Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-02-12
Dewey code: 949.50099
List Price: $140.00
Price: $106.00
Review Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 / Routledge:The first extended work in the field since Charles Diehl published his Figures Byzantine more than ninety years ago, Byzantine Empresses provides much-needed historical data in an accessible and up-to-date form. Using a chronological approach, Lynda Garland provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. She presents and analyzes the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do. Revealed are stories of imperial women who had considerable resources, such as powerful patronage, their own courts of women, eunuchs and ministers and who wielded an enormous amount of influence, such as total government control and the power to issue coinage and decrees. Lavishly illustrated, Byzantine Empresses provides an immense contribution to the study of women in Byzantine civilization.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2004-09-28
Dewey code: 355.0092396073
List Price: $170.00
Price: $108.36
Review On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier II: New and Revised Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:This supplement presents over 2,000 new and nearly 1,000 revised biographies of black servicemen, giving the researcher not only glimpses of individual lives but also documentation of the variety of African-American experiences within and outside the army.
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 954.042092
List Price: $89.95
Price: $172.50
Review Nehru (Profiles in Power Series) / Addison Wesley Publishing Company:The first prime minister of India after independence from British rule, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was a major architect of India as a nation state. His dedication to politics led to imprisonment under British rule, a deeply disturbed family life, and eventually to nearly two decades in power during which he ceaselessly pursued his vision of a transformed and democratic India. This compelling biography depicts the phases of Nehru's life and shows how each phase reflected new developments in Indian politics. Drawing on new sources including Nehru's post-1947 papers which have not been accessible before, Judith M. Brown offers the most complete and penetrating account of Nehru yet written. Casting new light on both the public and private Nehru, the book also provides an array of insights into the history of India's nationalist movement and international standing, and into the complexities of constructing a new nation state in the aftermath of imperial rule.
Publication date: 2002-01-01
Review Tales of a Bomber Command WAAF: And Her Horse / Woodfield Publishing:
Authors
- Anne Summerscale
- Carlo Cesare Malvasia
Dewey code: 759.5
List Price: $106.00
Price: $106.00
Review Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: Commentary and Translation / Pennsylvania State University Press:Ludovico, Agostino and Annibale Carracci played leading roles in bringing about the changes in style and outlook that transformed the art of painting around 1600. Working both as a team and as individuals, they turned away from the conventions of mannerism to reinvigorate the Renaissance tradition and usher in a new style, at once naturalistic, classical and spirited. Malvasia's "Life of the Carracci" has been the principal source of knowledge about these pioneering artists since its first publication in 1678 in "Felsina pittrice, vite de'pittori bolognesi". Malvasia, a law professor and a literary man, was brilliant, innovative and contentious. His biography of the Carracci is pivotal to his celebration of the Bolognese contribution to Baroque art and provides a window onto the cultural life of 17th-century Italy. The worlds of artisans, artists, literati and patrons intersect in his text, giving it incompatible historical and literary value. Although Malvasia's "Life of the Carracci" is widely cited, this is the first translation in any language and the first to offer an extended critical and historical commentary. Malvasia's own life is discussed, and his triple biography of the Carracci is situated within the intellectual and literary currents to which he responded. Richly illustrated, Summerscale's book aims to be a valuable resource for art historians and students of 17th-century literature and historiography.
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1990-08
Dewey code: 813
Price: $24.95
Review Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Transaction Large Print Books) / ISIS Large Print Books:A fictionalised autobiography of the period between the spring of 1916 and the summer of 1917, in which the story moves from the trenches to the Fourth Army School, to Morlancourt and a raid, and then to the Battle of the Somme.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-11-23
Dewey code: 954.035092
List Price: $150.00
Price: $124.81
Review Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) / Routledge:During his campaign against racism in South Africa and his involvement in the Congress-led nationalist struggle against British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi developed a new form of political struggle based on the idea of satyagraha or non-violent protest. He ushered in a new era of nationalism in India by articulating the nationalist protest in the language of non-violence or ahisma that galvanized the masses into action. Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi focuses on the principles of satyagraha and non-violence, and the evolution of these precepts in the context of anti-imperial movements organized by Gandhi, looking at how these precepts underwent changes reflecting the ideological beliefs of the participants. The book focuses on the ways in which Gandhi took into account the views of other leading personalities of the era whilst articulating his theory of action, and assesses Gandhi and his ideology. Concentrating on Gandhi's writings in Harijan the weekly newspaper he founded, this volume offers a unique contextualized study of Gandhi's social and political ideas.
Publication date: 2001-03-21
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $119.95
Price: $107.41
Review Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire / Palgrave Macmillan:Olive Schreiner and The Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the 19th century about the position of women and the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner, the book traces the complex relations between gender and empire in a modern world.
Publication date: 1924
Review My crystal ball: Reminiscences / Hurst & Blackett:
Authors
- Dorothy Osborne
- William Temple
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 941.063092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $107.56
Review Dorothy Osborne: Letters to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 : Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion (Early Modern Englishwoman 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions) / Ashgate Publishing:As attested to by scholars from Macaulay via Virginia Woolf to more recent critics, the letters of Dorothy Osborne (b. 1627) are not only the most elegant, but are also the most consistently readable in the language. In this revised and updated edition of her letters to the man to whom she would propose and later marry, Kenneth Parker presents, along with transcriptions of the letters themselves, their publication history, and an in-depth exploration of the political, social, literary and critical contexts surrounding them. Osborne's letters offer sharp-sighted comments on political and cultural events of her time. As told by Parker, the story of their creation, transmission and preservation offers an insight into the mind of a remarkable woman whose actions provide revealing insights into, and materials for, the study of the politics of culture in one of the key moments of transformation in England.
Publication date: 1979-06
Dewey code: 380.10924
Price: $32.50
Review Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini / Octagon Books:
Authors
- Edwin McMasters Stanton
- Benjamin Platt Thomas
- Harold Melvin Hyman
Publication date: 1980-10-14
Dewey code: 973.70924
List Price: $107.95
Price: $107.95
Review Stanton, the Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War / Greenwood Press Reprint:
Publication date: 1987-11
Dewey code: 327.20924
Price: $21.95
Review Innocence Is Not Enough: Life and Death of Herbert Norman / Harpercollins:
Creator: Stuart Hall
Publication date: 1999-12-09
Dewey code: 937
List Price: $250.00
Price: $133.49
Review Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series) / Oxford University Press, USA:Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a seventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical editions produced this century make a new English version necessary. The authors of this edition present the results of the recent scholarly debate, as well as their own researches so as to clarify the significance of Eusebius' work and introduce the student to the text and its interpretation, thus opening up the contentious issues. At face value much of what Eusebius wrote is false. This book shows how, once his partisan interpretations and rhetoric are properly understood, both Eusebius' text and the documents it contains give vital historical insights.
Publication date: 1994-11
Price: $140.21
Review Charlestown / Shipwreck & Marine:
Publication date: 1999-10-01
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $115.00
Price: $113.85
Review An H. G. Wells Chronology (Author Chronologies) / Palgrave Macmillan:H. G. Wells continues to be widely read as a novelist, short story writer, and as the father of science fiction. Because he was deeply involved with the literary, social, and political issues of his time, a chronology of his life is in a sense a history of ideas in the 20th century. J. R. Hammond offers a definitive chronology of Wells that provides a fascinating insight into the background, life, and times of a major literary figure.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-07-23
Dewey code: 937.08092
List Price: $130.00
Price: $108.18
Review Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend / Routledge:This text examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople from a variety of angles; historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied accounts of Constantine's life and the plethora of popular medieval legends surrounding the reign, to reveal the different visions and representations of the emperor from saint and patron of the Western church to imperial prototype. It presents a comprehensive study of this important and controversial emperor.
 Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America (The University of North Carolina Press)
Authors
- Eleanor S. Darcy
- Ronald Hoffman
- Sally D. Mason
Publication date: 2001-12-31
Dewey code: 973.3092
List Price: $135.00
Price: $107.51
Review Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America / The University of North Carolina Press:This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Beginning in the late 1740s, when "Papa" (Charles Carroll of Annapolis) sent "Charley" (Charles Carroll of Carrollton) away from his native Maryland to be educated in Europe, the letters present a new perspective on colonial and Revolutionary America as the lived experience of Roman Catholics, whose defiant adherence to their faith denied them the civil rights and guarantees-including the right to hold office and to vote-that their Protestant counterparts enjoyed. This context accentuates the drama of Charley's rise to power during the Revolution, the necessity of the political and economic compromises he felt compelled to make, and the ultimately tragic personal price exacted by his success. Bringing the Carroll's public and private lives sharply into focus, these volumes present the past in its fullest human dimensions.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-13
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $150.00
Price: $124.82
Review Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers and Wives of the Caesars / Routledge:"All women, because of their innate weakness, should be under the control of guardians" writes Cicero, curtly summarizing the status of women in Ancient Rome. Yet Roman women had more control than many believe. Stories of female artists, teachers, doctors, and even gladiators are scattered through the history of Imperial Rome; a Roman woman did not change her name when she married, her husband could not control her property or dowry, and she was free to divorce. Royal women in particular - the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers of emperors - have made a profound impression on Roman history, long overlooked. This lively and attractive book vividly characterizes eleven such women, spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras. The author's compelling biographies reveal their remarkable contributions towards the legacy of Imperial Rome, often tinged with tragedy, courage, and injustice. · a pregnant Roman princess saves a Roman army through an act of personal heroism · three 3rd century empresses rule the most powerful state on Earth, presiding over unprecedented social and political reform · though revered by her husband, an empress is immortalized in history for infidelity and corruption by students of her greatest enemy. Drawing from a broad range of documentation, Jasper Burns has painted portraits of these exceptional women that are colorful, sympathetic, and above all profoundly human. The women and their worlds are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations. This book will be highly valuable to numismatists, students and scholars of Roman history or women's studies, and enjoyable to any reader.
Publication date: 1993
Review KING CHARLES II / ARROW BOOKS LTD:
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