Stap in een wereld vol avontuur en ontdekking, waar de zon altijd schijnt en de horizon eindeloos lijkt.
In het land der zon: Een kwart eeuw tusschen de keerkringen van M. T. H. Perelaer neemt je me……続きを見る
Combining biographical narrative and analytical essays, this book provides a new, comprehensive view of Martin Luther's life and times, along with a new examination of the radical theology that spar……続きを見る
Aracy de Carvalho (1908-2011), 'Righteous Among the Nations', saved German Jews by facilitating their emigration to Brazil in the late 1930s, while working at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg. Mar……続きを見る
At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe. By the t……続きを見る
"Baboe Dalima," written with the resource of M. T. H. Perelaer, is a gripping story that gives a glimpse into the complex and multifaceted global of the Dutch East Indies all through the nineteenth ……続きを見る
On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces had defeated the Israeli army in the Sinai, had hobbled their British and US ……続きを見る
著者:H.P. Davis
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2022年02月07日
This book, first published in 1929, examines the history of Haiti and its long struggle for independence. The revolution against the French is treated in some detail, as is the story of the free Hai……続きを見る
In this work "Baktash Khamsehpour" (Bahram Iranmand) begins with defining the terms "Kingsking & Kingskingship" as the ideal form of rulership and governance before investigating the link between "P……続きを見る
Pugliese’s More‑Than‑Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more‑than‑human diasporic entitiesーsuch as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural……続きを見る
著者:Joseph P. Byrne
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年01月16日
This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancin……続きを見る
著者:Joseph P. Byrne
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2013年07月16日
Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health c……続きを見る
En dansk politimands efterforskning af et stykke ukendt besættelseshistorie om ondskab og landsforræderi. 'De danske varulve' er fortællingen om kriminalassistent Erland Leth Pedersen, en garvet køb……続きを見る
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors lo……続きを見る
“Soulful, spirited, and often joyful, Black Earth Wisdom is sustained by a deep reverence for the Earth and its ‘symbiotic living ecosystems.’ The result is a potent look at the overlap between the ……続きを見る
Early in the 18th century, Pierre Taillandier, a Jesuit professor and astronomer, penned a letter chronicling his epic two-and-a-half-year journey from his home in Lyon, France, to his mission in Fr……続きを見る
Odilo Globocnik, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, was responsible for the deaths of at least 1.5 million people in three Nazi camps in occupied Poland: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Be……続きを見る
Little known in the United States and Western Europe, the Sudan is nevertheless a country of major importance in international affairs. This analytic introduction to the modern Sudan, first publishe……続きを見る
Turn Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Renaissance World into a high-school history course.
Susan Wise Bauer’s narrative world history series is widely used in advanced high school history class……続きを見る
Offering enhanced coverage of Africa, the Middle East, and the 20th century, this new edition of The World That Trade Created brings to life international trade and its actors. In a series of brief,……続きを見る
The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take ……続きを見る
L'histoire inconnue de l'auteur - du scribe de l'Antiquité au best-seller actuel.
Du scribe de l'Antiquité à la star médiatisée d'aujourd'hui, l'évolution du statut de l'auteur est considérable. Si ……続きを見る
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and po……続きを見る
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the S……続きを見る
Arctic Doctor is an account of the true adventures of Joe Moody, the heroic young medical doctor whose practice covered 600,000 square miles of Canada's East Arctic. Headquartered at Chesterfield In……続きを見る
Few personalities in the history of literature have aroused so much interest as that of Oscar Wilde, yet the essentials of his nature are still not recognized and we are left to catch glimpses of th……続きを見る
THIS AUTHOR'S favourite subjects for biography have been wits, and he has already written on Sydney Smith, William Gilbert, Henry Labouchère, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Benjamin Disraeli. His sev……続きを見る
'You are a genuine soaker in Shakespeare, and have not read him as a task. You have him by heart.'ーBernard Shaw wrote in a letter to Hesketh Pearson.
Before he became a well-known biographer, Heske……続きを見る
Iran: A Civilization Under Siege is about the ups and downs in the Middle East area for the past sixty years, as I remember. The troubles that were given to the Pahlavi dynasty by the international ……続きを見る
This book, first published in 1951, is a Postscript to Bernard Shaw: His Life and PersonalityーHesketh Pearson's biography of Bernard Shaw, published in 1942, which became the standard work on Berna……続きを見る
The British Imperial Century provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-ce……続きを見る