History: specific events and topics

Mexico City's colorful panaderias (bakeries) have long been vital neighborhood institutions.

Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico.

The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

Sherry Monahan is an authority on the city that wouldn't die and its history.

Decade of Betrayal focuses on the experiences of individuals illegally shipped from the U.

Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as Ladino or non-Indian.

In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36.

Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.

In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society.

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade.

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New Worldnot only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.

Walter Benjamin comparó las revoluciones con la fisión nuclear: un estallido capaz de liberar y multiplicar las energías contenidas en el pasado.

Follow Agnes the dog and Rosie the hen as they head down to the farm in this amusing picture book for children.

Im »Kirchenkampf« ab 1933 zeigten sich die Unterschiede im Denken und Glauben von sächsischen Pfarrern und ihren Gemeindegliedern.

Wie ergeht es Frauen an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz?

Für die Kritik der modernen Geschlechterordnung war und ist die Kritik an Naturbezügen zentral – zugespitzt im Argument, das vermeintlich Natürliche sei ganz und gar kulturell und die Geschlechterordnung (ja, die Geschlechtlichkeit selbst) infolgedessen vollständig sozial konstruiert.

Visuelle Medien – Bildillustrierte, Fotografien, Plakate oder Filme – waren nicht nur Ausdruck der tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Umbrüche und Konflikte nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, sondern agierten auch als deren Multiplikatorinnen.

In historischen, anthropologischen, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Essays nähern sich 39 Autorinnen und Autoren dem östlichen Europa an.

Über die Epochengrenzen hinweg werden in diesem Band am Beispiel des geistlichen Kurfürstentums Köln Auswirkungen der Spannungen und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Herrschaftsnorm und -praxis untersucht.

A New Yorker "e;Best Books of 2022"e; selectionNeed to Know is the most thorough and detailedhistory availableon the origins of U.

The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous campaign of World War II, climaxed in 1943, when Germany came closest to interrupting Allied supply lines and perhaps winning the war.

Scouts Out is the definitive account of German armored reconnaissance in World War II, essential for historians, armor buffs, collectors, modelers, and wargamers, and the first extensive treatment of the subject in English.

Visual history of the Allied battles for New Guinea during 1942-44.

General Douglas MacArthur was one of the most colorful, controversial, and image-conscious military figures of the twentieth century.

The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.

A visual history of the German soldier on the Eastern Front of World War II.

A visual history of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II

An engaging narrative of the small-unit actions near Sedan during the 1940 campaign for France.

Detailed history of the Tiger company of Nazi Germany's notorious "e;Death's Head"e; panzer division of the Waffen-SS.

Hundreds of photos of Tiger tanks in action.

Personal accounts of those taken prisoner during World War II.

Follows a legendary unit of American fighting men from D-Day through the end of World War II.

Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS.

Riveting accounts from the pilots who flew such planes as the F-15, B-52, C-130, and many more.

Visual history of the artillery used by both sides on the Eastern Front in World War II.

Gedenktage eröffnen immer wieder eine öffentlich-mediale Arena für die Neuverhandlung des Gedächtnisses.

Das Verhältnis von Öffentlichkeit und Privatsphäre ist in der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte seit ihren Anfängen ein wichtiges Thema.

Es liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass es für ›die Jugend‹ gerade in den frühen Nachkriegsjahren einen großen Bedarf an Sinn und Trost, an Religion und ›Religioidem‹ (Simmel) gegeben habe.

Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.

Photo chronicle of the German-Soviet campaign on the Eastern Front during its first brutal winter after Operation Barbarossa ground to a halt outside Moscow.

First major treatment of the 3rd Panzer Division in English.

Scores of unique photos of Tiger tanks.

Authoritative study of the battleship in World War II.

Battalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War II.

Detailed biographies of 5 panzer commanders.

*; Hundreds of photos--many of them rare--of Tiger tanks and their crews *; Color illustrations by Jean Restayn focus on markings, camouflage, and insignia *; Inventories and timelines for each unit In this follow-up to Tigers in Combat I (0-8117-3171-5), Wolfgang Schneider turns his attention to the Tiger tanks of the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmachts named units, such as the Grodeutschland Division, Company Hummel, and Tiger Group Meyer.

Continues Balkoski's acclaimed multivolume history of the U.

Myth-busting account of the summer of 1943 on the Eastern Front, one of World War II's turning points.