著者:Robert Bennett
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年12月02日
Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Art……続きを見る
著者:Akira Iriye
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月19日
Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international com……続きを見る
著者:Clare Wightman
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年07月30日
Clare Wightman explores the key issue of gender in explaining the experience of men and women at work. She uses women's employment in the engineering industries between 1900 and 1950 to confront man……続きを見る
Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and ……続きを見る
This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at ……続きを見る
Formerly it was the custom for gardeners to invest their labors and achievements with a mystery and secrecy which might well have discouraged any amateur from trespassing upon such difficult ground.……続きを見る
著者:John P Rafferty
出版社: Britannica Educational Publishing
発売日: 2010年04月01日
Though it encompasses the majority of the Earth’s history, much about Precambrian time still remains unknown to us. With its climate extremes and unstable surfaces, Precambrian Earth hardly resemble……続きを見る
著者:Anne Rochon Ford
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年02月06日
In the histories of the University of Toronto which have been written to date women are conspicuous in their absence. It must be stressed that the present book is not intended to stand as a full-sca……続きを見る
著者:Kim J. Vicente
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2013年03月07日
In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. He investigates every level of human activity - from……続きを見る
著者:Edward Gibbon
出版社: Wilder Publications, Inc.
発売日: 2015年06月10日
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ……続きを見る
The lads had not to endure their uncertainty very long before Cousin Giles made his appearance, his somewhat weather-beaten countenance beaming with a glow of benevolence and vivacity which seldom f……続きを見る
Einleitung Die Verfasserin nachstehender Erinnerungen, Gräfin A. A. Tolstoi, war elf Jahre älter als Leo Tolstoi; sie wurde 1817 geboren und starb 1904. Von 1846 bis zu ihrem Tode war sie Hofdame, z……続きを見る
Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. This thr……続きを見る
“Let fall the topsails, hoist awayーup anchor, round goes the capstanーsheet homeーhaul taut the braces! and away we glide, to prove to our countrymen that British sailors have not been sleeping on ……続きを見る
I belong to the family of the Merrys of Leicestershire. Our chief characteristic was well suited to our patronymic. “Merry by name and merry by nature,” was a common saying among us. Indeed, a more ……続きを見る
In 1809 the reigning Ameer of Afghanistan, Shah Soojah-ul-Moolk, was dispossessed of his throne and an exile. Runjeet Singh, the Sikh ruler of Punjaub, plundered and imprisoned him at Lahore, and ob……続きを見る
The gentleman first described continued dictating to the latter, his secretary, for some time, much in the same style. He then branched off into other subjects, and gave a sketch of the political ev……続きを見る
The story of exiles from the Confederate South who fled to Brazil after the US Civil War. The collection includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settler
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United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903 is a collection of essays that provide an in-depth analysis of the developing relationship between the Americas during the critical period from the ……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Moore
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2009年07月29日
Thomas received his schooling from Mr. Samuel Whyte, who had been Sheridan's first preceptor, a man of more than average literary culture. He encouraged a taste for acting among the boys: and Moore,……続きを見る
l. The work of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) consists of two kinds of writings: in the first part of his active life he devoted himself entirely to problems of physics, while in the second part he tr……続きを見る
著者:Hendrik Hartog
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2012年01月30日
Hartog tells the heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation, in a time before pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes filled this……続きを見る
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The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.
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In few countries can more exciting adventures be met with than in Mexico and the southern and western portions of North America; in consequence of the constantly disturbed state of the country, the ……続きを見る
There was an old grey weather-beaten stone tower standing on the top of a high rocky promontory, which formed the western side of a deep bay, on the south coast of England. The promontory was known ……続きを見る
“Dick Burton, you’re a daddy! Polly’s been and got a baby for you, old boy!” exclaimed several voices, as the said Dick mounted the side of the old “Boreas,” on the books of which ship he was rated ……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年01月24日
The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Populist Moveme……続きを見る
Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as ……続きを見る
著者:James King
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年04月27日
In the midst of three of the Wests greatest cities reside towering Ancient Egyptian obelisks that date back over 3,000 years. So how exactly did 60+ feet tall obelisks go from Alexandria to London, ……続きを見る
著者:Hugo Winckler
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年02月21日
The Babylonians were an ancient civilization which inhabited Mesopatamia, modern day Iraq. The Babylonian Empire controlled a number of cities between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers circa 2000-100……続きを見る