GoRA - History 1

A novel in the form of a diary by an eye-witness concerning the tribulations of Dutch immigrants to Russia and the Ukraine during the Russian Revolution and the Civil War in Ukraine. 続きを見る

Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerge……続きを見る

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institutio……続きを見る

TO F.Y. ECCLES MY DEAR ECCLES, You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you ar……続きを見る

The following series of texts was recorded by me during the years 1900 and 1901 in various villages on the Pacific Coast of the Chukchee Peninsula, between Mariinsky Post and Uñi´sak. A number of ta……続きを見る

Fort Worth, originally named Camp Worth, was founded as an Army outpost in 1849, and the old cavalry stables became Fort Worth�s first hotel. The Texas & Pacific Railroad arrived in Fort Worth in Ju……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

The following tales were collected among Russianized natives of the Kolyma and the Anadyr country, and also among Russian creoles, who, indeed, lead the same kind of life as the Russianized natives.……続きを見る

Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English ……続きを見る

The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomen……続きを見る

Chukchee Mythology by Waldemar Bogoras The Chukchi occupy the extreme north-eastern tip of Asia, adjacent to the Arctic Ocean and the Behring Strait. They are Eskimos of Western Chukotka inhabiting……続きを見る

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist G�ran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that ha……続きを見る

Transatlantic historians are dedicated to analyzing the dynamic process of encounter, interchange, and creolization that was initiated when peoples on different sides of the Atlantic Basin first mad……続きを見る

In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, José F. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof……続きを見る

"The Golden Verses of Pythagoras" are a collection of moral exhortations comprising 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter. They present a brief glimpse into the mind and the worldview of Pythagoras……続きを見る

1500-talets Italien är vida känt för många i Sverige, men Italiens moderna historia är desto mindre omtalad. Många viktiga skeenden inträffade dock under 1800-talets senare hälft som kom att skaka E……続きを見る

"Göran Rosenbergs bog kan læses som ét langt smerteligt opgør - selvopgør - med fortiden og Israels og de jødiske menneskers rolle i den mellemøstlige tragedie og stadigt tiltagende umenneskeliggøre……続きを見る

From the Anthropological Papers Of The American Museum Of Natural History Vol. XX, Part I. Chapters include: Tales Of The Tundra Yukaghir; Tales Of The Lamut; Kolyma Tales; Children's Stories; Marko……続きを見る

A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics In this pithy and panoramic work - both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to ……続きを見る

Este livro trata do império português nos séculos XIX e XX, analisando as políticas coloniais e alguns processos sociais e económicos que o atravessaram. O objetivo é reconstituir o ponto de vista d……続きを見る

El libro actual es una reproducción, con numerosos retoques y desarrollos, de mi discurso de ingreso en la Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (sesión del 5 de diciembre de 1897). Como……続きを見る

The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon. This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern s……続きを見る

This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conc……続きを見る

Esta obra busca responder aos seguintes questionamentos: Por que o passado seduz tanto? De que forma a cultura da mídia interfere nos interesses e nos imaginários de passado? As performances que o v……続きを見る

Góngora no publicó su obra en vida, aunque lo intentó en 1623. Sus versos se conocieron dispersos en Manuscritos o impresos en hojas sueltas. Solo aparecieron en un libro el año en que murió, en una……続きを見る

Wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten - ein individualethisches Problem? Dass viel mehr dahinter steckt, zeigt die interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe »Zitat und Paraphrase« der Berlin Brandenburgischen Akad……続きを見る

An in-depth look at Ukraine’s attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world. During times of crisis, competing narratives are often advanced to define what is happening, and the sta……続きを見る

This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims th……続きを見る

Gutarnas egna saga som berättar om Gotland första människor och vad som hände. Detta är en folksaga som nedtecknades på 1300-talet. 続きを見る

Karl XI har fått stå i skuggan av både sin far, den dynamiske Karl X Gustav, och den ryktbare sonen Karl XII. Han har framställts som pliktmedveten men villrådig och lättpåverkad. I den första biogr……続きを見る