Böcker av Stephen Taylor

New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history.

Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.

"Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor a flawless demonstration of the biographer s craft." Jan Morris, The Guardian"

The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the French from the Eastern seas. All shared a need to prove themselves - to make a career, or a fortune, or a marriage - in places which could be at once magnificent and terrifying.

Develop a full understanding of the issues surrounding managing people with this broad-ranging and interactive textbook.