322 Ergebnisse - Zeige 201 von 220.

Sir Walter Ralegh - the British dominion of the west is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.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....

Excerpt from Spain: Its Greatness and Decay (1479-1788)The period dealt with in these pages covers the rise and decadence of Spain and the commencement of a fallacious resuscitation. The rise was unwarranted by the stage of development which the nation had reached, and the ruin was consequently complete. In the history of no other European country is the whole cycle of national potency and exhaustion presented in so small a space, or in so sim...

Excerpt from Queens of Old SpainIN a previous volume I have remarked upon the extremely small political significance of most of the Queen Consorts of England, although socially the country has become what it is mainly through feminine in¿uence. In Spain the exact reverse has happened, and in no Christian country has the power of woman been less formative of the life and character of the nation, whilst, largely owing to personal and circum stan...

Excerpt from The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots: A Political HistoryThe only excuse that can be advanced for the pro duction of a new book on Mary Stuart is that her supremely interesting personality has so frequently led her historians into the by-path of inquiry as to her virtue or vice, as to have obscured, to some extent, the reasons for her disastrous political failure which, as it seems to me, did not spring from her goodness or bad...

Excerpt from Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs, Preserved Principally in the Archives of Simancas, Vol. 2: Elizabeth, 1568-1579He inveighed volubly and indignantly on the slight thus put upon his mistress, and denounced Guzman himself for having made mischief in the matter. Guzman met the outburst very characteristically. Relating the scene to the King he says: I let him talk on, and, when he had done, I waited a...

Excerpt from Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs Preserved In, or Originally Belonging To, the Archives of Simancas, Vol. 4: Elizabeth, 1587-1603A system of somewhat closer condensation of many of the manuscripts having been adopted, more precise marginal references than in previous volumes have been given, but as in nearly every case the original manuscript has been transcribed by. The editor himself, it is hoped ...

Excerpt from Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs Preserved In, or Originally Belonging To, the Archives of Simancas, Vol. 4: Elizabeth, 1587-1603A system of somewhat closer condensation of many of the manuscripts having been adopted, more precise marginal references than in previous volumes have been given, but as in nearly every case the original manuscript has been transcribed by. The editor himself, it is hoped ...

Excerpt from Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs, Preserved Principally in the Archives of Simancas, Vol. 2: Elizabeth, 1568-1579He inveighed volubly and indignantly on the slight thus put upon his mistress, and denounced Guzman himself for having made mischief in the matter. Guzman met the outburst very characteristically. Relating the scene to the King he says: I let him talk on, and, when he had done, I waited a...

Excerpt from Philip II of SpainThe reasons for his defeat will be seen in the course Of the present work to have been partly personal and partly circumstantial. The causes of both these sets Of reasons were laid at periods long anterior to Philip's birth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Fo...

Excerpt from The Great Lord Burghley: A Study in Elizabethan StatecraftI cannot hope to have succeeded entirely where others have failed, but I have not spared time or labour in the attempt, and I have endeavoured, at least, to prevent my View of the events themselves from being obstructed by the documents which relate to them, and, so far as is possible in a short readable book, to present a general View of the policy of the reign of Elizabet...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Excerpt from Sir Walter Ralegh: The British Dominion of the West Through all the stirring career of Ralegh, splendid favourite, successful soldier, statesman, poet, historian, philosopher, chemist, admiral, explorer and privateer, there ran, like a golden thread, shining brightly amid the dross that surrounded it, the inextinguishable resolve that the arrogant claim of the Philips to the exclusive possession of the western world, by virtue of...

About the Book Books about the History of Spain discuss the 700 year period of Muslim rule until the Reconquista returned Christian rule in the late 15th century. Soon afterwards the discoveries of Columbus (1492) in the New World ushered in a Golden Age of the Spanish Empire. Spain was conquered by Napoleon, and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War resulted in subsequent dictatorship of General Franco, which lasted until 1975. Portugal's power in th...

Philip II. of Spain is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. 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 newly publishes thes...