Author: Charles T. WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII
Author: Charles T. WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Works of M. de Voltaire: Annals of the Empire from the time of Charlemagne
Author: VoltaireTop Man
Author: Stewart LansleyPublisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1845138058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Philip Green, owner of, amongst much else, British Home Stores, reached billionaire status faster than anyone else in British history. Today he is worth £3.6 billion and is reckoned to be the country’s fourth richest citizen. A middle-class Jewish boy from North London who left school at fifteen, Green started and failed with four businesses before he made it with Jean Jeannie, which he sold to Lee Cooper for an enormous profit that set him on the road to fame and fortune. But there were pitfalls on the way, his involvement with Amber Day, a public company, left him with an abiding dislike for both the City establishment and outside investors. Ever since, he has relied upon a close group of like-minded entrepreneurs, including the Barclay twins, to help fund his buccaneering forays into Britain’s High Streets. The authors describe Green’s takeover and highly profitable break up of the Sears empire and his first audacious attempt to seize control of Marks & Spencer at the end of 1999. Green then turned his attention to the ailing BHS, for which he paid a mere £200 million and then transformed its fortunes to such an extent that, in 2004, he was able to transfer dividends totalling £400 million to his Monaco tax haven. His appetite unsated, Green then turned his attention to the Arcadia Group, which included brands such as Miss Selfridge, Top Shop and Dorothy Perkins before making another bid for M&S in 2004. Again he was foiled, partly because of what he saw as treachery on the part of his former protégé Stuart Rose, the man who was appointed by M&S to see off Green’s bid.
Annals of the Empire; from the reign of Charlemagne. Translated from the French of Monsieur de Voltaire; constituting a part of a complete edition in English of the works of that writer, by the Rev. D. Williams, H. Downman, etc
Author: VoltaireA Sketch of Modern History, from the destruction of the Western Empire A.D. 476, to the close of the year 1818 ... To which is added a ... table of chronology
Author: A. PicquotThe Works of M. de Voltaire: Annals of the Empire. v. 23. Candid, or, the optimist
Author: VoltaireA History of the Habsburg Empire 1273-1700
Author: Jean BerengerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317895703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The first part of a two-volume history of the Habsburg Empire from its medieval origins to its dismemberment in the First World War. This important volume (which is self-contained) meets a long-felt need for a systematic survey in English of the Habsburgs and their lands in the late medieval and early modern periods. It is primarily concerned with the Habsburg territories in central and northern Europe, but the history of the Spanish Habsburgs in Spain and the Netherlands is also covered. The book, like the Habsburgs themselves, deals with an immense range of lands and peoples: clear, balanced, and authoritative, it is a remarkable feat of synthethis and exposition.
Elements of general history, with a continuation by E. Nares
Author: Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Elements of General History, Ancient and Modern
Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler WoodhouseleePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Visions of Empire
Author: Krishan KumarPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691192804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
"In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them. In doing so, he interrogates the contested terrain between nationalism and empire and the legacies that empires leave behind."--Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University "This is an excellent book with original insights into the history of empires and the discourses and rhetoric of their rulers and defenders. Kumar's writing is lively and free of jargon, and his research is prodigious. He manages to bring clarity and perspective to a complex subject."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author of "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "A masterly piece of work."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present