General and world history

A comprehensive study of the oyster shell building material of the South Carolina LowcountryBeaufort, South Carolina,is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells.

How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern.

The acclaimed Lincoln scholar examines the president’s treatment of Southern civilians during the Civil War, shedding new light on his wartime conduct.

"e;The compelling story of a colony besieged by meteorological, epidemiological, economic, and manmade catastrophes only to arise like the phoenix.

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space.

Writings of Sun Tzu, Vegetius, Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon.

内容简介：梁新宇的这本书展现了梅兰竹菊的文化内涵。梅兰竹菊在中国文化中具有独特地位，本书通过对其多方面的介绍，让读者深入了解其象征意义和文化价值，感受传统文化中对自然植物的审美和精神追求。作者简介：梁新宇对中国传统文化有着浓厚的兴趣和深入的研究。该系列丛书涵盖了茶道、端午龙舟、古代礼制、服装艺术等众多方面，系统地介绍了中国丰富多样的民风习俗，展现了中华文化的博大精深。梁新宇通过生动的文字和丰富的图片，将这些传统习俗的历史渊源、发展演变、文化内涵等内容深入浅出地呈现给读者，使读者能够更好地了解和传承中国优秀的传统文化。

内容简介：李姗姗的这本书展现了丝绸之路文化的独特魅力。丝绸之路是连接东西方文明的重要纽带，本书通过系统介绍，让读者了解其历史与文化价值，感受古代东西方交流的繁荣与多元。作者简介：李姗姗，专注于历史文四川广元人，1999 年开始儿童文学创作，2013 年加入中国作家协会，是 "重庆文学院第七届巴蜀青年文学奖" 获奖者化古迹研究与创作的作者。她的作品风格多样，充满童真与想象力，常常以温暖的故事和生动的形象，展现儿童的成长与探索，探讨生命、友情、亲情等主题，引导小读者树立正确的价值观和人生观。例如在《面包男孩》中，通过小精灵 "小面包" 与罗德叔共同成长的经历，展现了一个充满爱与温暖的童真世界。

A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany''s first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.

There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show.

Action-packed memoir by an American pilot and squadron commander in the Korean War.

A fictionalized World War I memoir by RAF pilot John Everard Gurdon, “an evocative picture of the daily life of the squadron and its characters” (Western Front Association).

内容简介：梁新宇的这本书展现了中国美食文化的博大精深。中国美食享誉世界，本书通过对各类美食的介绍，让读者领略中国饮食文化的魅力，感受美食背后所蕴含的地域文化和民俗传统。作者简介：梁新宇对中国传统文化有着浓厚的兴趣和深入的研究。该系列丛书涵盖了茶道、端午龙舟、古代礼制、服装艺术等众多方面，系统地介绍了中国丰富多样的民风习俗，展现了中华文化的博大精深。梁新宇通过生动的文字和丰富的图片，将这些传统习俗的历史渊源、发展演变、文化内涵等内容深入浅出地呈现给读者，使读者能够更好地了解和传承中国优秀的传统文化。

A history of the world’s first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.

‘The Great War’ involved the mobilisation of 70 million soldiers worldwide.

This monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, prepared by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, describes the universe of camps and ghettos-more than 20,000 in all-that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia.

"e;The essays offer an unvarnished look at not only the severe fighting that characterized these months, but also the simple attempt to survive the rampant disease, malnourishment, and harsh winter on the steppe and in the ruins of Stalingrad.

*; More than 150 firsthand accounts of the American Civil War, many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished *; Includes accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock *; Maps pinpoint each writers location on the battlefield At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers launched one of historys most famous infantry assaults: Picketts Charge.

This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century.

Jonathan Scott is a freelance writer specializing in family history.

During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax.

Our country and the world is changing fast, and a knowledge of history helps us understand the hows, whats, and whys of modern civilization.

The Pocket Book of Patriotism proved that George Courtauld had a real gift for making history simple.

Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

"I have not always been wrong.

An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically.

A collection of essays detailing how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experiences and in the cultural imaginationFor centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity or find it transformed.

"e;A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus, Caesar's tactical masterpiece, to the grim siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada.

内容简介：梁新宇所著此书是了解中国吉祥民俗文化的重要读物。五福文化是中国传统文化的重要组成部分，本书通过对相关民风习俗的介绍，让读者深入了解五福文化的内涵，感受传统民俗中对幸福的追求和期盼。作者简介：梁新宇对中国传统文化有着浓厚的兴趣和深入的研究。该系列丛书涵盖了茶道、端午龙舟、古代礼制、服装艺术等众多方面，系统地介绍了中国丰富多样的民风习俗，展现了中华文化的博大精深。梁新宇通过生动的文字和丰富的图片，将这些传统习俗的历史渊源、发展演变、文化内涵等内容深入浅出地呈现给读者，使读者能够更好地了解和传承中国优秀的传统文化。

内容简介：李姗姗的这本书展现了中国古代王陵文化的独特魅力。古代王陵是皇家文化的重要体现，本书通过详细介绍，让读者了解其建筑特色和文化内涵，感受古代皇家丧葬文化的庄重与威严。作者简介：李姗姗，专注于历史文四川广元人，1999 年开始儿童文学创作，2016 年加入中国作家协会，是 "重庆文学院第七届巴蜀青年文学奖" 获奖者化古迹研究与创作的作者。她的作品风格多样，充满童真与想象力，常常以温暖的故事和生动的形象，展现儿童的成长与探索，探讨生命、友情、亲情等主题，引导小读者树立正确的价值观和人生观。例如在《面包男孩》中，通过小精灵 "小面包" 与罗德叔共同成长的经历，展现了一个充满爱与温暖的童真世界。

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a Panzer on the Eastern Front.

The fifth edition of this bestselling book is for school and college students taking courses in Modern World History and for undergraduates in History and International Relations.

内容简介：梁新宇的这本书展现了中国姓氏名号文化的独特魅力。姓氏名号是个人与家族的重要标识，本书通过系统介绍，让读者深入了解其文化内涵，感受姓氏文化在中华民族传统文化中的重要地位。作者简介：梁新宇对中国传统文化有着浓厚的兴趣和深入的研究。该系列丛书涵盖了茶道、端午龙舟、古代礼制、服装艺术等众多方面，系统地介绍了中国丰富多样的民风习俗，展现了中华文化的博大精深。梁新宇通过生动的文字和丰富的图片，将这些传统习俗的历史渊源、发展演变、文化内涵等内容深入浅出地呈现给读者，使读者能够更好地了解和传承中国优秀的传统文化。

The inability to eradicate poverty among societies demands a synergistic approach.

Josef was a young German male who had recently finished school, but he was uncertain of his direction in life.

On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast.

内容简介：梁新宇的这本书展现了端午龙舟大赛的文化魅力。端午节是中国重要的传统节日，龙舟大赛是其特色活动，本书通过对龙舟大赛的介绍，让读者深入了解端午节的文化内涵，感受传统节日中民俗活动的活力与文化传承的力量。作者简介：梁新宇对中国传统文化有着浓厚的兴趣和深入的研究。该系列丛书涵盖了茶道、端午龙舟、古代礼制、服装艺术等众多方面，系统地介绍了中国丰富多样的民风习俗，展现了中华文化的博大精深。梁新宇通过生动的文字和丰富的图片，将这些传统习俗的历史渊源、发展演变、文化内涵等内容深入浅出地呈现给读者，使读者能够更好地了解和传承中国优秀的传统文化。

Very often, history is thought of as that lesson we suffered through at school, made into boring facts and figures rather than the rich and interesting tales that actually comprise it.

内容简介：李姗姗所著此书是了解中国古代水利工程文化的重要读物。古代水利工程是中国古代科技文明的杰出代表，本书通过对其多方面的介绍，让读者领略其智慧与价值，感受古代水利工程对社会发展的重要推动作用。作者简介：李姗姗，专注于历史文四川广元人，1999 年开始儿童文学创作，2014 年加入中国作家协会，是 "重庆文学院第七届巴蜀青年文学奖" 获奖者化古迹研究与创作的作者。她的作品风格多样，充满童真与想象力，常常以温暖的故事和生动的形象，展现儿童的成长与探索，探讨生命、友情、亲情等主题，引导小读者树立正确的价值观和人生观。例如在《面包男孩》中，通过小精灵 "小面包" 与罗德叔共同成长的经历，展现了一个充满爱与温暖的童真世界。

Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander.

内容简介：梁新宇的这本书展现了中国传统服装艺术的独特魅力。中国传统服饰是文化的重要载体，本书通过对其多方面的介绍，让读者领略传统服装的精美与独特，感受其在艺术审美和文化传承方面的价值。作者简介：梁新宇对中国传统文化有着浓厚的兴趣和深入的研究。该系列丛书涵盖了茶道、端午龙舟、古代礼制、服装艺术等众多方面，系统地介绍了中国丰富多样的民风习俗，展现了中华文化的博大精深。梁新宇通过生动的文字和丰富的图片，将这些传统习俗的历史渊源、发展演变、文化内涵等内容深入浅出地呈现给读者，使读者能够更好地了解和传承中国优秀的传统文化。