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The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic history. New expanded edition of a classic book, originally published to great critical acclaim from Ray…

[Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’]A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.Midnight, Sunday, 17 June 1815. There was no t…

Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the for…

The book is about series of paintings by a Russian painter Vasiliy Vereschagin produced during his 3-months stay in Japanese town Nikko.

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disr…

This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the popes, from the foundation of the See of Rome to the present time. Vol. 1».

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the Popes : Vol. II : from the foundation of the See of Rome, to the present time / by Archibald Bower».

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the Popes : Vol. 5 : from the foundation of the See of Rome to the present time / by Archibald Bower».

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the popes, from the foundation of the See of Rome to the present time. Vol. 6».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history, civil and commercial, of the British West Indies : Vol. 1 : with a continuation to the present time : with maps and plates : in 5 volumes / by Bryan Edwards».

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.