A unique reference book which examines those individuals who have shaped the political world since 1860. Coverage is truly global, including the most important figures in Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Africa and Australasia.
This guide to 5000 years of British history classifies events under nine headings: general and political, fine arts and architecture, literature and scholarship, music and drama, recreation and fashion, religion and education, science and invention, voyages of exploration, and events elsewhere.
With a user-friendly A to Z layout, this volume contains 1, 200 entries on the men and women who have influenced the course of Christian history. Founding fathers, monarchs, Popes, saints, philanthropists, heretics, theologians, and missionaries are profiled with detailed bibliographic information on each prominent figure. Glossary and Chronological table.
This major new reference book presents more than 700 biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries and richly illustrates the variety and complexity of the life of the period he lived. With its useful glossary of unusual terms, and extensive cross-references, this invaluable book emphasizes the cultural continuity between the last phase of Elizabethan England and the Jacobean age, and the authors also pay attention to American connections. This ...
Don't beat around the bush
We all instinctively feel greater respect for people who speak to us frankly. In business - indeed in most walks of life - there isn't time to waste with endless niceties, waffle and small talk. But of course you won't achieve much if you simply try to bulldoze your way through meetings and conversations.
There has to be a middle ground - a way of communicating that gets straight to the point and ensures you get th...
The distinguished biographer and historian tells the story of the war in Flanders as a conflict that has left a deep social and political mark on the history of Europe.
Clement von Metternich held continuous office at the head of Europe's affairs for a longer period of time than any other statesman in modern history. The 'Age of Metternich' lasted for more than a generation, and gave Europe a measure of peace, that was much needed after the Napoleonic convulsions. This title describes the Metternich's longevity.
Now in paperback, a distinguished historian recounts the myriad tragic blunders and the unprecedented, unfathomable bloodshed that was World War I in a fresh and revealing look at the war and its impact on the 20th century. Maps. of photos.
No ruler in modern times reigned in full sovereignty for as long as Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia. Titular master of central Europe from 1848 until 1916, he was center stage in Europe throughout the dramatic era in which Italy and Germany emerged as united nation states. His personal decisions were vital both to the outcome of the Crimean War and to the onset of World War I, si...
Tells the story of polyglot army (it included, at various times, contingents from seven countries) from the first landing at Salonika in 1915 to the peace in 1918.
