F.F - History 83

Lincolns hela liv är som en saga. Han föddes i en fönsterlös hydda i skogen, fick knappt ett års skolgång men läste själv allt han kom över och blev vid 28 års ålder självlärd advokat. Hans politisk……続きを見る

Att bli omhändertagen av samhället är ett djupt ingrepp i en människas liv. De individuella mötena med anstalten uppmärksammas sällan, men i Inspärrad får vi följa personer som varit intagna på sinn……続きを見る

Så blev vädret. Göteborg dag för dag år 1967. Hur var vädret en viss dag i Göteborg? Vilka dagar var det uppehåll, regn eller snöfall? När var det vinterkyla och sommarvärme? Var det snöfall på jula……続きを見る

Issu des plus récentes études sur les Sioux des Plaines, cet ouvrage est à ce jour l'un des plus abouti sur cette tribu qui, presque à elle seule, synthétise sur son nom la résistance et la funeste ……続きを見る

À Sainte-Hélène, entouré de quelques fidèles officiers et domestiques, Napoléon va vivre de 1815 à 1821 dans des conditions extrêmes. Sur cette île balayée par les alizés, installé dans un bâtiment ……続きを見る

Commencés en 1922, ces Mémoires ont été achevés en 1928. Ils forment un manuscrit dactylographié de 1218 pages. Ils comprennent 4 parties : La première traite de lavant-guerre depuis le moment où le……続きを見る

Rédigés lors de son exil en Suède, les souvenirs de guerre d'Erich Ludendorff constituent un précieux témoignage allemand sur la Première Guerre mondiale. Premier quartier-maître général des armées ……続きを見る

L'Inde fait aujourd'hui irruption sur la scène internationale à la faveur de la globalisation économique, forte de son nouveau statut de puissance nucléaire et en vertu d'une formidable dynamique cu……続きを見る

On n'écrit plus guère sur la Terreur. Cet épisode central de la Révolution française, l'un des plus mystérieux et des plus controversés, n'a cessé de hanter notre histoire contemporaine. Il a prêté ……続きを見る

**'A compulsive read...' Exclusive Magazine Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union t……続きを見る

The Spanish word cimarron, meaning “wild” or “untamed,” refers to a region in the southern Rocky Mountains where control of timber, gold, coal, and grazing lands long bred violent struggle. After th……続きを見る

UNION TERROR IS A CUTTING-EDGE BOOK FOR OUR DAY. Drawing from his vast real-world background as the senior legal advisor for the U.S. Army Special Forces, Professor Addicott not only pulls back the ……続きを見る

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s. The role of the Colonial Office had changed following the Second World War, and this book lo……続きを見る

What, if anything, is Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism? In 1224, the medieval Japanese scholar-monk Dōhan (1179–1252) composed The Compendium on Esoteric Mindfulness of Buddha (Himitsu nenbutsu shō), whi……続きを見る

One of the remarkable anomalies of Egyptian History is that the source material for the study of one of the country's principal settlements sites and one of the greatest cities of antiquity-Memphis-……続きを見る

Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco documents and interprets the physical remains and afterlives of the Chaco War (1932–35) – known as South America’s first ‘modern’ armed conflict – in……続きを見る

Dyma olygiad o anterliwt gan Huw Jones, Glanconwy, o gyfnod cythryblus y Chwyldro Ffrengig. Cyhoeddwyd y testun ym 1798, ond ni chafodd unrhyw sylw gan ysgolheigion yr anterliwt yn ystod yr ugeinfed……続きを見る

A study of the thirty-five Carnegie libraries built in towns and industrial communities in Wales before the First World War. The library system is in a transformative phase that attracts much attent……続きを見る

Mae Cyfri’n Cewri yn dathlu bywyd a gwaith mathemategwyr a gysylltir â Chymru. Pan gyfansoddwyd yr anthem genedlaethol ym 1856, roedd Cymru ym merw y Chwyldro Diwydiannol, gyda chymdeithasau gwyddon……続きを見る

This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition……続きを見る

This book celebrates the life and work of twelve mathematicians who were either born in Wales or who worked in Wales. When the Welsh national anthem was composed in 1856, Wales was at the centre of ……続きを見る

What was the society in which the Inquisition, that great attack upon human liberty, succeeded? To answer this, in the case of that other great attack of which we are the unhappy spectators, it woul……続きを見る

A well known popular Writer on the History of the Christian Church has given it as his Opinion, that whoever will carefully examine the original Records, will soon be convinced that the Merits of Wy……続きを見る

Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased t……続きを見る

Questa raccolta di saggi, incentrata sulla produzione delle armi e il loro passaggio di mano in varie situazioni mondiali, prende spunto da un dossier su www.ogzero.org nel quale abbiamo monitorato ……続きを見る

This publication is dedicated to the issues related to Social Justice in the Caribbean, and seeks to increase dialogue among practitioners, unions, labour activists, academics, policy-makers and oth……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook collection of Charles Coffin's works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Seat of Empire The Story of Liberty Old Times in……続きを見る

'Civil War Live' is a record of personal observations and experiences of Charles Carleton Coffin during the Civil War, with an occasional look at affairs in general to give clearness and provide nec……続きを見る

This edition offers you a complete overview of the American history before the great revolution, the wars after the uprising, and the impact of the revolution itself. This meticulously edited book i……続きを見る

'Old Times in the Colonies' is an outline of some of the principal events that transpired during the colonial period of our country, and portrays the hardships and sufferings of those who laid the f……続きを見る