Rady - History 1

Russia was not built gently. From river-trading kingdoms and forest outposts to Mongol domination, Muscovite ambition, imperial conquest, Soviet power, and modern confrontation, its history is a lon……続きを見る

In 1979, a monarchy that seemed too armed, too wealthy, and too well protected to fall collapsed in front of the world. The shah fled Iran, and Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to reshape a na……続きを見る

The Warsaw Pact was sold as a shield against invasion, but its sharpest edge pointed inward. Behind the language of brotherhood and mutual defense stood an empire built to keep Poland, Hungary, Czec……続きを見る

The Russian Revolution did not end when the Romanovs fell. It only opened the door to a more dangerous question: which revolutionary would control the state born from the wreckage? Lenin had the min……続きを見る

China’s history begins with rivers that could feed an empire one generation and drown it the next. From Yellow River villages and oracle bones to the first emperors who tried to bind the realm into ……続きを見る

Shacklife tells the story of a rare and enduring coastal community living lightly in a heritage-listed shack settlement, set in pristine coastal bushland. Built on cooperation rather than consumeris……続きを見る

In 1969, Soviet and Chinese soldiers fought pitched battles over a frozen island smaller than a suburban shopping mall. Both nations had been communist allies just a decade earlier. Within three yea……続きを見る

From the frozen labor camps of Siberia to the killing fields of Cambodia, a single political idea carved a path of destruction across the twentieth century that claimed approximately 100 million liv……続きを見る

For eight hundred years, the largest nation on earth has fought wars it was supposed to win. It didn't. From the frozen steppes where Mongol cavalry shattered Russian princes to the mountain passes ……続きを見る

By: Grady Howell, Pub. 2004, 288 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-950-6. This book is filled with All known persons that served under the State of Mississippi in the Mexican War. The author g……続きを見る

Following her Egypt Guidebook and Nile Ladies, her useful little volume relating the stories of the women who contributed so much to the history of Egypt, this time Ellen Grady narrates the tales of……続きを見る

Most, amikor Közép-Európában újból jelentkeznek azok a feszültségek, amelyek soha nem csitultak el és nem oldódtak meg teljesen, s amikor a régiót újból fenyegeti keletről a hatalmas Oroszország, ne……続きを見る

This ebook is a practical and empowering guide designed to help students with ADHD leverage their unique strengths and develop effective strategies for academic and personal success. It moves away f……続きを見る

In retrospect, after having long researched these assassination cases, it became apparent that an undefined, fictional undercurrentー a mystery of sorts, a mysterious veilー is connected to these tw……続きを見る

The Devil's Midwife: Walpurga Hausmännin On September 20, 1587, an elderly midwife named Walpurga Hausmännin was burned at the stake in Dillingen an der Donau, accused of murdering over forty infant……続きを見る

New York's Long Island is long on history from land to sea! Ralph Brady covers well known and unknown sites, events, homes, places and people. Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already kn……続きを見る

The first book of its kind, Less than Victory explores both the impact the Vietnam War had on American Catholics, and the impact of the nation's largest religious group upon its most controversial w……続きを見る

At the time Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th president of the United States, the Democratic Party had been enjoying a half-century of sustained electoral advantage. It had long controlled Co……続きを見る

In "Indian Frontier Policy; an Historical Sketch," John Sir Adye meticulously examines the complex evolution of British colonial policy along the Indian frontier. Through a comprehensive and chronol……続きを見る

Budapest, 1930s and 1940s. László “Laci” Weisz had an ambitious streak, excelling in school and prospering in business despite modest beginnings. Had he lived in unremarkable times, his life might h……続きを見る

A narrative of the forgotten privateering war on the Jersey coast during the American Revolution 続きを見る

In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a r……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Historical-Academic Nonfiction In Chained to History**, Steven J. Brady centers slavery in America's pre–Civil War foreign relations.** From the after……続きを見る

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how natureーdisease, climate, flora and fauna, and……続きを見る

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union milit……続きを見る

In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built. Say the words "Humboldt County……続きを見る

An in-depth account of a bloody World War II battle in Italy and a beloved U.S. Army captain whose story moved a nation. By the time Mark Clark's Fifth Army reached the small village of San Pietro n……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who was Bobby Fischer? In this “nuanced perspective of the chess genius” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed biographer chronicles his meteoric rise and confounding fall, w……続きを見る

"The Coming of Cuculain" is a literary paintings penned through Standish O'Grady, an Irish writer and historian. Published inside the late nineteenth century, O'Grady's narrative revolves across the……続きを見る

In "Early Bardic Literature, Ireland," Standish O'Grady undertakes the bold mission of compiling his historical musings right into a cohesive narrative, making sure accessibility for readers of ever……続きを見る