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Book Synopsis Beyond Britannia by : Simon McDonald
Download or read book Beyond Britannia written by Simon McDonald and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for a new approach to foreign policy in the United Kingdom. What should the future of British foreign policy look like? For too long, successive governments have shied away from acknowledging uncomfortable truths about the decline of Britain’s military capabilities. As we approach the middle years of the twenty-first century, a new set of urgent and daunting challenges lie ahead, including climate change, technological development, the rise of AI, and a growing threat from China. The need for us to reconcile ourselves with our position in the world has never been more acute. In Beyond Britannia: Reshaping UK Foreign Policy, Simon McDonald persuasively argues that the United Kingdom’s significant soft-power strengths can be harnessed to expand its international influence. Such a shift will only be possible, he says, if we first acknowledge the challenges of Brexit and the need to reduce our unrealistic hard-power ambitions. Excellence in areas that other countries care about will keep the United Kingdom internationally relevant in the second half of the century in a way that nostalgia for a lost pre-eminence will not.
Book Synopsis The History of Little England Beyond Wales by : Edward Laws
Download or read book The History of Little England Beyond Wales written by Edward Laws and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britannia AD 43 written by Nic Fields and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous mystique. To the soldiers crossing the Oceanus Britannicus in the late summer of AD 43, the prospect of invading an island believed to be on its periphery must have meant a mixture of panic and promise. These men were part of a formidable army of four veteran legions (II Augusta, VIIII Hispana, XIIII Gemina, XX Valeria), which had been assembled under the overall command of Aulus Plautius Silvanus. Under him were, significantly, first-rate legionary commanders, including the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus. With the auxiliary units, the total invasion force probably mounted to around 40,000 men, but having assembled at Gessoriacum (Boulogne) they refused to embark. Eventually, the mutinous atmosphere was dispelled, and the invasion fleet sailed in three contingents. So, ninety-seven years after Caius Iulius Caesar, the Roman army landed in south-eastern Britannia. After a brisk summer campaign, a province was established behind a frontier zone running from what is now Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast to the Humber estuary. Though the territory overrun during the first campaign season was undoubtedly small, it laid the foundations for the Roman conquest which would soon begin to sweep across Britannia. In this highly illustrated and detailed title, Nic Fields tells the full story of the invasion which established the Romans in Britain, explaining how and why the initial Claudian invasion succeeded and what this meant for the future of Britain.
Book Synopsis British Road Book by : Cyclists' Touring Club
Download or read book British Road Book written by Cyclists' Touring Club and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Road Book ...: The south midland counties, Wales and East Anglia, comp. and ed. by F.W. Cook. 2d and rev. ed by : Cyclists' Touring Club
Download or read book British Road Book ...: The south midland counties, Wales and East Anglia, comp. and ed. by F.W. Cook. 2d and rev. ed written by Cyclists' Touring Club and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain by : Martin Millett
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain written by Martin Millett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes at the beginning and end of the Roman period. The majority of the chapters are thematic, dealing with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns. This Handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology. The book will be useful for academics and students interested in Roman Britain.
Download or read book Cool Britannia written by Adam Watson and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool BritanniaSnowier times in 1580-1930 than sinceGlobal warming and climate change have become headline news in recent years. Climate, however, has always changed. Thick ice covered most of Britain in the last Ice Age, and prehistoric man thrived during a warm climate after the ice melted. In a later warm period the Vikings farmed in Greenland, but then came the cold of the Little Ice Age for several centuries up to the mid 1800s. Climatologists in the 1900s noted some old writings that told of more snow in northern Europe then, including Britain. For this authoritative new book, the most experienced observer of British snow patches has combined forces with the keenest recent enthusiast who has stimulated many new voluntary observers. A factual review, it gives more evidence of a colder snowier Britain in the 1580s to early 1900s than since 1930. The most comprehensive historical account yet published for snow patches on British hills, it also collates for the lowlands much evidence that was previously unpublished or in obscure, little-known sources. The authors recount a few past extraordinary cases of severe snow affecting British folk, even in lowland southern England. Their verbatim quotations from early writers give a remarkably live impression, so that readers feel they are out in the cold with these pioneers of long ago. The modern scientific evidence is clear that the cool centuries described by the authors for Britain also affected the rest of Europe and indeed all other continents across the globe. Hence this book will be of interest to many readers far beyond Britannia.AuthorsAdam Watson, BSc, PhD, DSc, DUniv, raised in lowland Aberdeenshire, is a retired research ecologist aged 80. He began lifelong interests on winter snow in 1937, snow patches in 1938, the Cairngorms in 1939. A mountaineer and ski-mountaineer since boyhood, he has experienced Scotland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, mainland Canada, Newfoundland, Baffin Island, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Vancouver Island and Alaska. His main research was and is on population biology, behaviour and habitat of northern birds and mammals. In retirement he has contributed 16 scientific publications on snow patches since 1994. He is a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Royal Meteorological Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Society of Biology. Since 1954 he has been a member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club and since 1968 author of the Club's District Guide to the Cairngorms.Iain Cameron, 37, was brought up in lowland Renfrewshire, and works as an environmental, safety and health manager. Since 2007 he has been a co-author with Adam Watson on the annual snow-patch paper published by the Royal Meteorological Society in their scientific journal Weather. Although living in south-east England, he spends many weekends each summer and autumn in the Scottish Highlands, doing detailed fieldwork on snow patches. During preparation of this book, he inspected works by early authors at the British Library, and visited sites in lowland England where early writers reported extraordinary summer snow patches. Since 2008 he has stimulated and coordinated many new voluntary observers of snow patches across Britain. Through them, he contributed the first comprehensive note on snow patches in England and Wales in summer 2010, published in Weather.
Book Synopsis The Isle Beyond Time by : L. Warren Douglas
Download or read book The Isle Beyond Time written by L. Warren Douglas and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD AND EVIL... She defeated a demon and imprisoned a mad druid in a crystal serpent's egg. She changed the course of history, and never doubted which side she was on. Now the rules have changed. In the shifting landscapes Celts call the otherworld, friends may be foes, good deeds yield evil results, and childhood fantasies become adult nightmares. Braving pillaging Vikings on the Loire, battling a crazy sorcerer in the Broceliande forest, and confronting the nine Gallicenae, druidesses who rule the Isle of the Dead, the only friend Pierrette can trust may be the Evil one himself, the Eater of Gods. And now the last battle looms, a battle in which Pierrette, she who would save the Past and the Future, can trust no one and nothing, not even the devil she thought she knew. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). [The Sacred Pool, first of Pierrette's adventures is] "Immensely readable and elegantly simple in execution . . . this vivid reimagining of Western humanity's turbid adolescence engages, enchants and enthralls." ¾Publishers Weekly [starred review] "[Simply Human is] highly entertaining and full of action ... a divertingly strange future, one that should appeal equally to fans of sf and fantasy adventure." ¾Locus
Book Synopsis Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers by : Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez
Download or read book Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers written by Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology brings renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and ‘barbarians’ in the north-western regions of Europe. Northern Europe has become an interesting arena of academic debate around the topics of Roman imperialism and Roman:‘barbarian’ interactions, as these areas comprised Roman provincial territories, the northern frontier system of the Roman Empire (limes), the vorlimes (or buffer zone), and the distant barbaricum. This area is, today, host to several modern European nations with very different historical and academic discourses on their Roman past, a factor in the recent tendency towards the fragmentation of approaches and the application of post-colonial theories that have favoured the advent of a varied range of theoretical alternatives. Case studies presented here span across disciplines and territories, from American anthropological studies on transcultural discourse and provincial organization in Gaul, to historical approaches to the propagandistic use of the limes in the early 20th century German empire; from Danish research on warrior identities and Roman-Scandinavian relations, to innovative ideas on culture contact in Roman Ireland; and from new views on Romano-Germanic relations in Central European Barbaricum, to a British comparative exercise on frontier cultures. The volume is framed by a brilliant theoretical introduction by Prof. Richard Hingley and a comprehensive concluding discussion by Prof. David Mattingly.
Book Synopsis Britannia: Or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland ... Written in Latin ... and Translated Into English ... the Second Edition by : William Camden
Download or read book Britannia: Or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland ... Written in Latin ... and Translated Into English ... the Second Edition written by William Camden and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Roman Small Towns in Eastern England and Beyond by : Anthony Ernest Brown
Download or read book Roman Small Towns in Eastern England and Beyond written by Anthony Ernest Brown and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 19 papers from a conference held at Knutston Hall in December 1992. Papers include: Roman small towns and medieval small towns; the plan of Romano-British Baldock, Hertfordshire and new thoughts on town defences in the western territory of the Catuvellauni.
Book Synopsis More Adventures with Britannia by : William Roger Louis
Download or read book More Adventures with Britannia written by William Roger Louis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, 1984, Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, among others.
Book Synopsis A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression by : Jocelyn Harris
Download or read book A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression written by Jocelyn Harris and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origins for Persuasion -- The reviser at work : MS chapter 10 to chapters X-XI (1818) -- At the White Hart : MS chapter 11 to chapter XII (1818) -- The history of Buonaparte -- Domestic virtues and national importance -- A critique on Walter Scott -- Prejudice on the side of ancestry -- The worth of Lyme -- The white glare of Bath -- Conclusion: Meaning to have spring again.
Book Synopsis Britannia's children by : Kathryn A Castle
Download or read book Britannia's children written by Kathryn A Castle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Roman Pottery Studies in Britain and Beyond by : John Dore
Download or read book Roman Pottery Studies in Britain and Beyond written by John Dore and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1977 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events by :
Download or read book Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of the British Poets: Young, Gray, West, R., Lyttleton, Moore, Boyse, Thompson, Cawthorn, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham, Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, Whitehead, P., Brown, Grainger, Smollett, and Armstrong by : Robert Anderson
Download or read book The Works of the British Poets: Young, Gray, West, R., Lyttleton, Moore, Boyse, Thompson, Cawthorn, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham, Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, Whitehead, P., Brown, Grainger, Smollett, and Armstrong written by Robert Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
