In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism.
Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations of Women examines the heritage messages presented by statuary monuments, focusing on statues and monuments of women and exploring the challenges involved in depicting the key role played by women across different societies.
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past.
During the reigns of these two dynasties, Egypt witnessed a complete renaissance in all aspects of economic and social life, and enjoyed a great deal of stability.
Carlos III (1716-1788) es el representante más destacado del "Grand Tour", compendio de la alta cultura europea del Siglo de las Luces, según lo atestigua su viaje a Italia, en 1731, para hacerse cargo del ducado de Parma, ser proclamado en Florencia príncipe heredero de Toscana y hacer una entrada apoteósica en Roma después de fundar el reino de las Dos Sicilias, donde patrocinará las excavaciones de Herculano y Pompeya poniendo así las bases a la arqueología científica y al gusto neoclásico que imperará en la Europa de finales del siglo XVIII y buena parte del XIX.
Good Trouble will show the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland - specifically the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history, based on numerous interviews of events leading up to both marches and afterwards.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Geschichte, Note: 2,0, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Veranstaltung: Historisches Lernen ist mehr, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob das historische Lernen in der Grundschule möglich ist und ob Kinder in diesem Alter bereits die hierfür nötigen Lernvoraussetzungen mitbringen.
One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation.
Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students.
The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 allows students to understand and experience one of the greatest medieval atrocities, the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire.
Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War.
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.
Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy.
In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change.
For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation.
In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community quite as well as Coors beer.
Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression.
Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population.
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum Americas notorious filibusters the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace.
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labors fortunes in the twentieth century.
In this cultural history of the origins of the Cold War, John Fousek argues boldly that American nationalism provided the ideological glue for the broad public consensus that supported U.
Through the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys-Williams, a Congregationalist pastor turned labor organiser and journalist, offers readers a first-hand account of the exciting and confusing events of the Russian revolution from June 1917 to August 1918.