Modern History
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Maritime Connections Across the North Sea: The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period [Paperback]
Asger Nørlund Christensen (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9789088909863
Published by : Sidestone Press
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies? The... .... Learn More -
Maritime connections across the North Sea: The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period [Hardback]
Asger Nørlund Christensen (Author)
£135.00ISBN: 9789088909870
Published by : Sidestone Press
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies? The... .... Learn More -
Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia [Hardback]
Susan E. Lindsey (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813179339
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Between 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, ... .... Learn More -
Murder on the Ohio Belle [Hardback]
Stuart W. Sanders (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813178714
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from the river with alarming frequency. But this body, with its arms and legs tied to a chair, struck an e... .... Learn More -
The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism Before the Revolution [Paperback]
John Strickland (Author)
£25.99ISBN: 9781942699279
Published by : Holy Trinity Seminary Press
This book is a critical study of the interaction between Russian Church and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. At a time of rising nationalist movement throughout Europe, Orthodox patriots advocated for the place of the Ch... .... Learn More -
Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora [Hardback]
Sylvie Dumont (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9780876619698
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so... .... Learn More -
Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 [Paperback]
Christopher Gerrard (Author); Pam Graves (Author); Andrew Millard (Author); Richard Annis (Author); Anwen Caffell (Author)
£24.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785708473
Published by : Oxbow Books
WINNER OF BEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL BOOK AT THE 2018 BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL AWARDS.
In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a comp... .... Learn More -
A Shadow of War: Archaeological approaches to uncovering the darker sides of conflict from the 20th century [Paperback]
Claudia Theune (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9789088904547
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book presents archaeological research from places of war, violence, protest and oppression of the 20th and the 21st century; sites where the material relics give a deep insight to fateful events – a shadow of war.
Alongside renewed i... .... Learn More -
The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest [Hardback]
Afanasy Belyaev (Author); Marilyn Pfiefer Swezey (Editor); Victor Potapov (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780884654544
Published by : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
"...for the last time the former rulers of their own home had gathered to fervently pray, tearfully, and on bended knee, imploring that the Lord help and intercede for them in all of their sorrows and misfortunes." Thus the Archpriest Afanasy Bely... .... Learn More -
Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives [Paperback]
Jane Eva Baxter (Editor); Meredith a.B. Ellis (Editor)
£40.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785708435
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph
Volume: 6
The nineteenth century was a time when the world was becoming increasingly connected through global forces and networks. Colonial and capitalist expansion was bringing the world into closer contact, while nationalism and forms of indigenous resist... .... Learn More
