History by Region
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Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688 [Hardback]
Sarah Ward Clavier(Author)
$130.00ISBN: 9781783276400
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
Volume: 42
In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688, Sarah Ward Clavier provides a ground-breaking analysis of the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to th... .... Learn More -
The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674 [Hardback]
J R D Falconer(Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9780906245460
Published by : Scottish History Society
Series: Scottish History Society 6th Series
Volume: 16
The household account book of John Clerk of Penicuik, a Montrose-born merchant who honed his skills in Paris and brought home to Scotland a small fortune which he used to purchase the barony of Penicuik in 1654, provides an opportunity to explore ... .... Learn More -
Ireland’s English Pale, 1470-1550: The Making of a Tudor Region [Hardback]
Steven G Ellis(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783276608
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Irish Historical Monographs
Volume: 24
A key argument of this book is that the English Pale - the four counties around Dublin under English control - was expanding during the early Tudor period, not contracting, as other historians have argued. The author shows how the new system, wher... .... Learn More -
Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums [Hardback]
Gaye Sculthorpe(Editor); Maria Nugent(Editor); Howard Morphy(Editor)
$95.00ISBN: 9780714124902
Published by : British Museum
Museums across Great Britain and Ireland hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (collectively referred to as ‘Indigenous’) cultural heritage of exceptional value, but which is largely unknown, rarely seen, and poorly understood. Gi... .... Learn More -
She is But a Woman: Queenship in Scotland 1424–1463 [Paperback]
Fiona Downie(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781910900499
Published by : John Donald
She is But a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practised by Joan Beaufort and Mary of Guel... .... Learn More -
Cromwell and Scotland: Conquest and Religion 1650-1660 [Paperback]
R. Scott Spurlock(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781910900437
Published by : John Donald
This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Analysis of the printed propaganda produced by the Scots and the English makes it clear that both nations defined their... .... Learn More -
The Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455 [Paperback]
Michael Brown(Author)
$39.95ISBN: 9781910900413
Published by : John Donald
During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland’s champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the p... .... Learn More -
Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England: Sociability, Politics and Collecting [Hardback]
Tim Somers(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781783275496
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the Eighteenth Century
Volume: 10
Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in seventeenth-century society - ubiquitous and disposable. Toward the end of the century, however, individuals began to preserve, arrange and display ar... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People [Hardback]
Dr. Keith Dixon(Author)
Regular Price: $120.00
Special Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9789464260304
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas, and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People [Paperback]
Dr. Keith Dixon(Author)
Regular Price: $45.00
Special Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9789464260298
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas, and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern... .... Learn More
