General and world history

GLOBAL RHETORICAL TRADITIONS is unique in design and scope.

Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled his country's history with his dictatorship for almost four decades.

The arrival of Spaniards in 1769 served as a defining moment for California's future.

"e;Unleashes the power of King's historic words in '63 .

"e;The dramatic life of a German Jewish scientist caught, of his own will, between the promise of science and the annihilation of war.

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before.

For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera.

This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways all around the world.

Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.

This is a penetrating and detailed account of the climactic battles of the German forces in Slovakia, the Carpathians, parts of Poland, Silesia and Saxony, from autumn 1944 until the end of the war.

The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich.

The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Dine, and Pueblo languages.

An insider's account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the U.

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The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography.

On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past.

In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe.

The complete operational history of an outstanding Marine fighter squadron throughout the Cold War.

The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later.

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico.

An insider account an entrepreneur hired to support American peacekeeping efforts in Iraq in the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains.

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Byron Rogers' Wales is not the stereotypical nation of rugby heroes, eisteddfods and coal mining.

At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children?

Following his BusinessWeek bestsellers Elizabeth I, CEO and Patton on Leadership comes a new and perfect subject for Alan Axelrods innovative format: Winston Churchill, the quintessential leader of the 20th century.

Die Heirat Maximilians mit Maria von Burgund (1477), die weitgehende Behauptung des burgundischen Erbes gegenüber Frankreich, die Wahl Maximilians zum Römischen König (1486) und die spanisch-habsburgische sowie die habsburgisch-ungarische Doppelhochzeit (1496/97 bzw.

For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries.

On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past.

Hemos escuchado, a los estadistas mundiales, hablar de como se cuentan los grandes acontecimientos; el desarrollo de un pais, una plaga, una enfermedad, etc.