Ramparts of Empire

Ramparts of EmpireWilliam Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerstons extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ramparts of Empire is a detailed and engaging study of his life and works.

the problems of governance

A Piece of Jade

this edition of Through the Looking Glass is both modern and readable

so that the reader is given provocative analyses alongside the raw data about Spenser as a rhymer

and treatment programs

Included are discussions of the pain of mourning

when winds spread

And it is about a kind of belief: that nothing will be wasted

The present volume brings together sixteen of Roger Allen's articles on modern Arabic narrative

The chapter shows that these features arose through the biocultural coevolution of the plant’s traits and farmer practices in Amazonia

and the status of the negative

Its wide chronological and geographical range make it attractive to those interested in the history of other periods and countries