Archive For The “Great Britain” Category
By David Else
ISBN-10: 1741045657
ISBN-13: 9781741045659
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By Robert Leach (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0135181763
ISBN-13: 9780135181768
ISBN-10: 0333739175
ISBN-13: 9780333739174
ISBN-10: 1301331341
ISBN-13: 9781301331345
ISBN-10: 1349149098
ISBN-13: 9781349149094
By Diana Mitford (Lady Mosley)
ISBN-10: 1908096144
ISBN-13: 9781908096142
A consummate author and intimate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Diana Mosley was once a widespread visitor at their events in Paris or at 'the Moulin' in Orsay, the place they have been neighbours. Written in her inimitable sort - archly clever, witty and perceptive - Diana Mosley paints a outstanding portrait of her buddy that's either tremendous life-like and practical just about her flaws. What was once it that totally captivated the inheritor to the throne and made him resign it in order that he may perhaps by no means be parted from her? it's this question which Diana Mosley seeks to respond to and which she might be greater certified to reply to than somebody else, given her love of her husband Sir Oswald Mosley, chief of the British Fascists.
By John Tomedi
ISBN-10: 0791078361
ISBN-13: 9780791078365
ISBN-10: 0791083829
ISBN-13: 9780791083826
Offers info on Dublin. This advisor contains an advent by way of esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom; a close literary and cultural background of the town, describing its improvement from the time of the Gaelic-speaking Celts via its turbulent fight to discover a feeling of self; colour illustrations of literary landmarks, and extra.
By kustaa Multamaki
ISBN-10: 9514108612
ISBN-13: 9789514108617
By Michael McNally
ISBN-10: 0841768919
ISBN-13: 9780841768918
Книга Osprey crusade №160. conflict of the Boyne 1690 Osprey crusade №160. conflict of the Boyne 1690 Книги Исторические Автор: M.McNally Формат: pdf Издат.:Osprey Страниц: ninety eight Размер: forty seven Mb ISBN: 084176 891 five Язык: Английский0 (голосов: zero) Оценка:Сериявоенных книгCampaign от Osprey.
By Gwen Raverat
ISBN-10: 0571067425
ISBN-13: 9780571067428
'A drawing of the area whilst i used to be young.' So Gwen Raverat, the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, defined interval Piece, her vintage memoir of a Cambridge early life, which for the reason that its preliminary e-book in 1952 hasn't ever been out of print. Vividly evoking a bygone period, it's a clever, touching and comedian portrait of her eccentric family members, and of Cambridge society in a time while it used to be constrained adequate to be taken care of as an extension of the relations. As a toddler she inspiration it most unlikely that she might ever be successful as an artist, and but the observations of the small incidents in her existence, recorded the following either in observe and drawing, show an artist's cautious eye.
By Michael Zell
ISBN-10: 0511522894
ISBN-13: 9780511522895
ISBN-10: 0521445418
ISBN-13: 9780521445412
ISBN-10: 0521893062
ISBN-13: 9780521893060
Within the nation-state is a wide-ranging and readable research of the character of producing ahead of the commercial Revolution. It examines the widely-debated conception of 'proto-industrialisation', drawing on info from the Kentish Weald - a space which used to be already a centre of cottage within the Tudor period and used to be additionally the earliest rural production zone to 'de-industrialise'. The ebook analyses the Wealden fabric from its group to its industrialists and emphasises the ubiquity of twin employment between cloth employees. It explores the neighborhood context of cottage undefined, investigating the trend of landholding and inheritance, the neighborhood farming regime, and the demographic heritage to rural industrialisation. Zell outlines what form of neighborhood financial system grew to become the positioning of this so-called 'proto-industry' and indicates the influence of cottage at the humans of such areas. He concludes by means of asking, is there something within the 'proto-industrialisation' version?
By Edward Barzillai Powley
ISBN-10: 0511708777
ISBN-13: 9780511708770
ISBN-10: 1108013392
ISBN-13: 9781108013390
First released in 1928, this used to be one of many first in-depth reviews to enquire why the English military used to be not able to avoid William of Orange's invasion in 1688. Edward B. Powley argues mixture of undesirable strategic offerings in addition to antagonistic climate, William's so-called 'Protestant wind', ended in the military failing to prevent the Dutch Fleet touchdown, and eventually enabled William to take ownership of the rustic and crown. In a close chronological narrative of naval occasions among the spring of 1687 and February 1689, Powley charts the foremost judgements as documented within the archival list, focusing really at the Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Dartmouth's surviving papers and what they display in regards to the enter of King James II to naval affairs.
By Mary S. Lovell
ISBN-10: 0316732826
ISBN-13: 9780316732826
'There by no means was once a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had both morals or principles', so acknowledged Gladstone. From the 1st Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, stressed empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills were politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of a rare set of fellows and girls - grandly bold, frequently impecunious, impulsive, boastful and courageous. And towering above the Churchill extended family is the determine of Winston - his disasters and his triumphs proven in a brand new and revealing context - finally our 'greatest Briton'.