Author: Aidan Dodson
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Keywords: nile, monarchs
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 9774246004
ISBN-13: 9789774246005
This book presents a concise account of the life and times of the more significant occupants of the Egyptian throne, from the unification of the country around 3000 B.C. to the extinction of native rule, 3,000 years later. Included are profiles on well-known kings such as Ramesses II, Seti I, Akhnanten, Tuthmosis III, and Tutankhamun. 6 x 9, 73 black and white illustrations
Author: Charles Ross
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: series, monarchs, english, edward
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 1998-01-21
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300073712
ISBN-13: 9780300073713
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided her with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high reputation, until recent research confirmed Edward as a ruler of substantial achievement, whose methods and policies formed the foundation of early Tudor government.This classic study by Charles Ross places the reign firmly in the context of late medieval power politics, analyzing the methods by which a usurper sought to retain his throne and reassert the power
Author: John Miller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: series, monarchs, english, james
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-10-11
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0300087284
ISBN-13: 9780300087284
James II (1633-1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and his reign, drawing on a wide array of primary sources from France, Italy, and Ireland as well as England. Miller argues that the king had many laudable attributes -- he was brave, loyal, honorable, and hard-working, and he was at least as benevolent toward his people as his father had been. Yet Jame
Author: Carolly Erickso
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: english, monarchs, lives, brief, panoply, royal
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0312316437
ISBN-13: 9780312316433
With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson focuses on each monarch+s entire life-from the puny, socially awkward Charles I, to the choleric, violent William the Conqueror, to the well-meaning, deeply affectionate Queen Anne, who was so heavy she had to be carried to her coronation. Royal Panoply recaptures the event-filled, often dangerous, always engaging lives of England+s kings and queens, set against the backdrop of a thousand years of Britain+s past.
Author: Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: passage, butterflies, migrating, monarchs, chasing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-05-31
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618127437
ISBN-13: 9780618127436
A long-standing bit of American nature folklore holds that monarch butterflies west of the Rocky Mountains migrate to wintering grounds in California, whereas those east of the Rockies migrate to wintering grounds in Mexico--and that the two classes of monarchs never meet and mix. Robert Pyle, a lepidopterist and nature writer, decided as a matter of curiosity to test the verity of this observation. His loosely conceived experiment took him over much of western North America, from a monarch breeding ground deep in the forests of British Columbia to the pine-clad mountainsides of central Mexico
Author: Robert Gilda
Publisher: Econo-Clad Books
Keywords: wildlife, series, northwords, monarchs, sheep, mountain, bighorn
Published: 2001-03
List price: $26.85
ISBN-10: 0613287592
ISBN-13: 9780613287593
The book includes life cycle data and natural history, as well as personal observations and stories from the authors field research. Readers will learn about the status of the species, including Rocky Mountain bighorn and Desert bighorn, Dall and Stone sheep, in their various habitat regions and get an outlook for their future in those places. Dramatic and detailed photography is used throughout.
Author: Beatrice S. Bartlett
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: ing, china, mid, council, ministers, grand, monarchs
Number of Pages: 417
Published: 1994-04-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520086457
ISBN-13: 9780520086456
This book describes the transformation of Ch’ing governance from monarchical rule to ministerial administration, presenting a wholly new account of the Grand Council’s founding and rise to dominance. This period has been viewed as an era of intensified government centralization and increasing autocracy, but Bartlett persuasively demonstrates that this characterization must be modified in the light of her findings.Bartlett identifies the inner-outer court dichotomy--often studied in earlier dynasties but never before in the Ch’ing--as the key framework for understanding Grand
