vol.2 by Robert Aldrich Garry Wotherspoon
epub |eng | 2005-07-25 | Author:Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon [Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon]

Khumalo, Thokozile [MaThoko] (1947– 93), South African activist. Thokozile Khumalo or MaThoko, as she was affectionately known to the township youth of KwaThema, played an important role in gay and ...
( Category: Lesbian Studies March 5,2023 )
What Does History Teach? by John Stuart Blackie
epub |eng | 2017-09-03 | Author:John Stuart Blackie [Blackie, John Stuart]

FOOTNOTES. [1] Plutarch conjugalia præcepta init. RETURN [2] The word clan is the familiar, well-known Celtic word for children. RETURN [3] “Nulli alii sunt homines qui talem in liberos habeant ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 5,2023 )

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