ISBN.nu logo
isbn.nu
search for books and compare prices
Search >
fortification great britain history matches 4 work(s)
displaying 1 to 4 | at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Cover for 9780786459186 Cover for 9780521375443 Cover for 9780521088534 Cover for 9781846030642 Cover for 9780198229643
1
cover image for 9780786459186
Product Description: From the time the Romans first set foot on England's shore in 55 BC, the British Isles have faced a constant threat of foreign invasion. As a result, the landscapes of England, Scotland, and Ireland are dotted with ancient defensive fortifications as varied as their makers...read more
Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Paperback:

9780786459186 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 6, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: From the time the Romans first set foot on England's shore in 55 BC, the British Isles have faced a constant threat of foreign invasion.

2
cover image for 9780521088534
Product Description: Romanticised as ruins, treated as relics of forgotten military campaigns or as mere lessons in architectural history, the castles of England and Wales have too rarely been examined as places in which real people lived. Fresh both in style and approach and richly illustrated, Michael Thompson's book aims now to redress the balance...read more
Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780521375443 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Romanticised as ruins, treated as relics of forgotten military campaigns or as mere lessons in architectural history, the castles of England and Wales have too rarely been examined as places in which real people lived.

Paperback:

9780521088534 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 30, 2008), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Romanticised as ruins, treated as relics of forgotten military campaigns or as mere lessons in architectural history, the castles of England and Wales have too rarely been examined as places in which real people lived.

3
cover image for 9781846030642
Looks at the fortifications created by the Celts in Great Britain.
By Peter Bull (illustrator) and Angus Konstam
Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Paperback:

9781846030642 | Osprey Pub Co, September 26, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Looks at the fortifications created by the Celts in Great Britain.

4
Product Description: This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's controversial claim that Crusader castles of the 12th century owed more to castles in the West than to anything the Franks found in the East, and that western military architecture absorbed little or nothing from the Orient before the 12th century...read more
Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780198229643 | Rev sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 12, 1989), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.

Paperback:

9780781800389 | Hippocrene Books, August 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.
9780870522901 | Reissue edition (Hippocrene Books, June 1, 1986), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the designs of the castles built by the Crusaders in the East and discusses medieval military architecture

displaying 1 to 4 | at end