To give a"History of Waco" in the space allotted were impossible; a fleetingglimpse of its varied periods of growth from the view-point of a native, whohas had the stories from the lips of those who……続きを見る
The inimitable Charles Dickens is regarded by many as the finest novelist of the Victorian era. His ability to weave magic with words makes him as popular as ever. Born in 1812 in what many would de……続きを見る
Patrick Brontë was to say later in his life ‘Thornton, my happiest years.’
Who would have thought that this humble little terraced property on the outskirts of Bradford in the village of Thornton wa……続きを見る
Le premier colloque international sur les traités de Makoko et de Brazza, par une analyse croisée d’historiens, d’économistes, de juristes, de sociologues et de psychologues, soulève la polémique au……続きを見る
Tot 1815 waren Europeanen hun leven niet zeker op de Middellandse Zee. Rovers uit Noord-Afrika maakten de wateren onveilig en joegen ijverig op schepen, ook die onder de Nederlandse vlag. De gevaren……続きを見る
In Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South, Jack Noe examines identity and nationalism in the post–Civil War South through the lens of comme……続きを見る
著者:Ussama Makdisi
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2011年09月01日
The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Ara……続きを見る
著者:Andrew K. Diemer
出版社: University of Georgia Press
発売日: 2016年07月15日
Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship w……続きを見る
著者:Mark D. Groover
出版社: University Press of Florida
発売日: 2022年06月01日
From the early colonial period to the close of World War II, life in North America was predominantly agrarian and rural. Archaeological exploration of farmsteads unveils a surprising quantity of dat……続きを見る
O. ZEGNA RATA, L’acheminement vers la parole, ou l’éducation de Gargantua; I.R. MORRISON, Rabelais contre Machiavel dans Gargantua; P. GILMAN and A.C. KELLER, Why Rabelais wrote Gargantua after Pant……続きを見る
著者:Robert K. DeArment
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2017年04月06日
Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enfor……続きを見る
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African Amer……続きを見る
American Pride: A Treasury of American Classics
Step into the heart of American heritage with American Pride: A Treasury of American Classics, a powerful collection of stories and ideas that define ……続きを見る
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an autobiographical account written by Frederick Douglass, a prominent African-American social reformer, orator, and statesman. The ……続きを見る
This unique collection of "SLAVERY: Hundreds of Documented Testimonies of Former Slaves, Influential Memoirs, Records on Living Conditions and Customs in the South & History of Abolitionist Movement……続きを見る
Part Three of America's Forgotten History takes us from the end of the Civil War to the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurection. We look at Reconstruction, the Indian Wars in the West, t……続きを見る
History is written by the victors. But do the victors in America's forgotten debate really have it right? Do they even think about whether it is America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garris……続きを見る
From its small government, non-aggressive, republican beginnings, America has become a garrison state devoted to remaking the world in its own image. While Republicans and Democrats quibble over the……続きを見る
Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his own words
Considered to be the most famous work written by a former slave, this memoir, first published in 1845 set the tone for the American……続きを見る
著者:Jay K. Dow
出版社: University Press of Kansas
発売日: 2017年03月28日
In the United States we elect members of the House of Representative from single-member districts: the candidate who receives the most votes from each geographically defined district wins a seat in ……続きを見る
The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their char……続きを見る
Prenez une carte d’Amérique, États-Unis. Cherchez l’État de Maryland ; vous trouverez, près d’Easton, comté de Talbot, un petit district maigrement peuplé, lequel n’a de remarquable que l’aridité de……続きを見る
Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.
Reconstruction is an essay by Douglass on the South's Reconstruc……続きを見る
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.
Here in this Library of America volume are collec……続きを見る
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of thes……続きを見る
Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an inter……続きを見る
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of thes……続きを見る
When the Orphan Train delivers three-year-old Kenneth Douglas Hardin to San Antonio, Texas, in 1870, Sheriff Chisholm knows that this towheaded little boy, abandoned by his mother and five siblings,……続きを見る
著者:Mark Davis
出版社: Amberley Publishing
発売日: 2017年12月21日
The mass migration of folk from the countryside to Bradford at the height of the Industrial Revolution resulted in large numbers of people existing in abject poverty, as thousands were housed in fil……続きを見る
著者:Robert K. DeArment
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2018年02月15日
Until the early twentieth century, life in the American West could be rough and sometimes vicious. Those who brought thieves and murderers to justice at times had to employ tactics as ruthless as th……続きを見る