drafting recruits, basic training, daily routines, duty rosters, supply, animals, cavalry, camps, overseas, medical, field hospitals, clothing, feeding, policed, paid, buried

Service in the Roman Army

History

Davies, Roy W.

Europe

Edinburgh Univ Pr

Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity

Stuart Munro-Hay

Africa

Nine leading scholars give new interpretations and perspectives on the Scottish Enlightenment and its key thinkers. Enlightenment thought was characterized by its extraordinary breadth in both the arts and the sciences, and an intellectual fascination for the role of man within his society - "the science of man". This book elucidates the writings of Hume, Reid and other 18th century scholars and sheds fresh light on both their ideas and the contexts within which they were writing. The "science of man" was remarkably broad in its concerns and this is reflected in the book, with chapters covering the 18th-century view of women, the "common people", language, modern aesthetics and philosophy.

The Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment: Hume, Reid, and Their Contemporaries

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Alcohol and Drugs: Research and Policy

PLANT

Medical Books

For many centuries famine was a grim reality in Britain and people used ingenious means to preserve surplus food for use in times of want. This book describes the techniques they used and still use, from early prehistoric hoarding to modern-day commercial preserving, and gives an original account of the social implications of food preservation. It shows how prehistoric methods of drying and burial continued into the Middle Ages when "potting" became popular. Pots and the foodstuffs preserved in them are described in detail. The preserving story continues through the role of the "compleat" housewife in Elizabethan and Georgian Britain to the arrival of industrial food-preserving in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation from Early Times to the Present Day (Food & Society)

WILSON, ANNE

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Physical description; xv, 384 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index.x51b Subject; Adam, Robert 1728-1792 - Criticism and interpretation. Playfair, W. H. (William Henry) 1790-1857 - Criticism and interpretation. Old College (Edinburgh, Scotland) - History. University of Edinburgh - Buildings - History - 18th century.

The Building of Old College: Adam, Playfair & the University of Edinburgh

Arts & Photography

Fraser, Andrew G.

Architecture

This compact survey of Arab literary activity in the 19th and 20th centuries examines the main trends associated with Arab literature and relates the writings to social conditions and political events of the period.

An Overview of Modern Arabic Literature (Islamic Surveys)

Literature & Fiction

Cachia, Pierre

History & Criticism

Philosophers of the Enlightenment

An introduction to the philosophers of the Enlightenment. Nine contemporary specialists lead the student through Enlightenment thought by looking at the lives and writings of individual philosophers such as Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Kant, Voltaire and Fourier.

This book gives a portrait of life in a medieval Scottish burgh. It focuses on the social history of the town, arguing that the Scottish burgh was a full and active member of the community of the realm, not an anomaly in a medieval kingdom. Using the latest material from recent archaeological discoveries as well as new research from documentary sources, the book aims to give a complete picture of 14th-century urban life. It looks in particular at the conditions of life, government, property-holding, trade and industry, the sense of community and the place of the burgh within the wider realm of Scotland. It emphasizes the close relationship between burgh and countryside and the active participation of the burgesses in the society.

Townlife in Fourteenth-Century Scotland

Ewan, Elizabeth

Social Sciences

The early 20th century saw a tremendous growth of collectivist activity in the UK, with the formation of "new" Liberalism, the Labour Party and trade unions. This account of the Conservative Party's response to the collectivist challenge describes how the Right sought to halt the new growth.

Conservatism and Collectivism, 1886-1914

Fforde, Matthew

Politics & Government

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