This work examines the development of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces as a national institution; explores the historical origins of the political warfare system; and assesses that system's nurturing of military morale, popular support, and ways to weaken enemy resolve.
Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands, setting up and running the field hospital at Ajax Bay, where he and his Royal Marine and Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties, of which only 3 died of wounds.
'La caída del cielo' es un extraordinario relato en primera persona de la historia vital y el pensamiento cosmoecológico de Davi Kopenawa, chamán y portavoz de los yanomami de la Amazonia brasileña.
… sollte von einer bewußt langsam wachsenden Zahl deutscher Neusiedler – Vertretern möglichst verschiedener Berufsgruppen – zunächst noch ausschließlich Tauschhandel getrieben werden, damit die Insulaner sich dank einer so angebotenen Vielfalt von Kontakten ihre Partner selber aussuchen und das Tempo ihrer 'Zivilisierung' in Grenzen mitbestimmen konnten …Auf seinen frühen Handelsfahrten durch die Südsee und in Auseinandersetzung mit seinem mächtigen politischen Gegner, dem Berliner Bankier Adolph von Hansemann, entwarf der Kaufmann Eduard Hernsheim ein alternatives Kolonialprogramm für die Südsee.
With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.
Beginning in 500 with the fusion of classical, Christian, and Germanic cultures and ending in 1300 with a Europe united by a desire for growth, knowledge, and change, this volume provides basic information on the significant cultural figures of the Middle Ages.
Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combatWar Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps.
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muhammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world.
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muhammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world.
Many of Willy Brandt's contemporaries regarded him as a kind of Americanized politician who could win over both peers and counterparts with his "Kennedy smile.
Johann Gustav Gildemeister (1812–1890) was a well-known Orientalist of the 19th century, who became famous throughout Germany for his book on the pilgrimage to the "Heilige Rock" relic at Trier.
Kinder, Jugendliche und auch Erwachsene begegnen in ihrem Alltag einer Fülle gedeuteter, in unterschiedlichsten medialen Formen dargestellter Geschichte; Sinnbildungsangebote sind hier notwendig enthalten.
The teaching of history in South African and Japanese schools has attracted sustained criticism for the alleged attempts to conceal the controversial aspects of their countries' past and to inculcate ideologies favourable to the ruling regimes.
The historical youth movement cannot be underestimated in its influence on some generations in the twentieth century, at the turn of the century around 1900 and also in the following decades, even after 1945.
This interdisciplinary study examines the poetic and political representation of the Palatine Marriage in London in 1613 by analysing the vast number of English and Neo-Latin festive / nuptial poetry and prose written on the occasion of the marriage of Count Palatine Frederick V (1596-1632) and Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), stylised and represented as heroes and paragon figures of Protestant Europe.
Neben einem Bedürfnis nach Individualisierung der Form der Eheschließung ist derzeit ein zunehmendes Auseinanderfallen des staatlichen und des religiösen Eheverständnisses festzustellen.
Die Identität von Regierenden und Regierten: dieses Leitbild von Bürgergesellschaft als politisch-sozialer Einheit prägte den Übergang des schweizerischen Kantons Zürich zur modernen Erwerbsgesellschaft.
When we are online, we learn about history in very specific ways - the characteristics of networked media heavily influence the content and structure of historical narratives.
This is the first text on historiography to adopt a comparative, global perspective for the modern era looking not only at developments in the West but at other historiographical traditions in East Asia, India, the Middle East, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa as well.
