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Free Download Susan T. Stevens, "North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam "
English | ISBN: 0884024083 | 2016 | 336 pages | PDF | 53 MB
The profound economic and strategic significance of the province of "Africa" made the Maghreb highly contested in the Byzantine period―by the Roman (Byzantine) empire, Berber kingdoms, and eventually also Muslim Arabs―as each group sought to gain, control, and exploit the region to its own advantage. Scholars have typically taken the failure of the Byzantine endeavor in Africa as a foregone conclusion. North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam reassesses this pessimistic vision both by examining those elements of Romano-African identity that provided continuity in a period of remarkable transition, and by seeking to understand the transformations in African society in the context of the larger post-Roman Mediterranean. Chapters in this book address topics including the legacy of Vandal rule in Africa, historiography and literature, art and architectural history, the archaeology of cities and their rural hinterlands, the economy, the family, theology, the cult of saints, Berbers, and the Islamic conquest, in an effort to consider the ways in which the imperial legacy was re-interpreted, re-imagined, and put to new uses in Byzantine and early Islamic Africa.

Free Download Christopher Abram, "Myths of the Pagan North: The Gods of the Norsemen"
English | ISBN: 1847252478 | 2011 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 1375 KB
As the Vikings began to migrate overseas as raiders or settlers in the late eighth century, there is evidence that this new way of life, centred on warfare, commerce and exploration, brought with it a warrior ethos that gradually became codified in the Viking myths, notably in the cult of Odin, the god of war, magic and poetry, and chief god in the Norse pantheon.

Free Download Mission to the North
by Florence Jaffray Harriman
English | August 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1991323476 | 292 pages | EPUB | 12 Mb

Free Download Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
English | June 27th, 2023 | ISBN: 0300259816 | 288 pages | True EPUB (Retail Copy) | 20.85 MB
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day

Free Download Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871 by Jeremy Black
English | September 6, 2011 | ISBN: 0253356601 | 470 pages | PDF | 5.10 Mb
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in North America. In this wide-ranging narrative, Black makes clear that the process by which America gained supremacy was far from inevitable. The story Black tells is one of conflict, diplomacy, geopolitics, and politics. The eventual result was the creation of a United States of America that stretched from Atlantic to Pacific and dominated North America. The gradual withdrawal of France and Spain, the British accommodation to the expanding U.S. reality, the impact of the American Civil War, and the subjugation of Native peoples, are all carefully drawn out. Black emphasizes contingency not Manifest Destiny, and reconceptualizes American exceptionalism to take note of the pressures and impact of international competition.

Free Download Barrie Cook, Gareth Williams, "Coinage and History in the North Sea World, C. AD 500-1250: Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 9004147772 | PDF | pages: 816 | 350.7 mb
This is a themed volume of 28 papers, written in honour of Marion Archibald. It considers the role of coinage in northern Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the early thirteenth century. Although the focus of the volume is the coinage itself, the majority of the papers consider coinage in its historical and/or archaeological context.

Free Download Best Hikes Asheville, North Carolina, 2nd Edition by Johnny Molloy
English | February 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 1493075772 | 257 pages | True PDF | 80.34 MB
This fully revised guidebook covers 40 family-friendly hikes within 100 miles or about 1 hour from the Asheville, North Carolina area. Colorful and full of easy and moderate hikes, it’s perfect for families and novice hikers. Detailed hike descriptions, at-a-glance specs, and GPS coordinates for every trailhead make this a go-to guide for the area.

Free Download The Stormrider Guide North America By Bruce Sutherland
2002 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 095398401X | PDF | 134 MB
The first and only guide describing North America’s most famous waves, specifically written for surfers, by surfers, in collaboration with America’s leading surf journalists. Its functional design with beautiful images from the best international surf photographers, plus accurate relief maps, make it the only complete guide to wave sport locations in North America. A crucial travel guide for all types of surfers, providing essential information on where to go, when to go, history, culture and environment. Appraisals of the North American continent from Baja to Alaska in the west and Miami to Nova Scotia in the east. Detailed information on the main surfing locations include consistency, crowds, hazards and many environmental notes from access to water quality.

Free Download The Rebecca Code: Rommel’s Spy in North Africa and Operation Condor By Mark Simmons
2013 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0752468707 | EPUB | 4 MB
Researched using previously unstudied MI5 and MI6 files, this study reveals the part played by Count Laszlo Almasy, the protagonist of the film The English Patient John Eppler thought himself to be the perfect spy. Born to German parents, he grew up in Egypt, adopted by a wealthy family and was educated in Europe. Fluent in German, English, and Arabic, he made the Hadj to Mecca but was more at home in high society or traveling the desert on camelback with his adopted Bedouin tribe. After joining the German Secret Service in 1937, in 1942 he was sent across the desert to Cairo by Field Marshal Rommel. His guide was the explorer and Hungarian aristocrat Laszlo Almasy, a man made famous by the book The English Patient. Eppler’s mission was to infiltrate British Army Headquarters and discover the Eighth Army’s troop movements and battle plans.This bookreveals the story of Operation Condor and its comedy of errors and how it was foiled by Major A.W. "Sammy" Sansom of the British Field Security Service. It is a tale of the desert, of the hotbed of intrigue that was 1940s Cairo, and the spy who was to send his reports using a code based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca.

Free Download Ruth H. Sanders, "The Languages of Scandinavia: Seven Sisters of the North"
English | ISBN: 022675975X | 2021 | 221 pages | AZW3 | 971 KB
From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understood as linguistically bifurcated between its five Germanic languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese) and its two Finno-Ugric ones (Finnish and Sámi). In The Languages of Scandinavia, Ruth H. Sanders takes a pioneering approach: she considers these Seven Sisters of the North together.