History: specific events and topics

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination.

Mitten im Herzen des Rhone-Deltas liegt eine Region von atemberaubender Schönheit und faszinierender Vielfalt: die Camargue.

Warum töten wir?

In an era when African Pentecostalism stretches its vibrant mosaic across continents, Intra-African Pentecostalism and the Dynamics of Power examines the pulsating heart of this phenomenon within Africa itself.

This Element shows that although news coverage of misinformation has increased, it has not eroded trust in traditional media.

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus on Shakespeare.

The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original.

The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades.

Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

Delve into the tumultuous life and reign of Boris Godunov, one of Russia's most enigmat-ic and controversial leaders.

Step into the world of the Middle Ages and discover the remarkable journey of Thomas Aquinas-a thinker who forever changed the landscape of philosophy and theology.

Mit dem Fall der Qing-Dynastie im Jahr 1912 endete nicht nur eine Ära kaiserlicher Herrschaft, sondern begann eine Reise des Wandels für die Verbotene Stadt – das Herz des einstigen Kaiserreichs.

Culture.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more.

Fashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 1958-75.

Despite widespread interest in the trade union movement and its history, it has never been easy to trace the development of individual unions, especially those now defunct, or where name changes or mergers have confused the trail.

Movingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andree Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier.

Dieser Band bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme der Funktionsweisen, der Aufgaben und der Stellung der Landesparlamente in den einzelnen Bundesländern.

Dieser Band bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme der Funktionsweisen, der Aufgaben und der Stellung der Landesparlamente in den einzelnen Bundesländern.

Revelations of the profound effect and long legacy of America's post-Civil War Reconstruction In Landscapes of Freedom, Rebecca Capobianco Toy tells the story of an emblematic community of freedpeople during the Civil War era.

This book explores the vast and ongoing legacy of Che Guevara in world politics.

This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations.

Wie entstand die religiöse Bewegung der Zeugen Jehovas und warum hat sie trotz zahlreicher Kontroversen bis heute Bestand?

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Merowinger, der ersten fränkischen Königsfamilie, deren Geheimnisse und Mythen bis heute die Geschichtswissenschaften herausfordern.

En mai 1945, une commission médico-légale de l’Armée rouge autopsia 13 corps trouvés près de la chancellerie du Reich à Berlin.

This volume provides the readers with a broad but detailed consideration of a wide array of transmutationist thinkers who published before Darwin.

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ'd.

Ongoing arguments over how histories are honoured as evidenced by the conflict between South Korea and Japan over the opening of Tokyo's Heritage Information Centre in June 2020 reveal the extent to which heritage processes enable states to assert legitimacy and power on a global stage.