History: specific events and topics

This book has a dual purpose.

Franz von Pocci: eine faszinierende Persönlichkeit des 19.

From tax rebels to religious dissidents, it's amazing that the United States of America haven't fallen apart, though it has not been for lack of trying.

The Indian National Army (INA) trials of 1945-46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cataloguing of the Indian freedom movement.

An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to devastate.

Liminal Diasporas: Contemporary Movements of Humanity and the Environment offers readers a new lens through which to critically re-evaluate the necropolitics of migration.

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying 'a person is a person through other persons'.

Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking neighbor disputes.

From the 12th century onwards merchants from the north Italian and southern French towns were able to take advantage of Christian conquests in southern Italy, Sicily and the Levant to penetrate and dominate the markets of these regions and of North Africa.

Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century.

Männer halten die Reihen eng geschlossen, und Frauen kommen nur dank Quote nach oben?

This volume examines the relationships between the German colonial administration, the Basel Mission, the British Baptist Missionary Society and other missionary societies that characterized the setting up of Basel Mission education in Cameroon against the backdrop of intense rivalry.

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c.

The archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institute's erotic art; gay masturbatory journals in the New York Public Library; the private archive of an amateur pornographer; and one man's lifetime photographic dossier on Baltimore hustlers.

This book challenges the assumption - just as alive today as it was in the nineteenth century - that the political sphere was an arena of reason in which feelings had no part to play.

Miguel Angel Lauletta relata en primera persona su experiencia como detenido en la ESMA durante la última dictadura militar argentina.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Gab es in der vorgeschichtlichen Zeit bereits einen Handel?

With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea.

'The Firm on steroids.

In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger developed a way of considering human existence as 'being there', a process of interrelationships with aspects of the environment in which the very process itself constitutes the essence of human being.

A Remembrance of Death is Andrew Tweeddale's exceptional new novel.

In The Majestic Place: The Freedom Possible in Black Women’s Leadership, editors Wendi S.

'Riveting' - The New York TimesTHE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES' FIGHT IN WWII'S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA-INDIA THEATER.

In August 1347 six bare footed men knelt before King Edward III with nooses around their necks to beg for their lives and present him with the keys to Calais.

Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution - the condition of the cotton spinners, the hardships for labouring children, the overcrowded prisons and other brutal punishments.

«Y es que la razón occidental se ríe de las creencias de indios y negros.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Ökonomie und Gesellschaft an der Wende von der Antike zum Mittelalter" verfügbar.

Als jüngster Sohn des mächtigen Heinrich II.

Im 12.