"Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache…
Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache …
I fem årtusinder har folk fra øst og vest mødtes og blandet sig i Centralasien. Christoph Baumer har i årevis gennemrejst disse lande i sin søgen efter spor fra fortiden og har gjort bemærkelsesværdige opdagelser. Vi følger i forfatterens fodspor, når han finder spor af forsvund…
For five millennia, the peoples and cultures of East and West have met and mingled in Central Asia. For explorers and travellers it is a promised land, a region of white spaces on the map, forgotten cities and archaeological treasures. Christoph Baumer has spent a lifetime trave…
Bogen beskriver udviklingen i den russiske flådestrategi fra 1894 til 1904 med fokus på forholdet mellem Japan og Rusland op til udbrudetaf den russisk-japanske krig 1904-1905. Der var mange dilemmaer for de russiske flådeplanlæggere. Dels var forskellige skoler mellem "blue wat…