AKO - History 13

“A revelation . . . will open your eyes to the wide diversity and rich history of our ongoing suburban experiment.” ーRichard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class America’s suburbs are ……続きを見る

In Johann Jakob Merlos Buch 'Haus Gürzenich zu Köln, sein Saal und dessen Feste' widmet sich der Autor einer detaillierten Untersuchung der Geschichte und Bedeutung des Gürzenich-Saals in Köln. Merl……続きを見る

In 'Köln im Jahre 1531' entführt uns Johann Jakob Merlo in die turbulente Geschichte der Stadt Köln während der Reformation. Mit einem lebendigen und detailreichen Schreibstil beschreibt Merlo die p……続きを見る

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allo……続きを見る

This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust a……続きを見る

Äntligen en grundbok i genusvetenskapliga forskningsmetoder på svenska! Med förankring i genusvetenskapens tvärvetenskapliga karaktär synliggör denna antologi det genusvetenskapliga områdets bredd o……続きを見る

Modern social movements frequently serve as a space to voice concerns in a supportive and collective context and thus are an important venue for individuals to learn how to speak up for themselves. ……続きを見る

Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it p……続きを見る

The events discussed in Rákóczi's Memoirs took place after those described in book 1 of Confessio Peccatoris, and the work was finished in his retreat at Grosbois in early 1717, not long after Confe……続きを見る

Anna Komnene's 'The Alexiad' is a remarkable historical and biographical account that chronicles the life and reign of her father, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, in 12th century Byzantium. Written in a……続きを見る

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Win……続きを見る

Sturreganz: Historischer Roman' ist ein Buch, das jedem Leser empfohlen werden kann, der an fesselnder historischer Literatur interessiert ist. Mit seiner Mischung aus spannender Handlung, tiefer Ch……続きを見る

Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? H……続きを見る

This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the vario……続きを見る

In his study of early Sundanese poetic art, Jakob Sumardjo invites us to understand the way Old Sundanese society think and see the world. Since many ethnic groups in Indonesian Archipelago share co……続きを見る

About half a million African Americans served overseas during World War II, almost all in segregated second-line units. This artificially limited their potential contribution, but their work - espec……続きを見る

First published in 1990. The revolution is one of the most radical periodicals of the Western women's movement. Though it only lasted a few years, it drew considerable attention to the courage and e……続きを見る

This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstr……続きを見る

Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Croatian and Maced……続きを見る

This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which th……続きを見る

Not being of the West; being behind the West; not being modern enough; not being developed or industrialized, secular, civilized, Christian, transparent, or democratic - these descriptions have all ……続きを見る

A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet *on the Western Frontー*the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Gr……続きを見る

From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its me……続きを見る

On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disembowelled his own sister, before dumping her l……続きを見る

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy initiated a bold new policy of engaging states that had chosen to remain nonaligned in the Cold War. In a narrative ranging from the White House to the western coa……続きを見る

Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book offers a comparative historical investigation of ed……続きを見る

At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler ー a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl ー was strung up with a slipknot noose. The ha……続きを見る

There are many conspiracy theories about the creation of Israel. Many people believe that it was the Rothschilds and other Jewish bankers that caused the two world wars. They even believe that it wa……続きを見る

The Benjamin Franklin Parkway has sliced through the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City (downtown) Philadelphia since World War I. Named after Philadelphia's favorite son, the mile-long boulev……続きを見る

Between 1872 and 1973, the Idaho State Penitentiary housed over 13,000 inmates. Some of Idaho�s most corrupt and cunning criminals resided behind these Boise sandstone walls. Constructed in large pa……続きを見る