F - World History 1

Sir Oliver Franks served as British Ambassador to the US between 1948 and 1952. This analysis reveals a great deal about the condition of relations between Britain and America, the mechanics of co-o……続きを見る

Bringing history teaching into the twenty-first century, Teaching History Online is a concise guide to developing and using internet resources in history instruction. It offers practical, jargon-fre……続きを見る

An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Usi……続きを見る

This is a short and Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission. As a guide to understanding the enormity of the impact of the war, there were……続きを見る

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A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians. Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that……続きを見る

In the Iliad,[1] after the spirit of Patroclus has visited Achilles in his dream, it is described as taking its departure, and entering the ground like smoke. In long after years, and amon……続きを見る

Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By the early seventeenth century their desc……続きを見る

***This is a short book on the aftermath of the Extraordinary Second World War *** War has a tradition of changing the social and economic map of a country. The concept of family was completely torn……続きを見る

Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its……続きを見る

This in-depth historical account focuses on the life, accomplishments and influence of Robert I, also known as Robert the Bruce, who was the king of Scots in the period 1306-1329. Offering a detaile……続きを見る

The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropol……続きを見る

World War History: First world war and the Unsung Heroes of World War Two - 2 Book Bundle. ***Please Note: This is a Military Short History*** Two world war history books inside: • The Forgotten Her……続きを見る

Las palabras son armas poderosas. Pueden servir para inspirar o para exaltar, para proporcionar consuelo o generar confrontación, para conseguir la victoria o forzar la rendición. Y, con frecuencia,……続きを見る

World War II created the union between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, molding it from start to finish, while the partnership itself shaped many of the most significant moments of the war ……続きを見る

Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical affects it wil……続きを見る

“With his characteristic eloquence and lucid insights. . . Cantor offers a splendid and accessible portrait of the cultures of the ancient world.”ーPublishers Weekly Bestselling author Norman Cantor……続きを見る

This major work offers an historical description and systematic analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization, and prov……続きを見る

A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up……続きを見る

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend provides the first feminist analysis of both the Arthurian section of The History of the Kings of Britain and The Life of Merlin……続きを見る

This grand compilation presents more than 250 depictions of the alphabet's changing forms, from handsome Roman letters cut in marble and delicate English courthand to sixteenth-century Greek initial……続きを見る

Matthew Lewis (17775-1818), author of The Monkーone of the most famous of gothic novelsーis attracting increasing attention for his own talent and his pre-eminence in the gothic school. The gothic m……続きを見る

We call that reinforcement. All these matter in our daily lives. The longevity of the effect of that self-satisfaction with the reinforcement of inspirational quotations in your life, in reality, ba……続きを見る

This history of early European colonial efforts in North America (specifically, the portion north of Mexico and the Caribbean) examines why three colonies-St. Augustine, Jamestown and Quebec-succeed……続きを見る

Francis Marion Crawford takes us on a lively tour of the Capital where east meets west during the waning years of Ottoman rule. He portrays a lively city of the dying empire. This is the 1893 seria……続きを見る

Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known pla……続きを見る

In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,00……続きを見る

Izzy Stone was a reporter, a radical, an idealist, a scholar and, it is clear, a writer whose insights have more than stood the test of time. More than fifteen years after his death, this collection……続きを見る

Sobre Sevilla se ha escrito mucho y bien de su historia, su cultura y, sobre todo, del crisol de pueblos que la han ido conformando, día a día, siglo a siglo. Y aunque así se construye la memoria de……続きを見る

A Short History of the World in 50 Animals provides a new perspective on the grand sweep of our planet’s making, taking readers from the time of the dinosaurs to the time of Dolly, the first cloned ……続きを見る