A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are.
Ein Meilenstein der Widerstandsliteratur – erstmals auf DeutschMarek Edelman war einer der bekanntesten Untergrundaktivisten im Warschauer Ghetto, sein Bericht Das Ghetto kämpft über den Aufstand im April 1943 ist ein Klassiker der Widerstandsliteratur.
Desde el siglo xviii hasta el siglo xx, la Región de Murcia ha sido destino de algunos emigrantes calificados que llegaron a la región desde otras partes de Europa: ingenieros que trabajaron en la minería o en la construcción de infraestructuras, comerciantes, músicos… Aunque no se trata de un número elevado, en su mayoría, estos individuos y sus familias han tenido un impacto notable sobre las poblaciones murcianas donde se asentaron.
In dieser ebenso fundierten wie erschütternden Darstellung gelingt es Laurence Rees, dem Leser die unfaßbaren Geschehnisse des Holocaust nachvollziehbar vor Augen zu führen – mit einem beunruhigenden Fazit: Der Holocaust ist kein düsterer Alptraum, kein singulärer Exzeß, sondern Ergebnis der menschlichen Veranlagung.
"e;Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver"e; is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer.
Dieses eBook: "Die Hallig - Die Schiffbrüchigen auf dem Eiland in der Nordsee" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Dieses Buch stellt jene beiden Protagonisten, Mussolini und Hitler, in den Mittelpunkt, denen es im Gegensatz zu ihren Epigonentatsächlich gelang, ein faschistisches Herrschaftssystem auf lange Zeit in Europa zu etablieren.
This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront a room of her own where she can spend time writing, liberated from her domestic responsibilities in London.
El presente texto abarca la historia del cacao y el chocolate en la actual Colombia, con la finalidad de reconocer su impacto entre personas de todas las condiciones sociales y económicas; el objetivo general para la presente investigación es: Analizar la historia del suministro y consumo del cacao y el chocolate en el territorio de la actual Colombia, para examinar las problemáticas y costumbres que se dieron en torno a este alimento entre los diferentes sectores sociales.
The volume by a team of authors offers entirely new perspectives on topics that have hitherto been reflected only marginally in the study of noble elites.
History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, insurrections of slaves, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, together with a history of the southern confederacy.
"e;Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave"e; is a self-published autobiography by an American abolitionist and former slave, Henry Walton Bibb.
Old Mortality was a Scottish stonemason of the 18th century, who late in life decided to travel around Scotland re-engraving the tombs of 17th century Covenanter martyrs.
"e;The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament "e; contains a unique contemporary account of the abolition movement in the Great Britain from one of its major leaders, Thomas Clarkson.
Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, (1859 - 1881) was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21.
From the Introduction:"e;The reader of the following pages, having already seen what has induced me to come forward with an historical account of the Indians, after so many have written on the same subject, will perhaps look for something more extraordinary in this than in other works of the kind which he has seen.