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Translating Your Past - Finding Meaning in Family Ancestry, Genetic Clues, and Generational Trauma (Paperback): Michelle Loon Translating Your Past - Finding Meaning in Family Ancestry, Genetic Clues, and Generational Trauma (Paperback)
Michelle Loon
R457 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R82 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Genealogy, Psychology and Identity - Tales from a family tree (Hardcover): Paula Nicolson Genealogy, Psychology and Identity - Tales from a family tree (Hardcover)
Paula Nicolson
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in recent times. Genealogy, Psychology and Identity explores this popular international pastime and offers reasons why it informs our sense of who we are, and our place in both contemporary culture and historical context. We will never know any of the people we discover from our histories in person, but for several reasons we recognize that their lives shaped ours. Paula Nicolson draws on her experiences tracing her own family history to show how people can connect with archival material, using documents and texts to expand their knowledge and understanding of the psychosocial experiences of their ancestors. Key approaches to identity and relationships lend clues to our own lives but also to what psychosocial factors run across generations. Attachment and abandonment, trusting, being let down, becoming independent, migration, health and money, all resonate with the psychological experiences that define the outlooks, personalities and the ways that those who came before us related to others. Nicolson highlights the importance of genealogy in the development of identity and the therapeutic potential of family history in cultivating well-being that will be of interest to those researching their own family tree, genealogists and counsellors, as well as students and researchers in social psychology and social history.

Suid-Afrikaanse geslagsregisters/South African Genealogies: Deel 1: A-C (Afrikaans, English, Hardcover, 2nd ed): J.A. Heese,... Suid-Afrikaanse geslagsregisters/South African Genealogies: Deel 1: A-C (Afrikaans, English, Hardcover, 2nd ed)
J.A. Heese, R.T.J. Lombard
R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

'n Omvattende naslaanwerk oor die genealogiese herkoms van Afrikaanse en heelparty Engelse families in Suid-Afrika.Met die verskyning van hierdie teks word 'n mylpaal in Suid-Afrikaanse genealografie bereik. Hierin word die geslagsregisters van die ou Afrikaanse families tot minstens 1830 aangevul, terwyl dit ook 'n aantal nuwe Afrikaanse sowel as Engelse stamvaders insluit.

The Habsburgs - To Rule the World (Hardcover): Martyn Rady The Habsburgs - To Rule the World (Hardcover)
Martyn Rady; Read by Simon Bowie
R877 R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Save R146 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Disappearing Uncle - Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family (Hardcover): Kathy Henderson My Disappearing Uncle - Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family (Hardcover)
Kathy Henderson
R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this family biography which springs from a collection of stories passed down by word of mouth. Told on a toboggan in the Austrian mountains, in the back seat of an overloaded mini, on a coal barge in Paris, folding linen in London ... they range from Hungary to Austria, Italy, France, England and South America. These were the tales that shaped our lives and understanding as we grew up, and brought us the adventures of the women who went before us - and the link to a scattered family and 200 years of European turmoil. Rich with the experience of several generations of women, this is the history that so rarely reaches the official record. This is where our story, their stories and history meet.

Clock and Watch Makers of Aberdeen and North East Scotland 1453-1900 (Paperback): Donald Whyte Clock and Watch Makers of Aberdeen and North East Scotland 1453-1900 (Paperback)
Donald Whyte
R120 R81 Discovery Miles 810 Save R39 (32%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Mohammadan Dyn:Orientalism V 2 - Orientalism: Early Sources (Hardcover): Stanley Lane-Pool Mohammadan Dyn:Orientalism V 2 - Orientalism: Early Sources (Hardcover)
Stanley Lane-Pool
R12,593 Discovery Miles 125 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Charles Dickens: Family History (Hardcover): Norman Page Charles Dickens: Family History (Hardcover)
Norman Page
R24,505 Discovery Miles 245 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Essential for students, researchers and fans, this unique set brings together a wide range of hard-to-find writings by relatives and friends of Charles Dickens. Contents include pieces such as "Memoirs of My Father" by Henry F. Dickens K.C.; "A Child's Memoir of Gad's" "Hill" by M.A. Dickens; "Personal Reminiscences of My Father" by Charles Dickens the Younger; and much more.

The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy (Paperback, New Ed): John Steane The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy (Paperback, New Ed)
John Steane
R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many aspects of medieval monarchy can only be recovered through archaeology. This archaeological survey of kingship in the period from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of Henry VIII brings together the physical evidence for the Kings and their courts in the form of a great variety of objects and buildings. John Steane looks at the changing perceptions of the cult of medieval kingship through symbols of power and regalia including crowns, seals and thrones, such as the Coronation Chair of Edward I. The result is a synthesis of current knowledge of the physical remains of medieval kingship that has not previously been attempted. Restoring many details of the lives and deaths of the great and powerful monarchs of the Middle Ages, this book reveals past public splendors as well as more private insights.

Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts (Hardcover): Vaughan Hart Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts (Hardcover)
Vaughan Hart
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spanning from the innauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. In "Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts," Vaughan Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature.Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldy, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.

Great Composers, The Illustrated History of - A guide to the lives, key works and influences of over 100 renowned composers... Great Composers, The Illustrated History of - A guide to the lives, key works and influences of over 100 renowned composers (Hardcover)
Wendy Thompson
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This authoritative volume provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the most influential composers of classical music. Starting from medieval times, the book gives detailed biographies covering the life and times of each composer, listing their most important works and placing them in their historical context. There are over 100 individual entries, from the pre-eminent Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, continuing up to modern composers such as Carter, Boulez and Stockhausen. The entries are accompanied by portraits or photographs of each composer, illustrations of the places where they lived and worked, and examples of their original manuscripts.

Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand - Related Histories (Paperback): Malcolm Allbrook, Sophie Scott-Brown Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand - Related Histories (Paperback)
Malcolm Allbrook, Sophie Scott-Brown
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the confluence of professional historians with family historians, their common causes and conversations. It brings together leading and emerging Australian and New Zealand scholars to consider the relationship between family history and the discipline of history, and the potential of family history to extend the scope of historical inquiry, even to revitalise the discipline. In Anglo-Western culture, the roots of the discipline's professionalisation lay in efforts to reconstruct history as objective knowledge, to extend its subject matter and to enlarge the scale of historical enquiry. Family history, almost by definition, is often inescapably personal and localised. How, then, have historians responded to this resurgence of interest in the personal and the local, and how has it influenced the thought and practice of historical enquiry?

Almanach de Gotha: Annuaire Diplomatique Et Statistique, pour l'AnnA (c)e 1857; Quatre-Vingt-QuatorziAme AnnA (c)e... Almanach de Gotha: Annuaire Diplomatique Et Statistique, pour l'AnnA (c)e 1857; Quatre-Vingt-QuatorziAme AnnA (c)e (Classic Reprint) (French, Paperback)
unknownauthor
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Archivio Storico Italiano, Vol. 1: Parte I., Anno 1865 (Classic Reprint) (Italian, Paperback): Deputazione Toscana Di Storia... Archivio Storico Italiano, Vol. 1: Parte I., Anno 1865 (Classic Reprint) (Italian, Paperback)
Deputazione Toscana Di Storia Patria
R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Beroemde Suid-Afrikaanse krygsmanne (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Leopold Scholtz Beroemde Suid-Afrikaanse krygsmanne (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Leopold Scholtz
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

'n Boeiende beeld van krygsverrigtinge binne en buite Suid-Afrikaanse grense in die loop van byna 500 jaar. Hier is besielende verhale van moed en heldedom – maar ook verhale van broedertwis en verraad, met figure en gebeure so uiteenlopend soos die Boereoorlog en generaal Christiaan de Wet; Dan Pienaar in die westelike Sahara; Bob Rogers en kolonel Koos van Heerden en Taakmag Zulu.

The Highland Clans (Paperback): Alistair Moffat The Highland Clans (Paperback)
Alistair Moffat
R317 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R64 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans, through the great battles of Bannockburn and Flodden, to the Clearances and the present day. The images bring the stories to life with historical portraits and depictions of significant events such as the battles or the Highland dances, to name but a few. The story of the clans is also about the pain of leaving, with the great emigrations to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Complete with a clan map and an alphabetical list of the clans of the Scottish Highlands, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of Scotland.

Kings and Queens (Paperback, New ed): Neil Grant Kings and Queens (Paperback, New ed)
Neil Grant; Edited by (consulting) Alison Plowden
R184 R159 Discovery Miles 1 590 Save R25 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A copiously illustrated guide to the monarchs of the British Isles and Ireland from pre-Saxon times to the present, complete with concise genealogical charts and details of key historical events.

The book is divided into five sections, together with a Compendium at the end.

Part One, presents information about Pre-Saxon rule, including details about ancient British chiefs, Roman rulers and the Roman Conquest. Part Two provides information about Scotland, Ireland and Wales, with sections on Robert I and the Wars of Independence, The Union of the Crowns, the Princes of Wales and the High Kingship of Ireland.Part Three discusses the Saxons, Normans and Plantagenets. Part Four gives details about the Tudors and Stuarts. Part Five presents an in-depth discussion of the houses from Hanover to Windsor.

Parts Two to Five provide all the essential information you will need to know about Kings and Queens including details of birth, parents, accession to the throne, coronation, authority, personal status, death date and burial place for each monarch.

In addition an overview is given for each reign outlining major events and personal tragedies, war, celebrations and conspiracies.

Lineage and Community in China, 1100-1500 - Genealogical Innovation in Jiangxi (Paperback): Xi He Lineage and Community in China, 1100-1500 - Genealogical Innovation in Jiangxi (Paperback)
Xi He
R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tracing descent from common ancestors was extremely important in imperial China. Members of such lineage communities sacrificed to ancestors in periodic ceremonies, maintained written genealogies to demonstrate their descent, and held some properties in common. This book, based on extensive original research, provides evidence that the practice originated much earlier than previously understood. It shows that in the eleventh century, in southern China under the Song dynasty, the method of compiling a genealogy in the form a table, that is, to say a family tree, replaced its statement as a textual paragraph and that this allowed the tracking of multi-line descent in ways that had previously been impossible. The book also reveals that the practice of recording and presenting genealogical information was not originally unique to communities of common surnames, but that the Southern Song government, keen to encourage loyalty to the state and cohesion within communities, favoured the building of common surname lineages, a practice which then had far-reaching consequences for the nature of Chinese society over a very long period.

Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand - Related Histories (Hardcover): Malcolm Allbrook, Sophie Scott-Brown Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand - Related Histories (Hardcover)
Malcolm Allbrook, Sophie Scott-Brown
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the confluence of professional historians with family historians, their common causes and conversations. It brings together leading and emerging Australian and New Zealand scholars to consider the relationship between family history and the discipline of history, and the potential of family history to extend the scope of historical inquiry, even to revitalise the discipline. In Anglo-Western culture, the roots of the discipline's professionalisation lay in efforts to reconstruct history as objective knowledge, to extend its subject matter and to enlarge the scale of historical enquiry. Family history, almost by definition, is often inescapably personal and localised. How, then, have historians responded to this resurgence of interest in the personal and the local, and how has it influenced the thought and practice of historical enquiry?

World Football Club Crests - The Design, Meaning and Symbolism of World Football's Most Famous Club Badges (Hardcover):... World Football Club Crests - The Design, Meaning and Symbolism of World Football's Most Famous Club Badges (Hardcover)
Leonard Jagerskioeld Nilsson 1
R642 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R110 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests.

Why is there a devil shown on the crest of Manchester United? Which club's crest motto is 'To Dare Is To Do'? And whose emblem depicts a bear and a strawberry tree?

From the seahorses of Newcastle United to the royal crown of Real Madrid, via the riveting hammers of West Ham United, Valencia's famous bat design and German club St Pauli's unofficial skull-and-crossbones emblem, there is a story behind every crest, a tale of identity.

Covering more than 200 clubs from 20 different leagues, World Football Club Crests explores the design, meaning and symbolism of the game's most famous club crests to reveal why the badges look as they do.

This carefully curated collection charts the continuing evolution of the designs and describes the changing styles, varied influences and remarkable controversies that have shaped football's most iconic crests. These important symbols of football heraldry will never be viewed in the same way again.

Tartan, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of - A history and visual guide to 750 tartans (Hardcover, 2nd Adapted edition): Iain... Tartan, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of - A history and visual guide to 750 tartans (Hardcover, 2nd Adapted edition)
Iain Zaczek
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This newly updated illustrated guide provides a detailed insight into the origins and history of tartan, from the very earliest samples, through those worn by the warring clans in the Stuart rebellions, to the Katsushika Japanese Dancers. The first section details the story of tartan, with information on the way the fabric and weaves developed, and how it became a symbol of resistance. The main part of the book is a directory illustrating the major clan tartans followed by international and modern tartans, with a wealth of history and background to each. From the ancient Bruce family to Neil Armstrong, who took his family tartan to the moon, tartan is one of the most enduring symbols of national pride and individual reputation. It is also a peculiarly inclusive, adaptable way of proclaiming allegiance and belonging.

Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe - Alfred, Charles the Bald, and Others (Paperback): Janet L. Nelson Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe - Alfred, Charles the Bald, and Others (Paperback)
Janet L. Nelson
R1,078 Discovery Miles 10 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme of this collection of papers by Janet L. Nelson. She first examines King Alfred of Wessex (871-99) in the context of Anglo-Saxon conditions and in comparison with his Carolingian contemporaries. When tension and conflict within the royal family are highlighted, she argues that Alfred's talents and political thought emerge the more impressively. A second group of papers deals with the reign of Charles the Bald (840-77): his patronage of learning and his interest in Spanish martyrs are set in political context, while contemporary historiography is considered as a form of counsel and critique. The third section reflects Nelson's growing interest in the political importance and gendered roles of royal women. Consecration rites are analysed as ritual expressions and factors in the shaping of the queenship, while two final papers also examine the making and unmaking of Frankish kings and princes.

Victoria Cross Heroes - Volume 11 (Paperback, 2nd New edition): Michael Ashcroft Victoria Cross Heroes - Volume 11 (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Michael Ashcroft 1
R399 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R102 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Victoria Cross is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War. Lord Ashcroft, who has been fascinated with bravery since he was a young boy, now owns 200 VCs, by far the largest collection of its kind in the world. Following on from the bestselling Victoria Cross Heroes, first published in 2006 to mark the 150th anniversary of the award, Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II gives extraordinary accounts of the bravery behind the newest additions to Lord Ashcroft's VC collection - those decorations purchased in the last decade. With nearly sixty action-packed stories of courageous soldiers, sailors and airmen from a range of global conflicts including the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and the First and Second World Wars, this book is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and a worthy tribute to the servicemen who earned the Victoria Cross. Their inspirational deeds of valour and self-sacrifice should be championed and never forgotten.

A Village with My Name - A Family History of China's Opening to the World (Hardcover): Scott Tong A Village with My Name - A Family History of China's Opening to the World (Hardcover)
Scott Tong
R852 Discovery Miles 8 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace," the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more it offered the opportunity to reconnect with members of his extended family who had remained in China after his parents fled the communists six decades prior. By uncovering the stories of his family's history, Tong discovered a new way to understand the defining moments of modern China and its long, interrupted quest to go global. A Village with My Name offers a unique perspective on the transitions in China through the eyes of regular people who have witnessed such epochal events as the toppling of the Qing monarchy, Japan's occupation during World War II, exile of political prisoners to forced labor camps, mass death and famine during the Great Leap Forward, market reforms under Deng Xiaoping, and the dawn of the One Child Policy. Tong's story focuses on five members of his family, who each offer a specific window on a changing country: a rare American-educated girl born in the closing days of the Qing Dynasty, a pioneer exchange student, an abandoned toddler from World War II who later rides the wave of China's global export boom, a young professional climbing the ladder at a multinational company, and an orphan (the author's daughter) adopted in the middle of a baby-selling scandal fueled by foreign money. Through their stories, Tong shows us China anew, visiting former prison labor camps on the Tibetan plateau and rural outposts along the Yangtze, exploring the Shanghai of the 1930s, and touring factories across the mainland. With curiosity and sensitivity, Tong explores the moments that have shaped China and its people, offering a compelling and deeply personal take on how China became what it is today.

Monarchy, Aristocracy and State in Europe 1300-1800 (Paperback): Hillay Zmora Monarchy, Aristocracy and State in Europe 1300-1800 (Paperback)
Hillay Zmora
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300 - 1800 is an important survey of the relationship between monarchy and state in early modern European history. Spanning five centuries and covering England, France, Spain, Germany and Austria, this book considers the key themes in the formation of the modern state in Europe.
The relationship of the nobility with the state is the key to understanding the development of modern government in Europe. In order to understand the way modern states were formed, this book focusses on the implications of the incessant and costly wars which European governments waged against each other, which indeed propelled the modern state into being.
Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300-1800 takes a fascinating thematic approach, providing a useful survey of the position and role of the nobility in the government of states in early modern Europe.

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