History

Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning.

One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, FernUniversität Hagen (Kulturwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Darstellungen der Germanen in den antiken Werken "Commentarii De Bello Gallico" von Gaius Julius Caesar und "Germania" von Publius Cornelius Tacitus haben das kollektive Bild der Germanen nachhaltig geprägt.

This study of a newly independent and developing country describes the environment the foreign investor may expect to find if he ventures into Nigeria.

The tumultuous North Carolina Senate primaries of 1950 are still viewed as the most bitter chapter in the states modern political history.

It is well documented that relations between the Allies and the Soviet Union were deteriorating from 1943.

Hibbard begins by setting court Catholicism in the context of English court alignments on domestic and foreign policy.

Soloway examines the origins of the modern birth control movement in England in the wider context of the dramatic decline in fertility that first became apparent in the 1880s.

This book constructs the model of economic development implicit in the historical experience of the Soviet Union, and the agricultural, industrial, and social strategies followed are shown to fit into a logical and coherent pattern.

Innovation began before writing and before cities.

This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document of singular importance to the study of the Civil War.

This book explores the complex socio-cultural histories of the rivers of West Bengal in India.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, Note: 1.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Digitalgeschichte in Lateinamerika, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit soll untersuchen, wie der Wechsel zwischen Militärdiktaturen und Demokratiephasen die Digitalisierung in Argentinien beeinflusste und ob sich die verschiedenen politischen Phasen eher hindernd oder fördernd auf die Computerisierung auswirkten.

In order to systematize regional studies, the authors view the southern United States as an integrated system of economic, political, social, and educational institutions.

Here for the first time in one handy volume are the statistics, presented in 304 tables, of the general election returns that show the vote in each of the hundred counties for the president of the United States, 1868-1960, the governor of North Carolina, 1868-1960, and the United States senator from North Carolina, 1914-1960.

Commander of the French Third Army at the Battle of the Marne, commander of the Allied Eastern Army in 1916-17, and high commissioner to Syria and Lebanon in 1924-25, Sarrail was one of the most controversial figures of the Third French Republic because of his deep involvement with domestic politics.

This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century.

In this prodigiously researched study, the author concentrates on the reaction to the trials by various segments of the American public largely in terms of the legality of the tribunal, the composition of the court, the justice of the verdicts, and the implications for the future.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Asien, FernUniversitat Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ziel der Erschaffung eines neuen Menschen kostete in weniger als vier Jahren durch Hunger, Zwangsarbeit und Hinrichtungen einem Viertel der Bevolkerung das Leben.

The division of the late Roman Empire into two theoretically cooperating parts by the brothers Valentinian and Valens in 364 deeply influenced many aspects of government in each of the divisions.

Eberhardt (1758-1839) was master clockmaker in Salem for more than thirty-eight years.

The first work to draw on Nelson A.

During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Wie organisiert man eine Stadt?

James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation.

This incisive book traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village.

The Fascist regime under Mussolini regarded its youth as its best hope for the future.

In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe.

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters.

This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time.

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry.

In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg's explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.

Powerful Frequencies details the central role that radio technology and broadcasting played in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola.

Powerful Frequencies details the central role that radio technology and broadcasting played in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola.

In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg's explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.

This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution.

Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution.

Despite its important role in the early years of the Civil War, the Army of the Ohio remains one of the least studied of all Union commands.

Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South farm laborers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations and those on relief.

The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carters presidency.

In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of dance as an art of and from America.

Malinowski presents in this book his definitive statement of the theory of functionalism.

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century.

The Richmond campaign of AprilJuly 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War.

Although Angelina and Sarah Grimk have been regarded as equally gifted and involved abolitionists and nineteenth-century womens rights advocates, this first biography of Angelina clearly shows that she, indeed, was the outstanding leader, as her contemporaries recognized.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Europa, Note: 1,0, FernUniversität Hagen (Historisches Institut - Geschichte der Europäischen Moderne), Veranstaltung: Erfahrungsgeschichte und Erinnerungskultur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Kontext des Kriegsgefangenenwesens im Zweiten Weltkrieg taucht immer wieder die Frage nach Widerstand auf.

In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state.

Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 to 1850, decades before the end of slavery on the island.