Publications : 93
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PublicationTen Cities that Made an Empire
From the publishers: Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool. Rejecting binary views of the British Empire as 'very good' or 'very bad', Hunt uses an exceptional array of primary accounts and personal reflection to […]
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PublicationThe History of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
From the publishers: This book covers the complete history of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, formerly the 6th Regiment of Foot. The book follows the adventures of this regiment from its inception in Holland in the 1670's up until its dissolution in 1968. Covering 283 years of history the book charts the involvement of the regiment […]
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PublicationMapping Time: Illustrated by Minard’s Map of Napoleon’s Russian Campaign of 1812
From the publishers: Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Inspired by graphic innovator Charles Minard's classic map of France's disastrous invasion of Russia, this book combines historical and geographic analysis with cartographic visualizations of mapping change over time. It […]
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PublicationA tavola con l’imperatore. 77 ricette napoleoniche da provare e gustare.
From the publishers: Un quaderno di ricette originale del 1814, appartenuto a una famiglia che frequentava la corte dell'imperatore esiliato. Alvaro Claudi, chef di lungo corso, in occasione del bicentenario del soggiorno napoleonico all'Isola d'Elba, le ha trascritte e “tradotte” in modo che siano realizzabili anche oggi. Ricette che ci sorprenderanno, permettendoci di assaporare l'ebbrezza […]
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PublicationThe Three Emperors: An Ethan Gage Adventure
From the publishers: Adventurer Ethan Gage travels through the darkest and most superstitious realms of eighteenth century Europe, to the castles and caves of Bohemia to rescue his family and uncover a mysterious medieval device rumored to foretell the future. Having survived the battle of Trafalgar, Ethan is rushing to rescue “Egyptian priestess” Astiza and […]
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PublicationThe British Raid on Essex: The Forgotten Battle of the War of 1812
From the publishers: This is the untold story of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the 1814 British attack on the privateers of Pettipaug, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of 1812, 136 Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut […]
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PublicationBy Order of Napoleon: The Taking of Malta
From the publishers:Napoleon Bonaparte issued thousands of dispatches directives and orders during the many campaigns of his military career. This e-book is a chronological compilation of his orders concerning the taking of Malta in 1798. They include orders to capture Gozo, Mdina and of course the city of Valletta. Napoleon's orders were very specific in […]
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PublicationVictorian Radicals and Italian Democrats
From the publishers: This book provides new insights into the history of Italy's long Risorgimento, by tracing the entanglements of the Mazzinian “international”. This informal group of men and women crossed the boundary of the Channel and the boundary of class to speak a common language and share a radical ideal: Giuseppe Mazzini's vision of […]
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PublicationLet’s Trail Napoleon’s Hundred Days
From the publishers: “There is no sacrifice, not even that of life, which I am not ready to make for the interests of France.” With those words, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated the throne of his French Empire on 11 April 1814. After the disastrous retreat of his Grande Armée from Russia with heavy losses and the […]
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PublicationNapoleon in Italy: The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799
From the publishers: In the centre of Mantua, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument to the sufferings […]