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"The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503" is a comprehensive exploration of early transoceanic voyages that bridges the Viking expeditions to the New World with the pioneering journeys of Columbu……続きを見る

A complete guide to everyday words with military origins. Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War, that 'ghettos' originated in Venice or that 'deadli……続きを見る

Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'. “This is a ……続きを見る

About the Book The fast, able, and beautiful Essex-built schooners that fished out of Gloucester during the latter half of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth brought fortune and……続きを見る

Take an astonishing, amusing, and charmingly unconventional tour through the curious everyday lives of humans past. No need to spend the day at an archaeological dig when you can simply make a cup o……続きを見る

Una nueva épica de la expansión ibérica en pleno renacimiento 30 de enero de 1574. El cuerpo sin vida del Archivero del Estado, Damião de Góis, fue hallado en las calles de Lisboa. Pronto su falleci……続きを見る

This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan’s emergence as an independent state and its changing relationships with the broader world, particularly Russia, since the begin……続きを見る

Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit availa……続きを見る

Down came the rain, sudden, heavy and terrible, seeming to quell even the sea's rage and whelming those defenceless hundreds of dark-skinned voyagers in new and more dreadful misery. Terrors were up……続きを見る

Ruth Averill moved slowly across the drawing room at Starvel, and stood dejectedly at the window, looking out at the Scotch firs swaying in the wind and the sheets of rain driving across the untidy ……続きを見る

The "Oeno" set sail at an early hour on the morning of November 4, 1824. The wind was light but fair and the weather pleasant. At 10 o'clock a. m. we discharged the pilot and got the ship snug for s……続きを見る

This Element describes the development of an affective economy of violence in the early modern Dutch Republic through the circulation of images. The Element outlines that while violence became more ……続きを見る

A sympathetic history that focuses on the experiences of women and girls during the Holocaust and draws on new archival sources. Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young wo……続きを見る

The book to which these lines form an introduction is a peculiar one in many respects. It is a story, but it is a true story, and written years ago with little idea that it would ever come into this……続きを見る

Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INDIE BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKPEOPLE NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I wish I could think, ho……続きを見る

He pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply ……続きを見る

Synthèse fondamentale sur Léopold III, cette biographie retrace l’ensemble de la vie du plus controversé des rois des Belges. Le but de cet ouvrage n’est cependant pas d’enflammer une nouvelle fois ……続きを見る

About the Book The United States Army Ground Forces During the Interwar Years 1919-1941 covers the period of the Interwar years 1919-1941. It is intended for individuals interested in US Army histor……続きを見る

The earliest history is but a record of wars. Peace had no events stirring enough to call for record. It was the conflict of heroes which inspired the oldest and still greatest of poems. As the more……続きを見る

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians * Winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize * Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A propulsive account of our histo……続きを見る

The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-County and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music……続きを見る

Un nuevo ejercicio de invención a partir del encuentro de la compleja historia de Europa y América. Exploradores, soñadores y ladrones es una aventura a través de la memoria y los archivos. Este lib……続きを見る

First published in 1976, The Printing Unwins is the story of the firm of Unwin Brothers: the saga that began with the enterprise of Jacob Unwin who started the business which grew over the years int……続きを見る

Weit über die Zeitgeschichte hinaus ist »Sicherheit« in den letzten Jahren zu einem wichtigen Thema der Geschichtswissenschaft geworden. Die historische Forschung hat dabei einen Impuls der Gegenwar……続きを見る

Die Galerie der Göttinger Berühmtheiten ist reich und über Jahrhunderte respektheischend: von G. Chr. Lichtenberg, dem genialen Aufklärer, und G.A. Bürger, dem Erfinder des Lügenbarons Münchhausen, ……続きを見る

Cleopatra's Needle with Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks is a book written by Sir Erasmus Wilson, a British surgeon and dermatologist in the 19th century. This book primarily focuses on th……続きを見る

Reckoning with Change in Yucatán engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating local belonging and a force of transformatio……続きを見る

DAUNTLESS: The 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments; United States Army; Fought to Free the Philippines; a Secret Group Returned Before the Allies December 7. At almost eight in the morning, the J……続きを見る

In 2018, toen Een geschiedenis van het onderwijs in Nederland verscheen, scoorde Nederland nog hoog op allerlei internationale onderwijsvergelijkingslijstjes, maar sindsdien lijkt het alsof de neerg……続きを見る

Only monuments remind us today of the golden age of Czernowitz, once the lively capital of the Bukovina, the easternmost region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even after the once-mighty empire crum……続きを見る