Tag: England

Free Download Battle for the Island Kingdom
by Hollway, Don;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 147285893X | 441 pages | True PDF EPUB | 38.8 MB

Free Download Fodor’s New England: with the Best Fall Foliage Drives, Scenic Road Trips, and Acadia National Park (Full-color Travel Guide) by Travel Guides
English | May 23, 2023 | ISBN: 1640975802 | 736 pages | MOBI | 55 Mb
Whether you want to visit Cape Cod’s beaches, eat lobster in Maine, or ski in Vermont, the local Fodor’s travel experts in New England are here to help! Fodor’s New England guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Free Download A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (Early American Studies) by Adrian Chastain Weimer
English | April 12, 2023 | ISBN: 151282397X | 350 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule.

Free Download Graham Turner, "Towton 1461: England’s bloodiest battle"
English | 2003 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1841765139, 0275988597 | PDF | 10,3 mb
On a bitterly cold Palm Sunday, 29 March 1461, the army of King Edward IV met that of his Lancastrian enemies on a snow-covered battlefield south of the village of Towton in Yorkshire. The struggle lasted all day in the longest and bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485). With the arrival of Yorkist reinforcements under the Duke of Norfolk, the Lancastrian line eventually broke and their troops fled, many being caught and slaughtered in the death trap known as ‘Bloody Meadow’. Christopher Gravett examines the campaign that marked the resurgence of the Yorkist cause and established Edward IV as king

Free Download Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England: Books, the Literary Marketplace, and the Scholarly Persona by Elise Garritzen
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 397 Pages | ISBN : 3031284607 | 11.7 MB
This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.

Free Download M. William Phelps, "Murder, New England: A Historical Collection Of Killer True-Crime Tales"
English | 2012 | pages: 227 | ISBN: 0762778431 | PDF | 6,1 mb
Bestselling true-crime author M. William Phelps,star of the new investigative television series "Dark Minds," takes readers to his own backyard in theseeight bloodcurdling murder cases. Think New England is all bucolic landscapes and Robert Frost poems? Think again.

Free Download Joseph Pearce, "Merrie England: A Journey Through the Shire"
English | 2016 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 1505107199 | EPUB | 6,2 mb
Join Joseph Pearce on a journey into the real Shire-a voyage into the mysterious presence of an England which is more real than the one you are accustomed to seeing, the one which seems to be in terminal decline. The England Pearce wants us to know is an enchanted and unchanging place, full of ghosts who are as alive as the saints. It is an England that is rural, sacramental, liturgical, local, beautiful . . . a place "charged with the grandeur of God".

Free Download Christopher Gravett, "Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600"
English | 2008 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 184603342X | PDF | 28,3 mb
The traditional "knight in shining armor" has become a staple figure in popular culture and the images of bloody battlefields, bustling feasting halls and courtly tournaments have been creatively interpreted many times in film and fiction.

Free Download Michael G Johnson, Jonathan Smith, "Indian Tribes of the New England Frontier"
English | 2006 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841769371 | PDF | 6,1 mb
This book offers a detailed introduction to the tribes of the New England region – the first native American peoples affected by contact with the French and English colonists. By 1700 several tribes had already been virtually destroyed, and many others were soon reduced and driven from their lands by disease, war or treachery. The tribes were also drawn into the savage frontier wars between the French and the British. The final defeat of French Canada and the subsequent unchecked expansion of the British colonies resulted in the virtual extinction of the region’s Indian culture, which is only now being revived by small descendant communities.

Free Download The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest by Jennifer Paxton, The Great Courses
English | 2013 | ISBN: B00DTO6ADA | Format: M4B / 19 hours and 7 minutes + PDF | 527 Mb
These 36 lectures tell the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period in the history of England. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the foundation of much of the world we know today. As you journey through this largely chronological narrative – occasionally interrupted for lecture-long explorations of specific topics – you’ll see key themes emerge, including the assimilation of successive waves of invaders, the tense relationship between kings and the nobility, and the constant battles over money and taxation. And because so much of history is driven by specific individuals and not just historical circumstance, each lecture is rich in intimate portraits that reveal those individuals at the key moments of their historical destiny, including Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and John Wycliffe.The result is a lecture series that winds up being not only informative but deeply entertaining, with each lecture drawing you in with its own particular fascinations, including a probing look at the scope of the Black Death, a realistic examination of the legends of both King Arthur and Robin Hood, a riveting description of the Battle of Bosworth Field, and a discussion of the surprisingly nuanced penalties of the early Germanic law codes.
These lectures consistently deliver a fresh level of understanding about medieval England, its rulers and subjects, and their significance for the world we live in today. The chain of theme and event that links our world to theirs will never be clearer, rewarding every moment you spend with this series.