History

Oil palms are ubiquitousgrown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Professur für historische Grundwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inwieweit belegen die Inschriften in Akkon die Aktivitäten christlicher Orden, insbesondere des Johanniterordens, in der Stadt?

In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves.

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army.

The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale.

In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible.

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence.

Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (19202006), who would become one of the American Souths most prolific and storied writers.

During the violent years of war marking Cubas final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban migrs, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico.

The immigration station at New Yorks Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.

Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks.

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion.

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever.

In his 1903 hit Congo Love Song, James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans.

In this interdisciplinary work, William L.

In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands.

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power.

This comprehensive study of Chinas Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the worlds most controversial chemical pesticides.

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What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice systems liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion?

The Casablanca Connection examines France’s colonial policy in Morocco from the Popular Front to the end of the Vichy regime in North Africa, relating it to overall French imperial policy and placing it in a European and world context.

In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnsons refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.

News Making examines how people in Curacao and Sint Maarten turn events into stories that shape public life.

In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the islands landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation.

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are Americas most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death.

The years following World War I in Germany saw the simultaneous emergence of radio as a public medium entering the private sphere of the home and the large-scale emergence of women entering the public sphere of politics and production.

The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans.

Vividly recasting Cubas politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull.

This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens.

Originally published in 1977 this book describes a period which is a watershed in Irish history.

This book traces the history of the development of science and religion as pillars of our society and why there is perceived conflict between them.

This volume presents up-to-date insights into the ethical theories of Aristotle's followers, beginning with his colleagues Theophrastus and Eudemus and covering a broad range of figures, topics and applications up to the Imperial Roman period.

Offering a comprehensive view of the Souths literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the regions ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon.

In this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

At the time of his death, Ulysses S.

During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America.

Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy?

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them.

The announcement in December 1942 by the Polish government-in-exile that the Germans were attempting to exterminate all Jews in Poland came after much information had reached the West through other sources.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin, Veranstaltung: Theorie, Methode und Geschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit geht es um den amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg und der Frage ob die Überwindung der Konflikte als Grundstein für die Entstehung der heutigen Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.

As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte unter Einbeziehung der Landesgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Hexenverfolgungen im Hochstift Bamberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hexenverfolgungen stellen ein erschreckendes Kapitel der europäischen Geschichte dar, in dem Angst, Aberglaube und Misstrauen zu einer beispiellosen Welle von Gewalt führten.

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject History of Europe - Ages of World Wars, grade: 1 (A), University of Birmingham (Centre for Russian and East European Studies), course: Soviet Social and Economic History, language: English, abstract: This essay outlines the development of Stalin's policies on Soviet ethnic and national groups.

By tracing the complex relationship between the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan business elite, this book examines the shifting mix of alliances and oppositions that shaped the Sandinista revolution.

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Cubas infamous coolie trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores.

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility.

During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots.