British luxury rail travel was not just the domain of the Pullman Company. In fact, they were far from the only providers as railway companies in Britain were extremely active from late Victorian times competing for leisure business.
An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpart, by the author of The Florentines and The Borgias.[Bokinfo].
The book describes the numerous ways in which people have communicated secretly throughout history, outlining the mechanical processes of covert messaging through such techniques as computer encryption, the da Vinci code, and the Rosetta Stone while sharing additional coverage of how laypeople have used ...
Captain Charles Johnson's colourful accounts of the most roguish and infamous highwaymen in history comes to life in this new publication featuring the original 1734 engravings alongside additional complementary material from the Library's collections.
More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people-black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American-bear responsibility for this crime.
In this timely and fully international book, David Welch has selected fifty images to highlight the continuities and dis-continuities of mass-communication throughout history, be they via images, events, films or by 'propaganda by deed'.
The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples.
This book concerns the social life of the English from the ancient Britons through to the 20th century, finding a similarity of behavior across the centuries, from eating and drinking to dress and sport.
Until recently it had been assumed that no color photographs existed in Japan until the victorious US forces arrived in 1945. However, following a yearlong research project, an extraordinary color record began to emerge. Now in Japan's War in Color, rare and never-before-seen photographs reveal imperial ...
These are the stories of the last generation of children raised in British India, in their own words. Over 280 contributions and 200 photographs from over 120 individuals make this a unique record of an extraordinary time and place. The experience of life in the Raj is now remote from British daily life, ...
In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read.
Judge Baltasar Garzon achieved international prestige in 1998 when he pursued the perpetrators of crimes committed in Argentina against Spanish citizens and began proceedings for the arrest of the Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet.
This is the story of the French Revolution told from a psychological and group dynamic perspective. The group perspective the nature of crowd behaviour and mob violence links to the complex relationship between leaders and groups.
What is a hangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? In the humanities, why have we neglected the subject of the hangover in our critical discussions of alcohol and intoxication?In the first comprehensive study ...
