History

Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox.

By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.

This is the account of a series of enterprises undertaken in Guatemala during the 1830s in an attempt to draw immigrants and capital from Europe to continue the subjugation of the vast unpeopled wastes.

This is the story of Governor Hodgess years in the statehouse, told in his own words.

The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed.

This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented.

This is the story of a revolution the factors influencing managements decision to sell, the extent of the sales, procedures followed in the various sales, psychological effects upon the worker, effects upon labor-management relations, the reaction of the union, and the changes in mill village life resulting from the sales.

The driving force in Chesnutts life was the wish to help his race.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Fruhgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2,7, Universitat Duisburg-Essen (Historisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Orakel in Delphi war von hoher Relevanz im archaischen Griechenland.

Although the varying attitudes toward the English crown and the order of English society were central to the differences between the loyalists and the militants, disagreements involved many questions other than political ones, including the role of the Jesuits in the English mission and the nature of church government.

In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law.

Turners work documents New Hampshires transition from colony to state, including the development of the state constitution, the contests between constantly mutating political parties, and the conquering of the New England wilderness.

The Conservatives won control of the Virginia state government in 1869 and goverened for ten years on a program of integrating their homeland into the structure of the contemporary United States by adopting Yankee institutions and ideas: industrial capitalism, American nationalsim, Gilded-Age political practices, and a system of race relations that made the Afro-American a free man and officially a citizen but not an equal.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe (Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Mensch und Umwelt im Mittelalter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle von Tiergeistern und Fabelwesen in den magischen und religiösen Vorstellungen des Mittelalters und deren Einfluss auf die damalige Gesellschaft.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen (Historisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit zielt darauf ab, den St.

Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets.

These essays pose new questions concerning the social and political origins of the Revolution in the South, the social disorder indiced by the war, and the impact of the conflict and its ideologies on blacks and women.

This analysis of the Kennedy administrations relationship with the press during the Laotian, Berlin, Cuban missile, and Vietnam crises of 1961-63 suggests that press coverage and Kennedys influence on the press were far more varied than scholars have supposed.

Baloyra argues that the deepening American involvement in what is basically a domestic conflict between Salvadorans has failed to eliminate the obstructionism and violence of the Originally published in 1982.

For more than one hundred years, Harvards use of the case method of appellate opinions dominated legal education.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neuzeit, Absolutismus, Industrialisierung, Note: 1,3, Universität Siegen (Philosophische Fakultät, Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Proseminar "Einführung in die Neuzeit", Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den sozialen Unterschieden zwischen der Arbeiterklasse und dem Bürgertum zur Zeit der Industrialisierung.

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Erster Weltkrieg, Weimarer Republik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Über die USPD und ihre Einflussnahme bzw.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Europa ab kaltem Krieg, Note: 1,3, Universität Osnabrück, Veranstaltung: Historisches Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Stalin-Note war und ist in der historischen Forschung vor allem im Hinblick auf die Ernsthaftigkeit bis heute umstritten.

Bonwick brings together related elements that have been treated separately on previous occasions English radicals as personalities, their relations with one another, their connections with Americans; the imperial controversy between England and the colonies; the movement for parliamentary reform in England; and the campaign for civil rights for Dissenters.

Fletcher explains how three writers Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japans dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement of 1940.

This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skillfully interprets this environment in terms of mid-eighteenth century culture.

In 1961, the U.

For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cubas historic ties to the Catholic church.

Botsch samples current attitudes of southern blue-collar workers, both black and white, toward work and race and questions whether these workers can overcome racial barriers to form a populist-style coalition aimed at improving their shared economic condition.

This first scholarly biography of Lowndes establishes his place in history, even though he was overshadowed by contemporaries John C.

Mitchell believes that the history of the French Third Republic remains incomplete until one understands the German impact on France after the Franco-Prossian War.

The late seventeenth century in America was important as an era of transition from rough settlement to established provincial life.

Although Germanys short-lived colonial empire (1884-1918) was neither large nor successful, it is historically significant.

In Germany, more than anywhere else, Darwinism was a sensational success.

Numerous letters and films were sent to his sister Julie in California via a coffee can to which he drew upon to write an account of his experiences.

In Prescription for Heterosexuality, Carolyn Herbst Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early Cold War years.

With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the womens rights movement.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Note: 1,7, Universitat Duisburg-Essen (Historisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Rolle von Papst Pius XII.

In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement.

This first work in English to focus on Constant as a political theorist shows that his thinking was molded by the French Revolution of 1789 and by Napoleons regime.

Disillusioned by communism as a young man, Wolfe devoted his life to the study and writing of Russian history.

This book is more than a case study of the Farm Security Administration.

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the states cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned by prominent planters and agrarians.

These institutions were founded ostensibly for philanthropic purposes to encourage and reward thrift on the part of societys lower classes.

German violation of Belgian neutrality escalated the 1914 hostilities into a world war, and disagreement about Belgiums future did much to block a compromise peace.

Integrating politics, economics, and law, Freedman traces the origin, development, and the role of joint-stock companies in France from the prerevolutionary Old Regime to the reorganization of the corporation under the legislation of 1867.

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era.

In this first full-length biography of Ferrari, Lovett traces his intellectual development in Milan and describes his twenty years of voluntary exile in Paris.

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.

The authors analyze the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the islands rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state.