How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries.
Koh-i-Noor The Prisoner of WarThe Fingerprints of a Child King and the Stolen DNA of a NationThe DNA of the SoilThe story of the KohiNoor does not begin in a kings treasury or on a battlefield it begins deep within the ancient womb of the Indian earth To understand this diamond one must first understand the soil that gave it birth This is not merely a geological occurrence It is as if the very essence of Bharat its spiritual energy and its elemental strength were compressed over billions of years into a single defiant spark of light When we speak of the KohiNoor we are speaking of a kidnapped fragment of our geography It is a piece of the motherland that was torn away yet it carries the silent vibrating frequency of the land it once called homeThe journey starts in the alluvial silts of the Krishna River specifically in the legendary Kollur mines Imagine the sweat and the hope of the ancient miners who waded through the mud their hands feeling for the pulse of the earth These people didnt just see stones they saw the blessings of the earth goddess The KohiNoor was born from this specific mineral DNA Science tells us that diamonds are formed under immense pressure and heat but the human heart knows that this particular stone absorbed the prayers the struggles and the vibrations of an entire civilization It is a mineral witness to the rise and fall of dynasties but its core remains tethered to the Indian sun
Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War explores how Russian literature and autobiographical writing portrayed nurses, women soldiers, and commanders who served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War.
Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War explores how Russian literature and autobiographical writing portrayed nurses, women soldiers, and commanders who served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War.
ENGMore than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished.
The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities: within the United States Army during the American Civil War, the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and the British Army during World War II.
The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities: within the United States Army during the American Civil War, the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and the British Army during World War II.
A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.
The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its 'Asian Tiger' economic miracle - and the looming threat of invasion by China.
Winner of the Saltire Society Research Book of the YearWhilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view of the past, maps too can say much about a nation's history.
Fernando Esposito erzählt eine Geschichte und Theorie historischer Zeiten und plädiert für einen Aufbruch ins wilde Dickicht einer vielzeitigen Geschichte.
This comprehensive work decolonizes our understanding of Carolina's Indigenous People and presents the complete histories and cultures of the region's First Peoples.
Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century.
Social Justice in Library and Information Science addresses an urgent need for more credible, accurate, authoritative, authentic, and current experiences about library and information science (LIS) research, practices, policies, and services in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Social Justice in Library and Information Science addresses an urgent need for more credible, accurate, authoritative, authentic, and current experiences about library and information science (LIS) research, practices, policies, and services in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.
Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers.
Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazon, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea.
