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Extrait: Bonaparte et le Directoire. ー Préparatifs de l’expédition. ( An VI. ー 1798.) LA situation de la république avait changé ; une seule campagne venait de replacer la France à la tête des nat……続きを見る

How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? Stephanie Sieburth’s Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer……続きを見る

“I say, you boy, it always rains here, doesn’t it?ーor ‘whiles snaws’ーas the aborigines say. You’re a native, ar’nt you? When do you think the rain will go off?ーdo you ever have any fine weather h……続きを見る

Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspir……続きを見る

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought. The Body and Desire ……続きを見る

In 'Salem Witchcraft (Vol. I&II)', Charles Wentworth Upham provides a comprehensive account of the infamous witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 17th century. Upham combi……続きを見る

The islands of Chiloé, in southern Chile, have developed a distinct culture over several centuries, blending indigenous traditions and Spanish settler heritage to create a vibrant pattern of folklor……続きを見る

"The Rock of Chickamauga,” presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been “The Guns……続きを見る

“The Sword of Antietam” tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in “The Guns of Bull Run” and continued through “The Guns of Shiloh” and “The Scouts of Stonew……続きを見る

Excerpt: "The wilderness rolled away to north and to south, and also it rolled away to east and to west, an unbroken sweep of dark, glossy green. Straight up stood the mighty trunks, but the leaves ……続きを見る

One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke; The other out of smoke brings glorious light, And (without raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. Roscommon. I have observed, that……続きを見る

Joseph Addison was a distinguished 18th century English poet, author, playwright, politician and classical scholar. He is recognised as one of the finest periodical essayists, who along with his fri……続きを見る

Joseph Addison was a distinguished 18th century English poet, author, playwright, politician and classical scholar. He is recognised as one of the finest periodical essayists, who along with his fri……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot ……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Having often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the……続きを見る

The ability to be divided along ethnic and religious lines is inherent to much of Africa’s media. Such potentially divisive reporting has the ability to incite violence through prejudiced informatio……続きを見る

MAJOR OCHTERLONY had been very fidgety after the coming in of the mail. He was very often so, as all his friends were aware, and nobody so much as Mary, his wife, who was herself, on ordinary occasi……続きを見る

Two ladies were seated in a great dim room, partially illuminated by fits and starts with gleams of firelight. The large windows showed a pale dark sky, in which twilight was giving place to night, ……続きを見る

This book is a critical analysis of how the discursive and material practices of the "War on Terror" influenced security politics in Southeast Asia after 9/11. It explores how the US-led War on Terr……続きを見る

The author of The Haunted Heart of Denver goes beyond the city limits to investigate the supernatural surroundings of Colorado’s capital. In Denver, the spirits aren’t just penned to the city center……続きを見る

African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and p……続きを見る

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold a……続きを見る

The Sphere.ーA sphere is a solid figure bounded by a surface which curves equally in all directions at every point. The rate at which the surface curves is called the curvature of the sphere. The sm……続きを見る

Am 12. November 1918 wurde um 15 Uhr von der Rampe des Wiener Parlaments aus die Republik Österreich ausgerufen, deren Gründung am selben Tag beschlossen worden war. Es folgten die 100 Jahre unserer……続きを見る

This polemical volume tackles the thorny and controversial issue of the vastly different narratives told (or manufactured) by the two parties of the conflict in the Middle East (the Arabs and Israel……続きを見る

This book examines school and college fiction for girls in Britain and the United States, written in the first half of the twentieth century, to explore the formation and ideologies of feminine iden……続きを見る

The scene was the parlour at Drumcarro, in the wilds of Argyllshire, the speakers, the mistress of the house de jure, and she who was at the head of affairs de facto, Marg’ret the housekeeper, cook,……続きを見る

Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge int……続きを見る

In A Legal History of Mississippi: Race, Class, and the Struggle for Opportunity, legal scholar Joseph A. Ranney surveys the evolution of Mississippi’s legal system and analyzes the ways in which th……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The French and Indian War" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Hunters of the Hills: A Story of the French and Indian W……続きを見る