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Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as an important facet of economic history. Popp examines the Shaw family business to present a study of entrepreneurism that puts the family centre ……続きを見る

La trop brève existence de Balzac s'est déroulée sous le double signe de l'amour et d'une inlassable activité littéraire. Tandis qu'il réalise une oeuvre grandiose, trois femmes vont jouer auprès de……続きを見る

Le 3 mai 1814, Louis XVIII monte sur le trône de France, mettant fin à vingt-cinq ans de turbulences politiques. Pendant seize ans ー exception faite de l'épisode des Cent-Jours qui sonne le glas de……続きを見る

First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of ……続きを見る

“I’m in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don’t want to take to the cops.” That’s Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, succinctl……続きを見る

America's story is made up of many elements, but through it have coursed two main streams that have nourished and carried a people forward to a destiny that was beyond all imagining when the story b……続きを見る

Dorothy Gray Gaona's third published work is a collection of history, genealogy, and family stories about the life, times, and family of Franklin Reed Mitchell (1869-1938). Franklin was born near Fo……続きを見る

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) , born in Massachusetts, was an abolitionist and founder of The Liberator in 1831, an abolitionist newspaper. He also co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society……続きを見る

This short pieces describes the opening of the Jaffa Jerusalem Railway during August 1892. Laser reprint of original illustrated article. 続きを見る

Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities……続きを見る

A good description of the fashions in vogue along the African Coast during the mid nineteenth century. Written for an American audience in 1868. Illustrated続きを見る

Includes pictures of the battle's important generals and locations.Includes several maps of the battle.Includes accounts of the fighting written by important generals like McDowell, Longstreet, Sher……続きを見る

Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A landmark and collectible volumeーbeautifully produced in duotoneーthat canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography. Commemorating the bi……続きを見る

"How would you like to ship with me?" Dick regarded me with a look of mingled surpise and inquiry. "To be explicit: I have been thinking of making the tour of New England in search of sport and adve……続きを見る

This book is an account of a trial related to the "Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814". According to Wikipedia: "The Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814 was a hoax or fraud centered on false informat……続きを見る

*Includes 25 pictures of Davis and important people, places and events in his life.*Includes Table of ContentsJefferson Davis (1808-1889) holds a unique place in American history, as the man best re……続きを見る

Though he had served with distinction during the Civil War, it was Porter Alexanders memoirs that have kept his name alive today. Though many prominent officers on both sides wrote memoirs, Porter A……続きを見る

A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopo……続きを見る

Thomas Rowlandson was one of the most productive and influential artists of Britain's Regency years. He worked hard and enjoyed the company of friends and fellow artists, and his client base was imm……続きを見る

John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books. 続きを見る

Biographie des frères Goncourt par Alidor Delzant qu a profité entre autres textes, du fameux Journal encore inédit à l'époque. Admirateur inconditionnel des Gonco……続きを見る

In this lucid and stimulating new book, Peter Burger, one of the foremost literary critics in Germany today, addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois cultu……続きを見る

Nel 1812-13 Lord Bentinck, comandante in capo britannico del Mediterraneo e di fatto padrone incontrastato della Sicilia, organizzò un suo esercito italiano su 3 reggimenti. Il corpo ebbe il ……続きを見る

Seconda parte del racconto dettagliato ed in prima persona dei principali avvenimenti del Risorgimento Italiano, raccontati da uno che si trovava sul campo. Soldiershop riprende il coproso lavoro di……続きを見る

Racconto dettagliato ed in prima persona dei principali avvenimenti del Risorgimento Italiano, raccontati da uno che si trovava sul campo. Soldiershop riprende il coproso lavoro di Elia in versione ……続きを見る

Winner, ISHS Superior Achievement Award, 2016 Although they inhabited different political, social, and cultural arenas, Abraham Lincoln and the pioneer generation of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, s……続きを見る

Nella battaglia del Volturno trovò la morte Giuseppe Garibaldi, e con essa tutti i sogni di fare un Italia unica e unita...Il Regno delle due sicilie continuerà a esistere, non solo, nel 1912 ci sar……続きを見る

The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, c……続きを見る

If you're a history nerd, you will love this book. It's a firsthand account of the battle at Gettysburg from the perspective of a Young 14-year-old resident who tried to flee the inevitable battle b……続きを見る

As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global proble……続きを見る