Social and cultural history

Dietrich Bonhoeffers Gebete, Gedichte und andere Texte, die er in der Zeit von 1943-1945 im Gefängnis in Berlin-Tegel verfasst hat, sind nicht nur wichtige Zeugnisse des Widerstands gegen das NS Regime, sie geben dem Leser vor allem Anteil am Geistlichen Leben des Christen Dietrich Bonhoeffer und sind vielleicht die bekanntesten und bedeutendsten Texte von Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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Was Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler?

Esta obra presenta una serie de investigaciones acerca de las prácticas y métodos de documentación sobre ocho lenguas fuegopatagónicas: selk'nam, haush, alakaluf / kawesqar, yagan, aonekko 'a'ien, teushen, günün a yajüch y mapuzungun realizadas en la región en el último tercio del siglo xix y hasta mediados del xx en un contexto de expropiación territorial y genocidio de los pueblos preexistentes.

Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man's Land not only illuminate pieces of the Great War that remain in the shadow of the broader narratives, but also, and more importantly, foster new perspectives, pose distinct questions, and suggest fresh directions from which future work might emerge.

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However well our boys do in the 2014 World Cup, we can be sure that English pride will be riding higher than ever.

To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to 'time', yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular issues relevant to it, including ageing and/or the life course and punk, memory and/or nostalgia and punk, 'punk history', and archiving and punk.

Tramps, lazy, cheaters.

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day.

At the height of the Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting dead of a young man called Peter Doherty near Craughwell, County Galway.

Margaret Greville of Polesden Lacey, who styled herself 'Mrs Ronnie', rose from obscure and humble origins to become a fabulously wealthy and ambitious society hostess, traveling the world and acquiring a portfolio of movie stars, monarchs, maharajahs and millionaires.

This book is a collection of Nai Xia's quintessential works on Silk Road studies.

From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress.

This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic.

Ein Einblick in die Geschichte der Messe und des Congress Innsbruck anlässlich ihrer Jubiläen.

Ist es ein schwerwiegendes Problem, dass der Bundestag "das ganze Volk", das er vertreten soll, in mancher Hinsicht nur sehr verzerrt repräsentiert?

Women used automobiles as soon as they had access to them.

The Unknown History of Jewish Women-On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their absence from the Jewish Hebrew library of the "e;People of the Book"e; and interprets their social condition in relation to their imposed ignorance and exclusion from public literacy.

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world.

An entertaining and accessible romp through Victorian culture that reveals the fascinating and gruesome ways the Victorians revered, feared and exploited death.

Like a parallel universe, an entire city could be formed with the lost buildings of New York Citys past.

*; Explains the three distinct architectural styles found at the majority of sacred sites, representing three ancient world ages*; Examines evidence of the two oldest architectural ages at sites in the Sacred Valley of Peru in depth, connecting them to other sites around the world*; Explores the sophisticated science behind the construction of these stone sites, including modern research on acoustic levitation and ancient use of geopolymersAll around the world are mysterious ancient monoliths with strange featuresperfectly carved terraces, massive steps, basins, and abstract forms with underground grottos and cave systems.

After the American Revolution, land speculators in the United States desired the bottom portion of the current state of Ohio, with the full Northwest Territory being the ultimate prize.

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration and romance.

Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy.

Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man's Land not only illuminate pieces of the Great War that remain in the shadow of the broader narratives, but also, and more importantly, foster new perspectives, pose distinct questions, and suggest fresh directions from which future work might emerge.

365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Irish is a year-long scenic route of jolliness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Ireland a country worth celebrating every day of the year.

Lost San Francisco takes readers on a journey back to the buildings, parks, stadia, ferries - even cemetaries and prisoners - that time and progress have swept aside.

Accumulated over many years, 'Granny', the enigmatic collector behind this book, presents a selection of quirky post-war goods, advertising and kitchen items.

Die Elbe ist der Strom des wiedervereinigten Deutschland.

Unter schwierigen Umständen wurde nach dem Ende der Monarchie 1918 die Republik in Österreich gegründet.

The definitive history of the Wesleyan movement in the United States.

Have you ever tasted a real homemade custard pudding?

China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world.

The definitive history of the Wesleyan movement in the United States.

From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the ';timely' (The New Yorker), ';fascinating, and morally serious,' (The Wall Street Journal) story of our wedding vowswhat they mean and why they still matter.

China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world.

Hijab: Word of God or Word of Man?

From debt to divorce, from adultery to slander, cases with women as plaintiffs, defendants, or both appeared regularly on docket books in antebellum Illinois.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society.

Die Saar 1945-1955, das ist die Geschichte des dritten deutschen Teilstaates.

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This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline.

London - one of the world's most exciting cities.

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