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“The KKK weren’t never about race. It were always about power and greed.” So begins 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbel……続きを見る

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed a rising interest in Arabic texts describing and explaining the rituals of the Coptic Church of Egypt. This book provides readers with an English tra……続きを見る

The essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a ……続きを見る

Volver a contar reúne a algunas de las voces más potentes de la literatura contemporánea para debatir sobre el lugar y significado de los museos en la actualidad. Una mirada nueva y retadora sobre l……続きを見る

Das Grundgesetz ist gerade in Krisenzeiten die Grundlage jedes gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurses in Deutschland. Höchste Zeit also für einen Kommentar, der die Verfassung für unsere Zeit neu erklär……続きを見る

In dieser Studie werden jene Personen der Öffentlichkeit in Erinnerung gebracht, die die Kriminalität des staatlich institutionalisierten Nationalsozialismus innerhalb der deutschen Volksgruppen in ……続きを見る

Seit Jahrhundertbeginn boomt der Markt populärer Geschichtsmagazine in Europa und anderen Weltregionen. Ihre Vielfalt und Auflagenhöhe machen sie zu bislang weithin unterschätzten Agenten der öffent……続きを見る

This book deals with the challenges for history education arising from the centrality of colonialism in shaping the modern world. It breaks new ground by bringing together an international range of ……続きを見る

The Byrd Machine ran Virginia politics for more than half a century. This political organization rose to power during the era of Jim Crow, wielding power and influence over everything from who got t……続きを見る

Zelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of her life, her historian grandson, Jeremy D. Popkin, has made a ……続きを見る

Providence Heights Campus in Issaquah, Washington, was designed in the 1950’s as state-of-the-art modern gothic architecture and completed by the Sisters of Providence in 1961. The purpose of the ca……続きを見る

Este livro apresenta alguns dos principais debates desenvolvidos no campo da história social do trabalho e constitui-se do diálogo entre e historiografia nacional e internacional. Os artigos aqui ap……続きを見る

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem i……続きを見る

This book analyzes the communication and writing strategies necessary to craft and maintain ongoing crowdfunding campaigns to support businesses, nonprofits, artists, and others. Drawing on theory f……続きを見る

The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought together a quarter century ago in the author's previous Variorum volume. The focal t……続きを見る

From beginning to end, the De rerum natura upsets expectations. This book's premise is that Lucretius intentionally provokes his imagined male audience, playfully and forcefully proving to them that……続きを見る

The following points are just that: points of wisdom I have gleaned from my travels across this world. Read them, and if they apply, use them in your own life. If not, you will encounter them again,……続きを見る

The Silver Star–awarded marine chronicles his service in Iraq in this “transcendent memoir of military service and its personal consequences” (Ralph Peters, Lt. Col., ret., author of Looking For Tro……続きを見る

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War. As a mark of their outstanding service they remained in being between the wars. However, it is for their service d……続きを見る

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also abou……続きを見る

Behind the bucolic plantation estates of Northern Virginia lies a history of scandal. The region has a rotating cast of greedy supervisors, vain senators, bullying occupiers and party bosses. The Ar……続きを見る

When Crandal Mackey was elected commonwealth's attorney in 1903, he set his sights on the illegal bars, bordellos and casinos of Alexandria County. The Virginia county--now Arlington County and part……続きを見る

For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed historyーfrom his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in ……続きを見る

An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informat……続きを見る

Frank Pope pulls back the curtain on the intensely competitive underworld of shipwrecks in this thrilling story of treasure hunting gone wrong. When Oxford archeologist Mensun Boundーdubbed the "Ind……続きを見る

Im Juni 1941 überschritten mehr als drei Millionen deutsche Soldaten die Grenze zur Sowjetunion und begannen einen Krieg, der als erklärter Rassen- und Vernichtungskrieg geführt wurde. Am Ende diese……続きを見る

This up-to-date compilation details the most significant stops along the Underground Railroad. Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide presents an overview of the various sites that……続きを見る

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost ……続きを見る