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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Andrew Jackson en moins d’une heure ! Parti de rien, Andrew Jackson forge sa personnalité à l’école de la guerre. Tout juste âgé de neuf ans, il partici……続きを見る

O principal objetivo do livro é o de aprofundar o debate historiográfico sobre métodos e abordagens relativos às linhas de pesquisa dos programas de pós-graduação em História das regiões norte, nord……続きを見る

Drawing on original research and firsthand interviews, Conversations with Terrorists offers critical portraits of six Middle Eastern leaders often labeled as terrorists: Syrian president Bashar Al-A……続きを見る

In the era of the Early Republic, Americans determined the meaning of their Revolution and laid the foundation for the United States’ later emergence as a world power. This bookprovides students wit……続きを見る

In the recent past, a working knowledge of the Maya script has been confined to epigraphers, art historians and other specialists. Its very unfamiliarity to the general public, and the daunting aspe……続きを見る

Since the Second World War the British Army has been engaged in armed conflicts around the globe in every year except 1968. Some have been full-scale military campaigns, but most have been undeclare……続きを見る

In 1932 Bolivia and Paraguay went to war over the Chaco region in South America. The war lasted three years and approximately 52,000 Bolivians and Paraguayans died. Moving beyond the battlefields of……続きを見る

Schoenberg is often viewed as an isolated composer who was ill-at-ease in exile. In this book Kenneth H. Marcus shows that in fact Schoenberg's connections to Hollywood ran deep, and most of the com……続きを見る

Analisa a publicação de livros anticomunistas no Brasil entre as décadas de 1950 e 1960, tomando como referencial a trajetória da Edições GRD. Através de sua relação com instituições como o IPÊS, o ……続きを見る

Taken from the all but forgotten pages of American history, Before Madoff brings alive the extraordinary rogues who perpetrated the most astonishing swindles, frauds and embezzlements of their day. ……続きを見る

The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the ye……続きを見る

During the American Civil War, several newspapers remained Confederate sympathizers despite their locations being occupied by Union troops. Examining these papers, the authors explore what methods o……続きを見る

This book explores the continuous British fascination with the American Civil War from the 1870s to the present. Analysing the War's place in British political discourse, military writing, intellect……続きを見る

Using qualitative research data on Mexican/Mexican Americans and their historias de éxito that center on Mexican centric concepts such as buen trabajador, bien educado, and buena gente, Octavio Pime……続きを見る

Malcolm X zählt zu den bekanntesten und umstrittensten Personen der amerikanischen Geschichte. Gnadenlos prangerte er den weißen Rassismus seiner Zeit an und trat für das Recht der Schwarzen auf bew……続きを見る

Exploring the central themes in modern American cultural studies and discussing how these themes can be interpreted, American Cultural Studies offers a wide-ranging overview of different aspects of ……続きを見る

After reading Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address and realizing Lincoln’s firm determination to honor the oath that he had taken to “protect and defend” the Constitution of the United States and the U……続きを見る

Over fifty years of misconceptions, distortions and outright lies that have created a popular myth of the American Civil Rights movement as nonviolent. The myth glosses over the fierceness of white ……続きを見る

Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime th……続きを見る

This book emphasizes blacks' agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement. To consider the means or strategies that African Americ……続きを見る

Femmes et déesses aztèques nous invite à un voyage à travers les éta〓pes de la vie de la femme mexica. Miriam López Hernández y analyse la mythologie, les découvertes archéologiques, les codex et l……続きを見る

De mujeres y diosas aztecas es un recorrido por las distintas etapas de la vida de la mujer mexica. Miriam López analiza la mitología, los descubri­mientos arqueológicos, los códices ……続きを見る

Von aztekischen Frauen und Göttinnen ist eine Reise durch die verschiedenen Etappen des Lebens der Mexica-Frau. Mit großer Natürlichkeit analysiert Miriam López die Mythologie, die archäologischen E……続きを見る

Aztec Women and Goddesses explores the various stages of the Mexica woman’s life. Miriam López analyzes the mythology, the archaeological discoveries, and the codices and sixteenth-ce……続きを見る

C´est à travers un bref compte-rendu du développement des techniques de plongée et de leur application dans le cadre des travaux d´exploration archéologique sous-marine, qu´a lieu une réflexion à pr……続きを見る

Seit jeher hat das Wasser eine große Anziehungskraft auf die Menschen ausgeübt. Deshalb ist auch heute noch das Interesse groß, die wunderbare Welt der unter Wasser liegenden kulturellen Fundstücke ……続きを見る

De toutes les cultures préhispaniques, la culture maya est sûrement celle qui a attiré le plus l’attention des archéologues et des historiens. Sa prolifération culturelle, ses extraordinaires apport……続きを見る

Of all pre-Hispanic cultures, the Maya have perhaps attracted the most attention on the part of archaeologists and historians. Their cultural proliferation, their extraordinary scientific contributi……続きを見る

De todas las culturas prehispánicas, la maya es quizás la que más ha llamado la atención de arqueólogos e historiadores. Su proliferación cultural, sus extraordinarias aportaciones científicas y su ……続きを見る

Die Mayakultur hat unter allen prähispanischen Kulturen wahrscheinlich die größte Aufmerksamkeit von Archäologen und Historikern auf sich gezogen. Ihre kulturelle Verbreitung, ihre außerordentlichen……続きを見る