All posts tagged "European history"
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History
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
June 20, 2022Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
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Great Britain
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 9, 2022To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
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History
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
June 3, 2022The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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Great Britain
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 27, 2022The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
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Great Britain
Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of France at Blenheim by Charles Spencer
October 17, 2021Even the greatest deeds of brave men can be forgotten in the mists of time -...
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Great Britain
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
October 13, 2021Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
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History
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
June 19, 2020In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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Architecture
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
June 11, 2020Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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Great Britain
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
June 10, 2020Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Biography
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
June 5, 2020She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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