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This book is dedicated to the gypsy-like groups of India, gypsies of North Africa and Middle East and Irish Travellers (and connection with Irish stick fighting).

Thanks to the diligent efforts of sincere researchers, it has become possible to discard most of the religious, political and ideological lies from the existing scriptures. May the thoughts and actions of the righteous people of the past set forth in…

In this book the author analyzes different groups of hunters and gatherers which live around the coast of Indian Ocean — from the hill jungles of North Thailand to the sandy shores of South Madagascar, from the foothills of Himalaya to the savannahs …

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and …

Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 presents a comprehensive thematic history of the rise and influence of the branches of Christianity that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation. Represents the only English language…

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives. Features …

What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society.Wh…

IN THE MIDDLE AGES, a remarkable tomb was carved to cover the bones of an English hero. For centuries, tales spread about dragons, giants and devils. How and why this happened is the subject of this book.Do you wonder where dragons once lurked and wh…

This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history. Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of …

Thomas Paine was born in Great Britain; he came to America at the age of 37 for the first time. He is rightly considered to be the Anglo-American writer, philosopher, publicist, as well as «American godfather» for supporting separatist spirits and in…

Kazakhs and Turks are two fraternal peoples belonging to the Turkic world. This book is an attempt to trace how these two peoples passed their way to modernity. What they experienced. What we have achieved. What they can be proud of. I’m sure it will…

This book is a travel guide, where we reveal the lessons of history left to us by the events of 1945. Traveling through the decades, we explore how the destructive power of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki affected global dynamics, the form…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of Schotland : Vol. 2 : in 2 volumes / by Sir Walter Scott Bart».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of Schotland : Vol. 1 : in 2 volumes / by Sir Walter Scott Bart».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the British revolution of 1688-9 : Recordong all the events connected with that transaction in England, Scotland and Ireland, down to the capitulation of Limerick, in 1691 in the last of these kingdoms inclus…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history, civil and commercial, of the British West Indies : Vol. 3 : with a continuation to the present time : with maps and plates : in 5 volumes / by Bryan Edwards».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Asiatick researches : Vol. 4 : or, transactions of the society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia / printed verbatim from the Calcutta edition, …