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Die Expansion Englands uber den Atlantik beruhte nicht allein auf Handel, sondern auf juristischen Experimenten und kontrollierter Gewalt.

Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period.

Insubordinate Spirit is a unique exploration into the life of Elizabeth Winthrop and other seventeenth-century English Puritans who emigrated to the rough, virtually untouched wilderness of present-day New England.

From 1875 to the present day, the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association has been the representative body for shipowners in Cardiff and other Bristol Channel ports.

True Tales from the Palmetto State's Pastfrom the ghostly Gray Man to the return of the H.

Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions delves into the transformative effects of World War II and the Cold War on Latin America's political and social landscape.

Slow down, breathe deep, and walk with Dr.

Many books have focused on the rise of, and success of, the Labour party in Wales, but this one focuses on its decline in an understudied part of Wales.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the role of museums in providing an enabling environment for Arab children.

Diese Untersuchung erhellt die Adern der verborgenen Reinheit, die Cholera-Epidemien durch stadtisches Leben treiben und moderne Gesundheitsinfrastrukturen erzwingen - ein Puls, der Verschmutzung in Ordnung wandelt.

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California.

This modern history of Gibraltar updates and enhances scholarship on the Rock's history by bringing together the author's extensive archival research and developments in the secondary literature surrounding British Gibraltar.

Human civilisation was not just created by humans: we had the help of many creatures, and foremost among these were sheep.

In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: that he could safely walk across the postCivil War Southalone, unarmed, with no moneywhile carrying the flag of the United States.

Panzers Forward collects photos of all varieties of German armor, from the smaller tanks of the early war to the gigantic Tigers that came later, on all frontsNorth Africa, Sicily and Italy, France, and of course the Eastern Front.

Before the Roads, Before the Mines is a narrative-based ethnohistory of a Denesulin community, also known as the Chipewyan, Kesyehotine, or Poplar House People.

The architectural history of Troy House in Monmouthshire is positioned at the centre of this extensive new research volume, to support a consideration of how the surrounding land was refashioned over time.

A timely and up-to-date history of a place and people embroiled in an enduring international dispute.

This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain.

A biography of John Morris-Jones (1864-1929), Welsh grammarian, academic and poet.

The story of London has been told many times, in many different ways.

The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and unsettling periods in European history, with the shock-waves of the French Revolution rippling around the world.

This book, based on extensive first-hand research conducted between 2020 and 2024, places “Russian antiquity” in the center of analysis, and addresses memory-making in the regions.

History of Civilization in England Vol.

The Armchair General team has done it again.

In the spring of 40 CE, two noblewomen raised a flag at the confluence of two rivers and changed the course of Vietnamese history.

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in this all-new addition to the best-selling Spooky series.

Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions delves into the transformative effects of World War II and the Cold War on Latin America's political and social landscape.

In 1986, eight-year-old Eddie Lau's father pulled him from a bed that smelled of mothballs and Tiger Balm to see Halley's Comet over Malaysia.

It is widely believed that the employment of children underground in coal mines ended in 1842.

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 75 Punkte = 1,7, The University of Liverpool (School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology), course: Ancient Warfare, language: English, abstract: (.

Gegenwart und Zukunft - Generationenwandel - Anpassung und AusbruchEinige Lander in Ost-, Mittel- und Sudosteuropa sehen sich vor allem durch die Uberalterung herausgefordert.

The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain.

For centuries, the Gaetuli were reduced to a footnote in Roman history — the primitive nomads at the edge of the empire's maps, briefly troublesome, quickly forgotten.

Beneath the sands of Middle Kingdom Egypt, in the quiet chambers of painted coffins, the Egyptians inscribed the words of eternity.

Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists.

The aim of this volume is to tell a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales.

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages?

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David was originally founded in 1822 as St David's College, Lampeter.

August 2025 and 2026 will mark the beginning of something irreversible.

Across the shifting sands of ancient Egypt, one divine figure stood as the eternal guardian of the sky and the living symbol of kingship: Horus, the mighty falcon god.

The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration.

This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures.

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt.

Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War recounts the fall of some of the most famous, infamous, and underappreciated commanders from both the North and South.

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the groups rise with startling acuity.

Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins.

Political prophecy was a common mode of literature in the British Isles and much of Europe from the Middle Ages to at least as late as the Renaissance.