CK - History 100

What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the……続きを見る

La résolution d'un des plus grands mystères de l'Histoire : la guerre de Troie, grâce aux deux œuvres majeures de l'Antiquité, l'Iliade et l'Odyssée. Pour la première fois, Iman Wilkens développe la……続きを見る

Follow the shocking but true story of Joseph Gavi, a small Jewish boy growing up in Minsk, Byelorussia, during the German invasion of WWII. Relive unspeakable horrors surrounding him as he at first ……続きを見る

In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and……続きを見る

Vitruvius' De architectura is the only extant classical text on architecture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinci is well-known. But what was the text's purpose in its ……続きを見る

In this book, Hella Eckardt offers new insights into literacy in the Roman world by examining the tools that enabled writing, such as inkwells, styli and tablets. Literacy was an important skill in ……続きを見る

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals. It presents a critical exchange between two leading contemporary social theorists, Pa……続きを見る

The book interprets the Cuban revolutionary movement from 1868 to 1959 as a continuous process that sought political independence and social and economic transformation of colonial and neocolonial s……続きを見る

This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turnin……続きを見る

As it was my object to present in as vivid a manner as possible the wonderful story of the gradual extension of the power of a single city over so large a part of the known world, I have dwelt perha……続きを見る

After a miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the First World War……続きを見る

This book was first published in 2003.Paul Speck's work is acknowledged to be of profound importance for the study of the history and culture of the Byzantine world. If at times controversial, it ha……続きを見る

____________________________________________________________ Ragley, 1952. Lily has just arrived, ready to begin her first year as a teacher at the village school. There to welcome her is John Pruet……続きを見る

In its diversity of perspectives, The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections is testament to the ways in which contemplations of the A-bomb are endlessly shifting, rarely fixed on the same ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1930, this is a fascinating historical biography of Henry III, who was the King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610, having inherited the throne of Navarre on the death of his mothe……続きを見る

Kentucky is most commonly associated with horses, tobacco fields, bourbon, and coal mines. There is much more to the state, though, than stories of feuding families and Colonel Sanders' famous fried……続きを見る

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Duchy of Coburg was a small, impoverished German fiefdom ruled by the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. Yet within just forty years – and following the marria……続きを見る

In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of ……続きを見る

David Ickes aufrüttelndes und bisher explosivstes Buch behandelt den erstaunlichen Hintergrund des Mordes an Diana, Prinzessin von Wales. Jeder Mann, jede Frau und jedes Kind auf diesem Planeten wir……続きを見る

Dieses Buch ist kein Enthüllungsbuch, denn es gibt nichts mehr zu enthüllen, wenngleich das Bekannte nur wenigen bekannt ist – das gilt selbst für freimaurerische Kreise. Das Buch soll entmythologis……続きを見る

A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, stru……続きを見る

A Heroica antepassada Galesa da rainha Elizabeth Tudor! Nascida em 1097 no castelo de Aberffraw, a princesa Gwenllian Ferch Gruffydd ap Cynan sempre foi destinada a grandes coisas. Como filha de um ……続きを見る

When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated a broad range of government papers and archives. These records were subsequently used in war c……続きを見る

Unterrichtsentwurf aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Didaktik, Note: 1,5, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nachdem Caesar sich großen militärischen Ruhm im gallischen Kriege erworben hatte,……続きを見る

In 'President's Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to Trump (1789-2017),' readers are offered a profound glimpse into the evolving landscape of American rhetoric and political commitment. This anth……続きを見る

Warning: with This Used to Be Chicago as your guide, you may never look at Chicago the same again. Every building has a pastーauthor Joni Hirsch Blackman finds the stories behind more than 90 Chicag……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered why some towns in Texas have French names? Or why there's a statue of a Shawnee chief at the US Naval Academy? Or what coastal wildlife refuges have to do with American fears ……続きを見る

Flixton, Urmston and Davyhulme, in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, form a fascinating and historically diverse district. Flixton is home to the ancient church of St Michael, established around……続きを見る

Alexander Korda's 1936 film The Shape of Things to Come predicted the nightmare of aerial bombing against London. Even as the storm clouds gathered, the government was woefully slow in protecting it……続きを見る

In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political lifeーnot with guns, but French philosophy This collective intellectual biography examines ge……続きを見る