The Turkish Language Reform
As a means of national survival, write Diana Spearman and M. Naim Turfan, Atatürk preached the whole-hearted acceptance of contemporary civilization.
As a means of national survival, write Diana Spearman and M. Naim Turfan, Atatürk preached the whole-hearted acceptance of contemporary civilization.
K.R. Dockray introduces a West Riding family of Percy retainers, whose land-holdings suffered from the Wars of the Roses and from legal disputes.
Geoffrey Treasure describes how the imperial policies of Charles V and Philip II declined in the seventeenth century and Spain entered an extended period of depression.
Between 1285 and 1355, writes Judith Hook, the turbulent Sienese enjoyed a period of unaccustomed peace.
James I was a firm believer in Christian unity; Dorothy Boyd Rush describes his distrust of extremists, Catholic or Protestant.
J.M. Brereton describes how Russian advances in Central Asia alarmed the British authorities in London as well as in India.
For the cogent reasons explained here by Anthony Beadles, the revolt against King John was led largely by the Northern barons.
Stephen Clissold uncovers a brutal crime with its roots deep in the rank soil of Balkan politics.
A.J. Stockwell examines the life and work of the British in Malaya before independence was declared, in 1957.
L.W. Cowie describe show the Franciscans came to London in the thirteenth century and founded a highly patronised friary.