Lt. Col. Nathaniel Newnham-Davis' 1908 "The Gourmet's Guide to Europe" provides readers with information on the best dining places in Europe. Covering France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia, Greece, and Sweden, among others, the work is a gastronomic tour of much of Europe at the turn-of-the-century.
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In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is ...

GRIFFINS AIDE-DE-CAMP. -- 1860. - As an admirer of your public talents and private virtues, as well as of your justly cele- brated character as one of the best hog-hunt- ers on the Bombay side of India, but as no admirer of the neglect in your sta
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DISSERTATIONS ON THE ORIGIN, ANTIQUITIES, LANGUAGE, GOVERNMENT, MANNERS, AND RELIGION, ANTIENT CALEDONIANS, TKEIR POSTERITY THE PICTS, AND T H E BRJTISH AND IRISH SCOTS. Bu JOHN MACPHERSON, . TO THE NOURABLE Charles Greville, Efq 1 of the following Diife
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In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a ...

This collection of essays traces the important issues during this period and sets them in the context of what had hitherto been seen as the norms of political, economic and social life. The essays deal with continuity - or lack of it - with the past and the rapid breaking of the threads which normally bind the lives of one generation to its predecessors and successors. Emphasis is on cultural change; the shifting balance of European, and world, ...

Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question. Through a synthesis of historicism and psychoanalytic criticism, the contributors explore the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union of history and subjectivity in Europe centuries before psychoanalytic theory. ...

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes. ...

The Corrupting Sea looks at over 2000 years of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region.This is a comparative study on a very large scale, drawing on medieval European and Islamic evidence as well as on sources from the ancient world and the findings of scientific research and anthropology. The authors include in their study a new definition of the Mediterranean region, and discuss its ...

This bestselling masterwork chronicles the entire history of Europe, from the Ice Age to the Information Age, in one fascinating and information-packed volume. "A magisterial work, sweeping in its analysis, illuminating in its insights, and erudite in its scholarship".--Zbigniew Brzezinski. 72 illustrations. 100 maps. Index. ...