RENA - 19th Century 1

Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congress……続きを見る

Una biografia che ripercorre i momenti salienti della vita di Gioacchino Murat: le umili origini, la fulminante carriera militare al fianco di Napoleone, le celebri imprese in Italia, in Egitto e ne……続きを見る

Le polemiche che hanno caratterizzato la celebrazione dei centocinquanta anni dell’Unità d’Italia si sono spesso focalizzate sul crollo del Regno delle Due Sicilie e sulla fine dei Borboni. Un front……続きを見る

Written during the Spanish Civil War, published in 1943, revised in 1950 and republished in paperback in1960, The Spanish Labyrinth assesses the social and political background of the war, not the w……続きを見る

“Not for nothing has Abbott been called a ‘pioneer of sizzle history.’ Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War.” ー Los……続きを見る

The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the p……続きを見る

In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to lea……続きを見る

Bloody Bay recounts the gritty history of law enforcement in San Francisco. Beginning just before the California gold rush and through the six decades leading up to the twentieth century, a culture ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Ceux qui veulent à tout prix découvrir dans l'histoire l'application d'une rigoureuse justice distributive s'imposent une tâche assez rude. Si, en beaucoup de cas, nous voyons les crimes ……続きを見る

This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as ……続きを見る

La période 1846-1878 constitue un moment clé de la Belgique fraîchement indépendante... Terre d'industrie, héritage de la période française et hollandaise, le pays s'est structuré en s'appuyant sur ……続きを見る

“In 1831 Ferris was with a trapping party on the upper Snake River...had trouble with a band of rival Hudson Bay trappers.” -Beaver County News, Jan. 2, 1941 “One of the earliest explorers to visit ……続きを見る

Renato Fucini giunse alla stazione ferroviaria di Napoli, dalla “gentile Toscana”, il 3 maggio 1877, per scrivere, su invito di Pasquale Villari, un reportage sulle condizioni della popolazione e su……続きを見る

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation……続きを見る