The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand.
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all.
This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native Americans regarded the British, as well as how they challenged their own cultural image in Britain during this period.
An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park.
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angouleme in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened.
A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes.
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic.
How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal.
Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War.
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.
Sie waren noch Kinder, und die Schrecken des Krieges waren ihr Alltag: Mit großem Einfühlungsvermögen schildert Hilke Lorenz das Aufwachsen inmitten von Flucht, Vertreibung, Bombennächten, Hunger und Tod.
In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment.
Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe.
Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.
'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.
Inhalt:- Hartwig Altenmuller: Neues zu den Schutzsymbolen der magischen Ziegel von Totenbuch Spruch 151- Marianne Eaton-Krauss: The Mamur Zapt Mystery Series with a postscript on Gaston Maspero's acquaintance with Ibrahim Nasif al-Wardani, the assassin of Boutros Ghali- Mohamed El Seaidy: The Anthropoid Coffin of Wennefer.
Ezequiel Uricoechea (1834-1880) fue el más característico de los herederos intelectuales que sobrevivieron al barón Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) en el territorio colombiano.
'Unmasking the Silence - 17 Powerful Slave Narratives in One Edition' delves into the profound depths of human resilience and the fierce spirit of survival through the spectra of slavery's harsh realities.
In these hard times for liberty, On Freedom makes the case that freedom, once explored and understood, is the way forward PRESIDENT ZELENSKY'Visionary .
Fray Jerónimo de Alcalá (1508-1545) es muy probablemente el autor de la monumental "Relación de Michoacán", uno de los testimonios más importantes sobre el pasado prehispánico de esa región y una de las más útiles crónicas de los primeros años de su conquista.
In 'The Kings of Israel and Judah' by George Rawlinson, the reader is transported back in time to explore the tumultuous history of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
"e;The History of the Jewish People"e; or The Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work composed by Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian.
