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By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atl……続きを見る

“Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream.” Margaret Atwood, “True North” In this interdisciplinary coll……続きを見る

This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set ……続きを見る

Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized magazine, became the “bible” for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, “If it wasn’t in Jet, it didn'……続きを見る

Patrol Wing Ten was the only U.S. Navy aviation unit to fight the Japanese in the early weeks of World War II, and the daring exploits of its PBY scout-plane pilots offer a dramatic tale of heroism,……続きを見る

The Intellectual Roots of Contemporary Black Thought examines the ways in which the intellectual production of notable historical figures of Africa Diasporan Thought has shaped, and continues to sha……続きを見る

For the first time, Britain and the United States in Greece provides an in-depth analysis of Anglo-American diplomacy in Greece from 1946 to 1950. After Word War II, as Europe floundered economicall……続きを見る

Mit den Wikingern verbindet man oft die Vorstellung von beutegierigen und trinkfesten Seeräubern. Rudolf Simek konfrontiert im vorliegenden Band diese und andere Gemeinplätze mit den Ergebnissen der……続きを見る

A compelling history of the 1846 Mormon expulsion from Illinois that exemplifies the limits of American democracy and religious tolerance. When members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa……続きを見る

Come funzionava la macchina della giustizia che condannava le streghe nel secolo della rivoluzione scientifica? Una giornalista fruga negli archivi, tra le carte processuali, e ripercorre, udienza d……続きを見る

Offers a new understanding of how Pompeian houses functioned and how they were utilized in Roman society and expands our understanding of the life and social interactions of the so-called Roman midd……続きを見る

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes zielen darauf ab – in interdisziplinärer Annäherung und unter Rückgriff auf den vielschichtigen Begriff der «Textur» – die Spuren zu erforschen, die die um den Mitte……続きを見る

This book explores concepts of environmentalism and feminism in science fiction novels written by women. By extrapolating the future of climate change, the authors of these texts model how readers c……続きを見る

This fourth volume in the comprehensive series “fills a gap in the existing narrative” of WWII’s Mediterranean air war (Journal of Military History). The fourth volume in this momentous series comme……続きを見る

Read this my children, and you shall learn of life as it was when I was young; a simple life there is no doubt but one filled with miracles, nonetheless. The world was changing. Electricity! Tractor……続きを見る

Black Femalehood and the Principles of Existence in Practice conceptually frames the complex trajectory of Black femalehood, including contributions and triumphs, methods of resistance, and ways of ……続きを見る