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**A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages “This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read ……続きを見る

Though Mill has been the subject of an imposing volume of scholarship, his philosophy of history has received scant attention. This inquiry considers the role of history in Mill’s break from the Ben……続きを見る

The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region rem……続きを見る

In "France in the Nineteenth Century," Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer presents a meticulously crafted panorama of a transformative era in French history. Through her vivid prose and keen observations, L……続きを見る

Hans von Bülow is a key figure in 19th century music whose career path was as broad as it was successful. Music history's first virtuoso orchestral conductor, Bülow created the model for the profess……続きを見る

一部西方經書如何被引用、誤讀，最後據為己用？ 一場宣教行動如何****觸動滿漢族群問題、華洋民族意識？ 信仰如何成為狂熱，終於燃燒中國大半江山？ 史景遷敘事史學登峰造極之作 魔幻手法鉤勒出波瀾壯闊史詩 恪守……続きを見る

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.……続きを見る

Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy organic foods each year, spending billions of dollar……続きを見る

The amazing story behind the greatest newspapermen to ever liveーJoseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearstーlies primarily hidden with their reporters who were in the field. They risked their live……続きを見る

A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did ……続きを見る

This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of ……続きを見る

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinker……続きを見る

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who ……続きを見る

The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded into armed rebellion, whilst on the continent French armies were repeatedly victor……続きを見る

Eine behütete Kindheit im Pfarrhaus zu Günsbach und viel Freiheit, um in der Natur herumzustreunen, die Liebe zu Tieren und das Mitgefühl mit allen Leidenden zu entdecken, frühe musische und religiö……続きを見る

Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappo……続きを見る

Dans ce livret de quatre-vingts pages, Céline décrit la vie du médecin obstétricien hongrois Ignace Philippe Semmelweis (1818-1865) qui a observé que la fièvre puerpérale est transmise de malade en ……続きを見る

Obituaries of the most influential Victorians as profiled by The Times, including Dickens, Darwin, Ruskin, Peel, WG Grace and Florence Nightingale. For over 150 years, The Times obituaries have been……続きを見る

On a du mal aujourd'hui à se représenter l'importance, pour plusieurs générations, en France et dans le monde, de l'œuvre d'Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893). Ce normalien frondeur, mal vu des autorités a……続きを見る

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia ……続きを見る

Why did Western countries become so much wealthier than the rest of the world? What explains the huge rise in incomes during the Industrial Revolution - and why did Britain lead the way? In the year……続きを見る

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel……続きを見る

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history. 続きを見る

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center ……続きを見る

The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of econo……続きを見る

" La biographie de Michel Winock marque une étape dans la nécessaire déconstruction de la caricature encore dominante d'un homme d'Etat qui, de héraut de la gauche radicale, se serait mué en assassi……続きを見る

Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, bo……続きを見る

'Fluently written and convincingly argued, Blood and Iron is a brilliant account of an important period of history, and one that marks the arrival of a major new talent.' - Daily Telegraph 'The best……続きを見る

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nat……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for th……続きを見る