Will Hunt 
Underground [EPUB ebook] 

This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special …

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical per …

How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subs …

Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, f …

The First World War was a period of turbulent and unprecedented political upheaval that witnessed contrasting fortunes for Britain»s major political parties. This book demonstrates how the Conservat …

Memoirs of steel making at The Darlington Forge in the 1960»s. This book, written as seen through my eyes, those of a 15 year old on leaving school, recounts the hardships, difficulties and dangers …

Isambard Kingdom Brunel considered the Great Western Railway the »finest work in England» and he contributed many groundbreaking features, none so unorthodox as the decision not to adopt the »stan …

This book introduces the first champions of the cause of charity toward the sick and wounded: the Genevan philanthropists and physicians. It focuses on the international Red Cross movement from the f …