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Esto es una historia real. En la noche del 15 de mayo de 1793, en el pequeño pueblo de Coruña del Conde, en la provincia de Burgos (España), Diego Marín Aguilera, de 36 años, consiguió volar una dis……続きを見る

Frederick the Great was an acknowledged master of war. Admired and studied by Napoleon, he commanded the Prussian army at sixteen major battles and numerous sieges and other actions, often leading f……続きを見る

Das Buch "Übersicht einiger vorbereitenden Ursachen der französischen Staats-Veränderung", geschrieben von einem anonymen Autor, bietet einen tiefgründigen Einblick in die politischen und sozialen V……続きを見る

Die 'Constitution vom 4. Nov. 1814' von Karl XIII. ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk, das die politische Landschaft zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts revolutionierte. In prägnanter und klarer Sprache präsent……続きを見る

Il 27 luglio 1794, che secondo il calendario rivoluzionario francese corrispondeva al 9 Termidoro, la maggioranza della Convenzione Nazionale mise fine al governo di Robespierre che aveva instaurato……続きを見る

The Labottières were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to the sale of their business in 1794 three generations of this family acted as major……続きを見る

Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women’s experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Wo……続きを見る

The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, across the A……続きを見る

From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America……続きを見る

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of chil……続きを見る

Challenging the conception that only men shaped the Holy Roman Empire, this book provides students and general readers with biographies of preachers, nuns, princesses, businesswomen, artists, scient……続きを見る

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767–1820……続きを見る

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767–1820……続きを見る

"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosoph……続きを見る

The second volume of Shmuel Feiner's The Jewish Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1750 to 1800, a time of even greater upheavals, tensions, and challenges. The changes that began to emerge a……続きを見る

The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and its most prominent voices still reverberate today.……続きを見る

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767–1820……続きを見る

- A vital contribution to the re-evaluation of the legacy of the American Civil War - Comes at a time of widespread reassessment about the roles and status of people of African descent and their pla……続きを見る

This first volume of A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the ways in which Protestants wrestled with politics and religion in t……続きを見る

Sarah Siddons grew up as a member of a family troupe of travelling actors, always poor and often hungry, resorting to foraging for turnips to eat. But before she was 30 she had become a superstar, h……続きを見る

De vergeten geschiedenis van een rebelse prinses Maar weinig mensen kennen het verhaal van de Duitse prinses Julie. Dat begint in 1795, wanneer ze door haar moeder Auguste van Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld……続きを見る

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this p……続きを見る

Extrait :"Les plus grands états se sont formés par la réunion successive de diverses portions de territoire, de diverses masses de population qui apportaient, dans cette agrégation plus souvent cont……続きを見る