The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition.
Der Osteuropa-Historiker Jan Plamper lässt seine eigenen Erfahrungen mit und in Russland in den letzten Jahrzehnten Revue passieren, sammelt Anekdoten und Ereignisse und verdichtet alles zum Bild einer scheinbar unaufhaltsamen finsteren Entwicklung.
Während der erste Band von »Kultur - Geschichte - Behinderung« die kulturwissenschaftliche Historisierung von Behinderung thematisiert, liegt der Schwerpunkt des zweiten Bandes auf bildungstheoretischen und didaktischen Perspektiven: An der Schnittstelle von Geschichtsdidaktik, Erziehungswissenschaft und Disability Studies fragen die Autor_innen nach Möglichkeiten der Vermittlung und Aneignung von Geschichte.
Sayeret Matkal depicts the greatest operations of Israel's elite commando force from the perspective of the people who were therethe soldiers and their commanders, many of whom became Israels top leaders and politicians: people such as Benjamin Netanyahu, Moshe Ya'alon, and Ehud Barak.
Warum besuchen Millionen Menschen Volksfeste, was begeistert Millionen Besucher an Freizeitparks und was fasziniert Millionen Spieler an den Simulationen dieser Vergnügungswelten in Computerspielen?
The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed everything.
Durante las últimas décadas siglo XVIII, período de crecimiento demográfico general en que los Borbones redirigieron su atenta mirada a los procesos cada vez más visibles de forasterización de la población indígena y mestizaje, y reimpulsaron políticas tendientes a disciplinar al conjunto de la población y a incrementar la recaudación fiscal, los pueblos de indios de Córdoba se vieron tensionados por dos tendencias: una de migración de personas y familias que colaboró en la disgregación de algunos de ellos, y otra de incorporación de foráneos que sostuvo la reproducción social y el crecimiento demográfico de otros.
¿Cómo es que Neuquén, una pequeña provincia de la norpatagonia argentina, se convirtió en el paradigma de la resistencia al neoliberalismo durante la década de los '90?
El Barroco es un período que ha generado posiciones encontradas a lo largo de la historia y permite enhebrar una serie de debates cruciales en la literatura, el arte y el pensamiento.
Greg Noonan's classic treatise on brewing lagers, New Brewing Lager Beer, offers a thorough yet practical education on the theory and techniques required to produce high-quality beers using all-grain methods either at home or in a small commercial brewery.
From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands suffered one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder in modern Europe.
Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium.
The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland's most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford's first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century.
Between May 1940 and the summer of 1941 the British people expected a German invasion that, had it succeeded, would have enslaved them into the Nazis' racist war.
Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction';A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution.
A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter.
This is the first book to not only select the events that most influenced the causes and outcome of Americas Civil War, but also to rank them in order of significance.
Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherishedand the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day.
The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.
In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a sweeping history of food and culture that summons everyone to the table for a fresh look at the people, ingredients, events, and movements that have shaped how and what we eat in the United StatesThis exploration of the American table presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through the lens of location, immigration, ingenuity, innovation, and culture.
"Ich hielt das Leben meines Vaters für das allerunspektakulärste", sagt Tarek Leitner – keine Heldentaten, keine menschlichen Abgründe, keine tragischen Schicksalsschläge.
The globalization of schooling has become a lively focus for research in the field of international education; however, few scholars have looked at specific model ';global' schools.
El presente libro ofrece una revisión crítica de teorías y etnografías hechas sobre el tema del suicidio en pueblos indígenas en algunos países del continente americano.
'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).
