wired - History 35

In The War of 1812 in Wisconsin, author Mary Elise Antoine brings a little-known corner of Wisconsin’s history to life. Prairie du Chien, located just above mouth of the Wisconsin River, was the key……続きを見る

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What are the animals that survive the cold in the arctic tundra? Open the pages of this educational book to find out! The pictures included in this book, accompanied by simple texts, will definitely……続きを見る

IN Paris, in Rome, in Florence, in Berlin, in Vienna ー in fact, over half the face of Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Russian frontier ー I am now known as “The Count’s Chauffeur.” An Englishman, ……続きを見る

Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an……続きを見る

THIS fearful and disgraceful record of a Nation’s shame and of an Emperor’s complicity in atrocious crimes against God and man is no work of fiction, but a plain unvarnished statement of the grim an……続きを見る

Michael North bietet einen eindrucksvollen Überblick über mehr als 3000 Jahre Weltgeschichte der Meere. Er schildert die Auseinandersetzung des Menschen mit den Herausforderungen und Gefahren der Oz……続きを見る

Students of ancient Athenian politics, governance, and religion have long stumbled over the rich evidence of inscriptions and literary texts that document the Athenians’ stewardship of the wealth of……続きを見る

A colourful look at Toronto's pioneer roots, tracing the history of three neighbourhoods from their farming days to modern day. Includes: Don Mills: From Forests and Farms to Forces of Change As rec……続きを見る

The 500th anniversary of the first publication of Thomas More’s Utopia invites a reappraisal of its significance, not just as an ironic and playful fiction, but as a serious contribution to social a……続きを見る

Smart, educated and accomplished people, the pillars of our society, try to cheat the system in the most convoluted and fascinating ways. History's Greatest Scandals tells the stories of adultery, p……続きを見る

Turning the Tide of Battle is part of the series conveniently portable, stylishly packaged and eminently collectible set of six books that each open a window onto a WC selection of remarkable storie……続きを見る

Rebel Leaders focuses on the world-shaping, powerful arena of politics and warfare, looking at those revolutionaries throughout the centuries who have changed the course of history. Since ancient ti……続きを見る

What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their “leisure,” reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, ……続きを見る

Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's 'ter……続きを見る

Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground……続きを見る

THE universal prevalence of the cross as an ornament and symbol during the last eighteen centuries in the Christian church has led to some great, if not grave, mistakes. It has been supposed, and fo……続きを見る

She went by many namesーMary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and moreーbut history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the ……続きを見る

For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I……続きを見る

This text contains a comprehensive exposition of the various breeds of sheep and their crosses that were on exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Society's show in Bristol, June 1913. Also included i……続きを見る

This is H. G. Wells' 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson, "The Story of a Great Schoolmaster". Frederick William Sanderson (1857 - 1922) was the headmaster at Oundle School between 1892-19……続きを見る

Winchcombe, once a royal Saxon borough, lies in the secluded valley of the infant River Isbourne in the North Cotswolds. Through these pages its people and buildings are recorded over the last two h……続きを見る

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small country town. Stratford was famous for its malting. The black plague killed in 1564 one out of seven of the town's 1,500 inhabitants. Sha……続きを見る

The book offers guidance to aspiring historians at every stage and in every walk of life, from practical advice on tackling and organizing projects to recommendations for finding and using resources……続きを見る

In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we under……続きを見る

First published in 1952, this is a full-scale and definitive account of the life and work of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Among the sources used are the Chadwick Papers, the Peel, Place, Russell and Gladston……続きを見る

Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America is the fruit of an extraordinary archive of personal journals, letters, speeches, and published writings left by Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer……続きを見る

The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother While we know much about the iconic outlaw Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen Kelly has been largely overlooked by Australian writers and historians -- until now,……続きを見る

From a look at a globe or a map of the Eastern hemisphere, we shall perceive between Asia and Australia a number of large and small islands forming a connected group distinct from those great masses……続きを見る

It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose……続きを見る