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Author : Hilary L. Rubinstein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Captain Luckless written by Hilary L. Rubinstein and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hilary L. Rubinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Captain Luckless written by Hilary L. Rubinstein and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Nicholls
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581375
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Fleeting Empire written by Andrew Nicholls and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the future of North American rule was decided by the battle between British and French forces on the Plains of Abraham, Britain's emerging imperial interests were represented by ambitious merchants and privateers. A Fleeting Empire examines the lives and exploits of early European adventurers in North America, revealing the murky mix of self-interest, patriotism, and adventure that motivated them. The union of the English and Scottish crowns in 1603 gave rise to a new British seafaring community, which the early Stuart monarchy used to pursue some of the first commercial and colonial ventures in North America. Among those who sailed across the Atlantic were the Kirke brothers, who in 1629 forced Samuel de Champlain's surrender of Quebec, Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, a rising political figure and patentee of Nova Scotia, and James Stewart of Killeith, leader of a colony on Cape Breton Island. King Charles I was more concerned with brokering a peace with France than looking to the new world, so the gains of the merchant adventurers were short-lived, but their adventures provide a tantalizing glimpse of a moment of British colonial control, suggesting what might have been. Andrew Nicholls showcases the enterprises of knights and privateers alike, providing a fascinating account of early European colonies, commerce, and military force in North America. A Fleeting Empire forces us to see the early histories of Canada and the United States in a new light.
Author : John Scally
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
ISBN 13 : 1914481410
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The Polar Star written by John Scally and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st duke of Hamilton played an important role in the politics and life of Britain in the first half of the seventeenth century. Born in 1606 into the Scottish ancient noble family of Hamilton, who enjoyed a blood connection with the royal Stuarts, he was well placed to take full advantage of the union of the crowns in 1603 which opened up substantial opportunities in England and Ireland. The centre of that new world was the recently established Stuart court in London. Following his father, Hamilton entered that courtly world in 1620 at the age of fourteen and was executed on a scaffold outside Whitehall Palace in March 1649. During that period, he was involved in some of the most momentous events in British history, the wars of the three kingdoms and the collapse of the Stuart monarchy. His story casts a distinctive light on the period and allows a fresh account of the slowly unfolding crisis that saw an anointed king put on trial and publicly executed. The book is structured in three parts. Part one is a cluster of five studies concentrating on events in Scotland, England, Ireland and mainland Europe prior to 1638. Part two presents three chapters on Hamilton’s role in the three kingdom crisis between 1637-1643. Part three covers the remarkable final phase in Hamilton’s life detailing the Engagement, defeat at Preston and his execution in London. This biography of the 1st duke cuts a unique and distinctive path through one of the most heavily researched periods in the history of Britain. In a period of kingly personal rule, Hamilton stood at the shoulder of the king, cajoling, persuading and ultimately failing to steer him away from civil war in his kingdoms. The main source for this account is the Hamilton Papers brought into the public domain in the last few decades and used extensively for the first time.
Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book A Day at Laguerre's and Other Days written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (698 download)
Download or read book The London Journal: and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521479585
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The Military Revolution written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of military practice in the West constituted a 'military revolution' which gave Westerners an insurmountable advantage over the peoples of other continents. This edition incorporates new material, including a substantial 'Afterword' which summarises the debate which developed after the book's first publication.
Author : Allen Boyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003846130
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History written by Allen Boyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.
Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345494326
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Walk in Hell (The Great War, Book Two) written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Harry Turtledove [is] probably the best-known practitioner of alternate history working today.”—American Heritage The year is 1915, and the world is convulsing. Though the Confederacy has defeated its northern enemy twice, this time the United States has allied with the Kaiser. In the South, the freed slaves, fueled by Marxist rhetoric and the bitterness of a racist nation, take up the weapons of the Red rebellion. Despite these advantages, the United States remains pinned between Canada and the Confederate States of America, so the bloody conflict continues and grows. Both presidents—Theodore Roosevelt of the Union and staunch Confederate Woodrow Wilson—are stubbornly determined to lead their nations to victory, at any cost. . .
Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134734050
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Thirty Years' War written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It has established itself as the classic text with reviewers, students and the general reader. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information provides an invaluable resource, synthesising the major work in the field, in all languages, up to 1996. Written with great clarity and liveliness, the book brings alive the period in all its aspects. It covers the horrors of the war and the contorted politics of the period. It deals with all the major figures, including Wallerstein and Richelieu, Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly, the Winter King and the Habsburg emperors. For range and depth of coverage there is no other work like it. It has become the definitive book on the subject.
Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Day at Laguerre's, and Other Days, Being Nine Sketches written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Carlton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000875415
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Archbishop William Laud written by Charles Carlton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Archbishop William Laud shows how Laud dragged the English Church, and with it English society, towards a new and radical version of Anglicanism. Carlton presents Laud in the context of his times, showing how closely his personal life and character were woven into his political and religious career. By using Laud’s personal papers, his letters and diary, Carlton draws a psychological profile of this most insecure man. He analyses Laud’s dreams, revealing that both awake and asleep the archbishop was haunted by some guilty secret, obsessed with details, bedevilled by enemies and conspiracies, while being both ashamed and proud of his own humble origins. The tensions between Laud’s private and public worlds made him seem cruel, thus turning him into the perfect scapegoat for the failure of the king’s policies. This book will be of interest to students of history, literature and psychology.
Author : Mark Napier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of Montrose written by Mark Napier and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Lloyd Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of the 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division written by Arthur Lloyd Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alva C. Roach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Prisoner of War, and how Treated written by Alva C. Roach and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Fielding
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Dramatic works written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Fielding
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dramatic works written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
