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History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and the life of colonial aristocracy. Contents Patrician and Plebeian The Aristocracy The Middle Class Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of...
| Автор | Thomas J. Wertenbaker |
This edition is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and ended with the political act or acts by which British sovereignty over the thirteen English colonies in North America was definitely repudiated. All else was nothing but cause or effect of this act. Of the causes, some were economic, some social, others constitutional. But the Revolution itself was none of these; not social, nor economic, nor...
| Автор | Charles Howard McIlwain |
В сборник документов вошли наиболее информативные материалы, в которых освещается подготовка и проведение процесса над Л. П. Берией. Впервые в научный оборот вводится проект Обвинительного заключения в отношении Берии, который ранее был недоступен исследователям, что затрудняло проведение полноценного анализа обстоятельств этого процесса. Настоящий сборник документов ставит своей целью расширить представление общественности об этом до настоящего времени закрытом деле. Публикуемые документы...
| Автор | Сборник |
Traditions of the North American Indians in three volumes is a study on the culture, tradition and mythology of Native Americans consisting of their tribal tales, myths and legends and presenting their daily lives through customs and tradition. Many of the tales are origin stories and tales of the afterlife. Contents: The Man of Ashes Pomatare, The Flying Beaver The Alarm Of The Great Sentinel. A Tradition of the Delawares The Mother of the World, A Tradition of the Dog-Ribs The Fall Of...
| Автор | James Athearn Jones |
Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy is a biography of Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons written by Thomas Legh, Baron Newton, who served as a member of Lord Lyons's staff at the Paris Embassy. Newton collected Lord's carefully preserved correspondence and draw upon his own diary and recollections to compile this biography of an eminent British diplomat, the favourite of Queen Victoria. Lyons was the most influential British diplomat during each of the four great crises of the...
| Автор | Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton |
Discoveries in Australia is a two volume account of the voyages of H. M. S. Beagle by the coasts of Australia, written by Admiral Stokes, an officer in the Royal Navy who served on the Beagle for close to eighteen years. The work covers the expedition by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty which took place from 1837 to 1843 and provides accounts of exploring and surveying coasts and rivers of the continent. Travel reports are supplemented with records of new spices of fish,...
| Автор | John Lort Stokes |
The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain in three volumes is a study of ancient and medieval art on the Iberian Peninsula written with a goal to provide a clear and fairly complete account of the decorative arts and techniques from the country of Don Quixote. The work is divided in three parts: The first part deals with gold, silver, and jewel work, iron-work, bronzes and arms; The second part deals with furniture, ivories, pottery, and glass; and the final third part deals with Spanish silk, cloths...
| Автор | Leonard Williams |
Antigua and the Antiguans in two volumes presents a full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to modern days. The history of the Antigua island can be traced from Columbus' discovery, but the first written sources date from the early 17th century when the first settlers claimed their possessions, and were disturbed by Caribs from nearby islands. The account begins with the forming of the colony and follows the development of the island to modern days. The...
| Автор | Mrs. Lanaghan |
South Africa and the Transvaal War in eight volumes is a historical account of The Second Boer War fought between the British Empire and two independent Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa. Initial Boer attacks were successful, and although British reinforcements later reversed these, the war continued for years with Boer guerrilla warfare, until harsh British counter-measures including a...
| Автор | Louis Creswicke |
Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino in three volumes presents a history of the houses of Montefeltro and Della Rovere, of their famous and most brilliant Court, and of that part of Italy over which they held dominion. It deals not only with history and politics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, but it also illustrates «the arms, arts, and literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630.» Contents: Book First: Of Urbino and Its Early Accounts Book Second: Of Federigo di Montefeltro, Count...
| Автор | Dennistoun James |
В предлагаемой книге отражены впечатления автора от многочисленных путешествий в Беларусь. Наблюдения над процессами, происходящими в этой стране, воплощены в форме путевых заметок и стихов. При этом образ Беларуси подан сквозь призму авторского восприятия.У прапанаванай кніге адлюстраваны ўражанні аўтара ад шматлікіх падарожжаў па Беларусі. Назіранні над працэсамі, якія адбываюцца ў гэтай краіне, увасоблены ў форме дарожных нататак і вершаў.
| Автор | Глеб Пудов |
Вы начали читать эту книгу, и эта книга откроет вам знания истории вашего будущего, которое вы ещё не пережили, но будете жить, и вы можете заранее познать будущее всей вашей человеческой цивилизации, и если вы привыкли читать историю прошлого, то в этой книге вы можете прочитать историю вашего будущего и вы узнаете историю вашего будущего на миллионы лет вперёд, и познаете всё, по какому пути вы будете идти.
| Автор | Анастасия Вэс |
Революцию 1917 года часто называют Великой. Она определила судьбы России и мира. И только сейчас мы обретаем способность спокойно и трезво оценивать, что тогда с нами случилось. В новой книге Вячеслава Никонова вы узнаете, каким образом за восемь месяцев на развалинах великой евразийской державы в разгар мировой войны в октябре 1917 года возникло государство Советов под руководством крошечной партии большевиков, предложившей альтернативу всей предыдущей истории человечества. В формате PDF...
| Автор | Вячеслав Никонов |
