Fitz - History 1

'Ik was vijfentwintig. Toch begon ik al wat vast te roesten in mijn gewoonten; misschien, overpeinsde ik in mijn zeldzame momenten van introspectie, werd ik zelfs een beetje zelfgenoegzaam.' Daarom ……続きを見る

A timeless American classic, now presented in a new immersive edition enriched with an original soundtrack experience. This edition of The Great Gatsby invites readers to rediscover F. Scott Fitzger……続きを見る

The Fowler's Kingdom: Henry I and the Making of Medieval Germany In the early tenth century, the eastern Frankish world was collapsing. Magyar horsemen burned monasteries and slaughtered peasants fr……続きを見る

A fascinating overview of the substance that has shaped the modern world. In this compelling account, Ian Fitzgerald tells the complete story of oil, from its formation over millions of years to its……続きを見る

Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary’s packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers o……続きを見る

The traumatic Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica, and the Ibero-Catholic colonialism that followed, truly transformed Indigenous political, economic, and socio-cultural practices. Confronted by dogmati……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered why the most beautiful illusions are often the most destructive? F. Scott Fitzgerald defined the Jazz Age, a time of unprecedented wealth, rebellion, and excess. Yet, behind t……続きを見る

The Voyage of the Damned: Russia's Baltic Fleet and the Road to Tsushima The voyage of the Russian Baltic Fleet to its destruction at Tsushima in 1905 represents one of history's most catastrophic m……続きを見る

An inspiring new take on a history we thought we knew In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, pa……続きを見る

The expansion of women’s higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia and New Zealand offered educated women opportunities to broaden their aspirations, horizons and exper……続きを見る

Charlemagne's Forgotten Brother: Carloman A Story Erased from History The story of Carloman I has been systematically erased from history by sources written to glorify his brother Charlemagne. This ……続きを見る

The American Revolution didn't begin with gunfire; it began with words. In The Revolutionary Era: Words Heard 'Round the World, readers rediscover the ideas, debates, and declarations that forged a ……続きを見る

From renowned veterinarian Dr. Doug Mader comes a stirring account of his fight to protect his animal patients and human staff amid the dangerous realities of inner-city life and the Los Angeles rio……続きを見る

The story most often commonly told about the Maya involves their spectacular collapse at the height of their civilization in the early ninth century CE. Crops died, disease and malnutrition spread, ……続きを見る

Dallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be on the appropriately named Main Street. News footage shows office workers leaning out of windows, peering at the motorcade through a blizza……続きを見る

Een uniek stuk geschiedenis! Het waargebeurde, avontuurlijke en bloedstollende verhaal van de ondergang van het grootste koopvaardijschip van de VOC, de Batavia, in 1629. Bijna 400 jaar geleden voer……続きを見る

Written between 1939 and 1940, when Francis Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, "The Pat Hobby Stories" is a fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years ……続きを見る

Melt your face off with the guitar greats of Jacksonville. In the 1960s, the electric guitar became for boys what Barbie was for girls. Legions of bands formed, composed of teens making a ruckus in ……続きを見る

This is the first full account of how an influential form of commercial organization - the multinational enterprise - drove globalization and contributed to the making of the modern world. Robert Fi……続きを見る

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E. Fitz’s magisterial survey of the field, The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: The Twenti……続きを見る

Cold Case Clues On May 21, 1932, Arthur Oker, a mild-mannered Finnish tailor, was brutally murdered in his shop in the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts. While this unsolved crime terrif……続きを見る

A New York Times Bestseller **Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hi……続きを見る

Not everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile fiber, has a long relationship to war, both in terms of supporting it and causing it. Wool's strategic value……続きを見る

In "Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters," George Fitzhugh presents a provocative examination of society, labor, and freedom, positioning Southern slavery as a more humane and just system compa……続きを見る

Winner of the James H. Broussard First Book Prize PROSE Award in U.S. History (Honorable Mention) A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramati……続きを見る

Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages rethinks the role of prophecy in the Middle Ages by examining how professional theologians responded to new assertions of divine inspiration. Drawing on ……続きを見る

Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing roo……続きを見る

John Hume, Ireland’s greatest peace-maker, is widely recognised as the architect of the Northern Ireland peace process. In John Hume in America, Maurice Fitzpatrick explores how Hume created this fr……続きを見る

Are we one people, and one America? Or is there much more to it than that? Presidents like FDR, Lyndon Johnson, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan; are elections like those that created these great……続きを見る

Germany's opening run of victory in World War II was only made possible by the panzer forces that Heinz Guderian (1888-1954), the father of modern tank warfare, had created and trained, and by his a……続きを見る