wired - History 64

In "Loughton, Essex: A Brief Account of the Manor and Parish," William Chapman Waller meticulously presents a historical overview of Loughton, exploring the rich tapestry of its manorial and parochi……続きを見る

In "A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee Retrospect," James Wilson Hyde offers a meticulous chronicle of a century'Äôs evolution in postal services, illuminating the profound societal transformations ……続きを見る

In "Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front," Irvin S. Cobb offers a profound exploration of the human condition amid the chaos of World War I. Cobb's distinctive journalist……続きを見る

In "Gibraltar and Its Sieges, with a Description of Its Natural Features," Frederic George Stephens artfully combines a meticulous historical narrative with vivid descriptions of Gibraltar's strikin……続きを見る

In "Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants," William Pittman Lett offers a vivid and intimate portrait of a fledgling Ottawa, originally known as Bytown, during the mid-19th century. This n……続きを見る

In "A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant with the Manner in which it is Usually Cured," Jonathan Carver intricately explores the agricultural and sociocultural significance of tobacco in 1……続きを見る

In 1983, when Evans came up with the vision for the first-ever memorial on the National Mall to honor women who’d worn a military uniform, she wouldn’t be deterred. She remembered not only her siste……続きを見る

During the past two years the present writer has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the ge……続きを見る

A discovery in Feral House’s Tramp Lit Series, Bart Kennedy’s 1908 A Tramp’s Philosophy is Kennedy’s late work distilling his life and experiences into a concept for living. He includes insights on ……続きを見る

The book narrates the last days of the once prominent Jewish community of Thessaloniki, the overwhelming majority of which was transported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in 1943. Focusing on th……続きを見る

Chapters include: Thoth, The Author Of Egyptian Literature. Writing Materials, Etc; The Pyramid Texts; Stories Of Magicians Who Lived Under The Ancient Empire; The Book Of The Dead; Books Of The Dea……続きを見る

THE RESILIENCE AND DECLINE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Urban agriculture is a highly diversified and multi-layered phenomenon, and its roots are both very old and very recent. Throughou……続きを見る

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) Longlisted, Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards (Non-Fiction) A CBC New Brunswick Book List Selection An Atlantic Books Today Must-Have New……続きを見る

Upheavals of the modern period have dramatically changed the traditional pattern of the rescue of Jews by Jews. Whereas until the mid-nineteenth century rescue was carried out by community leaders i……続きを見る

Originally published in 1987, this collection of essays is a major contribution toward developing a realistic picture of the Latin American Jewish communities in the late 20th Century. The book will……続きを見る

Originally published in 1990, this book focuses on the challenge to Jewish identity posed by the conflicting forces of enlightenment, emancipation, modern political antisemitism, and secular ideolog……続きを見る

This is the two volume set of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, first published in 1835 and 1840, in which the author examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurri……続きを見る

'Das Erbe, das wir verteidigen' schildert die Geschichte der Vierten Internationale von 1940 bis 1988. Es umfasst den Zeitraum von der Ermordung ihres Gründers Leo Trotzki bis kurz vor der politisch……続きを見る

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of Germ……続きを見る

Guy Preston was a young and beardless boy fresh from "The Point." He was now attached to the ーth cavalry and was one of three hundred men who had been ordered to that faraway country to assist in b……続きを見る

Slavery still exists throughout a large portion of what we are accustomed to regard as the civilized world. In some countries, men are forced to take the chance of a lottery for the determination of……続きを見る

The overthrow of the kingdom of Judah recorded in 2 Kings 24 and 25, and in the opening words of the book of Daniel, was a remarkable crisis in the history of the world. In judgment upon the people ……続きを見る

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African……続きを見る

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers a scholarly attempt to understand how the ancient J……続きを見る

This volume consists of brief notes in plain language on a variety of scientific matters. I speak of new discoveries, real or so-called by mistake; of old well-established facts and explanations of ……続きを見る

Looking back from a later time to describe the reformatory movement as it had been in the 1820’s, Walter Scott wrote that there were then “three parties struggling to restore original Christianity.”……続きを見る

Jedes Gerichtsverfahren spiegelt wider, woran unsere Gesellschaft krankt. Mal offenbaren wohlhabende Finanzjongleure ihren Hochmut, mal zeigt sich, wie armselig das Leben auf der anderen Seite der G……続きを見る

Elihu Burritt's "A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood" offers an intimate and poignant glimpse into the socio-economic conditions of mid-19th century Ireland, part……続きを見る

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams explores conte……続きを見る

Since its publication in 1923, Sir Song Ong Siang's One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore has become the standard biographical reference of prominent Chinese in early Singapore, at ……続きを見る