Biography: historical, political and military

Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Augustus Strong emerged as one of the most influential church leaders and theologians in America.

How did Benito Mussolini come to fascism?

The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'.

Roland Garros teve uma vida excitante.

It's the case with every great man in history that we don't know how he became great.

This book uses Karl Barth's Der Romerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe.

This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu.

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing structure of the British publishing industry in the nineteenth century.

This is the story of the rise and fall of one man against the background of his country's history - bloody, tumultuous, yet immensely significant - since the revolution in 1917.

This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith.

While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs of St Anthony and life in the household of the Grenfell workers.

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world.

How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Society.

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State.

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAILTHE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONBoris Johnson has always been larger than life.

Universally acclaimed as one of the great political lives, Alistair Horne offers a vivid portrait of one of the twentieth-century's most complex political figures: the crofter's grandson and the duke's son-in-law, the soldier and the scholar, the bon viveur and the devout high churchman.

The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.

Best known for his efforts to end World War I, Benedict XV was the first contemporary pope to assume the role peacemaker, a role that has persisted in the papacy since.

Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.

"Schritt für Schritt geht Maria ihren Weg, eingebettet in die ewige Liebe der einen Quelle.

Although much less well known than some other nineteenth century female campaigners, such as Florence Nightingale or Emmeline Pankhurst, Dorothea Beale is nonetheless deserving of wide recognition for her pioneering, and at times radical, ideas.

A fresh perspective of the iconic Southern planter turned soldier turned statesmanProviding the most balanced and comprehensive portrayal of Wade Hampton III to date, Robert K.

Charakter und Liebesleben der Kaiserin, Politik und Intrigen am Wiener HofDie hochintelligente und bildschöne Hofdame Gräfin Marie Festetics, die engste Freundin Kaiserin Elisabeths, führte über Jahrzehnte hinweg ein ausführliches Tagebuch.

Writing the Empire is a collective biography of the McIlwraiths, a family of politicians, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, scientists, and scholars.

From his first dramatic initiatives at the Battle of St.

In this warm and intimate memoir Judge Wilkinson delivers a chilling message.

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement.

The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians.

Durch eine schwere Verwundung bei Stalingrad ist das Gesicht des Leutnants Lemke entstellt, er fühlt sich gebrandmarkt und ausgestoßen.

Savant Singh (16941764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas.

The WWII diary of a US soldier and Soviet spy who worked closely with General Patton is presented in this fully annotated edition.

Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War details author and Professor Mary Lawlor's unconventional upbringing in Cold War America.

Few questions are as pertinent and nettling for Christians as those posed by religious pluralism.

Over 750,000 Copies Sold--Now Available in Trade PaperIn this bestselling, beloved true story, twenty-seven-year-old Betty Malz was pronounced dead.

The Problem with LincolnAbraham Lincoln was widely and deeply unpopular during his presidency.

Este estimulante y provocador libro presenta al famoso libertario Mijaíl Bakunin bajo un prisma poco habitual.

After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "e;Renaissance admiral.

How two extraordinary women crossed the Victorian class divide to put Christian teachings into practice in the slums of East LondonNellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals.

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union.

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau.

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