Modern History
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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 -
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 -
The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism Before the Revolution [Paperback]
John Strickland (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9780884653295
Published by : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
This book is a critical study of the interaction between the Russian Church and society in the late 19th and early 20th century. While other studies exist that draw attention to the voices in the Church typified as liberal in the years leading up ... .... Learn More -
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Testament of Memory: A Siberian Life [Paperback]
Mikhail Chevalkov (Author); John Warden (Author)
£7.99ISBN: 9780884651840
Published by : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
A remarkably simple and yet profoundly deep narrative, this translation is an introduction to the remote world of the 19th-century Altai: a mountainous region of southern Siberia possessing unique flora and fauna and peaks rising to nearly 15,000 ... .... Learn More -
The Polar Eskimos [Hardback]
Erik Holtved (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780982915509
Published by : International Polar Institute
This collection of transcribed stories from the Thule region of northern Greenland, begun in 1935, represents stories told to the editor by 5 different Inuit. Holtved recorded these on long playing records along with songs and chants, providing a ... .... Learn More -
Bringing Carthage Home: the Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859 [Hardback]
J. Freed (Author)
£50.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842179925
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis;... .... Learn More -
The Peopling of New Connecticut [Paperback]
Richard Jr. Buel (Editor)
£18.50ISBN: 9780615394909
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In 1784 Connecticut laid claim to a territory stretching from Pennsylvania's western border 120 miles along Lake Erie. In 1786 Congress took steps to legitimate this claim, and explicitly recognized it in 1800. The Peopling of New... .... Learn More -
Barbed Wire [Paperback]
Reviel Netz (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819569592
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technology-barbed wire. Surveying its development from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to control cattl... .... Learn More -
Stories in Stone [Hardback]
Jelle Zeilinga de Boer (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819568915
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In a series of entertaining essays, geoscientist Jelle Zeilinga de Boer describes how early settlers discovered and exploited Connecticut's natural resources. Their successes as well as failures form the very basis of the state's history: Chatham'... .... Learn More
