La Plena Edad Media constituye el periodo de mayor actividad bélica de la historia peninsular, un periodo infausto y épico a partes iguales en el que cristaliza el empuje de los reinos cristianos y la expansión feudal frente al menguante poder musulmán, al que, sin embargo, insuflará nuevos bríos la irrupción de los imperios norteafricanos de almorávides y almohades y su renovación de la yihad.
This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.
Boasting countless benefits and applications, hand made felt is a chunky,durable and non-fraying fabric that can be used for fashion and home projects.
Im Winter 1945 muss der 12-jährige Ich-Erzähler Karl Kroll zusammen mit Mutter, Großmutter und kleiner Schwester seine Heimatstadt im Sudetenland verlassen.
*; Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America*; Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time*; Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest DestinyWhile Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North Americaor Turtle Islandstretch back millennia.
The history of Mediaeval Europe is so vast a subject that the attempt to deal with it in a small compass must entail either severe compression or what may appear at first sight reckless omission.
The Middle Ages is described by Hallam himself as a series of historical dissertations, a comprehensive survey of the chief circumstances that can interest a philosophical inquirer during the period from the 5th to the 15th century.
The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide series expands on the pro-South slant of the hugely successful Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
Enduring Entanglements: The Third Reich's Insidious Impact on America is the first comprehensive resource edition that examines the myriad of ways the Third Reich has impacted the United States from Nazi Germany's origins to the present.
'Absorbing' - The Guardian'Illuminating' - Vogue'Fascinating' - Pandora SykesIn Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies).
The present translation of the Iliad will, it is hoped, be found to convey, more accurately than any which has preceded it, the words and thoughts of the original.
Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps with a new introduction from Sir Ivor Crewe covering Brexit blunder /blnd(r)/, n.
Life on the Old Farm takes you back to a time, not so long ago, when country life in Britain followed a pattern that had remained largely unchanged for centuries.
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Scottish is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Scotland a country worth celebrating every day of the year.
"e;Perhaps it is a cliche that a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman of the next generation, yet my grandfather found merit in the maxim.
Investigadores y cientistas sociales buscan comprender en esta obra las construcciones de sentidos sociales del espacio denominado Araucanía-Norpatagonia, desde una mirada que asume la pluralidad del territorio y de las subjetividades tanto en la Patagonia argentina como en la chilena.
In 'Imperial Germany & the Industrial Revolution' by Thorstein Veblen, the author delves into the economic and social changes brought about by industrialization in Germany during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Daniel Defoe's 'The History of the Pirates' is a gripping and detailed account of the ruthless world of pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
James Fenimore Cooper's 'Littlepage Manuscripts: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer & The Redskins (Complete Edition)' is a compelling collection of three novels that delve into the complexities of American society and the impact of historical events on individual lives.
In Hermann Löns Buch 'Dahinten in der Heide' taucht der Leser in die malerische Landschaft der norddeutschen Heide ein, während er die Geschichte von jungen Liebenden verfolgt, die gegen gesellschaftliche Konventionen kämpfen.
Max Havelaar, geschrieben von dem renommierten Autoren Multatuli, ist ein bahnbrechender historischer Roman, der die Brutalität der Kolonialherrschaft in Niederländisch-Ostindien enthüllt.
Das Buch 'Königs-Eigen' von Kapitän Frederick Marryat ist ein klassischer Abenteuerroman, der die Geschichte von Kapitän Merton und seiner Mannschaft erzählt, die auf der Suche nach einem sagenumwobenen Schatz sind.
In 'Einiges aus der Geschichte der Astronomie im Alterthum' präsentiert Friedrich Blass eine umfassende Untersuchung der Entwicklung der Astronomie im antiken Griechenland.
Alexandre Dumas' Werk "Joseph Balsamo" ist ein faszinierender historischer Roman, der von Intrigen, Rache und geheimen Machenschaften im Frankreich des 18.
In 'Vom Wunder des Lebens' von Gertrud Prellwitz taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, die sich mit den verschiedenen Facetten des Lebens befasst.
