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A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022 The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. 'Entertaining' The Times 'Definitive' The Mirror 'Highly readable' Financial Times A work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the defining biography of northern England. This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the dramatic events that created the north - waves of migration, invasions and battles, and transformative changes wrought on European culture and the global economy.In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to the present day, the book shows that the people of the north have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways. At least six Roman emperors ruled from York. The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was Europe's leading cultural and intellectual centre.Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, deserves to be as famous as Boudica. Neanderthals and Vikings, Central European Jews, African-Caribbeans and South Asians, have all played their part in the making and remaking of the north. Northern writers, activists, artists and comedians are celebrated the world over, from Wordsworth, the Brontes and Gaskell to LS Lowry, Emmeline Pankhurst and Peter Kay.

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. 'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID KYNASTON'Fascinating.' OBSERVER'Powerful.' LITERARY REVIEW'Inspired.' GUARDIANBrittle with Relics is a vital history of Wales undergoing some of the country's most seismic and traumatic events: the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh language movement; the Miners' Strike and its aftermath; and the narrow vote in favour of partial devolution. Drawing upon the voices of its inhabitants - includin Neil Kinnock, Rowan Williams, Leanne Wood, Gruff Rhys, Michael Sheen, Nicky Wire, Sian James, language activists, members of former mining communities and many more - this is a vivid portrait of a nation determined to survive, while maintaining the hope that Wales will one day thrive on its own terms.

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022****A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY and HISTORY EXTRA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's empire was the largest in human history. For many, it epitomized the nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy have we delivered to the world?Spanning more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve British imperial interests.She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in Victorian calls for punishing indigenous peoples who resisted subjugation, and how over time this treatment became increasingly systematised. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, Britain retreated from its empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of the political divide regarding the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence.

A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once more. This book has been a long time coming.Since 1086, in fact. For centuries, England's elite have covered up how they got their hands on millions of acres of our land, by constructing walls, burying surveys and more recently, sheltering behind offshore shell companies. But with the dawn of digital mapping and the Freedom of Information Act, it's becoming increasingly difficult for them to hide.

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'A spirited attempt at uncovering the mystery of how Birmingham has managed for so long to stand at the centre of Britain's history without anyone noticing ... This absorbing book shows us how we did it' Observer'Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England.I buy it' Daily TelegraphFor over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England, and central to modern history. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century: a place of mass production, full employment and prosperity that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. For most of that time, Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean.

During the period 1550-1650, the Spanish monarchy faced military challenges that put at stake its European hegemony. Having learned from the maritime wars, the Spanish changed their paradigm of maritime warfare. As a result, the main maritime shipping force in the Spanish kingdom, the Basque merchant shipbuilding tradition, was no longer a suitable navy to defend the Imperial interests. This led to a shipbuilding transition to suit a more militarized type of design, although Basques found alternatives to their traditional merchant endeavours, reaching their shipbuilding peak by the 17th century. This book challenges traditional historiography and shows an alternative story through the cultural view of Basque shipbuilders, heterogeneous but interconnected to contemporary traditions, such as the Portuguese. Basque shipbuilding was a unique tradition in its making, belonging to a wider Euro-Atlantic network of culture and technology.

Este volumen de homenaje al profesor y academico Luis Agustín García Moreno reúne diferentes contribuciones de una serie de colegas, discípulos y amigos que abarca un amplio espectro de temas dentro de un extenso arco cronologico, que va desde la historia antigua al mundo altomedieval y moderno. Algunas de ellas hacen referencia al estudio de la historia y geografia antiguas, relacionadas con diferentes temas y espacios, desde la India a la peninsula iberica; otras se ajustan, dentro de un molde muy amplio, a cuestiones de tipo historiografico, que afectan a la manera de enfocar la historia de determinados temas; y, finalmente, hay estudios que abordan la historia de la Antiguedad tardia y del mundo visigodo. Esta obra abarca, pues, una historia sin fronteras sobre diversos temas en torno a las raices de Europa, muy acorde a los intereses e investigaciones llevados a cabo a lo largo de la vida academica del homenajeado.

WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not ignoring, the past' Gerard deGroot, The Times_____________________________________________________EMPIRE explains why there are millions of Britons living worldwide. EMPIRE explains Brexit and the feeling that we are exceptional. EMPIRE explains our distrust of cleverness.EMPIRE explains Britain's particular brand of racism. Strangely hidden from view, the British Empire remains a subject of both shame and glorification. In his bestselling book, Sathnam Sanghera shows how our imperial past is everywhere: from how we live and think to the foundation of the NHS and even our response to the COVID-19 crisis.At a time of great division, when we are arguing about what it means to be British, Empireland is a groundbreaking revelation - a much-needed and enlightening portrait of contemporary British society, shining a light on everything that usually gets left unsaid.

The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrongEjnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Pearys outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expeditions boat needed repair. Several months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on an incredible journey during which they would suffer every imaginable Arctic travail: implacable cold, scurvy, starvation, frostbite, snow blindness, plunges into icy seawater, impossible sledding conditions, Vitamin A poisoning, debilitated dogs, apocalyptic storms, gaping crevasses, and assorted mortifications of the flesh. Mikkelsens diary was even eaten by a bear. Three years of this, coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue, would drive most crazy, yet the two retained both their sanity as well as their humor. Indeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings

Short History of Wales is classic Welsh history text by Owen M. Edwards. Wales is a row of hills, rising between the Irish Sea on the west and the English plains on the east. If you come from the west along the sea, or if you cross the Severn or the Dee from the east, you will see that Wales is a country all by itself. It rises grandly and proudly. If you are a stranger, you will think of it as "Wales"--a strange country; if you are Welsh, you will think of it as "Cymru"--a land of brothers.

A TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of a book' Antonia Senior, The Times'ravishingly lovely' The Times Ireland'[a] lively retelling of British myths' Apollo Magazine

Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCan anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone's 'other'. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.

Wise and thorough' The Spectator'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' Financial Times'He is an engaging guide ... and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy' The Sunday Telegraph'A scholarly yet highly readable gallop through the last 1000 years of Russian history ... To understand this tormented nation, you can do no better than read this illuminating portrait' Jonathan DimblebyRussia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago it was reinvented as the Russian Federation.Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They too omit episodes of national disgrace in favour of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes more rooted in myth than reality.

En este libro —1750-1850—, la sociedad europea, y concretamente la española, experimentó profundos y desgarradores cambios. Al ser las familias realidades cambiantes y dinámicas, tambien son un teles

Se ha considerado por muchos especialistas que la primitiva historia de Europa, escrita en los manuscritos primitivos de la Europa Atlántica, referente a las invasiones de los Tuatha de Danann, los Hijos de Mil de España y otras corrientes migratorias venidas de la Grecia asiatica y el Caucaso, es solamente mitologia.No obstante hasta el momento no ha existido un trabajo exhaustivo sobre este tema o una explicacion bien documentada que sustente dicha teoria.Nuestra intencion con este trabajo es ofrecer una exposicion con los datos que poseemos sobre el tema, haciendo referencia a los trabajos de prestigiosos arqueologos, historiadores o filologos, con gran profusion de datos, que lleven al lector a considerar seriamente esta posibilidad y comprobar si tiene una base real. Todo ello lo podremos ir viendo en las paginas de este libro. Nuestra propia conclusion, al completar este libro, es verdaderamente inspiradora y sorprendente.

En 1988, Claire rencontre François Mitterrand. Elle est étudiante en droit, il est président de la République. Cinquante ans de vie les séparent. Ils s’aiment à huis clos, jusqu’à la fin, en 1996. Vo

La Universitat i la ciutat de Cambridge han estat, al llarg de la seua història, objecte d?estudi i atenció per part d?escriptors com ara W. M. Thackeray, W. Woolf, T. Eagleton, V. Nabókov o R. Brook

Esta edición de sesenta y nueve cartas inéditas conservadas en el Archivo General de Simancas, la Biblioteca Nacional de España y la Real Biblioteca de Madrid permite arrojar nueva luz sobre los vínculos y conflictos de la aristocracia y el alto clero de la isla de Cerdeña con las cortes de Carlos V y Felipe II. Esta correspondencia, intercambiada entre Jeronimo de Aragall, Antioco Bellit, Jaime Montanyans, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle y otros destacados personajes de mediados del siglo XVI, comprende el periodo entre 1541 y 1570.

¿Cuál es el papel de la historiografía a la hora de reflexionar sobre los paradigmas dominantes y aportar otros nuevos? ¿Hemos superado ya los modelos nacionalistas de pensar y comprender el mundo? Uno de los componentes mas sorprendentes de la Roma republicana son sus subditos de Italia. Frente a los provinciales que aportan tributos, los italicos proveen la mitad de los soldados de los ejercitos romanos hasta que son integrados en la ciudadania romana, la ciudadania de un sistema imperial, tras una guerra en 91-88 a.E.C. Desde Theodor Mommsen el tema se convirtio en el mayor receptaculo de modelos nacionalistas relativos al mundo antiguo, generandose el espejismo de una nacionalidad italiana a la espera de su materializacion. Una Italia que no se encuentra se construye alrededor, edulcorando su situacion antes de su integracion y no percibiendo la complejidad de su papel despues de ella. Fernando Wulff Alonso realiza en este volumen un analisis critico y sin concesiones de la historiografia de los ultimos ciento cincuenta años, con el objetivo de poner las bases para repensar la complejidad de las identidades en un mundo fascinante, a la vez republicano e imperial.

Monografía centrada en el análisis de la concepción, el desarrollo político e institucional y la administración de las provincias romanas, desde sus más remotos orígenes hasta el Principado de Augusto, a traves de nueve contribuciones realizadas por sendos especialistas de la Roma republicana de procedencia nacional e internacional. Desde un estudio detallado de las fuentes, los participantes abordan en sus trabajos distintos aspectos de la administracion provincial romana atendiendo a cuestiones como la genesis del entramado provincial republicano, los procedimientos de asignacion y prorroga de los mandos provinciales, el papel desempeñado por los titulares de las provincias en la actividad diplomatica o el impacto del principado de Augusto en la estructura provincial.Monograph focused on the analysis of the conception, the political and institutional development and the administration of the Roman provinces, from their most remote origins to the Principality of Augustus, through nine contributions made by two specialists from republican Rome of national and national origin. international. From a detailed study of the sources, the participants address in their work different aspects of the Roman provincial administration, attending to issues such as the genesis of the republican provincial framework, the procedures for the assignment and extension of provincial commands, the role played by the heads of the provinces in diplomatic activity or the impact of the Principality of Augustus on the provincial structure.