Albion

Albion
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307424650

With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.

Land in California

Land in California
Author: W.W. Robinson
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN: 5877751794

Land in California, the story of mission land, ranches, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, homesteads

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours
Author: John Burke
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 762
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781297499913

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A Golden State

A Golden State
Author: Marlene Smith-Baranzini
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520217706

A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.