For over three thousand years, ancient Egypt stood as one of the most extraordinary civilizations in human history-a land of pyramids and pharaohs, gods and hieroglyphs, empire and endurance.
This book explores the relationship between the justice system and local society at a time when the Industrial Revolution was changing the characteristics of mid Wales.
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes' remains one of the enduring, and most stirring, quotations of the Revolutionary War, and it was very likely uttered at the Battle of Bunker Hill by General Israel Putnam.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER His storytelling is vivid, humorous, and refreshingly honest' DUA LIPA'Compelling, wry, self-aware, genuinely endearing' THE GUARDIAN A ride you have to take ZANE LOWE A heartfelt love letter to a bygone era BBC The most life-affirming coming-of-age story I ve read in an age' PETE PAPHIDESDISCOVER MARK RONSON S ELECTRIFYING MEMOIR ABOUT HIS DJ DAYS IN 90s NEW YORKMark Ronson was born a night person.
History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XIII by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedmans Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.
"e;Urban Culture in Medieval Wales"e; is a collection of articles that examine towns and urban life as part of the cultural fabric of late-medieval Wales.
In the years immediately following the Civil War the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them.
North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the most dramatic episodes of piracy and sea warfare in the nations history.
Reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play, Shattering the Glass is a sweeping chronicle of womens basketball in the United States.
Nach dem Krieg zunächst verfemt, gewann Ernst Jünger erneut an Popularität, die Lübke, Heuss und Kohl vielleicht sinnfälliger einte als Heiner Müller und Joschka Fischer, die sich ebenfalls emphatisch auf ihn bezogen und seinen intellektuellen Einfluss betonten.
Organized and trained during 1943, the 10th SS Panzer Division saw its first action in the spring of 1944 during the relief of an encircled German army on the Eastern Front.
Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Masterand His Legacy of White Supremacy focuses on the white men who composed the antebellum southern planter class in the period of 1830-1861.
Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales, Richard Price (1723-91) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human race.
'Absolutely mesmerising' - Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The LambAtonement meets Weyward in this striking historical debut from new talent Laura Evans about queer love, privilege and the intoxicating dangers of embracing the wild .
Als im Februar 1637 die Tulpenmarkte von Haarlem und Amsterdam zusammenbrachen, war die wirtschaftliche Katastrophe fur viele Handwerker und Kleinhandler total - doch die kulturelle Reaktion war ebenso aufschlussreich wie der Crash selbst.
The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present.
A ground-breaking volume which examins material in three languages - Welsh, English and Cherokee (Dsalagi) - while discussing different aspects of the missionary work of two Welsh Baptists who lived and worked amongst the native American tribe.
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.
Bestselling classic with historical accounts, full-color vintage images, and a selection of recipes from Pennsylvanias Christmas past Originally published in 1959 and written by one of the seminal figures in American folklife studies, this classic work examines the folk origins of Christmas in the Keystone State.
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.
The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present.
Bestselling classic with historical accounts, full-color vintage images, and a selection of recipes from Pennsylvanias Christmas past Originally published in 1959 and written by one of the seminal figures in American folklife studies, this classic work examines the folk origins of Christmas in the Keystone State.
It Happened in Delaware takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the First State's storied past.
History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume I by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.
It Happened in Delaware takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the First State's storied past.
Monstrous textuality emerges when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein reflect the monstrous in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance, and allows writers to meta-narratively reflect their own poetics and textual production, and reclaim authority over their work under circumstances of systemic cultural oppression and Othering.
This first comprehensive anthology examining Jewish responses to exile from the biblical period to our modern day gathers texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity to explore how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Judaism, Jewish politics, and individual Jewish identity for millennia.
