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A short Geography of the British Islands is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks...

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John Richard Green (1837-1883) was an English historian, best known for his 1874 A Short History of the English People, which is not a history "of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People." In this lushly illustrated edition, Volume Two covers the years 1431 through 1610, overlapping slightly with Volume Three.

John Richard Green (1837-1883) was an English historian, best known for his 1874 A Short History of the English People, which is not a history "of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People." In this lushly illustrated edition, Volume One covers the years 449 through 1431.

Excerpt from The Old Irish World Some Irish friends have asked me to print certain lectures concerning Ireland to which they had listened with indulgence, and to reprint also former papers in a manner more convenient for country readers. This volume is the answer to their request. It will be seen that I have not attempted to alter the lectures from their first purpose and form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thous...

Excerpt from The Making of Ireland and Its Undoing, 1200-1600 Many reasons have prevented the writing of Irish history. The invading people effaced the monuments of a society they had determined to extirpate, and so effectively extinguished the memory of that civilization that it will need a generation of students to recover and interpret its records. The people of the soil have been in their subjugation debarred from the very sources of lear...

Excerpt from Loyalty and Disloyalty: What It Means in IrelandIreland-men, showed itself capable of courage and zeal in defending the claims of Ireland to liberty and justice. The Kings, moreover, who coveted from Ireland a revenue to maintain their Imperial state, and an army at their own bidding to increase their power, needed a prosperous and well-peopled island, and the royal policy was to encourage trade and manufacture, and to favour the ...