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First published in 1967, this book seeks to show the causes which led to Coleridge’s breakdown in 1802 and to indicate how his views on poetry changed as a result of it. The approach is selective in that it only focuses on one part of Coleridge’s life (roughly 1793-1810); however the author attempts...

This English real castle talks about it's long history. The people that built and lived in it. It melds facts with fiction. Fascinating!

This book surveys the development of geo-political thought in the twentieth century and relates it to international political developments, as well as examining how sound geopolitical theories are. It considers the work of Mackinder, Hartshorne, and Haushofer and his disciples in Germany who influenced the Nazis; and of more recent developments including Marxist geographical writing.

Using the examples of the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Austria, France and Germany, this book describes the principal geopolitical features of the expansionist state. It then presents a model of the operation of the expansionist process over space and time. It goes on to apply the geopolitical characteristics...

It is 1855. The English revolt has failed, and brutal General Vadula governs England now. Only a few small bands of English rebels still hold out against the Rajthanan empire. Jack Casey survives in remote Shropshire, training young rebels to use the conqueror's magic. But he is gravely ill, with...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the second volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order...

This book examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party’s significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain’s relations with Europe. It considers the Conservatives’ response, in opposition and government, to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war and Italian unification.

In 1919, the new governments of the besieged Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. A small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers were sent to help, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. They were given no clear instructions as to what their objective...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An Eskimo boy awakes in fear to the feeling of a strange touch on his face. Without betraying wakefulness, he tries to work out the identity of the owner of the touch. Then he will know how much danger he is in.

The memoirs of my first trip to Cornwall in over forty years, and the first ever to the North Cornish Coast. It was here that I finally found where heaven was. Like so many prairielands in the UK, Cornwall is not short of paradise for the hardened rambler.

A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day. Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without...

What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of political horse-trading, grandstanding, and corporate manipulation from those lamenting the crisis in liberal democracy, this book argues that the “politics of politics,”...

Das Tre!en der bischö"ichen Synode im Oktober 2104 nahm die moderne Familie aus dem pastoralen Blickwinkel unter die Lupe und hat sich besonders mit denjenigen Situationen befasst, bei welchen es dem Schein nach Kon"ikte zwischen der kirchlichen Glaubenslehre