A Short History of Parliament

A Short History of Parliament
Title A Short History of Parliament PDF eBook
Author Clyve Jones
Publisher Boydell Press
Pages 402
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 184383717X

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This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.

A Short History of English Literature

A Short History of English Literature
Title A Short History of English Literature PDF eBook
Author George Saintsbury
Publisher
Pages 868
Release 1898
Genre English literature
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A Short History of English Literature

A Short History of English Literature
Title A Short History of English Literature PDF eBook
Author Harry Blamires
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 493
Release 1984
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0415050782

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Surveys the main periods, movements, figures, the achievements of British literature from Chaucer's time to the 1980s, emphasizing each writer's major work and the continuity of tradition within the genres

Short History of Human Error

Short History of Human Error
Title Short History of Human Error PDF eBook
Author Oliver Thomson
Publisher Arena books
Pages 376
Release 2013-12-09
Genre History
ISBN 1909421359

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This is a candid, sometimes controversial study of the psychological or other flaws of political, religious and economic leaders from ancient times to the present day: from Rameses II to Colonel Gaddafi, from Genghis Khan to Stalin and Hitler, from Buddha or Saint Paul to Martin Luther or Ron Hubbard, from bipolar, insecure, asthmatic or sex-addicted presidents to alcoholic prime ministers, mad kings, obese emperors and kleptomaniac dictators. Amongst their followers we find psychopathic police chiefs, gay generals, crazed philosophers, epileptic prophets and ludomaniac business- men. We look at how the minor personality disorders and health problems of the few have led frequently to considerable misery for the many.Without slavish adherence to the latest psychiatric fashions the author uses at least some of these concepts to help analyse the anti-social behaviour traits of leaders past and present and to assess the degree to which their mental or physical state contributed to most of the world's worst man-made disasters: wars, genocides, famines, persecutions, enslavements and recessions.We consider the questions: How many millions died because the Archangel Gabriel supposedly appeared to both the Virgin Mary and Mohammed? How many millions died because Napoleon was bullied at school, because Hitler failed to get into the Vienna Academy, because Stalin had an alcoholic father or because Mao suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

A Short History of Greek Literature

A Short History of Greek Literature
Title A Short History of Greek Literature PDF eBook
Author Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 320
Release 1985
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0226143120

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Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.

A Short History of the Mughal Empire

A Short History of the Mughal Empire
Title A Short History of the Mughal Empire PDF eBook
Author Michael Fisher
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 290
Release 2015-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 085772777X

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The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, preeminence and decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interests conflicted. The empire's significance continues to be controversial among scholars and politicians with fresh and exciting new insights, theories and interpretations being put forward in recent years. This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire.

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Title A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook
Author Alan McPherson
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 240
Release 2016-03-21
Genre History
ISBN 1118954009

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A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day. Engages in debates about the economic, military, political, and cultural motives that shaped U.S. interventions in Cuba, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, and elsewhere Deals with incidents that range from the taking of Florida to the Mexican War, the War of 1898, the Veracruz incident of 1914, the Bay of Pigs, and the 1989 invasion of Panama Features also the responses of Latin American countries to U.S. involvement Features unique coverage of 19th century interventions as well as 20th century incidents, and includes a series of helpful maps and illustrations