On a summer day nearly twelve hundred years ago, three ships with bright red sails drew near to one of the little ports of the Dorset coast in the south of England.
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries.
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future.
The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England.
This great collection contains over 30 most influential and pivotal speeches by the great British statesman Winston Churchill, including:Liberalism and the Social ProblemThe Conciliation of South AfricaThe Transvaal ConstitutionThe Orange Free State ConstitutionLiberalism and SocialismImperial Preference-I.
This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Ausgehend von einer allgemeinen Motivationstheorie in Form der Wert-Erwartungstheorie wurde die Aggressionstheorie von Hans-Joachim Kornadt verwendet zur Erklärung des Völkermords auf der Ebene der Ausführung und auf individueller Handlungsebene.
In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical peasant.
Martin Luthers 95 Thesen, in denen er gegen Missbräuche beim Ablass und besonders gegen den geschäftsmäßigen Handel mit Ablassbriefen auftrat, wurden am 31.
"e;The Annals"e; is a history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus to that of Nero, the years AD 14-68, covering the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
In the 1960s and 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), or West Germany, newspaper readers and television viewers were appalled by terrible images of fires burning half a world away.
THE mother of King Richard the Third was a beautiful, and, in many respects, a noble-minded woman, though she lived in very rude, turbulent, and trying times.
Leopold von Ranke war ein deutscher Historiker, Historiograph des preußischen Staates, Hochschullehrer und königlich preußischer Wirklicher Geheimer Rat.
Engels' Betrachtungen hatten das Ziel, die Kriegsereignisse unparteilich und vom rein militärischen Standpunkt einzuschätzen und, soweit dies möglich, ihren vermutlichen Einfluß auf die weiteren Operationen zu untersuchen.
The 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition set off to explore how it might be possible to get to the vicinity of Mount Everest, to reconnoiter possible routes for ascending the mountain, and - if possible - make the first ascent of the highest mountain in the world.
Desde las prodigiosas pinturas de Altamira hasta nuestra ciudad más universal (Madrid), por aquí desfilan las huellas artísticas que han dejado los siglos en nuestro país.