In this compelling, readable and revisionist book, historian Laura Bolick challenges the traditional argument that the Byzantine Empire's fate, in the final decades of the fifteenth century, was inevitable collapse.
Auch anhand von Zeitzeugenberichten, Dokumenten und zahlreichen Fotos kommt eine wenig bekannte, aber erstaunlich positive Seite der deutschen Einheit in den Blick.
Unter dem heute zu einem geflugelten Wort gewordenen Titel prasentiert uns der Verfasser ein von ausgedehnten Studien zeugendes Werk, das manche uns lieb gewordene Illusion zerstort.
Using the contents of BBC Scotland’s television archive pertaining to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, this book argues that television archive material is a powerful memory tool which shapes how we connect with the past.
Using the contents of BBC Scotland’s television archive pertaining to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, this book argues that television archive material is a powerful memory tool which shapes how we connect with the past.
While the Armenian Genocide has received significant international recognition, the related experiences of Greeks and Assyrians are largely unknown and overlooked.
Wie in anderen Ländern ist der Rechtsstaat in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland vielfältigen Vorwürfen ausgesetzt, denen das Lehrbuch durch Information und wissenschaftlicher Analyse begegnen will.
Wie in anderen Ländern ist der Rechtsstaat in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland vielfältigen Vorwürfen ausgesetzt, denen das Lehrbuch durch Information und wissenschaftlicher Analyse begegnen will.
Dieses Buch entfuhrt Sie in die faszinierende Welt der Theropoden - jener zweibeinig laufenden Dinosaurier, die uber Millionen von Jahren hinweg die Kontinente beherrschten.
This book examines patterns of national integration and the mobilisation of the peasantry across two historical regions, Central and Eastern Europe, over a long historical timeframe, spanning from the 1848 Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War.
This book presents the first comprehensive study of Mohammad Zahir Shah’s forty-year reign, uncovering how conservative governance sustained the longest period of political stability in modern Afghan history.
This book presents the first comprehensive study of Mohammad Zahir Shah’s forty-year reign, uncovering how conservative governance sustained the longest period of political stability in modern Afghan history.
Beginning with the premise that religious and non-religious identities were fluid, overlapping phenomena rather than static, binary conditions, this timely edited collection challenges the traditional notion that atheism was an acute intellectual innovation of Western modernity by rethinking its multifarious pre-modern manifestations and impact in Brazil, China, England, France, Italy, New England, Poland, Scotland, Spain, and Transylvania.
Beginning with the premise that religious and non-religious identities were fluid, overlapping phenomena rather than static, binary conditions, this timely edited collection challenges the traditional notion that atheism was an acute intellectual innovation of Western modernity by rethinking its multifarious pre-modern manifestations and impact in Brazil, China, England, France, Italy, New England, Poland, Scotland, Spain, and Transylvania.
In recent years, the study of human evolution has made substantial advances—from major fossil and archaeological discoveries to breakthroughs in paleogenetics and analytical methods.
Entre 1960 y 1975 mas de tres millones de espanoles salieron de su patria con destino a Europa impulsados por el atraso economico de la Espana franquista.
In recent years, the study of human evolution has made substantial advances—from major fossil and archaeological discoveries to breakthroughs in paleogenetics and analytical methods.
The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession.
The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession.
Dieses Sachbuch bietet einen kompakten, gut verstandlichen Uberblick uber die historische Entwicklung Hawaiis von der geologischen Entstehung uber die polynesische Besiedlung, das Konigreich Hawaii, Annexion und Staatswerdung bis zur heutigen gesellschaftlichen Situation.