In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth.
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.
In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth.
The Girl who Killed a Nation is a fast-paced tale that is deeply reflective, readable and down to earth, and will draw in lovers of travel, history, and personal memoir.
Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors every year, but this jewel of America's parks has seen more than its fair share of deaths among its tourists.
The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme - especially the military programme - from the Second World War through to the present day.
Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God.
In 1532, James V instituted the College of Justice, an incorporated group of expert lawyers and administrators who were to exercise supreme Scottish civil jurisdiction.
From Palaces to Forced Labor - Part 1 of the Journey of the Children of IsraelHow did the children of Jacob go from honored guests in the palaces of Egypt to slaves dragged in chains and whipped in the land of forced labor?
This is not merely a history of the beverage industry; it is a fascinating anthropological and historical study that delves into the collective consciousness of 20th-century Egypt.
Dieses Buch untersucht, wie weibliche Forscherinnen das Wissenschaftsfeld in entscheidenden Momenten pragten - und wie ihre Arbeit systematisch in den Schatten mannlicher Kollegen ruckte.
This book explores the relationship between the justice system and local society at a time when the Industrial Revolution was changing the characteristics of mid Wales.
For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation 'past is prologue' reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past.
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 71 = A, Oxford Brookes University, course: The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933-1945, language: English, abstract: Free from any apologetic or debunking fuss, the essay depicts the complex relationship between the Nazi state and the Catholic and Protestant Churches during the Third Reich.
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping.
Jovinian: A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by William Henry Giles Kingston transports readers to the heart of ancient Rome in this captivating historical fiction.
An intimate, revelatory family biography of the iconic writer Daphne du Maurier and her famous ancestors, by her eldest grandson'As compelling as any du Maurier mystery - an extraordinary family saga wonderfully told' GYLES BRANDRETH'Packed to the rafters with delicious details' FRANCES WILSON, SPECTATOR'Daphne du Maurier's many fans will eagerly lap [this book] up .
History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XI by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.
After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939.
Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality.
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.
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This book provides an analysis of the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century.
How does a heartwarming, charitable public relations stunt designed to break a harmless world record end up completely paralyzing a major American city, shutting down an international airport, and thwarting a deadly Coast Guard rescue mission?
After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939.
Gangsters, aviators, hard-boiled detectives, gunslingers, jazz and images of the American metropolis were all an inextricable part of the cultural landscape of interwar France.
