Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories.
Una selva de palabras: Literaturas indígenas contemporáneas de Brasil, Guatemala y Colombia trata de las voces indígenas que han irrumpido en el campo de la literatura, en consonancia con los avances y logros del movimiento indígena de las últimas cinco décadas.
'Britain is full of amazing pubs and this man will guide you to the very best' Phil CarrAfter spontaneously hosting a birthday pub crawl through London's finest alehouses, Thomas J.
The culmination of William Wells Browns long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Browns search for a home in a land of slavery and racism.
El Archivo de la Catedral de Valencia custodia en la actualidad una coleccion de 117 ejemplares incunables correspondientes a 85 ediciones, la mas antigua de las cuales se remonta al ano 1468.
Este libro en su conjunto constituye una aproximacion actualizada al movimiento reivindicativo inicial, a la revuelta y a la guerra civil de la Germania (1519-1522), asi como a la represion posterior desde una perspectiva comarcal o territorial.
Aquesta monografia recull les reflexions de diferents professors de la Universitat de València realitzades en diferents localitats del territori valencià durant el programa 2014-15.
Polly Pullar tells the fascinating tale of one of the Hebrides unique thriving small communities through the colourful anecdotes of Lawrence MacEwen, whose family have owned the island since 1896.
Aquest volum conté la documentació generada pel notari Miquel Llagària, una activitat que es prolongà durant vint anys, des de la dècada de 1540 fins a l'any 1561.
La memoria de más de un centenar de personas entrevistadas y el registro de numerosos archivos han permitido al autor de trazar una amplia panorámica de las vivencias del pueblo de Alcàsser, durante la Guerra Civil y la inmediata posguerra.
The area of West London around Kensington was built up from the 1800s onwards, although there were a handful of earlier buildings, such as Kensington Palace and Holland House.
Este trabajo busca realizar una breve pero clara presentacion de las diversas posibilidades que las Humanidades Digitales (HD) ofrecen para el estudio de la cultura material peninsular en la Edad Media.
Miscelánea de historias, personajes, tradiciones y costumbres de la villa de Lanaja es un ensayo de historia local total, un paseo apasionado y apasionante por dos mil años de vida cotidiana en una población rural altoaragonesa.
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers, Edward Pearson offers a sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War.
Oxford's history begins with the story of a king's daughter, Frideswide, who founded a nunnery in the meadows where the River Thames and River Cherwell meet.
Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents-letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories-detailing half a century of their lives in America.
Countering the conventional narrative that Florida’s tourism industry suffered during the Great Depression, this book shows that the 1930s were, in reality, the starting point for much that characterizes modern Florida’s tourism.
When the features of Iranian civilization became clear and expanded politically to control most of the Near East, after the fall of Babylon and the fall of the great Near Eastern civilizations, Iran took over and ensured continued communication with the ancient and early medieval West (Greece, Rome, and Byzantium), and the Far East with its two great orbits, China and India.
