History

A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Tar Heel State, It Happened in North Carolina describes everything from one of the first incidences of American resistance against British rule to acourageousmilestone in thecivil rights movement.

Connecticut's War Governor is a biography of Jonathan Trumbull, who was governor from 1769 to 1784.

Kiana: A Tradition of Hawaii by James Jackson Jarves is a captivating novel that immerses readers in the rich tapestry of Hawaiian culture and tradition.

At the turn of the twentieth century, St.

Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society.

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland.

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg.

This study presents a cultural rather than the usual history of the French invasion of Pembrokeshire in 1797, using primary sources both in English and Welsh to debate of how the invasion was remembered and assess its historical and cultural imprint.

From 1819 to COVID-19, 200 Years of American Financial Panics offers a comprehensive historical account of financial panics in America.

This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568-1638) in 1633.

For thirty years the war in Vietnam consumed everything it touched: a French empire, an American presidency and then another, three million Vietnamese lives by the highest estimates, and 58,220 American ones — along with America's certainty about itself.

In April 1846, tensions between the U.

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California.

Journal of a Tour in the Years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst Accompanying the Late Sir Humphry Davy by J.

With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a 'cognitive turn'.

The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well known to students of the Civil War.

This is the first scholarly study of Britain's oldest pilgrimage site in continuous use, St Winefride's Well.

This book explores the political life of Ibrahim Abdel Hadi, one of Egypt's most prominent statesmen during the first half of the twentieth century.

Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faiths future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand.

A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Tar Heel State, It Happened in North Carolina describes everything from one of the first incidences of American resistance against British rule to acourageousmilestone in thecivil rights movement.

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in this all-new addition to the best-selling Spooky series.

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 2,7, University of Sheffield, course: Decolonisation: Britains's retreat from empire, language: English, abstract: The Mau Mau rebellion in its causes and effects can hardly be made intelligible with a straightforward line of reasoning; in fact it seems to be more reasonable to apply a multicausal approach in order to consider all relevant aspects.

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

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty-eight creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Pennsylvania.

History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Jacob Abbott is a captivating historical biography delving into the life of one of ancient Egypt's most iconic figures.

Scientific Essay from the year 2004 in the subject History of Europe - Ages of World Wars, grade: keine, Cornell University Ithaca (NY) (History Departement), course: Interdisciplinary Conference: German Suffering / Deutsches Leid - (Re)presentations, language: English, abstract: In the 20th century no decisive event left its mark on the people of Central Europe as much as the time of the Second World War.

Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history.

German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 was equipped with the heaviest tank destroying vehicles of the German armed forces.

At the turn of the twentieth century, St.

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

The Crusaders of the First Crusade succeeded in establishing four Crusader strongholds in the Islamic Near East.

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales.

Connecticut's War Governor is a biography of Jonathan Trumbull, who was governor from 1769 to 1784.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: A, University of Otago ((New Zealand) Department of Anthropology), course: Labour and Society: Working Cultures, language: English, abstract: As the cartoon above suggests, workers all around the world are situated at the bottom of the power spectrum in the international economic world.

A History of Aeronautics Part I by W.

Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the ass's enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the Middle Ages and beyond.

A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, with a Return Down the Rhine, Vol.

Full of surprising stories, quirky facts and notorious individuals, this collection from the authors of Wales on This Day: 366 Facts You Probably Didn't Know is an informative and entertaining testament to women who have shaped Wales and the world.

If you want to see the whole of Wales, from cosmopolitan Cardiff in the south to the historic Victorian resorts of the north, there's one road that will take you all the way: the A470.

From 1819 to COVID-19, 200 Years of American Financial Panics offers a comprehensive historical account of financial panics in America.

The History of the Jews: From the War with Rome to the Present Time Part I by H.

This book relates to one of Wales's most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009.

This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain.

This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times.

The true, action-packed account of how a bogus Welsh nationalist infiltrated German Military Intelligence during the Second World War.

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, LUISS Guido Carli (Faculty of Political Science), course: Humanitarian Strategies and Non- Governmental Organisations, language: English, abstract: [.

In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other.

The History of David Grieve: BOOK IV MATURITY by Mrs.

At the turn of the twentieth century, students returning from abroad introduced Beethoven to China.