wired - History 92

'History is a bottomless reservoir of all the bonkers, heroic, awful and weird things we eccentric humans have ever done. We can't help generating extraordinary stories . . . Most importantly, like ……続きを見る

This book: Combines feminism and cooking Is a cookbook full of trivia, stories and quotes from famous women Transforms female stereotypes into female empowerment Features 101 recipes from history F……続きを見る

"Traveling with Steller as he botanizes his way across Siberia is part wilderness adventure, part open air museum visit, and a valuable historical window." ーErika Monahan, author of The Merchants o……続きを見る

All-Black institutions and local community groups have been at the forefront of the freedom struggle since the beginning. Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the……続きを見る

"Taps the fascinating history of a surprisingly understudied placeーDallas . . . to reorient our understanding of America's Republican Right." ーDarren Dochuk, author of Anointed with Oil On the mor……続きを見る

Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish se……続きを見る

Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book offers close examinations of a manuscript written over a 20-year period by Loggie Carrasco, a well-known crypto-Jew from Albuquerque, New Mexico.……続きを見る

'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all fo……続きを見る

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS OF 2025 A TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF T***HE CONVERSAT……続きを見る

In "Twice Round the Clock; or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London," George Augustus Sala offers a vivid panorama of London life across the spectrum of its diverse hours. With a unique blend of……続きを見る

In "The Glamour of Prospecting," Frederick Carruthers Cornell presents a vivid exploration of the thrilling yet perilous world of mining and resource exploration during the late 19th century. Throug……続きを見る

The North-West Passage by Land is a compelling anthology capturing the relentless and adventurous spirit of exploration through diverse narratives and styles. This collection deftly traverses themes……続きを見る

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An element common to all the articles collected here is the attempt to make parallel use of sources from different cultures - Biblical and Talmudic Hebrew, Greek and Latin, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic ……続きを見る

From the prehistoric era to the present, food culture has helped to define civilizations. This reference surveys food culture and cooking from antiquity to the modern era, providing background infor……続きを見る

This book is a collection of primary source documents and analysis that illustrates the forgotten history of the fight to lower the voting age to eighteen in the twentieth-century United States. Pro……続きを見る

First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen years before the founding in 1802 of the Edinburgh Review, and an assessment of th……続きを見る

A Hunger To Survive presents a fascinating journey into the rich history of Jewish food, and provides intriguing insight into the impact of the Holocaust on the path of Jewish food ways in America. ……続きを見る

A fascinating new work of narrative nonfiction, this history of America is told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinaryーand often overlookedーadventurers, from Sacagawea to Matth……続きを見る

Slums and Redevelopment (1992) moves between national policy formation and detailed local studies, particularly of London, studies involving landlords and property, tenants and rehousing, and the im……続きを見る

In "Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine," Edwin Waugh intricately documents the plight of working-class families enduring the economic catastrophe that swept through La……続きを見る

In "Death Valley in '49: An Important Chapter of California Pioneer History," William Lewis Manly delivers a poignant and dramatic account of the harrowing journey of a group of pioneers navigating ……続きを見る

Among the various intellectual activities of the last fifty years none has awakened a more widespread interest than that of the study of the evolution of human civilization. The reason is apparent: ……続きを見る

It Happened in Shropshire is a vibrant and compelling account of the county's diverse heritage; its heroes, its battles, its discoveries, its crimes. Bob Burrows's highly readable prose transports t……続きを見る

It Happened in Gloucestershire is a vibrant and compelling account of the county's diverse heritage; its heroes, its battles, its inventors, its outlandish sports. Phyllida Barstow's lively prose tr……続きを見る

From the world's largest tripe factory to the Battle of Wigan Lane; from the Peterloo massacre to the first British canal – Lancashire can claim it all. It was one of the poorest parts of Britain du……続きを見る

The Derbyshire Miners (1962) examines the development of the Derbyshire coalfield and the growth of trade union organization among the miners. It looks at the successful unionization, and the histor……続きを見る

Edição acessível com descrição de imagens DARWIN E A HISTÓRIA DA MAIOR DESCOBERTA DA CIÊNCIA. A descoberta da Lei da Evolução por Charles Darwin, publicada no livro A Origem das Espécies em 1859, ca……続きを見る

It was one o’clock on Christmas morning when the Christmas sleigh returned to the Wesleyan Flats, bringing Santa Claus and his two aides. As soon as the three alighted, a man from the livery stable,……続きを見る

A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, and extensive interviews, Dixie Heretic: The Civ……続きを見る