This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "e;long nineteenth century.
A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroesfrom former Newsweek reporter and author of the ';powerful and moving' (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.
»Ein atemberaubend ehrgeiziges und gut gemachtes Stück Geschichte, das nur schwer zu übertreffen ist«, schreibt History Today über Gary Bass' einzigartiges Standardwerk zum wichtigsten Kriegsverbrecherprozesses neben den Nürnberger Prozessen.
A hilariously entertaining tour of Medieval England from Dan Snow and the makers of the History Hit Gone Medieval podcast: perfect for all history lovers and fans of The Rest is HistoryHave you ever wondered about Edgar theling, the fourteen-year-old who took on William the Conqueror?
Every time you chew a stick of Juicy Fruit, eat a hamburger, slip on a nylon, plug your phone into a wall socket, flick on a TV, withdraw money from an ATM, lick an ice-cream cone, switch on a computer, ride an escalator, play a DVR, watch a movie about dinosaurs, or pop a tranquilizer, you're doing something that originated at a world's fair or trade expo.
Thomas Jefferson is most famous for the writing of the Declaration of Independence, which espouses the general principles of freedom and democracies that Americans hold dear.
More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictators legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head.
In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent.
While floating down on the ice-floe, in the midst of dirt and darkness, hungry and cold I wondered at myself that I could have learned, in a few short months, to have eaten such things, and submitted to such practices, as but few civilized persons have ever been called to endure.
Dieses eBook: "Alf von Dülmen (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
A sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic orderWhen turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict.
Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol.
Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas.
Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.
Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFLNFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers vs.
An inspiring first-hand account by military aviation pioneer Richard Kirkland recounts how he and a handful of daring helicopter pilots revolutionized battlefield medical evacuation and blazed the trail for modern air-evac flying.
Sonsteby tells his courageous story of espionage and sabotage against the Naziz and of eluding capture through daring, intuition, and a constant slew of changing identities.
A battle cry to rise up against the ACLU's attempts to destroy our freedom of religion-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Obama Nation.
Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged.
Whether you start your journey down the Seminole Trail as an armchair adventurer or seek to visit the sites in person, this unique guide will give greater understanding to the prominent role of Seminole Indians in the place we call Florida.
From the Four score and seven years ago that every American schoolchild knows to personal notes and dozens of memorable letters, debates, and speeches from a critical time in this nations history, here is a remarkable collection of Lincolns writings.
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo.
A battle cry to rise up against the ACLU's attempts to destroy our freedom of religion-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Obama Nation.
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself.
