Author: Anthony Webster
Publisher: Boydell Pre
Keywords: east, india, calcutta, worlds, company, palmer, business, merchant, life, richest, john
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-06-22
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1843833034
ISBN-13: 9781843833031

John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an `agency house’, a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA. When his firm went bankrupt in 1830, thousands of people, European and Indian, were ruined, triggering the worst commercial crisis in British India up to that time. This book, the first major study of a British agency house in India, presents an account of both o

Author: R. Allen Brow
Publisher: Boydell Pre
Keywords: castles, english, brown, allen
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1843830698
ISBN-13: 9781843830696

Castle studies have been shaped and defined over the past half-century by the work of R. Allen Brown. His classic English Castles, renamed here to acknowledge its definitive approach to the subject, has never been superseded by other more recent studies, and is still the foundation study of the English, and Welsh, castles built between the Norman Conquest and the mid 1500s. As the subject evolved, so too did this book, and for the most recent edition a considerable amount of French comparative material was added, though it remains essentially a study of English castles. For Allen Brown, castle

Author: S.J. Tester
Publisher: Boydell Pre
Keywords: astrology, western, history
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1990-04-23
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0851154468
ISBN-13: 9780851154466

The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. the Greeks added numerology, geometry and rational thought. The philosophy of Plato and later of the Stoics made astrology respectable, and by the time Ptolemy wrote his textbook the Tetrabiblos, in the second century AD, the main lines of astrological practice as it is known today had already been laid down. In future centuries astrology shifted to Islam only to return to the West in medieval times where it flourished until the shift of ideas during the Renaissance.

Author: S. J. Tester
Publisher: Boydell Pre
Keywords: astrology, western, history
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-01-13
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0851152554
ISBN-13: 9780851152554

`Superb general account.’ Times Literary SupplementThe story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt the Greeks added numerology, geometryand rational thought. The philosophy of Plato and later of the Stoics made astrology respectable, and by the time Ptolemy wrote his textbook the Tetrabiblos, in the second century AD, the main lines of astrological practice as it is known today had already been laid down. In future centuries astrology shifted to Islam only to return to the West in medieval ti

Authors:Richard P. Abels,  Bernard S. Bachrach,
Publisher: Boydell Pre
Keywords: hollister, warfare, history, warren, memory, adversaries, war, essays, normans
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-12-13
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0851158471
ISBN-13: 9780851158471

The studies in this book examine and illuminate the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman military institutions that supported and shaped the conduct of war in northwestern Europe in the central middle ages. Taken together they challenge received opinion on a number of issues and force a profound reconsideration of the manner in which the Normans and their adversaries, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Angevins and the Welsh, prepared for and waged war.Contributors: RICHARD ABELS, BERNARD BACHRACH, KELLY DEVRIES, JOHN FRANCE, C.M. GILLMOR, ROBERT HELMERICHS, NIELS LUND, STEPHEN MORILLO, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, FREDERICK

Authors:Graham A. Loud, Prescott N. Dunbar,
Publisher: Boydell Pre
Keywords: montecassino, amatus, normans, history
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1843830787
ISBN-13: 9781843830788

The Norman conquest of southern Italy and Sicily was one of the most dramatic events of the eleventh century. To understand the magnitude of the Normans’ achievement, and especially those of Robert Guiscard and Richard of Aversa, it is essential to know something of the world in which they lived and the manner in which they were able to create a Norman state in territories with a very different cultural tradition. Amatus of Montecassino was the earliest historian of the Norman conquests in Italy. His ’History of the Normans’, written c. 1080, not only provides a fascinating i

Author: Glyndwr William
Publisher: Boydell Pre
Keywords: regionalism, history, regions, reassessments, cook, explorations, captain
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1843831007
ISBN-13: 9781843831006

In the three hundred years since his death, Cook’s reputation has been much discussed, opinion ranging from Britain’s celebration of his achievement to more subjective assessments of the long-term implications of his voyages in those countries of the Pacific which he visited. The thirteen essays in this book, grouped in four sections, continue the debate. ’The Years in England’ cover Cook’s Whitby background and the part played by the Royal Society in the Pacific ventures of the period; ’The Pacific Voyages’ investigates the clash between the Endeavour