History: specific events and topics

Este trabajo, fruto del proyecto "Reconocimiento de los valores culturales de los afrodescendientes del Pacífico Colombiano y fortalecimiento de su identidad" pretende como objetivos generales el rescate, valoración y difusión del patrimonio urbano y arquitectónico de la región del Pacífico colombiano, el cual incluye desde la vivienda y su arquitectura hasta los modelos urbanos y los componentes del ordenamiento territorial que son específicos del Litoral Pacífico.

Este libro comienza con una reseña sobre la historia en general para luego pasar a la historia de Italia y luego a la de España.

These articles deal with the functioning, and malfunctioning, of the Carreira da India, the round voyages made between Portugal and its possessions in India that began after Vasco da Gama had opened up the route round the Cape of Good Hope in 1497-99.

A book of stunning black and white photographs, capturing the events, people, and landscape of Chicago's Washington Park during the summer of 1987.

Discover the origins, traditions, and use of the everyday foods served on our plates, from salt to sushi and rice to ravioli.

This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives.

Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from time to time in more thought-provoking areas.

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A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJ.

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

This book presents a historical synthesis of colonial relations between Brazil and Portugal, illuminating the projects that the statesmen of the period formulated for the rich Portuguese territory in America-at first as a colonial domain, then as a potential independent country.

A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores   The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions.

Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book.

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c.

Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland.

Cornwall has a special literary heritage.

This innovative collection examines how European queens participated in the conceptualisation, mobilisation, and transformation of 'natural resources' from the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.

Da der österreichische Staat die Fürsorge von Holocaust-Überlebenden verweigerte, lag die Verantwortung bei der jüdischen Gemeinde selbst.

Ereignis, Bild, Kontext: über die komplexe Entschlüsselung von Fotografien aus der Zeit des NationalsozialismusFotografien gelten heute als eine zentrale Quelle zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung.