England

By Eleanor L. Turk

Each library may still substitute its outmoded histories of Germany with this complete and hugely readable narrative historical past that lines Germany from antiquity via 1998. not like past reports written sooner than unification, it bargains up to date info at the Federal Republic of Germany in a clean and modern standpoint with no the chilly warfare rhetoric universal to previous histories. Designed for top college and school scholars and normal readers, it is going to support readers to appreciate the complexity of German background. all of the chapters within the paintings introduces a special interval of German background, interpreting the issues of that period and the way they affected next occasions. detailed emphasis is put on the 20 th century, relatively the 2 post-World warfare II German states and their unification. The paintings starts with a authentic description of the current Federal Republic, with tables and present information, to place the historical past in modern context. 11 chapters hint the chronological historical past of the Germans from their earliest migrations into Europe to the current. A timeline of occasions in German historical past, a bit of biographical sketches of key leaders in that historical past, and an annotated bibliography to assist readers delve deeper into specific facets of German heritage whole the paintings.

By Sarah Foot

The robust and leading edge King ?thelstan reigned basically in short (924-939), but his achievements in the course of these eventful fifteen years replaced the process English historical past. He gained impressive army victories (most significantly at Brunanburh), solid extraordinary political connections throughout Europe, and succeeded in developing the 1st unified nation of the English. to say for him the identify of "first English monarch" isn't any exaggeration.In this nuanced portrait of ?thelstan, Sarah Foot deals the 1st complete account of the king ever written. She strains his existence throughout the a number of spheres within which he lived and labored, starting with the intimate context of his kin, then extending outward to his strange multiethnic royal courtroom, the Church and his country, the wars he carried out, and at last his loss of life and legacy. Foot describes a cosmopolitan guy who used to be not just an exceptional army chief but in addition a helpful king. He ruled brilliantly, built inventive how you can undertaking his photo as a ruler, and devised strategic marriage treaties and present exchanges to cement alliances with the major royal and ducal homes of Europe. ?thelstan's legacy, visible within the new mild of this masterful biography, is inextricably hooked up to the very forging of britain and early English id.

By Andrew Martin

Why is the Victoria Line so scorching? what's an electric a number of Unit? Is it rather attainable to experience from Kings move to Kings pass at the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, such a lot sprawling and illogical metropolitan delivery procedure on the earth, the results of a sequence of botch-jobs and improvisations.Yet it transports over one thousand million passengers each year - and this determine is emerging. it truly is iconic, acknowledged internationally, and enjoyed and despised through Londoners in equivalent degree. mixing reportage, humour and private encounters, Andrew Martin embarks on a superbly enticing social heritage of London's underground railway approach (which regardless of its identify, is actually 55 in line with cent overground). alongside the best way he makes an attempt to untangle the mess that's the Northern Line, stopover at each station overnight - and discover which gaps to be specifically conscious of. Underground, Overground is a hugely relaxing, witty and informative historical past of every thing you want to learn about the Tube.

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By Tony Hunt

This moment quantity of Anglo-Norman Medicinec ompletes Tony Hunt's variation of the entire vernacular clinical texts contained in Trinity university, Cambridge, MS 0.1.20, offering a treatise on traveling the ailing and a verse translation of the 1st a part of the distinguished gynaecological compilation often called `Trotula', either with their Latin originals. to those are further longer works from different assets: the Euperistonand the Trinity `Practica', bold compilations which take advantage of fabric in Latin, French and English. complete notes and glossaries are supplied. Tony Hunt's creation goals to demonstrate attribute positive factors of the medieval clinical compendium throughout the instance of the Speculum medicorum, which has hitherto been thoroughly unstudied.

By David Childs

As well as politics, the ebook covers an outstanding many parts of British lifestyles: crime, decolonisation, defence, the economic climate, schooling, overseas coverage, immigration and racism, the media, the monarchy, public opinion, faith, social switch, the altering place of ladies. As an extra bonus, it additionally bravely tackles occasions in Northern eire. introductory chapters take us during the interwar interval outlining either family and foreign tendencies. The conflict years are lined in additional chapters and the writer asks us to contemplate what may have occurred had Britain no longer long past to conflict in 1939. 9 chapters hint either the growth, and the extra amazing, decline of england among 1945-94. the ultimate bankruptcy discusses the explanations for decline. Twelve invaluable tables and a bibliography whole the ebook.

By Andrew Sharp

The levellers have been an important component to a substantially democratic flow that got here jointly in the course of the English civil wars. a lot leveller task happened in print and their texts now shape a tremendous a part of the liberal and social democratic canon. This variation includes an advent by means of the editor that units the leveller principles of their context and, including a chronology and brief biographies of the best figures, is vital studying for college kids of the English civil wars and the heritage of political idea.

By David Bathurst

From the nice Glen approach to the Coast to Coast direction, there's no greater technique to realize the striking range of northern Britain's panorama than walking. no matter if you get pleasure from exploring eco-friendly and lightly rolling dales or tackling rugged mountain paths, there are walks right here to maintain you rambling all yr around. An indefatigable walker, David Bathurst has unlaced his boots to provide this necessary and definitive significant other to the 10 best-loved long-distance footpaths within the north of england, with each one cut up into plausible sections. Combining functional, exact descriptions with an appreciation of the wonder and historical past of the British nation-state, this in an necessary consultant for either skilled and amateur walkers alike.

By Anne O'Brien

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, is a decided girl who plots and schemes an fantastic direction among both strong males in 12th century Europe, a girl who can manoeuvre and manage to defend her personal lands as successfully as any power-grasping lord. Eleanor is single-minded in her fight to maintain her inheritance intact, best her to reject one husband and take one other who will fulfil her wishes. Eleanor intends to reign as Queen and is ready to deliver scandal down upon herself in pursuit of her final prize. Hers is a narrative of strength, political intrigue, ardour and love.

By Donald F. Lach

Paperback variation 1994
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