Pocos viajes de exploracion han sido tan decisivos para el pensamiento moderno como el que hizo un veinteanero Charles Darwin en el Beagle al mando del capitan Fitzroy, entre 1832 y 1836.
This concise book follows the journey of this quintessentially great British invention, often thought never worthy of a picture, and celebrates the mundane with its fascinating history, aided by unique pictures rarely seen before.
Southend-on-Sea is situated on the Thames Estuary but the originally small settlement grew rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as it became a popular resort, showcased by the world's longest pleasure pier and what remains of the Kursaal, an early amusement park.
Das Buch "e;Eine Weltmacht im Untergang"e; behandelt den schleichenden, aber unaufhaltsamen Prozess, der letztendlich zum Zusammenbruch des groten Reiches der Antike fuhrte.
Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "e;technological life.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, photographer Allan Hailstone took a number of trips to France, Spain, Gibraltar, Germany (including Berlin), Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Malta, Italy and Denmark to capture the world on the UK's doorstep with his camera.
Het is een mistige dag op het strand en Barbie's vriendinnen, Teresa en Nikki, zijn aan het hardlopen, terwijl Barbie thuis haar zusje helpt met het repareren van een fietsketting.
An engrossing collection of unforgettable stories from the rich oral tradition of Ireland Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland.
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss.
Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler's book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts.
In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist.
This edited collection of biographical and autobiographical essays chronicles the transformative journeys of Australian planners who, confronting unprecedented urban challenges in the late twentieth century, pioneered new concepts, methodologies, and approaches that fundamentally reshaped the trajectory of urban planning for the twenty-first century.
Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of previously unseen photos, this is the first history of the destroyers of the Cold War Soviet Navy, the heart of its surface fleet.
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular and largely unexamined idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it.
With a chronology that spans from 1500 to the present day, Interracial Intimacies centers relationships as a historical force in the making of the modern world, rethinking world history from the ground up, and illuminating how everyday relationships helped produce global hierarchies and how people shaped their own lives within them.
In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics.
Part of the Emerging Civil War Series, this history covers a crucial clash between the Blue and the Gray that impacted future Union tactics and victories.
In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822.
