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What Isn't History?

Selected Articles and Speeches on Writing History and Historical Fiction

by Ian Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017

An award-winning historian’s guide to writing about history, in both fiction and nonfiction.   Is history absolute? Is writing about the past an exact science, or is it more of a nebulous discipline open to different interpretations and points of view? These are important questions that noted historian...
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A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

Search for a Reasonable World

by Lisa Rosner, John Theibault
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

A concise survey that introduces readers to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to frame the essential argument of the work.
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by Shanti Sadiq Ali
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

One of the few studies of kind, this book provides a historical overview of the African heritage in Indiafrom medieval to modern time. It focusses on the African dispersal in the Deccan region covering modern Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, the Coromandel Coast and western coastal India. Beginning...
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The crusaders

A story of the war for the holy sepulchre

by Alfred j. Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012

We find in the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris, a monk of St. Alban's Abbey in the thirteenth century, the story of a Jew who had been doomed, for some insult offered to Christ, to live till the Second Corning. He had heard the story from an Armenian bishop on a visit to England, who said that he...
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The Pius War

Responses to the Critics of Pius XII

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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010

In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII_leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War_the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers. These reviewers formulated a brilliant response...
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Working Class Heroines

The Extraordinary Women of Dublin’s Tenements

by Kevin C. Kearns, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018

In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin’s tenements. If it weren’t for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent interviewing and recording the life stories...
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by Ryan Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010

Selected by Choice for the 2011 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred the Great's reign. This book provides a comprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal...
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Les 73 journées de la Commune

Du 18 mars au 29 mai 1871

by Catulle Mendès, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Extrait : "Que veut dire ceci ? où allons-nous ? Qui nous mène ? D'où vient le vent qui souffle ? Est-ce une tempête qui va tout bouleverser profondément, n'est-ce qu'une rafale soudaine et peu durable ? S'agit-il, en un mot, d'une révolution ou simplement d'une émeute ? Aujourd'hui 18 mars, vers...
Cover of Essai chronologique sur les moeurs, coutumes et usages anciens les plus remarquables dans la Lorraine
by Nicolas-Louis-Antoine Richard, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016

Extrait : "L'année, sous les rois d'Austrasie de la race mérovingienne, commençait comme dans les royaumes de France ou de Neustrie d'Orléans et de Soissons, le 1er mars, jour fixé pour la revue des troupes et la nomination des magistrats chez les Germains et les Francs. Kalendis martiis...
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Empire

1806

by Napoléon Ier, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Extrait : "La paix a été conclue à Presbourg et ratifiée à Vienne entre moi et l'empereur d'Autriche. Je voulais, dans une séance solennelle, vous en faire connaître moi-même les conditions ; mais ayant depuis longtemps arrêté, avec le roi de Bavière, le mariage de mon fils le prince Eugène,...
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by Maxime Du Camp, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Extrait : "La prison de Saint-Lazare, qui, dans le système pénitentiaire de Paris, est exclusivement réservée aux femmes, est une maladrerie. Les anciens bâtiments où saint Vincent de Paul a fondé l'ordre des Lazaristes et des Filles de la Charité, qui a porté si loin et si haut le renom de...
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Les Quinze-Vingts

Notes et documents recueillis par feu l'abbé J.-H.-R. Prompsault

by Jean-Henri-Romain Prompsault, Jean-Louis Prompsault, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Extrait : "On a cru que, avant la fondation de l'hospice des Quinze-Vingts, il existait déjà à Paris une maison des Aveugles, et que S. Louis n'avait fait que la prendre sous sa protection, et porter leur nombre à trois cents. C'est une erreur qu'il est facile d'anéantir à l'aide des titres...
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Épisode de l'histoire de Russie

Les faux Démétrius

by Prosper Mérimée, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015

Extrait : "Ivan IV, tsar et grand-duc de Russie, mourut en 1584, après un long règne. Les étrangers, ses contemporains, l'ont surnommé le Bourreau ; les Russes l'appellent encore Ivan le Terrible. Pour ses sujets seulement, il fut terrible, car ni les Polonais ni les Tartares ne le virent sur un...
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by A.H. Godbey
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016

Author A.H. Godbey chronicles over 100 of the worst Disasters and Calamities Natural and Man-Made that have plagued the Human Race. Volcanic Eruptions,Earthquakes, and Strange Explosions. Stories of Heroism and Survival make this epic work well worth reading full of rich Illustrations.
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