ISBN: 9780300073720 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 510 Rok wydania: 1998
This study places the reign of Edward IV in the context of late-medieval power politics, and analyzes the methods aby which a usurper sought to retain his throne and re-assert the power of a...
ISBN: 9780300219807 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 392 Rok wydania: 2016
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker
ISBN: 9780300256666 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780300088830 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2001
In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight year old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both...
ISBN: 9780300169324 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 448 Rok wydania: 2010
In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons - for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East - but...
ISBN: 9780300233469 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2018
The dazzling splendors of the court of Napoleon I (1769-1821) reflected the grandeur and ambitions of the greatest empire of the day.This luxurious volume re-creates the ambiance and captures the...
ISBN: 9780300089264 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2001
In this widely acclaimed biography, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent, and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely-drawn but critical portrait...
ISBN: 9780300082708 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2000
What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs,...
ISBN: 9780300254839 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2020
Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's new and authoritative account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature, tracing...
ISBN: 9780300264258 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 278 Rok wydania: 2022
A resplendent celebration of the spectacular fashion designs of Guo Pei, China's first and preeminent couturier Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy is a journey into the imaginative world of Guo Pei,...
ISBN: 9780300073706 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 480 Rok wydania: 2011
Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French, and the great victory at Agincourt, are part of...
ISBN: 9780300098297 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 588 Rok wydania: 2003
This biography, written by one of the most distinguished medievalists of his generation, paints a new portrait of Henry I, son of William the Conqueror. Not the brutal, greedy, and repressive king...
ISBN: 9780300118292 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2012
This welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from its origins five centuries ago to its place in twenty-first-century music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many...
ISBN: 9780300269949 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780300270938 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780300276503 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780300247558 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 312 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780300142150 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 480 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780300264685 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780300255027 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 192 Rok wydania: 2022