Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own dynastic interests and those of her daughter took precedence over her personal and religious convictions.
From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling stories.
From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling stories.
From humble beginnings at Fairlie, Ayrshire, in the early years of the nineteenth century, William Fife and Son grew to become one of Britain's premier yacht-building yards, attracting commissions from as far afield as America, Canada and America.
Das Havelland findet Erwähnung in einem der berühmtesten Gedichte Theodor Fontanes – doch es hat noch viel mehr zu bieten als nur Herrn von Ribbeck und seinen Birnbaum.
Der vierte Teil der "Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg" führt Theodor Fontane durch die idyllischen Landschaften und malerischen Dörfer entlang der Spree.
Im finalen Band der "Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg" dreht sich alles um die fünf Schlösser Quitzöbel, Plaue, Hoppenrade, Liebenberg und Dreilinden.
In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agriculture, education, the Church and, of course, emigration.
In 'Hebridean Sharker' Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter of basking sharks in the waters of the Minch, between the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
This collection brings together thirteen criminal cases from County Durham's past that shocked not only the county but also made headline news across the country.
A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire is a collection of stories from the county's past, some bizarre, some fascinating, some macabre, but all equally absorbing.
Wales is a Celtic country and the Celts have always treasured oral learning and recitation, with a passion for committing facts to memory rather than the written word.
This book inquires into what Americans mean when they call the United States a middle-class nation and why the vast majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class.
When Governor John Winthrop established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, he commenced a tradition of public service in which his family would participate for almost a century.
The purpose of this book is to highlight the most important documentary evidence available to the family historian wishing to research their Irish ancestry.
The purpose of this book is to highlight the most important documentary evidence available to the family historian wishing to research their Irish ancestry.
In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well.
Against the background of a distinctive Lowland society transformed by commercializing and Anglicizing influences in the years after Scotland's union with England, the author traces the establishment of the East Jersey colony in 1683 and its spread westward to incorporate the whole of the New York to Philadelphia corridor.
In this second volume Constance Green describes the development of the local community, its citizens and institutions, through the years following World War II.
After victorious federal troops swept through southern Louisiana in 1862, the state became the testing ground for Abraham Lincoln's approach to reconstruction, and thus the focal point for the debate over post-war policy in Washington.
Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century.
The City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation's second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley.
