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With her short skirt, bobbed hair, and penchant for smoking, drinking, dancing, and jazz, the “Modern Girl” was a fixture of 1920s Canadian consumer culture. She appeared in art, film, fashion, and ……続きを見る

For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (the latter two for her coverage of Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Ga……続きを見る

Reviled as an imperialist power, an exporter of destructive capitalism, an arrogant crusader against Islam, and a rapacious over-consumer casually destroying the planet, it seems that the United Sta……続きを見る

From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as di……続きを見る

Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Here, Omer Bartov demonstrates that in the twentieth century there……続きを見る

In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. Goodwin tells the story of Spai……続きを見る

This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les Nations unies en moins d’une heure ! Fondée au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’Organisation des Nations unies se donne d’emblée des objec……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Amerigo Vespucci et la découverte de l’embouchure de l’Amazone et de la baie de Rio de Janeiro en moins d’une heure ! Au cours de ses expéditions, Ameri……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Pedro Álvares Cabral et la découverte du Brésil en moins d’une heure ! Portugal, le 9 mars 1500. Pedro Álvares Cabral, un navigateur peu expérimenté, qu……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la construction européenne en moins d’une heure ! Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’idée d’établir une coopération européenne solide a germé……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Roald Amundsen et la course au pôle Sud en moins d’une heure ! La fin du XIXe siècle marque le commencement de la conquête des pôles. Faisant naître une……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’inquisition en moins d’une heure ! Érigée par les philosophes des Lumières comme le spectre d’une Église fanatique et encline à l’obscurantisme, l’inq……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur John Adams en moins d’une heure ! Si les États-Unis d'aujourd’hui doivent beaucoup à John Adams, le président a longtemps occupé un rôle secondaire dans……続きを見る

In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. ……続きを見る

With the spread of manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese cartoons) around the world, many have adopted the Japanese term 'otaku' to identify fans of such media. The connection to manga and ani……続きを見る

Un recueil de textes sur le printemps arabe Si la démocratie est, entre autres caractéristiques, un "gouvernement par la discussion", elle fut le fil directeur de ces rencontres, créant ce que l'on ……続きを見る

»That all you got?" Mit dieser Frage provoziert Muhammad Ali seine Gegner - in der Politik wie im Boxring. Auch 1974 in jener »Schlacht im Dschungel" von Zaire, dem Kampf gegen George Foreman, der d……続きを見る

In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany in the decades leading up to the Reformation. Contrary to the traditional wisdo……続きを見る

Have you ever heard of a four-footed bird? Can you really teach a dog to read? Where would you find a kangaroo crossed with a lion? In this brilliant and bizarre follow-up to Great Victorian Inventi……続きを見る

Behind the Counter reveals the largely hidden personal stories of shopworkers. Corner shops, ‘high-class’ grocers, dress shops and department stores are brought to life through letters, records and ……続きを見る

In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, whe……続きを見る

In Victorian Bradford, when death came, there was only one real place to be buried. For the rich and poor alike the newly laid out Undercliffe Cemetery, designed by William Gay, was the fashionable ……続きを見る

When Arthur Anderson invited William Makepeace Thackeray to take a cruise in 1844, and to write about it, British shipping lines offered passage on their vessels for no other reason than leisure. By……続きを見る

Extrait : "Une partie de nos colonies fut restituée à la France par le traité de 1814 ; nos établissements sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique furent de ce nombre ; mais le gouvernement Anglais ne man……続きを見る

From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ……続きを見る

It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counterinsurge……続きを見る

Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since its release over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the original in capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africa's deadly bush w……続きを見る

Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliog……続きを見る

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cam……続きを見る