Garrett - History 1

No bilateral relationship in modern history has been more consistently shaped by what each side could not ー or refused to ー see in the other. Since at least the 1940s, American thinking about Iran……続きを見る

Rome celebrated its roads, aqueducts, and expanding cities as symbols of civilization. Yet beneath every monument stood an economic system dependent on coerced labor drawn from conquest, trade, and ……続きを見る

The Congo became one of the most profitable territories in the colonial world precisely because human life there was treated as expendable. Behind the language of civilization and humanitarian progr……続きを見る

What happens when an uninspected, decaying earthen dam built for a defunct power plant is left to quietly rot above a college campus? The terrifying answer came crashing down in the dead of night du……続きを見る

Stalin's terror did not only arrest individuals ー it dismembered families. When the NKVD came for a father, the machinery of the Soviet state followed with calculated precision: wives were sentence……続きを見る

This book probes how everyday obedience produced systematic atrocity, turning routine authority into instruments of mass destruction. It explores the tension between individual agency and collective……続きを見る

This book follows a narrow window around 1200 BCE when palaces, empires, and trade routes from Greece to Egypt fractured almost at once, turning the Mediterranean into a landscape of burning coastli……続きを見る

A timely analysis of the myths that underpin white supremacy--and how to counteract them For centuries, white men in the West have cultivated and perpetuated a set of false narratives about Black p……続きを見る

Warum trugen die alten Griechen oder Römer keine Hosen? Wie viel Wein tranken sie wirklich? Nutzten sie Verhütungsmittel und wie wahrscheinlich war es, dass sie eine Operation überlebten? Der Histor……続きを見る

I am the Silk Road. Or, at least, that's what they call me. A rather unimaginative label, if you ask me. I prefer "the Great Connector," or perhaps "The Path of a Thousand Tales," but marketing wasn……続きを見る

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, imagine a picture that stretches for thousands of miles, a picture built from millions upon millions of stones, a picture that has witnessed the e……続きを見る

An empire is never more exposed than when its own sailors refuse to sail. Across three centuries of British naval history, mutiny was not merely an act of desperation ー it was a mirror held up to t……続きを見る

Every nation requires a founding story, and America chose the West. The frontier became the crucible of national identity ー a landscape of rugged individualism, heroic lawmen, noble pioneers, and p……続きを見る

Between 2020 and 2021, Fort Bragg ー home to the United States Army's most elite special operations units, including Delta Force ー recorded 109 fatalities, the highest death toll of any American mi……続きを見る

The history of the United States does not begin in 1776, nor in 1620, nor even in 1492. It begins approximately 30,000 years ago, when the first Paleo-Indians followed animal herds across the Bering……続きを見る

The path from sovereign debt to national collapse has never been a sudden rupture ー it is a slow architecture of miscalculation, denial, and deferred pain, repeated across centuries with remarkable……続きを見る

The Pacific Theatre was the setting for some of World War II's bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in Europe was winding down, fierce Japanese resistance and mo……続きを見る

The unsung story of heroic World War II combat nurses sent into the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa to save thousands of American soldiers and Marines. The Pacific Theater was the setting for some o……続きを見る

Ernst Kitzinger was one of the great art historians of the twentieth century, and a refugee incarcerated in Hay, New South Wales during WWII. As a German Jew he had sought refuge in Britain in 1935,……続きを見る

By: Jill K. Garrett, Pub. 1968, reprinted 2025, 292 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-910-0. Florence is located in Lauderdale County, Alabama. This book is a companion study of "A History of ……続きを見る

Between 1845 and 1852, a devastating fungal blight destroyed the potato crop across Ireland, triggering a catastrophic period of starvation and disease. However, the true horror of the Great Famine ……続きを見る

An intimate look at Robert Mueller, the sixth Director of the FBI, who oversaw the investigation into ties between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials. Covering more than 30 years of hi……続きを見る

Descubra o encanto intemporal dos romances que moldaram a literatura portuguesa! Em "Romanceiro I: Romances da Renascença", Almeida Garrett transporta-nos para um mundo de paixões avassaladoras e in……続きを見る

Desde su creación hace 13.000 años, nuestra pasión por la cerveza ha influido prácticamente en todo, desde la religión hasta la publicidad, pasando por la arquitectura y la bioingeniería. La cerveza……続きを見る

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America must rediscover its national heritage, rooted in the Enlightenment, Western Christianity, and classical Greece and Rome. We now live in an age when traditional values and Western civilizatio……続きを見る

In the 1950s, history teacher Julia Kathryn Garrett of Fort Worth began collecting stories from old-timers and pioneers whose memory or knowledge reached back to the early days of the city. For fift……続きを見る

The word “prohibition” tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted ……続きを見る

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chroni……続きを見る

On the occasion of the inauguration of Cornell's thirteenth president, Elizabeth Garrett, Cornell University Press is pleased to publish the official commemorative edition of her inauguration speech……続きを見る