Nacido en Oakland, una de las plantaciones de la familia Nelson, en el pueblo de Beaverdam en el condado de Hanover, Virginia, hijo de John Page y Elizabeth Burwell Nelson.
The Annals by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus to that of Nero, the years AD 14-68, covering the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
The slave narrative is a type of literary work that is made up of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations.
"Bismarck", hier vorliegend in einer Ausgabe aller vier Bände, entwickelt sich von der Biographie des großen Otto von Bismarck zu einer Gesamtdarstellung des Ersten Weltkrieges.
Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Schleswig-Holsteinische Sagen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Trotzkis Abhandlungen über die Auswirkungen der Oktoberrevolution auf den russischen Staat gehören zu den wichtigsten Schriften der russischen Geschichte.
Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson.
Once motivos por los que el mundo seria peor, mas incompleto o injusto si alguna institucion o personaje espanoles no hubieran hecho una aportacion relevante al bien comun.
The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas.
In 1830 Irving published his "e; Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada,"e; one of the most delightful of his works, an exact history, for such it is admitted to be by thosewho have searched most carefully the ancient records of Spain, yet so full of personal incident, so diversified with surprising turns of fortune, and these wrought up with such picturesque effect, that, to use an expression of Pope, a young lady might read it by mistake for a romance.
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of 'late colonial shift' after 1945.
This ebook contains all the books, lecture, discussions, prose, poetry, and letters written by Swami Vivekananda, a spiritual teacher from India at the end of the 19th century who brought Vedanta to the United States and Europe.
Detailliert und spannend erzählt Schurig die Geschichte von der Eroberung Mexikos durch die Spanier und gibt speziell Auskunft über Person und Charakter des gnadenlosen Cortez.
Dieses eBook: "Vom unfreien Willen (An Erasmus von Rotterdam)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
This book is a thorough history of the American Revolution from the beginning of the crisis between American colonies and the British government until the final victories in the War which brought independence to America.
The period of Roman history on which we now enter is, like so many that had preceded it, a period of revolt, directly aimed against the existing conditions of society and, through the means taken to satisfy the fresh wants and to alleviate the suddenly realised, if not suddenly created, miseries of the time, indirectly affecting the structure of the body politic.
Dies ist Band 3 der Trilogie "Zwölf Jahre Ein Sklave", die detailgetreue Übersetzung des Bestsellers "12 Years A Slave", verfilmt 2013, bereits heute ausgezeichnet mit dem Golden Globe als Bester Film und einer der ersten Anwärter auf den Oscar.