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The Army in British India - From Colonial Warfare to Total War 1857 - 1947 (Hardcover, New): Kaushik Roy The Army in British India - From Colonial Warfare to Total War 1857 - 1947 (Hardcover, New)
Kaushik Roy
R4,926 Discovery Miles 49 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence. This volume aims to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the army in British India from the mutiny of 1857 until the British departed India in 1947. It examines how the army in India developed from a colonial police force into one of the world's largest volunteer armies which saw service around the globe. The author presents new primary material from international archival sources and develops original interpretations of the political and military role of the army in colonial India. These new arguments include: the army's conduct of 'small wars' on the North-West frontier aided it in conducting tactical warfare in Burma during World War II; small unit raids developed in India were put to good effect beyond India's borders; the army's practical experience of counter-insurgency was used in Greece and Indonesia after 1945; and, contrary to existing scholarship, the British did not follow a deliberate policy of 'Indianization' of the officer corps .

A Description of the First Discoveries of the Antient City of Heraclea, Found Near Portici, a Country Palace Belonging to the... A Description of the First Discoveries of the Antient City of Heraclea, Found Near Portici, a Country Palace Belonging to the King of the Two Sicili (Paperback)
Niccolo Marcello Venuti
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk - Containing a Description of the Towns, Villages, and... An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk - Containing a Description of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, with the Foundations (Paperback)
Francis Blomefield
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Environs of London - Being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, Within Twelve Miles of That Capital... The Environs of London - Being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, Within Twelve Miles of That Capital Interspersed with (Paperback)
Daniel Lysons
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk - Containing a Description of the Towns, Villages, and... An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk - Containing a Description of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, with the Foundations (Paperback)
Francis Blomefield
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Illustrated with Specimens and Analyses of... Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Illustrated with Specimens and Analyses of the Most Celebrated Tra (Paperback)
Joseph C Walker
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The King of Confidence - A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an... The King of Confidence - A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (Paperback)
Miles Harvey
R485 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of New-Hampshire... Volume 1 (Paperback): Jeremy Belknap The History of New-Hampshire... Volume 1 (Paperback)
Jeremy Belknap
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The American Universal Geography, Or, a View of the Present State of All the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the... The American Universal Geography, Or, a View of the Present State of All the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the Known World, and of the U (Paperback)
Jedidiah Morse
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The History of Herodotus (Paperback): Herodotus The History of Herodotus (Paperback)
Herodotus
R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The American Geography; Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America - Containing Astronomical... The American Geography; Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America - Containing Astronomical Geography; Geographical Definitio (Paperback)
Jedidiah Morse
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium - A History (Paperback): Lynn Pohl Waverly Hills Sanatorium - A History (Paperback)
Lynn Pohl
R552 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Other Madisons - The Lost History of a President's Black Family (Paperback): Bettye Kearse The Other Madisons - The Lost History of a President's Black Family (Paperback)
Bettye Kearse
R416 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The First Populist - The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson (Paperback): David S. Brown The First Populist - The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson (Paperback)
David S. Brown
R482 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Francis Jeffrey's American Journal - New York to Washington 1813 (Paperback, New): Francis Jeffrey Francis Jeffrey's American Journal - New York to Washington 1813 (Paperback, New)
Francis Jeffrey; Edited by Clare Elliott, Andrew Hook
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Francis Jeffrey is celebrated as the editor of the Edinburgh Review, but little is known of his remarkable visit to America and his enthusiastic reception by American readers. Elliott and Hook have produced a marvellous edition of Jeffrey's record of his journey between New York and Washington during the second Anglo-American War. Historians will be fascinated by Jeffrey's account of his discussion of British-American differences with President James Madison and Secretary of State James Monroe, which furnish remarkable first hand accounts of these men's beliefs about the origins and nature of the conflict. Literary scholars will be intrigued by the unsuspected romantic sensibilities evident in Jeffrey's descriptions of the American environment. This is an excellent edition of Jeffrey's engaging account of the new American republic." -- Simon P. Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies, University of Glasgow. Clare Elliott is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University and has taught at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, recently completing a post at Teesside University. Her research interests lie in Transatlantic Literary Studies, Transnationalism and Transatlantic Romanticisms. Clare has published on William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and is reviewer of American literature to 1900 for the Years Work in English Studies. The long eighteenth century in Scotland is increasingly recognized as a period of outstanding cultural achievement. In these years both the Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Romanticism made lasting contributions to Western intellectual and cultural life. This series is designed to further our understanding of this crucial era in a range of ways: by reprinting less familiar but important works by writers in the period itself; by producing new editions of key out-of-print books by modern scholars; and by publishing new research and criticism by contemporary scholars. Perspectives: Scottish Studies of the long Eighteenth Century Series Editor: Andrew Hook

Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500 - Reform Without End (Hardcover): Thomas McStay Adams Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500 - Reform Without End (Hardcover)
Thomas McStay Adams
R6,553 Discovery Miles 65 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility. Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000. Volume 1, which focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of 'welfare' and 'tradition'. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity. Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to fruition

With Her Own Wings - Historical Sketches, Reminiscences, and Anecdotes of Oregon's Pioneer Women (Hardcover): Helen Krebs... With Her Own Wings - Historical Sketches, Reminiscences, and Anecdotes of Oregon's Pioneer Women (Hardcover)
Helen Krebs Smith
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Documented, historically accurate narratives, and thumbnail sketches comprise this outstanding contribution to the study of Pioneer life in Oregon from the viewpoint of pioneer women.

American Reform and Reformers - A Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover, New): Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller American Reform and Reformers - A Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover, New)
Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller
R2,629 Discovery Miles 26 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In entries such as Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement, Booker T. Washington and Black Self-Help, and Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women, this dictionary provides in-depth examination of major American reformers and the movements they defined. With coverage extending from the early republic to today, the book considers abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, the social gospel, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, environmentalism, consumerism, and other controversial movements. Each entry combines biography with historical analysis to show the historical context and character of the movement and person. Individually, the entries provide modern, interpretive treatments of their subjects. Collectively, they reveal the direction and dynamics of American reform over two centuries. Emphasizing social reform over civic reform, the book gives special attention to reformers and reforms that have significantly altered the social order. Written by prominent scholars, the entries show the importance of personality and historical context in reform movements and the relationship between particular reforms and the temperament of an age. With full-bodied biographies of the reformers and their movements, a time-line on American reform, up-to-date interpretations and bibliographies, and a wide range of subjects, this book provides the most comprehensive and cogent view of American reform and reformers anywhere. It also provides the fullest treatment to date of post-World War II reform activity and personalities.

Treasure from the Painted Hills - A History of Calico, California, 1882-1907 (Hardcover, New): Douglas Steeples Treasure from the Painted Hills - A History of Calico, California, 1882-1907 (Hardcover, New)
Douglas Steeples
R2,968 Discovery Miles 29 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originating as a silver-mining camp and marketed today as a silver-mining ghost town, Calico, CA outlived the silver era when borax was discovered in its hills. Supplying Borax worldwide-employing the twenty mule teams still associated with Twenty-Mule Team Borax-the Calico mines played a pivotal role in the evolution of the less glamorous industry, borax mining. Correcting the image sold to tourists, Steeples provides a tight geographic, economic, social, political, and business history of Calico, a once thriving community struggling to survive in primitive conditions. He tells the tale of three Calicos: the silver-mining town, the borax-mining center, and the ghost town, providing a masterful history of regional silver mining and national borax mining, processing, and marketing. The book provides an essential chapter in the development of western mining, the borax industry, and western mining camps. But it is more than the story of silver and borax in Calico. Steeples probes beyond the mines and mills in search of the community's soul, considering, for instance, the local paper, the Calico Print, the creation of the twenty-mule team image of Borax, the entrepreneurship of Francis Marion Borax Smith and his multinational organization, the education of the children, and the creation of the modern-day myth. Contrasting the working Calico with the illusory Calico, Steeples writes the complete history of the town from its natural setting to its imaginary legacy.

Strongmen - Mussolini to the Present (Paperback): Ruth Ben-Ghiat Strongmen - Mussolini to the Present (Paperback)
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
R453 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin-enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future. For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of truth, treasure, and the protections of democracy. They promise law and order, then legitimize lawbreaking by financial, sexual, and other predators. They use masculinity as a symbol of strength and a political weapon. Taking what you want, and getting away with it, becomes proof of male authority. They use propaganda, corruption, and violence to stay in power. Vladimir Putin and Mobutu Sese Seko's kleptocracies, Augusto Pinochet's torture sites, Benito Mussolini and Muammar Gaddafi's systems of sexual exploitation, and Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump's relentless misinformation: all show how authoritarian rule, far from ensuring stability, is marked by destructive chaos. No other type of leader is so transparent about prioritizing self-interest over the public good. As one country after another has discovered, the strongman is at his worst when true guidance is most needed by his country. Recounting the acts of solidarity and dignity that have undone strongmen over the past 100 years, Ben-Ghiat makes vividly clear that only by seeing the strongman for what he is-and by valuing one another as he is unable to do-can we stop him, now and in the future.

All Standing - The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship (Paperback): Kathryn Miles All Standing - The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship (Paperback)
Kathryn Miles
R392 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than one million immigrants fled the Irish famine for North America--and more than one hundred thousand of them perished aboard the "coffin ships" that crossed the Atlantic. But one small ship never lost a passenger.
"All Standing" recounts the remarkable tale of the "Jeanie Johnston" and her ingenious crew, whose eleven voyages are the stuff of legend. Why did these individuals succeed while so many others failed? And what new lives in America were the ship's passengers seeking?
In this deeply researched and powerfully told story, acclaimed author Kathryn Miles re-creates life aboard this amazing vessel, richly depicting the bravery and defiance of its shipwright, captain, and doctor--and one Irish family's search for the American dream.

The Housekeeper's Tale - The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House (Paperback): Tessa Boase The Housekeeper's Tale - The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House (Paperback)
Tessa Boase
R308 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R51 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'I read the book with enormous appreciation. Tessa Boase brings all these long-ago housekeepers so movingly to life and her excitement in the research is palpable.' Fay Weldon: Novelist, playwright - and housekeeper's daughter Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly poignant, this is the story of the invisible women who ran the English country house. Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want - and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and gruelling physical labour. Until now, her story has never been told. Revealing the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers, and delving into secret diaries, unpublished letters and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households. From Dorothy Doar, Regency housekeeper for the obscenely wealthy 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, to Sarah Wells, a deaf and elderly Victorian in charge of Uppark, West Sussex. From Ellen Penketh, Edwardian cook-housekeeper at the sociable but impecunious Erddig Hall in the Welsh borders to Hannah Mackenzie who runs Wrest Park in Bedfordshire - Britain's first country-house war hospital, bankrolled by playwright J. M. Barrie. And finally Grace Higgens, cook-housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex for half a century - an era defined by the Second World War. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE

Saving Yellowstone - Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Paperback): Megan Kate Nelson Saving Yellowstone - Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Paperback)
Megan Kate Nelson
R467 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Paul Rapin Thoyras and the art of eighteenth-century historiography (Paperback): Miriam Franchina Paul Rapin Thoyras and the art of eighteenth-century historiography (Paperback)
Miriam Franchina
R2,632 Discovery Miles 26 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first book on the genesis, impact and reception of the most-widely read History of England of the early 18th century: Paul Rapin Thoyras' Histoire d'Angleterre (1724-27). The Histoire and complementary works (Extraits des Actes de Rymer, 1710-1724; Dissertation sur les Whigs et les Torys, 1717) gave practical expression to theorizations of history against Pyrrhonian postulations by foregrounding an empirical form of history-writing. Rapin's unprecedented standards of historiographical accuracy triggered both politically-informed reinterpretations of the Histoire in partisan newspapers and a multitude of adaptations that catered to an ever-growing number of readers. Despite a long-standing assessment as a "standard Whig historian", Rapin fashioned the impartial persona of a judge-historian, in compliance with the expectations of the Republic of Letters. His personal trajectory illuminates how scholars pursued trustworthy knowledge and how they reconsidered the boundaries of their community in the face of the booming printing industry and the interconnected growth of general readership. Rapin's oeuvre provided significant raw material for Voltaire's and Hume's Enlightenment historiographical narratives. A comparative foray into their respective different approaches to history and authorship cautions us against assuming a direct transition from the Republic of Letters into an Enlightenment Republic of Letters. To study the diffusion and the impact of Rapin's works is to understand that empirical history-writing, defined by its commitment to erudition in the service of impartiality, coexisted with the histoire philosophique.

Reconstruction - People and Perspectives (Hardcover): James M. Campbell, Rebecca J. Fraser Reconstruction - People and Perspectives (Hardcover)
James M. Campbell, Rebecca J. Fraser
R3,232 Discovery Miles 32 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This entry in the Perspectives in Social History series examines the course and consequences of Reconstruction on the former Confederate states by focusing on the everyday people who lived through it. Reconstruction: People and Perspectives is a fascinating collection of essays and documents that illuminates the experiences of ordinary Americans across all levels of society in the southern United States during Reconstruction. Reconstruction: People and Perspectives describes in vivid detail the experiences of a diverse group of people caught up in the Civil War's aftermath in the South. Chapters focus on Civil War veterans, former slaveholders, farmers and city residents, Northerners in the South, and African American men and women (both those who stayed in the South and those who migrated). It also reports on groups similar studies often overlook, such as Native Americans and white women. Looking at Reconstruction from a social historian's point of view, this revealing work adds a much needed new voice to studies of the era. Primary documents provide first-hand insight into the lives and times of diverse individuals during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history Includes a bibliography of key works on the Reconstruction era as well as a reference chapter of terms, people, and events, including "carpetbaggers," "Gideon's band," and "the Colfax massacre"

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