928 results for '"Joseph Rothschild'

The controversial public career of Joseph Chamberlain, spanning the eventful years between the second Reform Act and the outbreak of the First World War, was marked by dramatic changes of political...

1989, trade paperback, Dartmouth/University Press of New England, Hanover. 251 pages. Absolutely gorgeous title, printed on superior stock, with impressive b&w and color plates displaying the...

The Martin Marprelate tracts are the most famous pamphlets of the English Renaissance; to their contemporaries they were the most notorious. Printed in 1588 and 1589 on a secret press carted across...

The Book of Jubilees, also known as The Little Genesis and The Apocalypse of Moses, opens with an extraordinary claim of authorship. It is attributed to the very hand of Moses; penned while he was on...

The way Americans dress, they way they eat, the way they exercise, the way they greet each other - these everyday activities have aroused the author's interest, prompted anecdotes, set him...

International Relations, or the study if the "behaviour of states," is a new discipline that has become increasingly vital in this century. Professor Frankel writes: "Thinkers have been traditionally...

“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. PowellAll American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few...

Writing before the institution of copyright, Renaissance authors were not recognized as owning their works. Yet, in an environment in which the written word could be variously marketed by printers or...