History

Inspired by decolonial thinking, this book challenges romantic images of Y Wladfa, the Welsh Patagonian settlement founded in 1865.

The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by.

Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years.

To meet William Morgan is to encounter the eighteenth-century world of finance, science and politics.

The Glossa Ordinaria, the medieval glossed Bible first printed in 1480/81, has been a rich source of biblical commentary for centuries.

The stories of what happened after the shooting stopped and the process of burying bodies in the wake of Civil War carnage and chaos.

The purpose of the book is to give visitors to the medieval castles of Wales a concise but informative description of the main publicly accessible sites in a convenient format.

"e;Walter Edge is a terribly dangerous guy to sit down with in a back room.

This book identifies antipathy as an emotion of key concern in Victorian literature and culture by studying discourses and representations of antipathy in fictional and non-fictional texts.

By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires.

The sea chest with four hundred pounds sterling cleverly hidden in a secret compartment rested abandoned on the quay as the square-rigger put out from England in a freshening breeze.

The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as 'Rebeccaism' or 'the Rebecca riots', stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat.

The Benben Stone is one of the most important and least understood artifacts in ancient history.

When the South bombarded Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Ellithorpe family in rural New York answered President Lincoln's call to defend the Union.

In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences.

History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks.

From sports to politics, food to finance, aviation to engineering, to bitter disputes over simple boundaries themselves, New England's feuds have peppered the region's life for centuries.

(Vitruvius: The First Teacher of Architecture)While historians consider the Greek philosopher Plato the first theorist of urban planning, many believe that the Roman Vitruvius was the first theorist of architecture.

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.

The first person of color to serve as vice president, Charles Curtis was once a household name but has become a footnote in American history.

This volume is broadly divided into two main sections.

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!

Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.

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For one hundred years Scottish medical explorers were at the forefront of exploration within the British Empire, as exemplified by these five individuals.

Home Life in Germany by Mrs.

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History of Europe - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 2,0, University of Birmingham, language: English, abstract: I.

Gangsters, aviators, hard-boiled detectives, gunslingers, jazz and images of the American metropolis were all an inextricable part of the cultural landscape of interwar France.

'Fascinating' - The New Yorker'A cracking read' - The London Standard'Delightfully readable' - The Wall Street Journal'Intricate and layered' - Financial Times'Engaging .

This is a major contribution to the study of medieval Wales by a group of outstanding British historians, writing in honour of one of Wales s most distinguished scholars and the biographer of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

"e;An engaging and often frightening story"e; of a member of the 305th Engineering Battalion of the 80th Infantry Division (Andrew Z.

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"e;An exhaustive compilation of first-hand accounts of the Gettysburg battlefield in the days, weeks, and months following the fight .

Eleven men who signed the Declaration of Independence were documented or plausible Freemasons.

This book argues that Nietzsche's political thought and his own proposed model of governance is Bonapartist in conception: autocratic will in the guise of popular rule.

Pennsylvania LighthousesThere are 4 historic Lighthouses surviving in Pennsylvania and they are found in beautiful settings.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2025 AND A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A dazzlingly inventive work of literature Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir' James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral _____________________________________________________________________At the heart of this book is a highway.

The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by.

How does an organized criminal syndicate successfully empty an impregnable, heavily fortified national cash depot of fifty-three million pounds?

Winner of the 2024 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History.

Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia.

In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.

This book features cutting, edge, interdisciplinary research on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by established and new scholars from across the world.

This book maps the rise of right-wing parties across three European sub-regions - the Nordic countries, the Visegrád Four, and Western Europe - and examines their growing impact on domestic politics and European integration.

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Some know Oklahomas Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow erathis is only part of the story.

This book identifies antipathy as an emotion of key concern in Victorian literature and culture by studying discourses and representations of antipathy in fictional and non-fictional texts.