Arranged in A-Z format for ease of access, World Monarchies and Dynasties includes information on major monarchs and dynasties from ancient time to the present.
With over 200 stunning photographs and insights from the crew of the BBC series, Dynasties reveals in astonishing detail the intricate social lives of our planet’s most fascinating animals.
Eight remarkable Chinese dynasties are chronicled here, covering 3,500 years of Chinese history from the emergence of the first dynasty in 1600 B.C. to the fall of the last in 1911, providing the necessary background to understanding China ...
This volume contains indepth, comprehensive studies on five such islamic dynasties of great historical importance, namely the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, the Rasulids and the Zaydis.
From the banking fortunes of Rothschild and Morgan to the automobile empires of Ford and Toyota, Landes explores thirteen different dynasties, revealing what lay behind their successes-and how extravagance, bad behavior, and poor enterprise ...
“ One of the instructors of my youth , and to whom I am mostly indebted for whatever knowledge I possess , is the Sheikh Abú ' Abdillah Mohammed Ibn Mohammed Ibn Ahmed Ibn Abí Bekr Ibn Yahya “ Ibn ' Abdi - r - rahmán Ibn Abí Bekr Ibn ...
This is the 30th anniversary edition of a book that was hailed on publication in 1966 as "fascinating" by Margaret L. Coit in the Saturday Review and as "masterly" by Henry F. Graff in the New York Times Book Review.The Constitution could ...
Chronological Tables of the Chinese Dynasties: From the Chow Dynasty to the Ch'ing Dynasty
The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1905-1922
Attemting to "present monarchy as a central political and religious institution," this set includes nearly 400 entries on those individual monarchs "whose reigns and actions significantly impacted history," and more...