History

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

Children of the Covenant: The Great Almanac traces the full arc of Jewish history and identity - from the Semitic and African origins of Abraham's world, through the Twelve Tribes, the Exodus, and the long centuries of diaspora across Babylon, Persia, Iberia, and beyond.

Frontier Living brings to light every significant aspect of daily life on the American frontier, with vivid text and more than 200 wonderful drawings.

What better locale to consider for spooky happenings than the home of the Salem witch trials?

Had Lieutenant George S.

Sefydlwyd Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant yn wreiddiol yn 1822 dan yr enw Coleg Dewi Sant, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, a dyma’r sefydliad colegol addysg uwch hynaf yng Nghymru.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt and J.

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History of Germany - World War I, Weimar Republic, grade: 1,7, University of Birmingham, language: English, abstract: Although it ended over a lifetime ago, the First World War is still present in the memory of today's British society.

History of the Indians, of North and South America by Samuel G.

This book assesses how policies developed by the National Assembly for Wales are affecting gender inequalities and investigates whether they are having an impact on social justice for women in Wales.

History of the War in Afghanistan Vol.

While the Marine Corps island-hopped across the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Saipan to Iwo Jima, the U.

At free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.

In June 1942, the U.

Few states can rival California in terms of natural beauty and exciting history.

Joffre And His Army by Charles Dawbarn is a captivating historical biography that delves into the strategic leadership of General Joffre during World War I.

This comprehensive study of Chalchiuhtlicue reveals how the jade-skirted goddess of lakes, rivers, and springs functioned not as mere consort to Tlaloc but as a powerful divine force central to Mesoamerican religious life for over two millennia.

This book assesses how policies developed by the National Assembly for Wales are affecting gender inequalities and investigates whether they are having an impact on social justice for women in Wales.

The Hohenzollerns in America: With The Bolsheviks In Berlin And Other Impossibilities by Stephen Leacock is a brilliant work of satirical historical fiction that blends humor, political commentary, and social critique.

Die Beitrage des Sammelbandes behandeln verschiedene Handlungsfelder Herzog Bogislaws X.

Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town, and this book examines how those events created new civic identities in the growing towns of nineteenth-century south Wales.

In current debates, the term cosmopolitanismA"e; often remains quite vague and leads to sweeping generalizations.

In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world.

This innovative collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history.

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations.

Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes (1916-77) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema.

Turkische Mythen und Legenden voller Zauber, Weisheit und Abenteuer: von Tengri und der grauen Wolfin Asena uber Dede Korkut, Koroglu und Sahmaran bis zu Nasreddin Hodscha, Rumi und den Sagen Istanbuls.

A grieving mother waded into the sea to drown herself, and rose from it as a goddess who saves the drowning.

Had Lieutenant George S.

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 1,00, University of Sussex, language: English, abstract: In order to explain the rise of National Socialism in interwar Germany, historians have proceeded from various assumptions.

In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope.

This is the first full-length study of Swansea's urban development from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.

In 1692, a raiding party burned York, Maine to the ground, killed the town's own minister at his front door, and marched eighty of its people into the Canadian wilderness.

The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't ';Paint It Black' or ';Yellow Submarine'--it was ';The Ballad of the Green Berets,' a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.

In June 1942, the U.

On the night of August 13, 1961, Berliners woke to find their city severed by barbed wire.

Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of lighting technology during the nineteenth century definitively altered the treatment of light as symbol, metaphor and textual motif.

Examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodriguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) and made famous by her dramatic demise when murdered by her mother.

Few states can rival California in terms of natural beauty and exciting history.

Celtic Wales is about the beginnings of Wales and how the period from the Iron Age to medieval times helped shape and define the modern nation of Wales.

Although the legends of Arthur have been popular throughout Europe from the middle ages onwards, the earliest references to Arthur are to be found in Welsh literature, starting with the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum which dates from the ninth century.

In the early 1970s the computer was a room-sized machine tended by specialists in white coats, something you fed punch cards and waited on.

From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XIX by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

A fresh examination of Pickett's Charge, drawing from numerous soldiers' accounts-includes maps and illustrations.

The history of the environmental movementfrom environmentalism of the nineteenth century to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth centuryhas often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists.

Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain, with the party unable to connect with voters.

The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by British author P.