Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1,7, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), course: Leadership.
Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch is a captivating historical novel that delves into the life of Hetty Wesley, sister to the renowned Methodist leader John Wesley.
Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women's networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century.
The Silent Guns of Two Octobers uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible-craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about.
The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause celebre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: the 1659 investigation and prosecution of Gironima Spana and dozens of Roman widows, who shared a particularly effective poison to murder their husbands.
Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women's networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century.
A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion.
This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an "e;inability to mourn,"e; arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect.
Bringing together 46 original contributions from a broad range of international scholars, this comprehensive volume maps the key debates, histories, concepts, and practices that shape animation studies today.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject History of Europe - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 1,5, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (History Department), course: Politics and Political Culture in Norman and Angevin England, language: English, abstract: The problems arising from both the term "e;politics"e; and the term "e;ritual"e; is that they are essentially modern concepts, at least in the sense in which we use them today.
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject History of Europe - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: keine, , language: English, abstract: It is a historical fact that the two armies - Turkish and Serbian - clashed near the village Cernomen (Chirmen, Chernomen, Chermanon) at the River Marica (Maric, Ebros, Hebros) on Friday the 26th, September 1371, and that a slaughter beyond description took place.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject History - Australia, Oceania, grade: A, La Trobe University Melbourne (Faculty of Humanities and Social Science), course: Outwest and Downunder, language: English, abstract: In my essay I argue about the question if the bush in rural Australia in the 19th century is barbarising its settlers.
Under dispute examines the interplay between historical legacy, cultural belief, and the shaping of American character through a series of essays that critique, reflect, and illuminate.
A Bewitching Place: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford is the official guide to The Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the authors home, literary legacy, and life story.
The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause celebre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: the 1659 investigation and prosecution of Gironima Spana and dozens of Roman widows, who shared a particularly effective poison to murder their husbands.
The Silent Guns of Two Octobers uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible-craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about.
Connecticut Curiosities, 3rd Editionis part of a GPP homegrown series of state-specific books that describe, with humor and affectionand a healthy dose of attitudethe oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state's borders and in the chronicles of its history.
A Bewitching Place: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford is the official guide to The Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the authors home, literary legacy, and life story.
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the game's early development led by Eric Dunning, Graham Curry, Tony Collins, and Adrian Harvey.
In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland.
Utah offers a paradox in women's historya state founded by polygamists who offered women early suffrage and encouraged career education in the nineteenth century.
Americans are not shy about letting politicians know what's on their minds, and, in Harry Truman, they believed that they had a president they could level with.
The definitive collection of Georgia's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Georgia residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
