The Visayas: The Heart of the Philippines is a work of narrative nonfiction that moves through seventeen distinct places in the Philippine Visayas — six major islands and a constellation of smaller ones — in search of what this long-overlooked region is and what it has been.
The Silver Star-awarded marine chronicles his service in Iraq in this "e;transcendent memoir of military service and its personal consequences"e; (Ralph Peters, Lt.
Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14.
For five hundred years the Roman Empire was the largest, richest, most durable state the western world had ever seen — a machine of roads and legions and law that ran from the moors of Britain to the sands of Arabia.
The purpose of this book is to evaluate the current international order and its efficiency and ability to achieve and maintain peace and justice through the philosophical debate on the foundation theories of state and order.
The purpose of this book is to evaluate the current international order and its efficiency and ability to achieve and maintain peace and justice through the philosophical debate on the foundation theories of state and order.
At one minute past midnight on January 17, 1920, the United States did something no modern nation had ever tried: it abolished its own liquor trade by constitutional amendment.
This book sets forth the historical lines from primitive society, through slave society, feudal society and capitalist society, to socialist society, and from Stone Age to information era with brief words and colorful images, and also clarifies the evolution from the relative isolation to close connection between countries in different parts in the world.
This book sets forth the historical lines from primitive society, through slave society, feudal society and capitalist society, to socialist society, and from Stone Age to information era with brief words and colorful images, and also clarifies the evolution from the relative isolation to close connection between countries in different parts in the world.
There are few moments in life more sacred, more sobering, and more significant than when we gather to say farewell to someone who has crossed the threshold from time into eternity.
Silverwhiteis a captivating exploration of theeastern Baltic nations earliest history andinteractions with peoples of the Mediterraneanand the Near East.
Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures.
The final volume of the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, situates the Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist's most contentious works within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century crises, including the revolutions of 1848, the Irish potato famine, and debates over slavery in the United States.
The Age of the Pyramids explores the extraordinary rise of Egypt's Old Kingdom, when divine kings, master builders, priests, officials, and skilled workers transformed the Nile Valley into the world's first great monument-building civilization.
"e;Through well-informed and nuanced readings of key documents from the fourth through fourteenth centuries, this book challenges historians' long-held beliefs about how concepts of Greco-Roman theater survived the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages, and contributed to the dramatic triumphs of the Renaissance.
Exploring neglected and misinterpreted aspects of a pivotal point in the Civil WarMilitary operations in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were a significant part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, but they have been overshadowed by what occurred in the wilderness of Spotsylvania County, where Robert E.
According to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israeli state for moral reasonsto atone for its Nazi pastbut did not play a significant role in the ArabIsraeli conflict.
The Routledge International Handbook on the Histories of Sociology starts from a simple but powerful conviction: there is not one history of sociology, but a multitude of histories written in different parts of the world, from diverse standpoints, and through different theoretical and methodological lenses.
In August 1918, eight thousand American soldiers arrived at the Russian port of Vladivostok with orders that simultaneously authorised their deployment and prohibited almost everything a soldier normally does.
