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'A scintillating gem: a cracking page-turner, historically illuminating……続きを見る
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and as many as 100 million Africans died as a result of the slave trade. The U.S. constitution set a 20-year……続きを見る
The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context.……続きを見る
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Introduction.
Author's Preface.
Chap. I. Sketch of my Parentage, Early separation from my Mother, Hard Fare, First Experimen……続きを見る
著者:Evan Friss
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2015年11月04日
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bi……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Alef
出版社: Titans of Fortune Publishing
発売日: 2008年11月09日
Biogrphical profile of one of America's most intriguing financiers, a man who made a fortune on Wall Street as a speculator. As to his chosen path, he said: "I am a speculator; and I make no ap……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Alef
出版社: Titans of Fortune Publishing
発売日: 2008年11月10日
Biographical profile of America's first millionaire, John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant who arrived in Manhattan with five English pounds in his pocket and amassed ownership of large swaths o……続きを見る
著者:Frank Laumer
出版社: University Press of Florida
発売日: 1995年08月03日
Dade's Battle in December 1835 precipitated the Second Seminole War. It was the first American war fought over the issue of slavery, Frank Laumer writes, and it occurred principally because of white……続きを見る
著者:Scott Stine, Ph.D.
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2015年09月22日
From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of c……続きを見る
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2015年09月22日
Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he……続きを見る
著者:Jessica James
出版社: Jessica James
発売日: 2016年05月09日
Eloquently written letters were part of Victorian era courtship, and the practice of letter writing did not end upon a couple’s marriage.
Today, no form of communication is more important, more roma……続きを見る
In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America a……続きを見る
著者:W.E. (Gary) Campbell
出版社: Goose Lane Editions and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society
発売日: 2011年09月30日
Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now New ……続きを見る
This original and wide-ranging work reveals how Abraham Lincoln responded to prompts from around the globe to shape his personal appearance, political appeal, and presidential policies. Throughout h……続きを見る
Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to l……続きを見る
This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the ……続きを見る
Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Cl……続きを見る
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Talleyrand en moins d’une heure !
Rien ne prédestinait Talleyrand à devenir ce diplomate de génie qui connaîtra pas moins de huit régimes différents. C’……続きを見る
'De Slag bij Waterloo' van historicus Andrew Roberts is een reconstructie van de nederlaag van Napoleon.
Zondag 18 juni 1815: de Slag bij Waterloo. Een slag die bijna 50.000 soldaten het leven kostt……続きを見る
During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sa……続きを見る
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant ins……続きを見る
Extraordinary renditionーthe practice of abducting criminal suspects in locations around the worldーhas been criticized as an unprecedented expansion of U.S. police powers. But America’s aggressive ……続きを見る
著者:Alexia M. Yates
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2015年10月06日
In 1871 Paris was a city in crisis. Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings and boulevards were damaged, its finances mired in debt, and its new government untested. But if Parisian a……続きを見る
In the decades before the Civil War, the small number of slaves who managed to escape bondage almost always made their way northward along the secret routes and safe havens known as the Underground ……続きを見る
Spirits of an Industrial Age tells the story of the ghosts that roamed the cities of Britain throughout the nineteenth century. These were not phantoms in a traditional supernatural sense, but appar……続きを見る
The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native p……続きを見る
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the p……続きを見る
著者:Ferry de Goey
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年10月06日
The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and trade. Using specific case studies, de……続きを見る
著者:Catherine Lee
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年10月06日
Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.
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