General and world history

Häufig entsteht der Eindruck, die weithin befürwortete nordamerikanische ›World History‹-Bewegung sei im späten 20.

Why can't Christians agree about communion?

Die Frage »Was wäre geschehen, wenn …?

Noch in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland dank des Aufbaus einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Ölproduzenten und hat diese Stellung in der Sowjetzeit noch ausgebaut.

- While cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabrics.

Die Menschenrechte und der Kalte Krieg wurden rückblickend meist als Antipoden in der Geschichte betrachtet.

The medieval history of the Teutonic Knights can be gathered from a relatively rich corpus of materials.

The Italian reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1561) arrived in Zurich in 1556 after long years of fleeing from the Roman inquisition, and taught there as professor of Old Testament studies.

The »Juridicum« has served as the home for the formation and development of young lawyers for almost 50 years.

The medieval history of the Teutonic Knights can be gathered from a relatively rich corpus of materials.

After Nero's death and the following civil wars in 68-69 A.

During World War II, approximately 1.

In 'Herrn Arnes Schatz - Krimi: Beruht auf wahren Begebenheiten' taucht Selma Lagerlöf tief in die düstere Welt von Mord, Verrat und Rache ein.

The newest volume of the Simon Dubnow Yearbook has one major theme: It looks at the 100th anniversary of the beginning of what came to be called the "Great Seminal Catastrophe" – World War I.

Durch das steigende Interesse an interkulturellem Austausch und interreligiöser Begegnung rückte auch das Interesse an der Geschichte christlicher Missionen in den letzten Jahren in den Fokus der Forschung.

Der reformierte Theologe und Geschichtsschreiber Friedrich Lucae, 1644 im schlesischen Brieg geboren und 1708 als Pfarrer im hessischen Rotenburg an der Fulda gestorben, hinterließ autobiographische Aufzeichnungen, die hier erstmals in einer historisch-kritischen Edition vorgelegt werden.

Mit diesem Wegweiser in der Hand durchwandert man Göttingens Straßen und entdeckt Häuser, in denen Berühmtheiten gewohnt, gelebt, gearbeitet haben: Wissenschaftler mit Weltgeltung: Robert Koch, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg; große Schriftsteller: Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Tieck; mächtige Staatsmänner: König Georg V.

This book offers a broad overview of the history of agricultural knowledge from the 19th century to the present day.

Explaining things is a well-known part of both history and everyday life.

Dimitry Shumsky´s study addresses the question of how the cultural-political background of the Jewish milieu in Prague, squarely aligned between its German and Czech roots, became the vital spark for Zionism during the Habsburg Monarchy.

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In ›Die Erfindung der Namen‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der die Bedeutung von Namen nicht nur eine kulturelle Nuance ist, sondern eine grundlegende Rolle im menschlichen Dasein spielt.

Bulliet/Crossley/Headrick/Hirsch/Johnson/Northrup's THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, 8th EDITION, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions and activities of ordinary people.

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Sarah Gristwood celebrates the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II and how her enduring popularity was tantamount to her many supporters.

Foreword by Levison Wood, bestselling author of Walking the NileA comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world.

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins' 'Life Among the Piutes: The First Autobiography of a Native American Woman' is a powerful narrative that provides a firsthand account of the experiences of the Northern Paiute tribe in the 19th century.

Zwei oberbayerische Gemeinden, Hubenstein und Moosen, geraten in den Fokus der Bayerischen Staatsregierung.

Eltern suchen bis heute nach ihren Kindern, die in der DDR spurlos verschwunden sind.

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible?

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible?

Gottfried Menken (1768–1831) wirkt als Pfarrer in der Spätphase der Aufklärung.

Der Protagonist, Georg, als neunzehnjähriger von der Wehrmacht eingezogen.

Ein facettenreiches, bislang wenig beachtetes Kapitel der Begegnung von Westen und Orient: Bernd Brunner erzählt von Forschern, Pilgerinnen, Touristen – und furchtlosen Grenzgängern in der Heimat von Juden, Muslimen und Christen.

Was meint eigentlich konfessionelle Kooperation konkret und wie sieht ein konfessionell kooperativer Religionsunterricht aus?

';A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance' The Lady';Fascinating' Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine';A fierce, intense picture of this aspect of the war .

Menschliches Zusammenleben ist höchst fragil und vom Scheitern bedroht.

¿Existen límites a la omnipotencia del Partido Comunista?

The revival of Calvinism in the nineteenth-century Netherlands entailed the neo-Calvinist movement.

In "e;Switzerland's Untold War: The Truth Behind Nidwalden's Terror Days,"e; Lukas Stofer delves into the tumultuous period of the Nidwalden crisis, challenging the conventional image of Switzerland as a tranquil, neutral country.

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Bulliet/Crossley/Headrick/Hirsch/Johnson/Northrup's THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, 8th EDITION, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions and activities of ordinary people.

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

4000 questions in more than 200 challenging quizzes from the MindGames section of The Times to really test your general knowledge.

Once again, I traverse through time.

It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.

In diesem Buch geht es um das Thema der Atombombe.