History: specific events and topics

Oberschlesien: Es gilt einen Brennpunkt der Geschichte des 20.

Mit dem Königreich Westphalen (1807-1813) wurde in Deutschland erstmals ein moderner Verfassungsstaat aufgebaut, der die Rechte des Monarchen und der Stände gesetzlich verankerte.

This fully illustrated history traces the Order of Canada from its establishment in 1967 to its place today as a national honour.

In the Balkans today Communism, with its dynamic drive for power and sense of mission, is charging against the Balkan peasant mass, a patient, religious, tradition-bound people tilling their beloved soil.

First published in 1937, The Green Edge of Asia is a vivid and intimate account of the life in the Far East.

Exhibiting a clear, straightforward style, his many works are marked by a comprehensiveness and a catholicity of view.

Sonne, Regen, Wind und Kälte gehören zu den elementaren Umgebungsbedingungen von Kultur.

Within the American antislavery movement, abolitionists were distinct from others in the movement in advocating, on the basis of moral principle, the immediate emancipation of slaves and equal rights for black people.

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From 1800 to 1922 the Irish Question was the most emotional and divisive issue in British politics.

From fairy tales and fiction to Tiktok, the specter of the witch has cast a long shadow over women and popular culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism comprehensively surveys the sub-disciplinary area of religious nationalism, an interaction between religion and nationalism.

Historical and systematic in its treatment, this work reviews the idea of progress in Western thought as it relates to civilization, in a more comprehensive survey than is to be found in previous writings on the subject.

Appalachian women have been the subject of song, story, and report for nearly two centuries.

Life in Canada is shaped by the seasons - marked, celebrated, enjoyed, and sometimes dreaded in ways that respond directly to the changing cycles in nature.

Royal recognition in Canada is accorded through a variety of honours and awards, including the Royal Victorian Order, Medal, and Chain; Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Commendations; and Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Recognition Badges.

2016 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award - Shortlisted2015 Speaker's Book Award - ShortlistedExplore the history of tourism in the Nipissing Passageway, from Mattawa to Georgian Bay, beginning with Champlain's voyage in 1615.

Many books have been written about Appalachia, but few have voiced its concerns with the warmth and directness of this one.

A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter's Bay to the west of the town.

Maps for Family and Local History shows how three great land surveys can provide information on ancestral homes, as well as fascinating historical snapshots of specific areas.

Uncertain of their son's fate, his family leaped into action.

The Spanish Civil War, begun in July 1936, was a preliminary round of World War II.

Eine kleine Sensation anlässlich des 100.

Im Herbst 1956 besuchten BND-Mitarbeiter auf Einladung der CIA die USA.

Vor 150 Jahren, am 1.

The German Lied in the period preceding Mozart is less well-known than that of the florescence under Schubert, Schumann and Wolf.

Die Absicht der Autorin ist es nicht, die Geschichte der revolutionaren Bewegungen zu schreiben, die in der ersten Halfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts stattfanden und mit den Ausbruchen des Jahres 1848 endeten, sondern deren Zusammenhang mit der umfassenderen allmahlichen Umwalzung zu beleuchten, die das wesentlich agrarische Deutschland in ein wesentlich industrielles verwandelte, was zugleich eine Verwandlung der Weltanschauung bedeutete.

Born in Tennessee in 1841, George L.

Este libro es un tejido de relatos biograficos de diez lideres y lideresas de Buenaventura (Colombia).

Kann man Hitlers Weltanschauung durch die Lektüre von "Mein Kampf" auf die Spur kommen?

The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage.

Autrefois, la waide, ou pastel, était au cœur de la richesse de la Picardie et du sud-ouest de la France, offrant un bleu profond qui embellissait les étoffes recherchées à travers toute l’Europe.

Das Erlebnis einer Reise hinterlässt Spuren, beim Reisenden wie auch bei der Gesellschaft, in die er zurückkehrt.

'For the reader who knows little about whisky, this is a book that will easily and enjoyably fill that gap.

Desde la caída de los regímenes comunistas, Washington ha expandido su influencia sobre la mayor parte de los antiguos países comunistas – desde el Báltico por Europa Oriental a los Balcanes y más allá al Asia Central y Meridional, mediante guerras, invasiones y operaciones encubiertas.

What makes our portable, networked personal media devices - smartphones, tablets, smartwatches - so irresistible?

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

La celebracion del Bicentenario de nuestra Independencia tuvo para Quito una especial significacion y convoco la remembranza, recuperacion y revision de toda una antigua memoria colectiva, en busca de entender, desde las realidades de hoy, la dimension admirable de esas luchas, la riqueza de ideas que se gesto alrededor de ellas y el proceso general de constitucion del Estado Nacional ecuatoriano, que arranco en medio del fuego y la sangre de aquellos combates.

This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "e;Global Anglophone"e; in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.

This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney.

Esta obra pertenece a la colección Tierra Incógnita.

This book is the second in a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region in southern China from the Song Dynasty to the modern era.

This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes from 1843 in response to these crises.

This book is the second in a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region in southern China from the Song Dynasty to the modern era.

Berthold Auerbach, heute fast vergessen, war einer der meistgelesenen Autor*innen in der Mitte des 19.

La aventura de vivir es un relato íntimo de un misionero cuya vida ha sido sanar.