In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious.
The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life.
The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life.
On a summer day in 1846 two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for womans rights in the United States six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their states constitutional convention, demanding equal, and civil and political rights with men.
Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this volume is distinctive in its approach: instead of following a traditional narrative, the book is arranged thematically.
An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century.
Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy.
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazils independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia.
Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the publics obsession with celebrity and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news.
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century.
Thomas Nast (18401902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolinas public financial policy during the confederation.
The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smithers monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio.
Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the publics obsession with celebrity and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news.
Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this volume is distinctive in its approach: instead of following a traditional narrative, the book is arranged thematically.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 3,0, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Papst ist einer der einflussreichsten Menschen der Welt und das schon seit fast zweitausend Jahren.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 1,3, Universität Münster, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit den dramatischsten Ereignissen des 20.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie'Brilliant .
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 1,7, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Black Lives Matter: Kunst/Historische Perspektiven auf die Schwarze Befreiungsbewegung seit 1865, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie entwickelt sich die schwarze Befreiungsbewegung in Großbritannien im Vergleich zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika?
Most people who study Romanticism suppose the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has little or nothing to do with Romantic literary thought, except perhaps opposition to it.
A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the how to books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students.
In this book, Molly Geidel traces the rise and fall of the development film, an overlooked film genre that circulated widely in the Americas from the 1940s through the 1970s.
In this book, Molly Geidel traces the rise and fall of the development film, an overlooked film genre that circulated widely in the Americas from the 1940s through the 1970s.
This book utilises extensive documentary research from the archives of the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee to analyse the displacement of the Jewish population in East-Central Europe and how this issue influenced the development of international law and institutions.
This book utilises extensive documentary research from the archives of the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee to analyse the displacement of the Jewish population in East-Central Europe and how this issue influenced the development of international law and institutions.
A committed communist and anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First dedicated her life to African liberation struggles until her assas,sination by South Africa's Special Branch in 1982.
Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurssometimes called Black Bohemiansseized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in a white-dominated marketplace.
This book brings together the views of internationally acclaimed scholars who have synthesized debates regarding the First World War's origins, and it will certainly encourage readers to 'reconsider' their ideas regarding this controversial subject.
This second edition of Community Oral History Toolkit outlines the basics of oral history, how to design and manage projects, as well as guidelines on interviewing, archiving, and giving back to the community.
Die "Historischen Mitteilungen" warten in diesem Jahr mit zwei Schwerpunkten auf: Zum einen mit dem Themenbereich "Vom Deutschen Bund über den Norddeutschen Bund zum Neuen Deutschen Bund (1866–1870)", unter der Federführung von Wolf D.
Die Historischen Mitteilungen warten in diesem Jahr mit zwei Schwerpunkten auf: Innerhalb der Schwerpunktreihe "Vom Deutschen Bund über den Norddeutschen Bund zum Neuen Deutschen Bund (1866–1870)" vereint Wolf D.
This book brings together the views of internationally acclaimed scholars who have synthesized debates regarding the First World War's origins, and it will certainly encourage readers to 'reconsider' their ideas regarding this controversial subject.
From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
