General and world history

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas.

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Perhaps it was Adolf Hitler's implacable hatred of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that compelled the Fu*hrer to order the taking, whatever the cost, of the city that bore his enemy's name.

LE 12 octobre 1492, Christophe Colomb crut, et tout le monde avec lui, que les Européens touchaient pour la première fois la terre américaine.

Die 'Prophetiés' des Michel Nostradamus gelten bis heute als Vorhersage zukünftigen Geschehens.

Kaiser Friedrich II.

En la presente revision de nuestra Carta Magna, Cosio Villegas nos ofrece una dimension fundamental del horizonte liberal al realizar la critica de los criticos de la Constitucion de 1857, teniendo como referentes principales las obras afines de Justo Sierra y Emilio Rabasa.

Das Buch widmet sich der Chronologie der wichtigsten Ereignisse im Wettlauf um die Entwicklung der ersten Atombombe.

At the outset of 1918 Germany faced certain defeat as a result of Allied technical innovation in tanks and aircraft, and the American entry into the war.

Dies ist die "etwas andere" Geschichte Portugals.

Helvetic Confessions, the name of two documents expressing the common belief of the Reformed churches of Switzerland.

Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly reading the works of Karl Marx.

Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown.

Seit einigen Wochen kommt aus Russland zunehmend Kritik an den baltischen Staaten, nicht zuletzt an der Republik Lettland, die Mitglied der NATO und der EU ist.

Seit 2700 Jahren werden Münzen geprägt, seit 2500 Jahren findet sich das menschliche Antlitz darauf dargestellt.

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E.

An astonishing compendium of dictators and their crimes against the State.

Mention the word Freemason and you are bound to get a reaction.

Verehrten die Rittermönche des Templerordens ein Idol?

The Heidelberg Catechism is a Protestant confessional document taking the form of a series of questions and answers, for use in teaching Reformed Christian doctrine.

Few people alive today had direct experience of the First World War, and yet it seems embedded in the collective consciousness of the combatant nations as a warning to future generations of the futility of military conflict.

¿Qué son las contraseñas?

Eine grauenerregende Bluttat ereignete sich am Abend des 19.

Un siglo de investigaciones sobre los makú En el área fronteriza del Alto Río Negro-Vaupés, -también referida como un sistema cultural1, como complejo socio-cultural del Vaupés2 o como un área lingüística3- es posible distinguir dos conjuntos sociales: los grupos sedentarios asentados cerca de los cursos de agua, cuya subsistencia se basa principalmente en la pesca y la horticultura itinerante y los grupos de tradición nómada o makú que tradicionalmente han ocupado las áreas interfluviales y cuya subsistencia se basa mayoritariamente en la caza y recolección.

"Der russische Überfall auf die Ukraine ist eine seit dem 24.

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E.

An enthralling story .

Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran?

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history.

Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award for Non-fiction and theTrillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books,Chatelaine, Hill Times,49th Shelf and Writers Trust Best Book of the YearWith the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.

The #1New York Timesbestselling memoir of U.

NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Rich and resonant with womens voices and values, at once familiar and entirely new.

This book offers the first in-depth account of the United Kingdom's contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975.

This book offers the first in-depth account of the United Kingdom's contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975.

This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.

This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies.