Author : Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams
Publisher : London : Published for [Allahabad] University by Longmans, Green
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 1918
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2007-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393075796
"The best account yet available of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman."—Sunday Times [London] From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history. Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history. In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more capricious and bloody, only to be followed by the indomitable and ruthless Gloriana, Elizabeth I. It could not have been more hazardous a period for an ambitious woman; by the time Bess's first child was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded. Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on the American side, Katharine Hepburn.
Author : Lars Mjøset
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1837531226
Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.
Author : Michael Prawdin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1351048546
First published in 1963. The Moguls, the descendants of the Mongols, two and a half centuries later than Jenghiz Khan, created an empire that stretched from Persia to Burma and from the Himalayas to the centre of the Indian subcontinent. It was a creation almost more astonishing than Jenghiz Khan's own: an empire that was civilized and prosperous, and which left behind an artistic legacy that has been a wonder till this day. Michael Prawdin tells the story which begins with Babur, passes through the reign of Humayun, and finds its climax at the death of Akbar. By this time the empire was no longer a patchwork of incidental conquests dominated by the arms of foreign invaders, but a coherent landmass that had been welded into a co-ordinated state, ruled by one system of administration. The diverse lands had become so many different provinces, held together by a highly organized bureaucracy in which Mohammedans and Hindus were equally eligible to the highest posts, honours and privileges. Moreover, a new cultural synthesis of the Hindu and Moslem cultures had taken shape, and throughout the empire all peoples showed the same demand for knowledge, art, poetry and for refinements of all kinds.
Author : Stein Rokkan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198280327
Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - presented in an integrated and systematic way. Stein Rokkan had plans to do this butdied before the work could be started. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself.
Author : Dr. Aijaz Ahmad
Publisher : Alina Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 819339142X
Contents Preface .........................................................................7 1. Geography, Culture and Traditions of Mewat....... 19 2. Origin of the Meo Community ............................. 35 3. Khanzadas of Mewat .............................................57 4. Meo’s Conversion to Islam and Tabligh Movement ................................................... 65 5. Sufi Saints of Mewat................................................ 89 6. Meo’s Retribution under Balban .........................101 7. Raja Bahadur Nahar Khan ....................................109 8. Raja Jalal Khan ........................................................127 9. Raja Hasan Khan.....................................................141 10. Rulers of Firozpur Jhirka.....................................153 11. Narukas of Alwar ...................................................161 12. Jats of Deeg and Bharatpur..................................173 13. Badgujars of Ghasera............................................189 14. Stories as told by Mirasis......................................195 15. Meos and the Uprising of 1857 ..........................201 16. Uncrowned Kings of Mewat ...............................215 Bibliography.........................................................................243
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Chronological coverage with articles on social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history. Book Review Section provides up-to-date critical analyses of up to 600 titles in each volume.
Author : Babur (Emperor of Hindustan)
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 1921
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Babur (Emperor of Hindustan)
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1921
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Jan Glete
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 900417916X
This book is a long-term study of organisational capabilities as parts of early modern state formation. Sweden was a largely non-maritime society which nevertheless maintained a large navy as part of the armed forces which created a Baltic empire. Many of the resources came from the peasant society which was exploited in an entrepreneurial fashion by a highly ambitious dynasty. For a long time Sweden was organisationally more advanced than its neighbours but the empire ceased to grow and finally collapsed when other Northern powers developed strong states. The book provides detailed information about the strength of the navy in terms of warships, equipment, guns and men and it relates changes in size and structure to changes in policy.
