Baltic States 9

Ankara; Anadolu topraklarının tam ortasında bulunur ve tüm bölgeyi kontrol eder. Ankara tarih boyunca stratejik önemini korumuştur. Ankara’ya sahip olan devletler Anadolu’ya genelde hakim olmuşlardı……続きを見る

Armed with a handful of photos and a cryptic written sketch of the identity of his Great, Great Grandfathers, Charlie Maddaus travels to post-Soviet Latvia to discover the complex fabric of his ance……続きを見る

Ancient brewing traditions and techniques have been passed generation to generation on farms throughout remote areas of northern Europe. With these traditions facing near extinction, author Lars Mar……続きを見る

When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of ……続きを見る

From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's ……続きを見る

Russian Central Asia is the vast area, half as large as the United States, extending from the Caspian Sea to China, from Siberia to northern Iran. Ever since its conquest by Russia in the nineteenth……続きを見る

“Quando começa a guerra, a primeira vítima é a verdade”, diz a frase clássica do senador norte-americano Hiram Johnson, durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Esta dissertação de Mestrado em Comunicação……続きを見る

Nesta edição sobre a guerra civil que fragmentou a ex-Iugoslávia, o autor volta duas vezes ao cenário do conflito, ao palco de sua cobertura original feita para a Folha de S.Paulo, em 1992. Novas na……続きを見る

Oscar D. Skelton's 'The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor' is a comprehensive exploration of Canada's history, politics, and society. Skelton's writing style is academic yet ac……続きを見る

The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisation and colonisation on the north-east shore of th……続きを見る

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted eBook of "Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson that is adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents……続きを見る

Born in the twilight of the Russian Tsar's Empire, Karlis is raised on the fertile plains of Courland. Though poor, through hard work and good farming sense, the family becomes wealthy, only to lose……続きを見る

Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth centu……続きを見る

Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, lingu……続きを見る

This book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov. It examines the men, what they ……続きを見る

Cruise through History - Itinerary XI Ports of the Baltic Sea, the fifth book in storybooks for travelers series, is a delightful romp through one fairytale city after another. These are stories of ……続きを見る

A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave under threat? How do we remember extreme danger? How do subsequent gen……続きを見る

This book examines the status that rulers of one faith conferred onto their subjects belonging to a different one, how the rulers handled relationships with them, and the interactions between subjec……続きを見る

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatori……続きを見る

Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (1869-1947) was Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917 and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement afterward. A……続きを見る

Introduction The Polish cause has been the object of much misrepresentation by partisans of the three great empires which were interested in suppressing inconvenient truths. In consequence, the gene……続きを見る

The South Africa Act, 1909, authored by The Parliament of the United Kingdom, is a seminal piece of legislation that profoundly impacted the political landscape of South Africa. This historical docu……続きを見る

In 'Navvies and Their Needs' by Lewis Moule Evans, readers are taken on a journey through the history of the navvy, the laborer who worked on the construction of canals, railways, and other major en……続きを見る

This book analyzes public opinion, caricatures, propaganda, and international relations from 1939 to 1944. The author focuses on the coexistence of public opinion and Nazi propaganda in the Baltic s……続きを見る

Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga's 'The History of Philippine Islands' is a comprehensive and meticulously researched work that delves into the rich history of the Philippines. Written in a detailed and s……続きを見る

In 'The Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony' by George Francis Dow, readers are transported back to the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where the author explores the daily lives, strugg……続きを見る

This volume analyzes the history of the Lithuanian Metricaーthe chancellery books of the Lithuanian grand dukeーfrom the formation of its books in the mid-fifteenth century until now. It reveals how……続きを見る

This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect. Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentiet……続きを見る

With the Balkans being a small tourist destination, not many know of the horrors that plagued the people living there. The traumas of the Bosnian War (1991-1995) can be seen surfacing through the wa……続きを見る

In 2011 at the age of sixty-nine, Gerard Catherin hung up his chef's whites for the last time to full time on his main passion, his fifteen-year-long dream of finding the elusive diamond pipe in the……続きを見る