History: specific events and topics

The volume explores the role religion had in charity and philanthropy in the long nineteenth-century.

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India.

Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore's history as a multi ethnic maritime trading center.

Der römische Senat, einst als bescheidener Rat der Ältesten gegründet, entwickelte sich über die Jahrhunderte zu einer der mächtigsten Institutionen der antiken Welt.

This concise biography tells the story of John Dewey, a pioneer of pragmatism and the first original school of philosophy created in America.

Soviet Russia Fights Neurosis (1934) examines the states of mental well-being in the Soviet Union at the start of the 1930s.

What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras?

Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.

The Geography of the Port of London (1957) deals with the mid-century functions of the port studied in relation to their physical setting and in the light of their historical development.

In the book "Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity", published by Tirs Publishing and Distribution HouseGary Cross explores the cultural shift that has led to prolonged adolescence in modern American males, analyzing its implications and origins.

During the Holocaust, Polish bystanders were witnesses not only to Nazi crimes but also to their own collective violence toward Jewish neighbors.

During the Nazi regime, people were primarily evaluated based on their economic utility to the "e;national community.

Konstantin XI.

This volume brings together a diverse range of contributors to explore the significance of intersectionality and transnationalism, with reference to the history of education.

This volume brings together a diverse range of contributors to explore the significance of intersectionality and transnationalism, with reference to the history of education.

This book analyzes the legacy of the first Trump administration on a variety of different fronts.

Wie gelangte in die Medien, was diese schließlich druckten oder sendeten?

This book analyzes the legacy of the first Trump administration on a variety of different fronts.

What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe?

Leo Stein was born in 1922 in the German town of Pforzheim.

Imperial steam explores the early history of steamship travel to Britain's imperial East.

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death.

Trotz der Omnipräsenz von Konflikten gilt stets der Anspruch, sie zu vermeiden.

En 1960, el criminal nazi Adolf Eichmann, uno de los arquitectos de la "Solución final" que dio origen al plan del exterminio en masa del pueblo judío, fue descubierto en Argentina y llevado a Israel para ser enjuiciado.

Die Russische Föderation ist ein Land der Gegensätze, in dem über 160 ethnische Gruppen leben und mehr als 100 Sprachen gesprochen werden.

The account of American soldier Ernest Focht, who spent 27 months as a POW during World War II.

The volume on a standard amp goes to 10.

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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Unter dem Joch" verfügbar.

It is troubling how often we cease to be amazed at the transforming power of God in people's lives.

Can you have a strong personality and still be a godly wife?

Was einmal als Wettlauf um die Moderne tituliert worden ist – die Rivalitäten der beiden Aufsteigernationen an der vorigen Jahrhundertwende, Amerika und Deutschland –, gehört zu den spannendsten Gründungsgeschichten unserer Zeit.

'This isn't just any Scotch bar.

From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama.

Christiane Kruse stellt in diesem Buch fünfzig mutige Frauen aus verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Schichten vor, die sich unter Lebensgefahr in Untergrundorganisationen engagierten, Verfolgte versteckten oder ihnen zur Flucht verhalfen, Flugblätter verteilten oder Treffpunkte organisierten.

A brilliant polymath and part of the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Thomas Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture.

In the 12th century, under its Norman rulers, Sicily stood as one of the most flourishing regions of the Mediterranean; by the late 15th century it had sunk into the state of semi-colonial depression and dependence that has chartacterized so much of its modern history.

Amidst the turmoil of religious wars and political discord, Henry IV rose from a Protestant prince in Navarre to become one of Europe's most iconic monarchs.

Papst Alexander VII.

Ike Alterman was born in 1928 in Ozarow in Poland.

A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture.

The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.