This concise guide zooms in on the period of American history known as the Industrial Revolution, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-18th century to just after the First World War.
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.
As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy.
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.
Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity, this book explores how different forms of work have been valued up to the present day.
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity, this book explores how different forms of work have been valued up to the present day.
Clayton Wheat WilliamsWest Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historianwas a risk taker, who both reflected and molded the history of his region.
Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Beiträge dokumentieren den Ertrag des Workshops „Historische Biographik und kritische Prosopographie als Instrumente in den Geschichtswissenschaften", der 2021 an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg durchgeführt wurde.
Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Beiträge dokumentieren den Ertrag des Workshops „Historische Biographik und kritische Prosopographie als Instrumente in den Geschichtswissenschaften", der 2021 an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg durchgeführt wurde.
The quest for food to fill the body, and food to seduce the soul, has provided a catalyst for the exploding variety of restaurants in the United States.
El poder discursivo de la metáfora "república bananera" hace fácil pasar por alto las diversas maneras en las que el monopolio capitalista dentro de los Estados Unidos dio forma a la historia del comercio del banano en el siglo XX.
This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogota led to a transformation in the social role of plants - showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a 'floristic island' formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.
Professor Raymond deals here with the evolution of the great Arab cities of the Ottoman period (1516-1800) - with questions of organisation, social life and the built space - looking in particular at Aleppo, Algiers, Constantine and, above all, at Cairo.
Friedrich Koenig (1774-1833) revolutionierte mit der von ihm erfundenen Schnellpresse nach dem Prinzip der rotierenden Zylinder das seit Gutenberg herrschende Druckprinzip des flächigen Tiegeldrucks.
1923 – Das Jahr der ExtremeEs war das Jahr, in dem die deutsche Politik von Krise zu Krise schlitterte, als ein Bürgerkrieg realistisch erschien und die Republik an ihren Extremen und ihrer prekären Wirtschaftslage zu zerbrechen drohte.
Die Geschichte der Speicherstadt, Hamburgs zum UNESCO-Welterbe erklärter ehemaliger Lagerhauskomplex, liegt bisher vor allem als Darstellung ihrer Entstehung,ihres Baues und ihrer Architektur vor.
Le katana, symbole de la culture japonaise et des arts martiaux, n'est pas simplement une simple épée mais un reflet de l'histoire, de la philosophie et du savoir-faire du Japon.
