History by Region
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Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America [Paperback]
Robert A. Birmingham(Author)
Regular Price: $34.95
Special Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9781785700873
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest of North America used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds sculpted into a... .... Learn More -
Monuments in the Making: Raising the Great Dolmens in Early Neolithic Northern Europe [Paperback]
Vicki Cummings(Author); Colin Richards(Author)
Regular Price: $60.00
Special Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781911188438
Published by : Windgather Press
Dolmens are iconic international monumental constructions which represent the first megalithic architecture (after menhirs) in north-west Europe. These monuments are characterized by an enormous capstone balanced on top of smaller uprights. Howeve... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Paperback]
Julie Adams(Author)
$55.00ISBN: 9789088906350
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacifi... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Hardback]
Julie Adams(Author)
$165.00ISBN: 9789088906367
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacifi... .... Learn More -
Making Metals and Moulding Society: A Global Perspective on the Emergence of Bronze Age Social Complexity [Hardback]
Thilo Rehren(Editor); Tianjin Xu(Editor); Lucas Nickel(Editor); Jianli Chen(Editor); Rui Pang(Editor)
Regular Price: $75.00
Special Price: $56.25
ISBN: 9781789252057
Published by : Oxbow Books
The emergence and spread of the Bronze Age continues to drive scholarly debate across many disciplines, from theoretical, funerary and economic archaeology to archaeometallurgy and social archaeology. This volume brings together leading experts fr... .... Learn More -
Text and Image in René d'Anjou's Livre de Tournois: Constructing Authority and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Court Culture - Three Volume set [Hardback]
Justin Sturgeon(Author)
$340.00ISBN: 9781783272693
Published by : Boydell Press
René d'Anjou's Livre des tournois is famous as the most substantial account of the organisation of a medieval tournament that has come down to us. It survives in eight manuscripts, most of which have an almost identical layout; the b... .... Learn More -
Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III [1216-1248] IV: 1243-1248 [Hardback]
David Carpenter(Editor); Paul Dryburgh(Editor); Beth Hartland(Editor)
$170.00ISBN: 9781843835684
Published by : Boydell Press
The Fine Rolls were the earliest rolls kept by the English royal chancery. Recording offers of money to the king for all manner of concessions and favours, they are central to the study of political, governmental, legal, social and economic histor... .... Learn More -
The Cultural History of Musical Instruments in Scotland: 1700 to the Present Day [Paperback]
Vivien E. Williams(Editor); Hugh Cheape(Editor)
$50.00ISBN: 9781910900208
Published by : John Donald
What can a bagpipe, a fiddle or a harpsichord tell us about national culture and identity? Each country has a different story to tell, and Scotland’s story has not yet been told. This book traces the cultural and social history of musical in... .... Learn More -
A History of the County of Somerset: Dunster, Minehead and Carhampton [Hardback]
M.C. Siraut(Editor)
$165.00ISBN: 9781904356486
Published by : Victoria County History
Series: Victoria County History
This volume describes the history of the eastern part of Carhampton Hundred. Bounded by the Bristol Channel and Exmoor, with steep hills forming a backdrop to a coastal plain, the area has at its heart the picturesque village of Dunster, one of th... .... Learn More -
The Soldiers' Chronicle of the Hundred Years War: College of Arms Manuscript M9 [Hardback]
Anne Curry(Editor); Rémy Ambühl(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275144
Published by : Boydell Press
This previously unpublished chronicle from the mid-fifteenth century covers the English wars in France from 1415 to 1429. It is highly unusual in that it was written by two soldiers, Peter Basset and Christopher Hanson. William Worcester, secretar... .... Learn More
