MOS - History 1

This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as ‘Barbary’ (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Moro……続きを見る

Figlia illegittima del duca di Milano, data in sposa al nipote del papa a soli 10 anni, nipote prediletta di Sisto IV, signora dal pugno di ferro di Imola e Forlì, amante appassionata e capace di ve……続きを見る

The 1392 A.D. for Sardinia is a turning point because in the Giudicato of Arborea, approximately the current province of Oristano, was promulgated the Carta de Logu, a collection of laws of value co……続きを見る

Il 18 marzo 1489 Caterina Corner lasciava per l'ultima volta la città di Famagosta per imbarcarsi alla volta di Venezia. Terminava così l'indipendenza di Cipro come regno autonomo che sarebbe passat……続きを見る

Il 16 dicembre del 999 moriva a Seltz, in Alsazia, un'indiscussa protagonista della vita politica di quell'Europa dell'Alto Medioevo che stava lasciandosi alle spalle il primo millennio dell'era cri……続きを見る

Sul finire del XIX secolo i nuovi mezzi di comunicazione avevano accorciato i tempi di percorrenza anche sulle lunghe distanze, tanto che persino le traversate atlantiche erano diventate una questio……続きを見る

L'anno 1392 per la Sardegna rappresenta un punto di svolta epocale perché nel Giudicato di Arborea, grossomodo l'attuale provincia di Oristano, veniva promulgato la Carta de Logu, una raccolta di le……続きを見る

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period t……続きを見る

Quando il 14 aprile 972 la principessa bizantina Teofano sposò il figlio dell'imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero, Ottone II, si realizzava il sogno di Carlo Magno di gettare un ponte fra l'Occidente……続きを見る

William O. S. Gilly's 'Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849' is a comprehensive collection of firsthand accounts of naval disasters during a crucial period in British ma……続きを見る

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people……続きを見る

Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English ……続きを見る

The essential anti-racist book from one of the world's leading voices for change 'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber**.' Annie Lennox OBE** 'Smart and courage……続きを見る

This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551. The book is centered……続きを見る

Discover the lost towns that shaped Alabama’s earliest history. This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing ba……続きを見る

This book examines the development of the Russian economy from tsarist times to the present through the lens of the oil industry. It considers the role of the state, business-state relations, foreig……続きを見る

Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe. Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jew……続きを見る

The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as an extended autobiographical meditation on the meaning of race in antebellum America. First published in England, the text do……続きを見る

Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Moses Grandy was bequeathed to his young playmate, his original owner’s son, when they were both eight years old. Hired out until he was twenty-one, ……続きを見る

A detailed examination of the industrial development of Japan since the Meiji Restoration. 続きを見る

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was d……続きを見る

Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to su……続きを見る

This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, m……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Year……続きを見る

This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern ……続きを見る

From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation……続きを見る

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different ……続きを見る

Come è stato possibile che, nel cuore della vecchia Europa, persone «perbene», intelligenti e istruite abbiano aderito in massa alla causa del nazismo, abbracciandone i valori? Molti vedono nell'ide……続きを見る

No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar, so embedded in our culture, as the robin. With more than six million breeding pairs, the robin is second only to the wren as Britain’s most commo……続きを見る

A picturesque city, Port Jervis nestles in the Shawangunk Mountains at the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink Rivers, where three valleys and three states meet. This southeastern corner of New……続きを見る