Lyon - History 1

Aux devantures des librairies, on ne compte plus les ouvrages d’historiens réfléchissant gravement à leur rapport avec la littérature. Doivent-ils en faire une source de leur savoir, mais en context……続きを見る

Les "écrits des condamnés à mort", ce sont les écrits produits dans les ghettos et les camps de l’Europe occupée par les nazis ー des poèmes, des journaux intimes, des chroniques, etc. ー, ce sont l……続きを見る

Que font les historiens aujourd’hui ? Comment traitent-ils des archives ou des images, des classes sociales ou de l’environnement ? Et où puisent-ils le pouvoir de produire de la vérité sur le passé……続きを見る

Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural att……続きを見る

What did Australians read? This book answers this question in terms of books rather than newspapers and considers the long nineteenth century, interpreted as running from 1788 to 1901. In the wake o……続きを見る

The rousing story of the Double V Campaign, started during World War II to encourage Black Americans to fight for freedom overseas and at home. When the United States entered World War II, young Afr……続きを見る

In "Cacao Culture in the Philippines," William Scrugham Lyon offers a charming collection of stories that weave collectively his profound thoughts on Philippine records. This compilation serves as a……続きを見る

The book deals with the clash between the free, enterprising pay schools and the controlled and systematized national schools. Many commissions of inquiry were instigated, beginning in 1791, and con……続きを見る

When this book was originally published in 1960 no full-length study of the Parnell ‘split’ had been made, despite it being such a landmark in Irish history. The book treats the eleven months betwee……続きを見る

A Grim Almanac of Shropshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 macabre moments from the county's past. Featured here are such diverse tales as mining disasters, suicides, miscarriages of justice, axe……続きを見る

La historia de la lectura y de la escritura abordada por Martyn Lyons sigue la línea de investigaciones de Roger Chartier, Guglielmo Cavallo y Armando Petrucci; como ellos, en lugar de poner el acen……続きを見る

In The Favourite, Mathew Lyons strips away the myth - and the self-mythologising - to find Sir Walter Ralegh in the one role in which his contemporaries knew him best: the courtier who could win the……続きを見る

'Mushroom Season' is a ramble through magic mushrooms, mountains and metaphysics. After heavy sanctions relegated their use to a spell in the stoner wilderness, are psilocybin mushrooms about to hel……続きを見る

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond. The……続きを見る

‘I’ve fallen in love with this fabulous foursome … They are a phenomenon!’ Drew Barrymore From @theoldgays, the internet’s most beloved foursome, a book of inspirational stories and aspirational adv……続きを見る

The first three stories contained in the book found great favor with the reading public, having been published in the Woman’s Home Companion. All the stories are wholesome and have good influence up……続きを見る

On a mellow day in the early autumn of the year 1900, I sat on an old wooden bench in the open air with an English gentleman, and listened to his conversation with a mixture of curiosity and reveren……続きを見る

Fascinating, bizarre and hilarious facts about the most universal of experiences of life – birth, death and matrimony … All the female eggs needed to produce the next generation of the human race co……続きを見る

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed b……続きを見る

Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational textbook for public history. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive pu……続きを見る

First published in 1999, the world of Christian radicalism in the first half of the nineteenth century is reconstructed here with thorough research by Eileen Groth Lyon. Christian radicals, during t……続きを見る

The quality of a man’s love will determine the nature of his deeds; occasion may present the opportunity, but character alone will record the experience. To a life given over to the pursuit of the b……続きを見る

Jessy change au contact de son père ? D'où provient ce changement ? Devais-je le dire à ma mère ? Et que lui dire ? Un enfant de huit ans n'a pas à avoir ces pensées. Je me sentais grandir de force.……続きを見る

How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ra……続きを見る

This collection charts the key developments in the social work field from 1970 to the present day and shows how by fully understanding social work’s past, we can make better progress for practitione……続きを見る

In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In Fra……続きを見る

The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the public policies and private actions that have enab……続きを見る

An American poet writes a compilation of historical vignettes, discerning the future of our democracy by rediscovering the combative, instructive, fascinating past of tyranny and democracy. Just as ……続きを見る

I was not quite six years old when I stole my first pocketbook. I was very happy because I was petted and rewarded; my wretched stepmother patted my curly head, gave me a bag of candy, and said I wa……続きを見る

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century……続きを見る