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In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great en……続きを見る

State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, tha……続きを見る

In a country where land disputes were the chief cause of conflict between the coloniser and the colonised, surveying could never be a neutral, depoliticised pastime.In a groundbreaking piece of scho……続きを見る

The settlement of iwi claims under the Treaty of Waitangi has drawn international attention, as other nations seek ways to build new relationships between indigenous peoples and the state.Here leadi……続きを見る

The Treaty of Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840 through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth ce……続きを見る

Leading historian James Belich presents Titokowaru, a Taranaki chief in the 1860s, as one of the great figures of New Zealand history. A leader in peace and war, he ran a stunning military campaign ……続きを見る

This book builds on Claudia Orange’s award-winning Treaty of Waitangi, using a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings to bring the Treaty’s history to life.Depictions of key players and ……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Der Kronprinz und die deutsche Kaiserkrone - Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter: Deutsch-Französische Krieg 1870/71" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichni……続きを見る

Uno studio obiettivo della conduzione della guerra da parte di Cadorna porta alla smentita di tanti luoghi comuni spacciati per verità storiche: si scoprirà che l’esercito italiano, un……続きを見る

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study……続きを見る

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study……続きを見る

American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond provides an up-to-date summary of past and present views of American slavery in international perspective and suggests new directions for current and f……続きを見る

The twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of th……続きを見る

In/visible Sight is a fascinating exploration of a little-known part of our history: the lives of part-Māori, part-Pākehā New Zealanders in the nineteenth century.Focussing on interracial intimacy b……続きを見る

American Unitarians were not onlookers to the drama of Protestantism in the nineteenth century, but active participants in its central conundrum: biblical authority. Unitarians sought what other Pro……続きを見る

Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of the social, political, economic and cultural history ……続きを見る

In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and dif……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES - A New York Story (American Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book, which……続きを見る

Au-delà des images et des caricatures toujours reproduites, la découverte d'une autre Joséphine, attachante et troublante. Elle ne s'appelait pas Joséphine de Beauharnais, mais Marie-Joseph-Rose de ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Andrew Jackson en moins d’une heure ! Parti de rien, Andrew Jackson forge sa personnalité à l’école de la guerre. Tout juste âgé de neuf ans, il partici……続きを見る

Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ev……続きを見る

A Kansas Notable Book Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851–1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street’s early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordina……続きを見る

The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815 is the first academic history of the state established by Napoleon in pre-partitioned Poland at the turn of the 19th century. The book examines the political, social a……続きを見る

In spite of the many historical studies of Irish Protestant migration to America in the eighteenth century, there is a noted lack of study in the transatlantic migration of Irish Protestants in the ……続きを見る

Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stageーbut its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery……続きを見る

In the era of the Early Republic, Americans determined the meaning of their Revolution and laid the foundation for the United States’ later emergence as a world power. This bookprovides students wit……続きを見る

" La porte s'ouvrit : la divinité parut, éblouissante de beauté et de satisfaction. On eût dit un rayon argenté sortant d'un nuage d'azur ", rapporte un témoin. Dorothée de Courlande, duchesse de Di……続きを見る

"Drawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gende……続きを見る

Here, the eminent historian Christopher Hibbert explores life in Victorian England, a time when the British Empire was at its height, when the prosperous English basked in the Pax Britannica and tho……続きを見る

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study……続きを見る