History: specific events and topics

In 35 Essays, zumeist verfasst für die preußischen Zeitungen die seine Auftraggeber waren, berichtet Fontane hier von seinem fünfmonatigen Aufenthalt in der englischen Haupstadt.

Im Zuge der Kampfhandlungen an den Fronten des Ersten Weltkrieges kam es durch den Einsatz neuer Geschosse und das Kämpfen in Schützengräben zu unerwartet vielen Kopfschussverletzungen, auf welche die militärische Führung und das Sanitätswesen nicht vorbereitet waren.

Desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX y, sobre todo desde que entramos en la actual centuria, se han venido sucediendo e incrementando los atentados cuya fuente es el yihadismo islámico.

La palabra tolerancia ha tenido y sigue teniendo mala prensa en nuestro país.

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen.

The story of the struggle for women's suffrage is not just that of the Pankhursts and Emily Davison.

'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make .

The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

El ser humano encuentra sentido al amor por medio de fantasías, de historias que dan forma a sentimientos que, de otro modo, serían demasiado abrumadores, incoherentes e impredecibles para poder ser dominados.

Briefe sind in den letzten Jahren als hervorragende Quelle für eine Geschichte der Medizin und Gesundheit neu entdeckt worden.

'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the 1970s, growing up in an extended family in Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of war.

A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding'It took me ten years to go from shy young girl to punk rocker, if I'd had this book I'd have got there much quicker Viv AlbertineFor millennia, women s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous.

¿Qué hacía reír a los romanos?

Durante la guerra fría se enfrentaron dos visiones del mundo irreconciliables: el capitalismo y el comunismo.

This book is the culmination of a sustained intellectual engagement with the thought of Isaiah Berlin, developed over nearly a decade of research, writing, and critical reflection.

The founding of nations, told through the documents that made them possible.

The Wake Up Call examines the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack when Hamas and Gaza terrorists breached Israel's borders, brutally murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping 250 others.

Long before the maroon cap became a symbol of fear across the cricketing world, West Indian cricketwas a quiet rebellion played out on plantation grounds under a colonial sun.

Since October 7, many students—and their parents—have been reeling.

"e;A delightful companion to the Torah, the Talmud, and every history book every written about the Jewish people…a perfect book for anyone who has ever wondered how the heck the Jews got here and where the heck are we going and is it okay to laugh about it all?

Historians estimate that in the last 3,400 years of recorded history, humanity has known only 268 years withoutwar — roughly 8 percent of the time.

Did you know the chainsaw was invented for use in childbirth?

The most urgent question facing the Jewish community today is stark and undeniable: How do the Jews ensure their physical security in an increasingly hostile world?

A profound guide to balance, virtue, and moral excellence from one of history's greatest philosophical traditions.

'Phillips O'Brien is one of the keenest observers of modern strategy, and his new book takes a deep historical look at the evolution of warfare and its implications for conflicts like the ongoing one in Ukraine' Francis Fukuyama--------------------War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood often disastrously so.

History is not a tidy sequence of dates, kings, wars, and treaties.

Between 1945 and 1955, hundreds of camps existed in the Soviet occupation zone of Austria.

One of the world's greatest philosophical classics, offering timeless wisdom on virtue, leadership, and the art of living well.

1933: das große Schicksalsjahr– von den USA aus erzähltWährend Hitler die deutsche Demokratie zerstört, schottet sich Amerika ab.

Four centuries of Atlantic trade moved people as cargo and counted them as profit.

Wie überlebt eine Organisation, die nie existieren durfte?

Official archives preserve the decisions of men.

Wie haben sich die Grenzen religionsbezogener Satire im Zeitraum von 1990/92 bis 2020 in Deutschland und Frankreich verschoben?

Ein Blick in die japanische Seele – und der Schlüssel zu mehr innerem Frieden Viele Menschen finden heute Halt in japanischen Lebensweisheiten, doch woher kommen die spirituellen Traditionen, die die Kultur und Mentalität des Landes prägen?

Between the surrender at Yorktown and the ratification of the Constitution lay six years of near-collapse.

Long before the Ottoman cannons were positioned before the Theodosian Walls, the Byzantine Empire had already begun to die from the inside.

Während die Armeen aufeinanderstießen, blieben die Zivilisten zurück – in brennenden Städten, auf verwüsteten Feldern, in Häusern, die plötzlich zu Lazaretten wurden.

Der Jenaer Zoologe Ernst Haeckel zählt nicht nur zu den bedeutendsten, sondern auch zu den umstrittensten Naturwissenschaftlern des ausgehenden 19.

In 463 Einträgen erschließt der Katalog die Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften in der Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchgemeinde Arnstadt, die zu den ältesten überlieferten protestantischen Kirchenbibliotheken in Thüringen zählt.

Der von Pierre Nora für Frankreich entwickelte Begriff der "lieux de mémoire" hat in den letzten Jahren europaweit viel Beachtung gefunden.

Die Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchgemeinde in Schleiz in der dortigen Stadtkirche St.

Mit der Erschließung der Hennebergischen Gymnasialbibliothek in Schleusingen wendet sich die Forschungsstelle für Personalschriften einem Bestand zu, der insbesondere für die Erforschung thüringischer und fränkischer Regionalgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit von hohem Interesse ist.

Am Standort des heutigen Einkaufszentrums "Am Brand" in Mainz befand sich bereits im Mittelalter ein Kaufhaus.

So eindeutig eine alltagsweltliche Definition von Luxus zu sein scheint, so komplex wird es, wenn man sich dem schillernden Phänomen wissenschaftlich nähern möchte: Welche Objekte und Praktiken gelten als Luxus?

On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces.

In late November, 1893, a humpback whale - as rare a sight in the North Sea then as it would be now - followed herring shoals into the Tay estuary, and travelled as far upstream as Dundee docks to linger in the home waters of the biggest whaling fleet in Britain, and one of the biggest in Europe.

The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from the country's top foreign correspondent, now with an updated afterword.

From Roman times until the twentieth century, much of the administration of England was carried out through sending letters.

On Easter Monday, between 1,000 and 1,500 Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army seized the General Post Office and other key locations in Dublin.

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak.