WINNER OF THE 2025 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMANRocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years.
El libro Historia urbana de la ciudad de La Paz, Baja California Sur, México se diseñó como un trabajo multidisciplinar de divulgación a partir de un proyecto de investigación permanente que se lleva a cabo en el Centro de Documentación de Historia Urbana (CEDOHU-UABCS) adscrito al Departamento Académico de Economía de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur: "Historia urbana: economía, ciudad y patrimonio cultural".
This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "e;middle position"e; in society--between tsar and people.
Anna Geifman examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place in the Russian empire from the years just prior to the turn of the century through 1917, a period when over 17,000 people were killed or wounded by revolutionary extremists.
The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.
Actores y espacios de la Geografía y la Historia Natural, siglos XVIII-XX se propone reflexionar sobre la conformación del devenir de ambas ciencias en las ciudades y regiones de la Nueva España y la República Mexicana.
A 200 años de la independencia de España, la mayor parte de los guatemaltecos todavía no tienen claros los elementos clave que constituyen la base de su guatemalidad, es decir, de su pertenencia a un país que, por coincidencias históricas y quizás también por azares del destino llegó a llamarse Guatemala.
To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period.
A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.
Politik und WeltpolitikDas Buch zeichnet die bewegte Historie des 1951 gegründeten, im Jahr 2005 in Bundespolizei umbenannten Bundesgrenzschutzes detailliert nach.
This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject through various languages, practices, and liturgical books and letters.
Este trabajo hace un análisis de la vida política de territorio colombiano a través de las celebraciones de los principales acontecimientos políticos y militares realizados durante el dominio hispánico, los procesos de Independencia y la fundación de República.
This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject through various languages, practices, and liturgical books and letters.
An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras.
The first book to trace the evolution of Russian politics from the Bolsheviks to PutinWhen the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end.
The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle-from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing.
In a fascinating "e;urban biography,"e; Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants.
A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the Soviet-American relationship between the November Revolution of 1917 and Russia's final departure in March 1918 from the ranks of the warring powers.
Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions.
In this sweeping study, Julie Hessler traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953.
Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism.
Essays from the award-winning Dostoevsky biographer In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian culture, literature, and history.
A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the worldThe Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires.
This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "e;The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.
Bei einem Empfang der Hudson's Bay Company in Fort Reliance treffen Soldaten, Häuptlinge der Indianer und Forschungsreisende wie Paulina Barnett mit ihrer Dienerin Madge aufeinander.
Dieses eBook: "Erinnerungen einer alten Schwarzwälderin (Heimatroman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Die Anthologie 'Rasputin' versammelt eine facettenreiche Auswahl literarischer Werke des bedeutenden Autors Klabund, bürgerlich Alfred Henschke, dessen Schreiben durch die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit historischen und kulturellen Umbrüchen der frühen 20.
