Born in Gambo, Newfoundland, Joseph ("Joey") Smallwood (1900–1991) spent his life championing the worth and potential of his native province. Although he was a successful journalist and radio person……続きを見る
Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peacefighting. In wartime he volunteered to be a warrior. In peacetime he had n……続きを見る
William Wallace is one of the most famous freedom fighters in history, and over 700 years after his death he is still remembered as Scotland’s beloved hero. But while the movie Braveheart help……続きを見る
Autour d’Edmond Beaucarne, le XIXe siècle redevient un style de vie.
Entraîné très jeune dans le tourbillon de la passion politique qui préparera la révolution et l’indépendance belges, Edmond Beauc……続きを見る
Brazil was one of the emerging world powers to be invited to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Having jettisoned her empire just thirty years before, the Portuguese-speaking nation was showed sign……続きを見る
Escribí este libro en la India, en lengua gujaratí, que es una de las lenguas principales de la India, el año del centenario de Gandhi (1969). Él mismo era gujaratí, es decir, nativo del Estado del ……続きを見る
Hailed by Margaret Thatcher as the founder of modern conservatism, Keith Joseph is commonly ranked among the most influential politicians of the late-20th century. A complex and enigmatic figure Jos……続きを見る
著者:T. G Fraser
出版社: Haus Publishing
発売日: 2010年09月07日
The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most defining features of recent world history, flaring up into open war fare yet again in Gaza at the end of 2008 and provoking large-scale demonstrati……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Mango
出版社: Haus Publishing
発売日: 2010年09月14日
World War I sounded the death knell of empires. The forces of disintegration affected several empires simultaneously. To that extent they were impersonal. But prudent statesmen could delay the death……続きを見る
Aleksandur Stamboliiski was one of the most original politicians of the 20th century. His tragedy was that he came to power at the end of the First World War in which Bulgaria had been defeated. It ……続きを見る
著者:Dejan Djokic
出版社: Haus Publishing
発売日: 2010年08月01日
Nicola Pasic and Ante Trumbic: The book will provide the first parallel biographies of two key Yugoslav politicians of the early 20th century: Nikola Pasic, a Serb, and Ante Trumbic, a Croat. It wil……続きを見る
They were in the United States' backyard, and in some cases under her direct protection. So in many ways it was little surprise when Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama and Honduras joined the……続きを見る
著者:Sally Marks
出版社: Haus Publishing
発売日: 2010年04月01日
Paul Hymans was the champion of the small states in the League of Nations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference and was rewarded by becoming the League's first president. He thereby brought about……続きを見る
At the beginning of 1918 the British War Cabinet endorsed the view of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that after the war "Austria-Hungary should be in a position to exercise a powerful influ……続きを見る
Prince Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940). The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did not have the Japanese prime or foreign ministers with them as they had only just been elected and had p……続きを見る
Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo (1887-1985). Born in Shanghai and raised in the city's International Settlement, Koo became fluent in English during his postgraduate studies abroad - he got a PhD i……続きを見る
White aster flowers, on sale on the streets of Budapest on the eve of All Souls' Day, are made the symbol of a revolution which brings Mihály Károlyi (1875-1955) to power at the head of a National C……続きを見る
著者:Alan Sharp
出版社: Haus Publishing
発売日: 2009年01月01日
David Lloyd George (1863-1945). The end of the First World War saw Britain at the height of its power. Its fleet and air force were the largest in the world. Its armies had triumphed in the Middle E……続きを見る
著者:Peter Neville
出版社: Haus Publishing
発売日: 2011年01月04日
Of even greater importance for Hungary's future were the activities of the champions of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks. Tomáš Masaryk, a Czech professor of philosophy and a future leader……続きを見る
Grenville Clark was born to wealth and privilege in Manhattan, where his maternal grandfather, LeGrand Bouton Cannon, was an industry titan, retired Civil War colonel, and personal friend of Abraham……続きを見る
Four or five years ago, at the insistence of some of my nearest co-workers, I agreed to write my autobiography. I made the start, but scarcely had I turned over the first sheet when riots broke out ……続きを見る
A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DCーSenator Mike Mansfield.
Mike Mansfield's career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its……続きを見る
The classic five-volume biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, plus the two-volume biography by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, plus the one-volume biography by Thayer. According……続きを見る
The classic biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 December 14, 1799) served as the fir……続きを見る
Alexis de Tocqueville est un philosophe politique, homme politique, historien, précurseur de la sociologie et écrivain français.
Il est célèbre pour ses analyses de la Révolution française, de la dé……続きを見る
La revanche des communeux est une œuvre du chansonnier, montmartrois et communard français Jean Baptiste Clément (1836 - 1903).
Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique.
Il est parfaitemen……続きを見る
著者:Steven Lee Myers
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年09月29日
As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the importance of understanding the formidable and ambitious Vladimir Putin has never been greater. This gripping narrative of Putin's rise to pow……続きを見る
著者:Dave Farnham
出版社: Dave Farnham
発売日: 2014年12月24日
Former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is one of the world’s most enigmatic leaders. Fiercely protective of his private life, yet at the same time projecting his image at every opportunity, he is scrutiniz……続きを見る
Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world’s preeminent hero. Ru……続きを見る