Offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. This work identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonization, and the character of their colonial societies.
A record simiar to the author s earlier volume Our Regiments in South Africa. A directory of Colonial Volunteer Corps and their work in the South African campaign.The information is drawn from official despatches, other reliable published accounts and from private accounts furnished by officers in the field.
This is a memoir of mermaids, boat arrests, working girls, and uncharted islands; of a girl forced to navigate survival and adventure while raised by her father on a thirty-foot sailboat circumnavigating the world; of sifting through what is presented to you in childhood, expected of you in society, and finding your true self and desires in the process.
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements
The charming story of a large red squirrel befriended by King Henry VIII
John R. Elliott Jr. studies the modern context of this important medieval genre.
The second in a four-volume series exploring belief in the Evil Eye and the practices associated with it amongst the cultures of the Biblical world.
During the Brazilian dictatorship in the seventies, Robert, a British executive, lives and works in Brazil. Brought up in rough industrial England, he achieved what he wanted by fists and daring and survived years of night school to become an engineer. His wife has taken their children back to England, but he prefers Brazilian life and speaks Portuguese. But his social life is uneven. Unlucky in his relations with women, he is befriended by a disaffected army officer who later deserts to a guerrilla group, compromising Robert. He abhors the way men treat women and the way corruption is not punished. His company is failing. A Brazilian called Falcone is hired, claiming access to high government officers, but he is a fraud with criminal associates. Eventually Robert discovers and denounces Falcone who disappears but sends men to kill Robert, who himself has to flee Brazil along clandestine guerrilla safe houses.