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As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global proble……続きを見る

Ricco e variegato volume di una serie di tre dedicato alla storia e alle uniformi del Regno Italico. In questi tempi celebriamo i centocinquant'anni dell'unità d'Italia, avvenuta come noto il 17 mar……続きを見る

Gli Italiani con Napoleone sono il soggetto di questa bella raccolta di figurini dell’artista piemontese. Dedicati alle repubbliche figlie della rivoluzione, la nascita del tricolore, il Regno Itali……続きを見る

Fanny was quite a girl, but also a writer of considerable talent. Maligned by some of her contemporaries because she didn't quite fit in with the Victorian image of what a 'lady' should be, she did ……続きを見る

Blood curdling account of the Seige of Lucknow in 1857 India.A fascinanting and shockingly testimony. This is the personal diary of Julia Selina Inglis, the wife of Major-General Sir John Eardley In……続きを見る

Les images les plus belles et les plus significatives jamais réunies sur l'Empereur. Sur un texte clair et séduisant de Thierry Lentz, retraçant en chapitres thématiques les différents traits de la ……続きを見る

The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress……続きを見る

Dans la lignée des livres d'Erik Larson, une formidable reconstitution de l'Exposition Universelle de 1889 et de la construction de la tour Eiffel. Quand Gustave Eiffel remporte le concours lui perm……続きを見る

Oper, Museen, Kaffeehäuser und Life Ball - nur einige der internationalen Symbole für die facettenreiche Geschichte und die schillernde Gegenwart Wiens. Sie alle befinden sich an der Wiener Ringstra……続きを見る

The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another.  Audiences everywhere embraced the resul……続きを見る

Napoléon maître de guerre. De tous les chefs de guerre passés à la postérité ‒ Alexandre le Grand, Jules César, Frédéric II de Prusse ‒, seul Napoléon est universellement connu. Aujourd'hui encore, ……続きを見る

Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalties of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed a……続きを見る

 No one is satisfied with an incomplete story. The very meagre and inconsistent accounts of the adventures of Sylvia and Rachel Hall (familiarly known as the “Hall girls”) heretofore published,……続きを見る

Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. Thi……続きを見る

Que s'est-il réellement passé à Sainte-Hélène ? Napoléon a-t-il été empoisonné et par qui ? Depuis des années la controverse fait rage. Or, voici que, miraculeusement, François de Candé-Montholon, d……続きを見る

The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century is one of the classics of anarchist literature.[1] Written in the aftermath of the 1848 French Revolution, it sets forth a libertarian al……続きを見る

L'histoire de Joseph Serrant débute dans l'époque troublée de la Révolution pour s'achever dans le morne conformisme de la Restauration. Cordonnier à Saint-Pierre, il s'active dans le Club des jeune……続きを見る

Die Texte für dieses Buch entstanden auf der Basis umfangreicher Recherchen im Auftrag des damaligen Gewerkschaftsverlages 'Tribüne' in der Zeit vor 1989 und sollten den Urlaubern das Land an der da……続きを見る

From the author of Mind and Matter, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to ……続きを見る

Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others……続きを見る

"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, an……続きを見る

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England’s wealthiest families Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource f……続きを見る

“Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No o……続きを見る

Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans’ propensity to form voluntary associationsーand to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Der 14. Dezember (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Dmitri Sergejewitsch Mereschkowsk……続きを見る

A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father. Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in ……続きを見る

Der ehemalige Seefahrer und spätere Dorfschullehrer in Althagen bei Ahrenshoop Johann Christian Cyrus legte anfang der achtziger Jahre des 18. Jahrhunderts im Fischländer Ort Wustrow die Grundlagen ……続きを見る

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), ……続きを見る

Breve ma completo trattato sulla storia dell’esercito del papa, si focalizza soprattutto agli ultimi anni della sua esistenza, quelli vissuti durante il Risorgimento italiano dal 1818 al 20 settembr……続きを見る

Reprinted in its entirety, is the fascinating tale of jealous rivalry for the affections of the beautiful socialite, (Lucy) Bessie Hale ー her suitors being none other than John Wilkes Booth and Rob……続きを見る