This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's complete tales and poems, including "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".
In 'Der letzte Sonnensohn: Historischer Roman' von Johannes Scherr wird die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes erzählt, der im antiken Rom um sein Erbe und seine Identität kämpft.
In Daniel Defoes historischem Roman 'Denkwürdigkeiten eines englischen Edelmannes aus dem großen Kriege' wird die Geschichte eines englischen Adligen während des großen Krieges des 17.
Joseph Kossuth Dixon's 'The Vanishing Race: The History of the Last Indian Council' is a groundbreaking work that delves into the fascinating history of Native American tribes in the late 19th century.
In 'The Words & Wisdom of President Woodrow Wilson,' this anthology juxtaposes the thoughtful expressions and presidential determinations of Woodrow Wilson with the observant and articulated viewpoints of Josephus Daniels, his Secretary of the Navy.
This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Diaz's army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution.
Winner of the LASA Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize in the Humanities, 2013Starting in the late nineteenth century, the region of South America known as the Rio de la Plata (containing modern-day Uruguay and Argentina) boasted the highest literacy rates in Latin America.
Over thirty years after its original publication, former Yellowstone National Park archivist Paul Schullery's collection of travelers' accounts of their visits to the first national park still resonates with the tremendous impact the Park has had--and continues to have--as a wilderness and recreation destination.
Virtually every problem with the modern American mode of living stems from three major cultural characteristics: a pathological attachment to the automobile, a horrifying apathy toward the obesity epidemic, and a deeply engrained fetishization of employment.
From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production.
Arthur Buies (1840-1901), pamphlétaire redouté, chroniqueur adulé, voyageur invétéré, «rouge» impénitent et ami intime du curé Labelle, habite toujours la mémoire des téléspectateurs des Belles histoires des pays d’en haut, bien que Claude-Henri Grignon ait tenté de lui faire une triste réputation.
At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time.
Entre 1936 et 1939, près de 1 700 Canadiens ont défié la politique étrangère de leur gouvernement et se sont engagés comme volontaires dans la guerre civile espagnole.
This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction.
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present.
Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexican shores, the conflict had a significant influence on the country's political development.
For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony.
The Woman in the Violence draws on fieldwork conducted in Lima, Peru, one of the largest cities in Latin America, and the life stories of dozens of women to examine multiple forms of violence and how it interrelates in their lives.