Roger - World History 1

A historical study of the Scots who travelled to the Dutch East Indies to make their fortune. Scotland's diaspora, reframed through the Dutch East Indies: the intertwined lives of Highland lairds, I……続きを見る

„Lenyűgöző beszámoló egy kétségbeesett, sokszor ádáz küzdelemről.” - Giles Milton, A történelem bizarr lábjegyzetei szerzője. Kolumbusz nem Amerika felfedezésére indult, ahogy Magellán sem a Föld me……続きを見る

Is there a code hidden in the vast reservoir of learning that we acquired from ancient times to modern days that will help humanity progress? If so, wouldn't keeping it a secret raise more curiosity……続きを見る

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team……続きを見る

This book makes a convincing case for the fact that we are indeed living in the last days of the present age. The author begins by looking at what God says about the last days, then at what the sign……続きを見る

About the book After giving the reader a very thorough picture of what the names, character, objectives, and eventual end of the coming world ruler known as the "antichrist" will be, the author spen……続きを見る

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world econ……続きを見る

What is an adventurer? One who has adventures? Surely not. A person charged by a wild rhinoceros is having an adventure, yet however wild the animal, however wild the person, he is only somebody wis……続きを見る

Om den historiska forskningen under 1970-talet var starkt inriktad på socialhistoria så upplevde politisk historia och kulturhistoria en renässans under 1980-talet. Idag är gränserna mellan forsknin……続きを見る

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning. It argues that the Soviet experien……続きを見る

Gustaf VI Adolf bidrog personligen till att rädda monarkin i Sverige när han 1918 1919, tillsammans med bland andra Hjalmar Branting, som kronprins pressade Gustaf V och högern att gå med på en demo……続きを見る

Varför är jag som jag är, pappa Jack som han är och mamma som hon är? Efter många år med mardrömmar om pappas mormor vet jag att släktens inverkan är större än anat. Jag var till och med rädd för at……続きを見る

Freemasonry played a major role in the economic and social life of the Victorian era but it has received very little sustained attention by academic historians. General histories of the period hardl……続きを見る

This novel tells of a drama enacted within the stone walls of the Abbey of Mont St. Michel that man and nature have created here - a drama of a man and a woman, of strong opposing forces and of loft……続きを見る

Jeruzsálem 1244-ben elesett, s a szentföldi keresztesek kétszáz esztendei háborúskodás után egyetlen valamirevaló erősségben húzhatták meg magukat: Akkóban. A város impozáns bástyáit és vastag kőfal……続きを見る

The years leading to World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the wor……続きを見る

Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (1987) examines Sri Lanka’s justice system under British rule, and concentrates on two of its aspects: the effectiveness of the administration of law……続きを見る

Despite the substantial output of revisionist scholarship over the last decade reappraising the performance of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War, there still remains a……続きを見る

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"A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s." ー New York Times The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field,……続きを見る

Il y a déjà plusieurs années, jeune espérantiste, je me suis intéressé à l’histoire et à la vie du créateur de l’Espéranto, Louis Lazare Zamenhof. Les informations que j’ai trouvées dans le monde de……続きを見る

Exam board: AQA; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thous……続きを見る

First published in 1984. Revisionism or reformism has long been recognised as one of the main intellectual ancestors of democratic socialism, the last survivor of the tradition of Enlightenment prog……続きを見る

Exam board: AQA; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thous……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de Sedan en moins d’une heure ! Le 1er septembre 1870 se joue l’avenir du Second Empire. Les forces prussiennes désireuses d’obtenir l’unifi……続きを見る

The nations of the Pacific Basin - in East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, the Pacific islands and the Americas - make up the world's largest economic zone, and its most culturally diverse region. ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’attaque de Pearl Harbor en moins d’une heure ! Nous sommes le 7 décembre 1941, il est 7 h 58 lorsque les premières bombes japonaises sont larguées sur……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’opération « Tempête du désert » en moins d’une heure ! En août 1990, le Koweït est envahi par l’Irak. La deuxième guerre du Golfe vient tout juste de ……続きを見る

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human p……続きを見る

Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series tha……続きを見る