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Considering the minor settlements of England’s Danelawvillages known as thorps or thropsthis history demonstrates how place-name evidence can be used to understand early cultures. By integrating linguistic...
With enormous enthusiasm for the language of ordinary northerners, this scenic portrait of coastal peoples combines history, etymology, and recollections to record a folk culture that strives to survive against...
Questions of boundaries, identities, cultural landscapes, and economic regions are addressed in these 19 essays aimed at academics and students interested in regional history. The recent flourish in regional...
Looking at the history of the North East orchestrathe Northern Sinfoniafrom conception to the present day, this collection contains anecdotes about memorable players, concerts, events, and highlights.
Skinheads, Mods, Teddy Boys, Hell's Angels, Punks, Glory Boys, to name just a fewthis fascinating book is the definitive guide to hooligan history in the UK. It examines who the men behind the cults were,...
A book examining the relations between Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire, preceding and up to the fall of Constantinople in 1204. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org)...
Originally published in 1968, The Revolution of the Dons discusses the role of Cambridge in Victorian England, and how a group of university dons reformed the school. This digital edition was derived from ACLS...
This book tracks the interrelation of monarchy and empire in the development of Germany in the Middle Ages. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online...
An impressive and serious study of one of the most fascinating military campaigns in history.
A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?
“Sprezzatura,”...
A lively, elegantly concise historic tour of Italy’s city by the bay
An invaluable addition to the art of literary travel writing, Naples Declared presents an informative and compulsively readable account...
A study of the underlying economic issues that contributed to France's geopolitical decline, in particular the acceleration after World War I and the inflection point at the financial crisis of 1924. This digital...
Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This...
This book focuses on three authors coming of age at an important moment in Spanish literary history and in world history at large. These authors incorporated into their novels the new ideas that they found in...
In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir...
In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute...
While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people’s revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging...
An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.
Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction...
When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother’ s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of...
As the huge crowd seethed with pent-up excitement, the two deadly enemies studied each other intently, their breath hot behind their visors. Each sought the other’s death as fire and water seek each other’s...