14,376円 In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany in the decades leading up to the Reformation. Contrary to the traditional wisdom, Collins's research uncovers a resurgence in the composition of saints' lives in the half century...

261円 Synopsis A young man meets Che Guevara’s granddaughter, Mariana, at the NATO Summit protests in Chicago. She convinces Philip to join her in her pacifist quest for independence for Puerto Rico. They rent a rudimentary beach house on the south coast of Puerto Rico. Mariana speaks at rallies and me...

1,400円 Have you ever heard of a four-footed bird? Can you really teach a dog to read? Where would you find a kangaroo crossed with a lion? In this brilliant and bizarre follow-up to Great Victorian Inventions, Caroline Rochford reveals the wondrous experiments and extraordinary theories of the great min...

1,400円 Behind the Counter reveals the largely hidden personal stories of shopworkers. Corner shops, ‘high-class’ grocers, dress shops and department stores are brought to life through letters, records and the workers’ own diaries and memoirs. For the most part, shopworkers were expected to work extremel...

1,400円 In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially entered Society by being presented at Court...

2,317円 In Victorian Bradford, when death came, there was only one real place to be buried. For the rich and poor alike the newly laid out Undercliffe Cemetery, designed by William Gay, was the fashionable place to be seen in death. The cemetery, which was conceived by the Bradford Cemetery Co., was prov...

2,804円 When Arthur Anderson invited William Makepeace Thackeray to take a cruise in 1844, and to write about it, British shipping lines offered passage on their vessels for no other reason than leisure. By the 1880s, passenger ships designed solely for cruising were being built, and the cruise ships kep...

1,500円 Extrait : "Une partie de nos colonies fut restituée à la France par le traité de 1814 ; nos établissements sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique furent de ce nombre ; mais le gouvernement Anglais ne manqua pas de garder nos plus belles possessions, au nombre desquelles se trouvaient Malte et l'Île-de...

1,437円 From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participa...

1,585円 It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counterinsurgency campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained Rhodesian security establishment...

2,642円 Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since its release over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the original in capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africa's deadly bush war. Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access to Koevoet, the elite South West Af...

4,642円 Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliography. It tells the story of Domingos Sodré, an African-born priest who was enslaved in Bahia, Braz...