Modern History
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Aan de overkant [Paperback]
Lodewijk Wagenaar (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9789088903168
Published by : Sidestone Press
In the 17th and 18th century well over a million men and a few thousand women made the long journey oversees to one of the many Dutch colonies of the Dutch East India Company or West India Company. How did these people live in the colonies, what d... .... Learn More -
Eel Drifters [Paperback]
Morten Gøthche (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9788785180674
Published by : Viking Ship Museum
In the autumn of 2010, the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde launched a newly built eel-drifter (åledrivkvase), a type of fishing boat traditionally used on the waters between Zealand, Lolland and Falster. Inspired by similar North-German fishing boa... .... Learn More -
Embassy, Emigrants and Englishmen: The Three Hundred Year History of a Russian Orthodox Church in London [Paperback]
Christopher Birchall (Author)
£18.99ISBN: 9780884653363
Published by : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
This is the unlikely history of a centuries old church located at the heart of England's capital city. Founded in the early-18th century by a Greek Archbishop from Alexandria in Egypt, the church was aided by the nascent Russian Empire of Tsar Pet... .... Learn More -
Embassy, Emigrants and Englishmen: The Three Hundred Year History of a Russian Orthodox Church in London [Hardback]
Christopher Birchall (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9780884653813
Published by : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
This is the unlikely history of a centuries old church located at the heart of England's capital city. Founded in the early-18th century by a Greek Archbishop from Alexandria in Egypt, the church was aided by the nascent Russian Empire of Tsar Pet... .... Learn More -
The Optina Hermitage and Its Time: Russian-language edition [Hardback]
Ivan Mikhailovitch Kontzevich (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780884653912
Published by : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
В наше время не сложно найти книги о монашестве, умном делании, старчестве. К сожалению, книг, написанных опытными носителями древней традиции Русского Православного монашеского делания достаточно мало. В этом и состоит преимущество книги И.М. Кон... .... Learn More -
The Logbooks [Hardback]
Anne Farrow (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819573056
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the t... .... Learn More -
A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln’s Cabinet [Paperback]
Gideon Welles (Author); J. Ronald Spencer (Editor)
£18.50ISBN: 9780615961033
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Gideon Welles, the Connecticut journalist-politician who served as Lincoln's secretary of the navy, was not only an architect of Union victory but also a shrewd observer of people, issues, and events. Fortunately for posterity, he recorded many of... .... Learn More -
Prudence Crandall’s Legacy [Hardback]
Donald E. Williams (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780819574701
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteenth century. When Crandall accepted a black woman as a student, she unleashed a storm of controversy t... .... Learn More -
Inventions, Discoveries and Machines [Paperback]
Pierluigi Bassignana (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9788897644255
Published by : CB Edizioni
This book covers a crucial period of Italian history, that of the “Risorgimento” (the Resurgence period of Italian Independence) and the years following the unification, seen from an unusual perspective by Pierluigi Ba... .... Learn More -
Macchine, Invenzioni, Scoperte [Paperback]
Alba Zanini (Editor); Pierluigi Bassignana (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9788897644156
Published by : CB Edizioni
This book covers a crucial period of Italian history, that of the “Risorgimento” (the Resurgence period of Italian Independence) and the years following the unification, seen from an unusual perspective by Pierluigi Ba... .... Learn More
