Leituria

The Congress of Vienna: A Study of Allied Unity: 1812-1822 Harold Nicolson was well qualified to write this book. His father, Sir Arthur Nicolson, was a diplomat as he himself was in early adulthood being a member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as well as servi...

Ernest Barker was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927. ...

The purpose of this book is to examine some of the more important activities of the seventeenth century, distinguishing their mutual relations and their places in the great transition. It does not aim at covering the whole ground. For one reason or another it omits some subjects no less important th...

Albert Frederick Pollard was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Felsted School and Jesus College, Oxford where he achieved a first class honours in Modern History in 1891. He became Assistant Editor of and a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1893. He was Profe...

Collection "Peuples et civilisations" n° XIII ...

The Chandos Classics The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by the English historian Edward Gibbon, is here presented in four volumes. It traces Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the fifteenth century. ...

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied...

An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters. The village of Montaillou was the last stronghold of the cult of Catharism in medieval ...