Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder
Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder

Author: Mary S. Lovell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-06-17

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 0393075796

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"The best account yet available of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman."—Sunday Times [London] From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history. Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history. In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more capricious and bloody, only to be followed by the indomitable and ruthless Gloriana, Elizabeth I. It could not have been more hazardous a period for an ambitious woman; by the time Bess's first child was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded. Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on the American side, Katharine Hepburn.

The Builders of the Mogul Empire
The Builders of the Mogul Empire

Author: Michael Prawdin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1351048546

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First published in 1963. The Moguls, the descendants of the Mongols, two and a half centuries later than Jenghiz Khan, created an empire that stretched from Persia to Burma and from the Himalayas to the centre of the Indian subcontinent. It was a creation almost more astonishing than Jenghiz Khan's own: an empire that was civilized and prosperous, and which left behind an artistic legacy that has been a wonder till this day. Michael Prawdin tells the story which begins with Babur, passes through the reign of Humayun, and finds its climax at the death of Akbar. By this time the empire was no longer a patchwork of incidental conquests dominated by the arms of foreign invaders, but a coherent landmass that had been welded into a co-ordinated state, ruled by one system of administration. The diverse lands had become so many different provinces, held together by a highly organized bureaucracy in which Mohammedans and Hindus were equally eligible to the highest posts, honours and privileges. Moreover, a new cultural synthesis of the Hindu and Moslem cultures had taken shape, and throughout the empire all peoples showed the same demand for knowledge, art, poetry and for refinements of all kinds.

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe
State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

Author: Stein Rokkan

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0198280327

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Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - presented in an integrated and systematic way. Stein Rokkan had plans to do this butdied before the work could be started. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself.

History of Mewat
History of Mewat

Author: Dr. Aijaz Ahmad

Publisher: Alina Books

Published: 2021-07-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 819339142X

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Contents Preface .........................................................................7 1. Geography, Culture and Traditions of Mewat....... 19 2. Origin of the Meo Community ............................. 35 3. Khanzadas of Mewat .............................................57 4. Meo’s Conversion to Islam and Tabligh Movement ................................................... 65 5. Sufi Saints of Mewat................................................ 89 6. Meo’s Retribution under Balban .........................101 7. Raja Bahadur Nahar Khan ....................................109 8. Raja Jalal Khan ........................................................127 9. Raja Hasan Khan.....................................................141 10. Rulers of Firozpur Jhirka.....................................153 11. Narukas of Alwar ...................................................161 12. Jats of Deeg and Bharatpur..................................173 13. Badgujars of Ghasera............................................189 14. Stories as told by Mirasis......................................195 15. Meos and the Uprising of 1857 ..........................201 16. Uncrowned Kings of Mewat ...............................215 Bibliography.........................................................................243

Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721
Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721

Author: Jan Glete

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 900417916X

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This book is a long-term study of organisational capabilities as parts of early modern state formation. Sweden was a largely non-maritime society which nevertheless maintained a large navy as part of the armed forces which created a Baltic empire. Many of the resources came from the peasant society which was exploited in an entrepreneurial fashion by a highly ambitious dynasty. For a long time Sweden was organisationally more advanced than its neighbours but the empire ceased to grow and finally collapsed when other Northern powers developed strong states. The book provides detailed information about the strength of the navy in terms of warships, equipment, guns and men and it relates changes in size and structure to changes in policy.

THE WILKINS FAMILY AND THE BUILDING OF AMERICA
THE WILKINS FAMILY AND THE BUILDING OF AMERICA

Author: Arthur F. Wilkins

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-12-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Born in San Bernardino, California, the author enlisted in the U.S. Navy immediately after his high school graduation and served as a radioman. Later he attended Mt. San Antonio College, and following graduation there he earned his Bachelor’s Degree (Social Sciences) at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Wilkins has always taken a keen interest in social issues. In Santa Ana, California, he founded Catholic Americans for Peace Through Strength. In the early 1990s he actively participated in Right to Life, and in 1996 he joined the Indiana Citizens Volunteer Militia, where he served as an officer until 2002.

Historical Dictionary of Medieval India
Historical Dictionary of Medieval India

Author: Iqtidar Alam Khan

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008-04-25

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0810864010

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The medieval period of Indian history is difficult to define clearly. It may be perceived as the long phase of India's transition from the ancient to the immediately pre-colonial times. The latter period would naturally be imagined commencing from Vasco da Gama's voyage round the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, or, alternatively, the establishment of the Mughal empire (1526). More definitely though, the renewed Islamic advance into north India, roughly from 1000 A.D. onwards leading to the rise of the Delhi Sultanate (1206), can be held to mark, in political and cultural terms, the beginning of the medieval period. For the purpose of the Historical Dictionary of Medieval India, the period from 1000 A.D. to 1526 A.D. will be considered India's medieval times. The turbulent history of this period is told through the book's chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on key people, historical geography, arts, institutions, events, and other important terms.