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From James's 'inadvised' relationships with a series of favourites and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to his conflicts with a Parliament which refused to fit its legislation to the Monarch's will, Stewart lucidly untangles the intricacies of James's life.

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In The Cult of Osama, Psychiatrist Peter Olsson examines Osama bin Laden's early life experiences and explains, from a psychoanalytical perspective, how those created a mind filled with perverse rage at America, as well as why his way of thinking makes bin Laden in many cases a hero to Arab and Muslim youths.

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The first major biography of noted manuscript collector, James Rendel Harris, shedding light on his fascinating life and on the provenance of many important textual witnesses to the Bible.

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This book examines an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Louis XV of France and the trial of his assailant, Robert-Francois Damiens, revealing the beginnings of the French Revolution in the ecclesiastical controversies that dominated the Damiens affair. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-de

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Winner of the Pierlot Prize in Contemporary History, this political biography of Emile Vandervelde traces the European socialist path at the turn of the century - from Marx's writings to the practices of social democrats in the interwar period.

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Winner of the Pierlot Prize in Contemporary History, this political biography of Emile Vandervelde traces the European socialist path at the turn of the century - from Marx's writings to the practices of social democrats in the inter-war period.

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In this definitive biography, noted historian Holger H. Herwig explores the life and times of Karl Haushofer, widely recognized as the father of geopolitics and the architect of Lebensraum, the rationale for Germanys control of Europe and the world.

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Explore the history and genealogy of Joseph Habig and Theresa Hartlaub, first generation German-Americans. Civil War soldier, Joseph married Theresa in Cincinnati, Ohio, and fathered many successful descendants ln Ohio and Indiana.

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The diary of a young Brazilian girl at the end of the nineteenth century. Translated by Elizabeth Bishop, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.

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From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.

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The fateful duel of 1809 between Lord Castlereagh and George Canning is a puzzle of 19th-century British politics. This study offers history of the duel, examines the careers of these two men, and the political conflicts that brought them to fire shots at each other on Putney Heath.

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A bibliography of works by and about the Duke of Wellington, this book lists manuscript and archival resources, newspaper articles, pamphlets, both published and unpublished books and iconography relating to the Duke's life and career.

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These are the memoirs of Nicholas Karlovich Giers written between 1873 and 1875. They provide a sample of the thinking of a Russian foreign minister and a description of life in Russia and the Danubian principalities at the time.

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The Education of a Statesman is a thematic biography of Jan Eliasson, providing insight from a renowned diplomat for how to understand the most vexing challenges facing our teetering worldand how to apply the lessons of a life in public service to our period of perilous global affairs.

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An examination of the life of Marshal Jean Lannes, this study looks at the career of the only soldier of any rank who consistently said exactly what he thought to Napoleon at every stage of their amazing careers.

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Covering the Thatcher years of Labour's exile, this final volume of Benn's diaries includes descriptions of the battles with Militant, the internal strife within the party, Benn's loss of his Bristol seat in the 1983 General Election, the rise of Kinnock, and the Falkland and Gulf Wars.

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This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania.

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'The first of all soldier books in the world...' Conan Doyle