Salvage from the Sea (1977) offers a fascinating insight into the interesting but complex and highly specialised profession of marine salvage and its associated disciplines.
First published in 1985, The European Crisis of the 1590s (now with a new preface by Peter Clark on the current literature on crisis and catastrophe) investigates in depth for the first time the origin and scale of the critical problems of the 1590s and their impact on European society.
Ubiystvo Mikhoyelsa i razgrom Yevreyskogo antifashistskogo komiteta, moskovskaya kadentsiya Goldy Meir i metaniya oblassannogo Kremlem Il'i Erenburga, bor'ba s bezrodnymi kosmopolitami i «Delo vrachey», yudofobskiye «khozyaystvennyye» protsessy nachala 1960-kh i vsplyesk natsional'nogo samosoznaniya posle Shestidnevnoy voyny, antisemitskiye narrativy v sovetskoy propagande i deyatel'nost' servil'nogo Antisionistskogo komiteta — vsyo eto stalo predmetom rassmotreniya knigi.
En estas paginas (tomadas del libro Pasajeros de Indias, publicado por el FCE en 1999) se muestran las caracteristicas de los navios y las peripecias y tribulaciones que representaban los viajes trasatlanticos de Europa a America en el siglo XVI.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
Alexander McKee and Simon Girty were colonial British Indian agents who preferred to remain loyal to the government which had long employed them when the colonies decided to sever connections with the motherland.
This book compares the school image of the wartime past of the Falange and the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR), created during the turbulent first decade of Francoism in Spain and Communism in Poland.
Loyalty during Peril In the heart of war-torn France, Isabelle Seauve's resolve is tested after her father sacrifices his life to protect her involvement in the French Resistance.
The well-known story of the Beothuk is that they were an isolated people who, through conflict with Newfoundland settlers and Mi'kmaq, were made extinct in 1829.
Entre totes les vergonyes de l'horror nazi, n'hi ha una que ha passat força desapercebuda: la «concentració» d'alemanys d'origen jueu en les anomenades judenhaus, abans de les deportacions massives.
Originally published in 1932, A History of the Public Library Movement in Great Britain and Ireland is concerned with the rise and progress of the public library as it stood at that time.
Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class - especially discussion of the working class - to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate.
Die Gründung Ludwigsburgs war weit mehr als nur der Bau einer neuen Stadt – sie war das ambitionierte Projekt eines visionären Herzogs, der seine Macht und seinen Einfluss in Stein und Marmor manifestieren wollte.
Bringing together contributions from social, political, and urban historians, this collection examines social movements in Western European cities from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Für die Entwicklung einer administrativen Entschädigungspraxis der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Deutschland waren Papierdokumente von zentraler Bedeutung.
Die vielfältigen Begleiterscheinungen von Klimawandel und Artensterben werden geologisch mit dem Anbruch eines neuen Erdzeitalters, dem Anthropozän, identifiziert.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Meeresriffe – die "Regenwälder der Meere", in denen sich biologische Vielfalt, geologische Pracht und ökologische Bedeutung vereinen.
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts.
1952 was one of the most important years in Mercedes-Benz racing history; after a 13-year absence, the marque returned to motor sport competition with an automobile that rewrote the history of modern sports car racing.
Originally published in 1962, the title of this book is taken from Genesis and is an allusion to the establishment of a Jewish National State as the successful termination of long centuries of exile.
First published in 1982, Worldwide Family History is an essential reference and guide for the professional genealogist and the interested amateur alike.
Perpetrators of genocidal violence have regularly orchestrated propaganda campaigns using newspapers, radio, televisions, the internet, and other means to justify mass killings.
