General and world history

A principios de los novecientos veinte, dos sociedades se encontraron en una llanura donde pastaban reses y caballos, y transitaban los naturales de la región.

Was wir erst heute wahrhaft begreifen: Weit mehr als Kriege und Technologien, Religionen und Ideologien beeinflussten und lenkten seit Anbeginn der Zeit die Natur und das Klima die Geschicke der Menschen.

Published under the auspices of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for Independence.

From the bestselling author of 1177 B.

We, Robot does for robotics what Michio Kaku's bestselling Physics of the Impossible has done for physics.

On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.

Bei der Recherche über einen Berliner Mordfall aus dem Jahr 1938 stößt Eva Züchner hinter der Kriminalstory auf eine ganz andere Geschichte.

"e;To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope?

With over a million copies already sold, this is the newly updated edition of the definitive collection of great speeches ancient and modern.

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem.

Imagine investigating a murder in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body.

A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION"e;As uplifting a testimonial to human courage as any to emerge from World War II.

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka.

A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know.

A major history of the British Empire's early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia.

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline?

This social history of Europe during 1848 selects the most crucial centers of revolt and shows by a vivid reconstruction of events what revolution meant to the average citizen and how fateful a part he had in it.

A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years.

A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.

It has never been more important for Americans to understand why the world both hates and loves the United States.

Here is a brief, fully illustrated account of the first excavation of the site of this important Phoenician port city, founded in about 1600 B.

How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard.

In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women.

A groundbreaking history of racismRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century.

The most authoritative and feature-rich edition of On War in EnglishCarl von Clausewitz's On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy.

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.

A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century.

This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution.

The definitive history of conversion and assimilation of Jews in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to the presentBetween the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold-by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying.

Women are all too easily forgotten when it comes to war.

For four reporters (Huffaker, Mercer, Phenix, and Wise) at CBS affiliate KRLD-TV in Dallas on November 22, 1963, there was not a dress rehearsal for what they had to do in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F.

A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built.

Here are the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of such upstanding and quintessential Americans as Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton.

Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies.

From George Washington to Martin Luther King to George W.

The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history.

The story of the legendary producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, who made superstars of the 1970's that have stood the test of time: KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People, and Parliament-Funkadelic.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

On October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maines Penobscot Bay.

In 1914, journalist and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart traveled to Europe alone to cover World War I for the Saturday EveningPost.

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The doctrines of covenant, faith, and the order of salvation are crucial components of early modern Reformed soteriology.

Why did British boats shoot their way up the Yangzi in 1842, rather than Chinese ones up the Thames?

Every artifact is a story.

With some 200 million people affected by armed conflict or genocide, refugees are appearing in record numbers.

Este libro presenta un análisis de las relaciones que, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la postguerra hasta 1953, mantuvieron con la España franquista los cuatro Estados que prota-gonizaron de manera principal aquella contienda.