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Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900

The Sunburnt Queen (Paperback): Hazel Crampton The Sunburnt Queen (Paperback)
Hazel Crampton
R320 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R70 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A seven-year-old English girl, washed up on the Wild Coast in about 1736, is adopted by the amaMpondo, grows up to become a woman of surpassing beauty, marries the chief of the clan and becomes an ancestor of many of the Xhosa royal families in the nineteenth century. It sounds like the stuff of romance, but this is verified, documented fact. Although her surname is unknown, in spite of a persistent 19th-century story that she was the daughter of a General Campbell, we do know that her name was Bessie. The amaMpondo named her Gquma - 'The Roar of the Sea' - and she won their affection for her compassion and generosity, and became famous for her love of ornament, covering herself with necklaces, beadwork, seashells and bangles. But she was no mere fashion-plate, winning renown for her wisdom, becoming involved in the politics of her adopted people and wielding an influence virtually unprecedented among women of her time and place. Inspired by the story of Bessie, in Sunburnt Queen, Hazel Crampton has delved deep into the history of the castaways from the many ships wrecked on this beautiful but perilous shore.;In a highly entertaining way she tells their story, which became inextricably interwoven with those of the people of the Wild Coast: whole clans, such the abeLungu ('the White People') trace their ancestry to castaways. The book traces the lives of Bessie's descendants and those of some of the other castaways whose names are known. Their stories are intimately, often tragically intertwined in the sad history of contact between the Xhosa-speaking peoples and the white settlers. The author, although obviously a person of strong opinions, like all the best historiographers, she presents people and events in a non-judgmental way, allowing contemporary voices to pronounce on the actions, good and bad, of the actors in this drama. If there is a message to be gleaned from the story of Bessie it is this: South Africans are far more alike than we are different, and we all have so much more to gain by emphasizing our similarities rather than our differences, and by cherishing our common heritage.

Cider Country - How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life (Paperback): James Crowden Cider Country - How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life (Paperback)
James Crowden
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider, uncovering a rich culture and philosophy that has united farmer, maker and drinker for millennia. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 ANDRE SIMON FOOD AND DRINK AWARD Cidermaking has been at the heart of country life for hundreds of years. But the fascinating story of how this drink came into existence and why it became so deeply rooted in the nation's psyche has never been told. In order to answer these questions, James Crowden traces an elusive history stretching back to the ancient, myth-infused civilisations of the Mediterranean and the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan. Meeting cider experts, farmers and historians, he unearths the surprising story of an apple that travelled from east to west and proved irresistible to everyone who tasted it. Upon its arrival in Britain, monks, pirates and politicians formed a pioneering and evangelical fan base, all seeking the company of a drink that might guide them through uncertain times. But the nation's love-affair with cider didn't fully blossom until after the reformation, when the thirst for knowledge about the drink was at its peak. This infatuation with experimentation would lead to remarkable innovations and the creation of a 'sparkling cider', a technique that pre-dated Dom Perignon's champagne by forty years. Turning to the present day, Crowden meets the next generation of cider makers and unearths a unique philosophy that has been shared through the ages. In the face of real challenges, these enterprising cider makers are still finding new ways to produce this golden drink that is enjoyed by so many. Spanning centuries and continents, Cider Country tells the story of our country through the culture, craft and consumption of our most iconic rural drink.

Never Caught - The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Paperback): Erica Armstrong Dunbar Never Caught - The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Paperback)
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary grit" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn't abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. "A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling" (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.

Voltaire and the parlements of France (Paperback, New ed.): James Hanrahan Voltaire and the parlements of France (Paperback, New ed.)
James Hanrahan
R2,923 Discovery Miles 29 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Voltaire's turbulent relationship with the courts of law of ancien regime France reveals much about his social and political thought, but its representation in many studies of the philosophe is often simplistic and distorted. In the first in-depth study of Voltaire and the parlements James Hanrahan looks afresh at this relationship to offer a new and challenging analysis of Voltaire's political thought and activity. Through examination of Voltaire's evolving representation of the parlements in his writings from La Henriade to the Histoire du parlement, Hanrahan calls into question the dominant historiography of extremes that pits Voltaire 'defender of the oppressed' against 'self-interested' magistrates. He presents a much more nuanced view of the relationship, from which the philosophe emerges as a highly pragmatic figure whose political philosophy was inseparable from his business or humanitarian interests. In Voltaire and the 'parlements' of France Hanrahan opens up analysis of Voltaire's politics, and provides a new context for future study of the writer as both historiographer and campaigner for justice.

The Great Dissenter - The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero (Paperback): Peter S. Canellos The Great Dissenter - The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero (Paperback)
Peter S. Canellos
R610 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R95 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, John Marshall Harlan's words helped end segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom. But his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John's father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a political leader. With Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the Supreme Court. At first, John is awed by his fellow justices, but the country is changing. Northern whites are prepared to take away black rights to appease the South. Giant trusts are monopolizing entire industries. Against this onslaught, the Supreme Court seemed all too willing to strip away civil rights and invalidate labor protections. So as case after case comes before the court, challenging his core values, John makes a fateful decision: He breaks with his colleagues in fundamental ways, becoming the nation's prime defender of the rights of Black people, immigrant laborers, and people in distant lands occupied by the US. Harlan's dissents, particularly in Plessy v. Ferguson, were widely read and a source of hope for decades. Thurgood Marshall called Harlan's Plessy dissent his "Bible"--and his legal roadmap to overturning segregation. In the end, Harlan's words built the foundations for the legal revolutions of the New Deal and Civil Rights eras. Spanning from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond, The Great Dissenter is a "magnificent" (Douglas Brinkley) and "thoroughly researched" (The New York Times) rendering of the American legal system's most significant failures and most inspiring successes.

A Great Improvisation - Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (Paperback, 1st Owl Books ed): Stacy Schiff A Great Improvisation - Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (Paperback, 1st Owl Books ed)
Stacy Schiff
R638 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R93 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career
In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin-seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French-convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy.
When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he well understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues; engineered the Franco-American alliance of l778; and helped to negotiate the peace of l783. The eight-year French mission stands not only as Franklin's most vital service to his country but as the most revealing of the man.
In "A Great Improvisation," Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. From these pages emerge a particularly human and yet fiercely determined Founding Father, as well as a profound sense of how fragile, improvisational, and international was our country's bid for independence.

Jean-Louis Wagniere, secretaire de Voltaire - Lettres et Documents (Paperback): Christophe Paillard Jean-Louis Wagniere, secretaire de Voltaire - Lettres et Documents (Paperback)
Christophe Paillard
R2,937 Discovery Miles 29 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jean-Louis Wagniere servit Voltaire en qualite de secretaire de 1755 a 1778 avant de defendre sa memoire jusqu'a sa mort. Ses lettres assurent une importante mediation dans notre connaissance de la vie et de l'oeuvre du grand philosophe. Dans cette etude Christophe Paillard rassemble d'importants documents inedits qui apportent des eclaircissements sur les oeuvres de Voltaire et ses strategies epistolaires, ses rapports avec les editeurs, l'installation de sa bibliotheque a Petersbourg et l'histoire de l'edition de Kehl. Or, C. Paillard montre aussi que le temoignage de Wagniere doit etre interprete avec plus de precaution que la critique n'a eu tendance a le faire auparavant. Il fait voir que l'attribution de certaines oeuvres ou les remarques sur l'edition de Kehl doivent etre replacees dans le contexte d'une mise en scene; on decouvre a quel point le 'petit scribe' a assimile et mis en oeuvre les strategies litteraires de son maitre. Dans Jean-Louis Wagniere, secretaire de Voltaire: lettres et documents Christophe Paillard renouvelle l'etude de l'epistolaire et des methodes d'ecriture de Voltaire. Il procure aux specialistes de Voltaire une mine de documents inedits, et, de plus, il nous offre un moyen de les lire.

Voltaire and the 1760s - Essays for John Renwick (English, French, Paperback): Nicholas Cronk Voltaire and the 1760s - Essays for John Renwick (English, French, Paperback)
Nicholas Cronk
R2,926 Discovery Miles 29 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 1760s was a pivotal decade for the philosophes. In the late 1750s their cause had been at a low ebb, but it was transformed in the eyes of public opinion by such events as the Calas affair in the early 1760s. By the end of the decade, the philosophes were dominant in key literary institutions such as the Comedie-Francaise and the Academie francaise, and their enlightened programme became more widely accepted. Many of the essays in this volume focus on Voltaire, revealing him as a writer of fiction and polemic who, during this period, became increasingly interested in questions of justice and jurisprudence. Other essays examine the literary activities of Voltaire's contemporaries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Chamfort, Retif, Sedaine and Marmontel. It is no exaggeration to describe the 1760s as Voltaire's decade. It is he more than any other author who set the agenda and held the public's attention during this seminal period for the development of Enlightenment ideas and values. Voltaire's dominance of the 1760s can be summed up in a single phrase: it is in these years that he became the 'patriarch of Ferney'.

Diderot - Natural Philosopher (English, French, Paperback): Kurt Ballstadt Diderot - Natural Philosopher (English, French, Paperback)
Kurt Ballstadt
R2,921 Discovery Miles 29 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the most eclectic and enigmatic of the philosophes, Denis Diderot left an intellectual legacy that has the capacity to stimulate, perplex and even confound. Particularly challenging are his writings on the natural sciences, an area largely neglected by scholars over the past fifty years. In Diderot: natural philosopher Kurt Ballstadt examines the entirety of Diderot's scientific works from the Lettre sur les aveugles to the Elements de physiologie, investigating his fascination with mathematics, experimental physics, chemistry, natural history and medicine, and drawing out the crucial points of contact between these disciplines. Diderot is shown to have a well-constructed philosophy of science and an integrated, sophisticated vision of how the world functions. We are led away from the image of a radical Diderot, champion of disorder, to an analysis of a more systematic thinker whose underlying search for structure characterized both his attitude to the world around him, and the way he wrote about it. Situating these writings on natural philosophy in the intellectual landscape of the Enlightenment, this book will engage Diderot scholars and historians of eighteenth-century science alike.

Edexcel A Level History, Paper 3: Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763-1914 Student Book + ActiveBook (Paperback): Nikki... Edexcel A Level History, Paper 3: Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763-1914 Student Book + ActiveBook (Paperback)
Nikki Christie, Brendan Christie, Adam Kidson
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities provides assessment support for A level with sample answers, sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the new-style exam questions. It also comes with three years' access to ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect for revision.

Policing the Seas - Anglo-American Relations and the Equatorial Atlantic, 1819-1865 (Paperback): Mark C. Hunter Policing the Seas - Anglo-American Relations and the Equatorial Atlantic, 1819-1865 (Paperback)
Mark C. Hunter
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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 R230 Discovery Miles 2 300 Save R78 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 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

Blood and Treasure - Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier (Paperback): Bob Drury, Tom Clavin Blood and Treasure - Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier (Paperback)
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
R514 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R118 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Little Mother of Russia - A Biography of Empress Marie Feodorovna (Paperback, New edition): Coryne Hall Little Mother of Russia - A Biography of Empress Marie Feodorovna (Paperback, New edition)
Coryne Hall
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Empress Marie (1847-1928) lived one of the most dramatic lives of any princess who sat on the Russian throne. Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark she was betrothed to Tsarevitch Nicholas of Russia, a love match on both sides, but he died months before the wedding. Out of duty she married his brother who came to the throne as Tsar Alexander III in 1881 on the assassination of his father Alxander II. Her son was Nicholas II, the last Tsar. Everything she held most dear was destroyed before her eyes. Her husband died in his prime and two of her sons died young. During the First World War, her advice unheeded, the Tsar took command of the army and she could only watch as the country she loved was governed by her daughter-in-law Empress Alexandra and Rasputin, with disastrous results. Russia was engulfed in revolution, leading to the destruction of the dynasty and the Church. After a period of house arrest under the Bolsheviks, she escaped and was brought to England on board a British warship. Her word was law among the emigres and her influence was paramount among the Romanovs. She had truly become Matoushka - the Mother of the Russian People. She died in Denmark in 1928. This is the first major work in English, using previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives and information in Russian, Danish and Finnish not previously available in English.

Access to History: The Unification of Germany and the Challenge of Nationalism 1789-1919, Fifth Edition (Paperback): Vivienne... Access to History: The Unification of Germany and the Challenge of Nationalism 1789-1919, Fifth Edition (Paperback)
Vivienne Sanders
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Exam board: Pearson Edexcel; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual information that underpins students' understanding of the period. - Develop strong historical knowledge: In-depth analysis of each topic is both authoritative and accessible - Build historical skills and understanding: Downloadable activity worksheets can be used independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and homework - Learn, remember and connect important events and people: An introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and coursework - Achieve exam success: Practical advice matched to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons learnt from previous exams - Engage with sources, interpretations and the latest historical research: Students will evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that examine the views of different historians

The Connell Guide To The French Revolution (Paperback): David Andress The Connell Guide To The French Revolution (Paperback)
David Andress
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century (4vols) (Hardcover): Gail Turley Houston Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century (4vols) (Hardcover)
Gail Turley Houston
R12,731 Discovery Miles 127 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the age of empire, Victorians and Romantics over the long 19th century faced issues of governance that no other society had faced on such a massive level, causing socio-political questions that had to be addressed based on sheer necessity but little governmental experience. In an age in which there was a decade referred to as "the Hungry Forties," and in which the Great Famine in Ireland occurs as well, there are high rates of poverty across the whole century in Britain and its colonies. At the same time that hunger and famine were intractable issues, irresolvable across nineteenth-century Britain, socio-political entities had little stomach for solving the problem and few technocrats had economic answers based on real world experience. This four-volume collection of primary sources examine hunger and famine in Britain and its empire across the long nineteenth century.

Routledge Library Editions: Revolution (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: Revolution (Hardcover)
Various
R86,593 Discovery Miles 865 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection gathers together 31 previously out-of-print titles focusing on revolution - the political, economic, military and social aspects of the overthrow of state power. Ranging from nineteenth-century France to late-twentieth-century Caribbean, these books analyse the forms of revolt and the aftermaths of revolution, examining the types of government that result and the reactions of international opinion.

A Thief's Justice - A completely gripping historical mystery (Hardcover): Douglas Skelton A Thief's Justice - A completely gripping historical mystery (Hardcover)
Douglas Skelton
R543 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R147 (27%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold...The city is caught in the vice-like grip of a savage winter. Even the Thames has frozen over. But for Jonas Flynt - thief, gambler, killer - the chilling elements are the least of his worries... Justice Geoffrey Dumont has been found dead at the base of St Paul's cathedral, and a young male sex-worker, Sam Yates, has been taken into custody for the murder. Yates denies all charges, claiming he had received a message to meet the judge at the exact time of death. The young man is a friend of courtesan Belle St Clair, and she asks Flynt to investigate. As Sam endures the horrors of Newgate prison, they must do everything in their power to uncover the truth and save an innocent life, before the bodies begin to pile up. But time is running out. And the gallows are beckoning... A totally enrapturing portrayal of eighteenth-century London, and a rapier-like crime thriller, perfect for fans of Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Antonia Hodgson and Ambrose Parry.

These Truths - A History of the United States (Paperback): Jill Lepore These Truths - A History of the United States (Paperback)
Jill Lepore 1
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into the American past that places truth at the centre of the nation's history. Telling the story of America, beginning in 1492, These Truths asks whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them. Finding meaning in contradiction, Lepore weaves American history into a tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. This spellbinding chronicle offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.

Merchant Organization and Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815 (Paperback): Olaf Uwe Janzen Merchant Organization and Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815 (Paperback)
Olaf Uwe Janzen
R915 Discovery Miles 9 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
David Marshall Lang's Journey From Russia to Armenia - via Caucasian Georgia (Hardcover): David Marshall Lang David Marshall Lang's Journey From Russia to Armenia - via Caucasian Georgia (Hardcover)
David Marshall Lang
R14,074 Discovery Miles 140 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Armenia is the oldest Christian country in the world and there are few countries which have made, for their size, such an outstanding contribution to civilization as Armenia has, while yet remaining virtually unknown to the Western world. The volumes in this set, written and translated by an acknowledged authority on history and religion in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Georgia, as well as Russia itself: Examine the role played by an 18th Century Russian Radical in Tsarist Russia and his subsequent political legacy. Provide a translation of a legend important for theologians and scholars of comparative religion because through this legend the life of the Buddha and the ascetic ideal he exemplified significantly influenced the Christian West. Discuss the cultural, philosophic, religious and scientific contribution Armenia has made to the world. Provide a geographic and ethnic survey of Armenia and its people.

For Profit - A History of Corporations (Hardcover): William Magnuson For Profit - A History of Corporations (Hardcover)
William Magnuson
R854 R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Save R146 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 1, Politics and Diplomacy (Hardcover): Michael Broers, Philip Dwyer The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 1, Politics and Diplomacy (Hardcover)
Michael Broers, Philip Dwyer
R4,595 R3,404 Discovery Miles 34 040 Save R1,191 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to discuss the different aspects of the origins of the Napoleonic Wars, their international political implications and the concrete ways the Empire was governed. This volume begins by looking at the political context that produced the Napoleonic Wars and setting it within the broader context of eighteenth century great power politics in the Age of Revolution. It considers the administration and governance of the Empire, including with France's client states and the role of the Bonaparte family in the Empire. Further chapters in the volume examine the war aims of the various protagonists and offer an overall assessment of the nature of war in this period.

Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century - A Regional Approach (Paperback): Simon Ville Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century - A Regional Approach (Paperback)
Simon Ville
R893 Discovery Miles 8 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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