812 results for "History"

Monarchy and matrimony: the courtships of Elizabeth I

Doran, Susan
Monarchy and Matrimony is the first comprehensive study of Elizabeth I's courtships. Susan Doran argues that the cult of the `Virgin Queen' was invented by her ministers, and that Elizabeth was forced into celibacy by political necessity. Doran's detailed examination of the different suits is based on extensive archival research across Europe. Rather than focusing on Elizabeth's personality and image, she views the question within a wider political and religious context. She shows how the question of Elizabeth's marriage was divisive for England, affecting both political life and international relations, and provoking popular propaganda in the form of plays, poetry and paintings.
Routledge 1996 279 pages

Year book of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel in the city of New York, 5668-1908

New York Congregation Shearith Israel
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Nabu Press 2010-08-09 36 pages

Oliver Cromwell, the Protector An Appreciation Based on Contemporary Evidence

Reginald F. D. Palgrave
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Creative Media Partners, LLC 2015-11-18 398 pages

Parliamentary Socialism: Study in the Politics of Labour

Miliband, Ralph
Good plus/Good minus. First Edition Hardcover. No marks or inscriptions. Very clean very tight pages with unmarked black cloth boards, tanned and dusty page edges, slight fraying to top of spine and bumping to upper corners. Well-sunned dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with some rubbing and with nicks to spine ends. 356pp. Scarce First Edition of the anaysis of where Britain's Labour Party was politically around 1960 and how its leaders had dealt with the problems they had faced. It also covers Left wing minority groups.
George Allen & Unwin 1961 356 pages

Grundlagen Der Analysis...

Moritz Pasch
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
HardPress 2013-12 158 pages

Under crescent and cross: the Jews in the Middle Ages

Cohen, Mark R.
Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom--and the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, though not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and Jews in the West. Under Crescent and Cross has been translated into Turkish, Hebrew, German, Arabic, French, and Spanish, and its historic message continues to be relevant across continents and time. This updated edition, which contains an important new introduction and afterword by the author, serves as a great companion to the original.
Princeton University Press 2008-08-24 296 pages

What you did not tell: a Russian past and the journey home

Mazower, Mark
"In a tribute to his late father, British historian Mark Mazower traces his family's story from the end of the nineteenth century to today, beginning with his grandfather Mordkhel Mazower's birth in the town of Grodno, part of the Pale of Settlement to which the majority of the Russian Empire's Jews were confined. An activist and member of the Communist Bund, Mordkhel--who later assumed the more European name "Max"--Travelled widely in the years surrounding the Revolution before ultimately settling in England, where his son would live his entire life"--
Allen Lane 2017 379 pages

What you did not tell: a Russian past and the journey home

Mazower, Mark
SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir' Guardian Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht . His British father was the lucky one, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who settled in London after escaping the civil war and revolution. Max, the grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the barricades against tsarist troops, but never spoke of it. His wife, Frouma, came from a family ravaged by the Great Terror yet somehow making their way in Soviet society. In the centenary of the Russian Revolution, What You Did Not Tell recounts a brand of socialism erased from memory - humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its sympathies. But it also explores the unexpected happiness that may await history's losers, the power of friendship, and the love of place that allowed Max and Frouma's son to call England home.
Penguin Books 2018-07-05 400 pages

Barbarians at the Gate

Woolf, Leonard
Originally published in the 1930s. An examination of the political powers in Europe and beyond. " This book was written before the conclusion of the treaty between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany and before the outbreak of the war. Its general argument and conclusions seem to me to be confirmed by these events and I have therefore left the text exactly as it was written, even though in some sentences present tenses have now become past, Presidents, ex-Presidents, and probabilities certainties." Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include The World We Live In Anatomy of Civilization The Choice Before Us
Hesperides Pr 2006 224 pages

The Panama Canal Conflict Between Great Britain

Oppenheim, Lassa
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
BiblioLife 2009 66 pages

Walking with the light: from Frankfurt to Finchley

Wittenberg, Jonathan
In 2010, with his dog Mitzpah by his side, Rabbi Wittenberg walked from his grandfather's Frankfurt synagogue to his own, in Finchley, carrying the Ner Tamid - its Eternal Light - to co-shine forever in the newly built synagogue in North London. A film crew covered most of the trip and even Mitzpah wrote a blog, describing his experiences on the epic journey. Colleagues and friends accompanied them for some of the route and their discussions also contributed insights into the spiritual, social and political concerns that occupied the Rabbi's thoughts as he continued to meet many people along the way. Readers of Jonathan Wittenberg's other books already know the humane, insightful and often profound observations and thoughts that preoccupy him. Walking with the Light: From Frankfurt to Finchley will both delight and stimulate a whole new audience. Few religious writers can combine the humour and incidence of walking across northern Europe with cogent arguments for moral justice, a process perhaps to accept Europe's horrific past and show why a belief that tolerance and true understanding of the past is the only way to improve the future.--Amazon.com.
Quartet 2013 306 pages

The Willy-nicky Correspondence

Herman Bernstein
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Creative Media Partners, LLC 2022-10-27 164 pages