Böcker av Gordon S. Brown

While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the 1790s and early 1800s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city's own.

When anti-colonial revolts broke out in Spain's American colonies in the early 1800s, the United States were divided as to what position to take. Proximity and America's own anti-colonial ethos favoured sympathy with the rebel cause, yet US strategic interests during the tumultuous Napoleonic Wars dictated a policy of neutrality.

This study of the Norman conquest of Southern Italy focuses on the eight sons of Tancred of Hauteville, especially Robert Guiscard and his youngest brother Roger, and discusses how they expanded their lands thoughout Southern Italy and then took Sicily from its Muslim rulers.