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The History of England Volume II

David Hume

The History of England Volume II

Volume II covers the tumultous period from Henry III through Edward V and Richard III, including the War of the Roses, the struggle between the Houses of York and of Lancaster for the throne.

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David Hume

Miscellaneous Writings

Edmund Burke

Miscellaneous Writings

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke’s brilliant defense of the American colonists’ complaints of British policy, including “Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770), “Speech on American Taxation” (1774), and “Speech on Conciliation” (1775). Volume 2 consists of Burke’s renowned...

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Edmund Burke

Sicily '43

James Holland

Sicily '43

The Sicily campaign had huge ramifications and it was absolutely crucial to the Allied effort in the war for several reasons: it was the vital gateway to confronting Nazi Germany on European soil; it was the first collaborative campaign between the US and UK on equal footing, after which the military coalition became closely coordinated; it largely knocked Italy, a key Nazi ally, out of the war; the invasion was a critical learning experience prior to the D-Day invasion eleven months later. The...

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James Holland

The History of the American Revolut...

David Ramsay

The History of the American Revolution

David Ramsay’s History of the American Revolution appeared in 1789 during an enthusiastic celebration of nationhood. It is the first American national history written by an American revolutionary and printed in America.Ramsay, a well-known Federalist, was an active participant in many of the events of the period and a member of the Continental Congress from South Carolina.This is a comprehensive and exciting narrative of the events and ideas of the American Revolution (from the outbreak of...

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David Ramsay

Select Works of Edmund Burke: Thoug...

Edmund Burke

Select Works of Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke’s brilliant defense of the American colonists’ complaints of British policy, including “Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770), “Speech on American Taxation” (1774), and “Speech on Conciliation” (1775).Francis Canavan (1917–2009) was...

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Edmund Burke

The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nat...

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The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union

The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to predominate in the North and the South by 1830.To Webster, the Union was the indivisible expression of one nation of people. To Hayne, the Union was the voluntary compact among sovereign states. The Webster-Hayne Debate consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830.Herman...

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Liberty and Order

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Liberty and Order

Liberty and Order is an ambitious anthology of primary source writings: letters, circulars, debate transcriptions, House proceedings, and newspaper articles that document the years during which America’s Founding generation divided over the sort of country the United States was to become.With this significant collection, the reader receives a deeper understanding of the complex issues, struggles, and personalities that made up the first great party battle and that continue to shape our...

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Lectures on the French Revolution

John Emerich Edward Dalberg- Acton

Lectures on the French Revolution

This collection of the lectures of Lord Acton on the French Revolution comprises a disciplined, thorough, and elegant history of the actual events of the bloody episode. It is as thorough a record as could be constructed in Acton’s time of the actions of the government of France during the Revolution.Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures on the French Revolution is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter in French experience by one of the most remarkable...

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John Emerich Edward Dalberg- Acton

Select Works of Edmund Burke: Refle...

Edmund Burke

Select Works of Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France

Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords.Volume 2 consists of Burke’s most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France. In it, he excoriates French...

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Edmund Burke

My Sonoma - Valley of the Moon

Bill Lynch

My Sonoma - Valley of the Moon

My Sonoma – Valley of the Moon by Bill Lynch is an insider’s look at life in Jack London’s famous Valley of the Moon, where the California Bear Flag was first raised and where the California wine industry was born. Written by the former editor and publisher of The Sonoma Index-Tribune, the local newspaper started by the author’s great-grand father, My Sonoma is about the people who made Sonoma Valley one of the most popular tourist destinations in California. It is a behind-the-scenes look at...

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Bill Lynch

The Dream

Mohammad Malas

The Dream

In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions. <em>The Dream: A Diary of a Film </em>is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila, Burj al-Barajneh, Nahr al-Bared, and Ein al-Helweh. It also describes the filmmaking process, from the research stage to the film's unofficial release, in...

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Mohammad Malas

Jihad of the Pen

Rudolph Ware

Jihad of the Pen

Outsiders have long observed the contours of the flourishing scholarly traditions of African Muslim societies, but the most renowned voices of West African Sufism have rarely been heard outside of their respective constituencies. This volume brings together writings by Uthman b. Fudi (d. 1817, Nigeria), Umar Tal (d. 1864, Mali), Ahmad Bamba (d. 1927, Senegal), and Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal), who, between them, founded the largest Muslim communities in African history. Jihad of the Pen...

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Rudolph Ware

The Mystery of the Lost Locket

Deborah G. Bubé

The Mystery of the Lost Locket

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Deborah G. Bubé

Smak dymu

Anna Trojanowska

Smak dymu

O miłości w cieniu Wielkiej Wojny Warszawa, rok 1914. Lea jest pewną siebie, energiczną kobietą, matką trójki dzieci. Pracuje w aptece i próbuje wprowadzić do niej zioła z własnego zbioru. Wydawałoby się, że niczego jej nie brakuje, a jednak nie czuje się szczęśliwa. Po dziesięciu latach małżeństwa z Wincentem z gorącego uczucia, które ich połączyło, niewiele zostało. Gdy niespodziewanie nadarza się okazja, Lea wybiera się w podróż na daleką Syberię. Kiedy powraca do Warszawy, świat jest już...

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Anna Trojanowska

A może jutra nie będzie

Małgorzata Kochanowicz

A może jutra nie będzie

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Małgorzata Kochanowicz

The Journal of Midshipman Chaplin

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The Journal of Midshipman Chaplin

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Kobstadens metamorfose

Jeppe Norskov

Kobstadens metamorfose

Omkring 1800 var Arhus en lille, fortAettet handels- og handvAerksby beboet af godt 4.000 indbyggere og med torvene i byens midte som det okonomiske og sociale midtpunkt. Ved arhundredets slutning var indbyggertallet vokset til flere end 50.000, byen havde spredt sig ud over de middelalderlige grAenser, og dele af de omkringliggende sognekommuner og landsbyer var blevet indlemmet i kobstadskommunen. Nye kvarterer var opstaet med sAerlige beboer- og erhvervssammensAetninger, og selv om der stadig...

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Jeppe Norskov

Industrial Heritage in Denmark

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Industrial Heritage in Denmark

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Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto...

Richard Raskin

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto and With Raised Hands

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Richard Raskin

Barn eller fjende?

Kirsten Lylloff

Barn eller fjende?

Historien om Danishmarks og Danishskernes rolle i 2. verdenskrig er i disse ar ved at blive skrevet om. En af de nye historikere er Kirsten Lylloff, som har skrevet ph.d.-afhandling om, hvad der skete med de 250.000 tyske flygtninge, som ankom til Danishmark pa fire maneder i 1945. Med fokus pa de uledsagede tyske flygtningeborn dokumenterer hun her, hvorfor denne flygtningeinvasion ma betegnes som den storste Danishske humanitAere katastrofe i nyere tid.Tyskerne var i en elendig forfatning, da...

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Kirsten Lylloff

KirkesprAengningen og Danmark

Thorkild C Lyby

KirkesprAengningen og Danmark

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Thorkild C Lyby

Europe and its Interior Other(s)

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Europe and its Interior Other(s)

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Reformationen

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Reformationen

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Sproget

Hans Arndt

Sproget

Malet med bogen er at fortAelle om sproget – hvordan det er bygget op, og hvordan det bruges. Om lyd og skrift, ord og udsagn. Om historien bagved, om sproget i samfundet, om det videnskabelige studium af sproget. Sproget er et stykke vAerktoj, det fineste og mest komplicerede, vi har. Alligevel handterer vi det med stor behAendighed, blot fordi vi er vokset op med det. Det er det, der er mirakulost.Bogen er skrevet for den almindelige sproginteresserede lAeser, og eksemplerne er hovedsagelig...

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Hans Arndt

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