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Born into a well-known and respected family in Dublin, William Grattan has left no sketch of himself or his reasons for joining the 88th Regiment of Foot, the most Irish of all the Irish regiments a……続きを見る

« Un bon témoignage sur Hohenlinden où Trefcon participa comme sergent, sur la Bretagne où il fut exilé pour son attachement à Moreau, sur les guerres d’Espagne et de Russie, sur Waterloo (nombreux ……続きを見る

Was geschieht, wenn man die Epoche der Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie aus ihrem monochromen Schlummer reißt? Seit dem 19. Jahrhundert wurden prägende Momente genauso wie Alltagsszenen auf Lichtbild gebannt……続きを見る

This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present re……続きを見る

Before the Civil Rights movement, southern liberal journalists played a crucial role in shaping southern thought on race and racism. John Kneebone presents a richly detailed intellectual history of ……続きを見る

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on S……続きを見る

A renaissance in Illinois history scholarship has sparked renewed interest in the Prairie State's storied past. Students, meanwhile, continue to pursue coursework in Illinois history to fulfill degr……続きを見る

II y a bien longtemps que je vous promets le récit de mes aventures ; je veux tenir aujourd’hui ma parole. Puisque nous voici réunis, moins pour nous livrer à des dissertations savantes, que pour ra……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of Israel’s targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger worldーfrom the man hailed by Da……続きを見る

In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world ……続きを見る

Allured by the gold rush, waves of German, Japanese, Chinese and Italian immigrants brought their culinary proclivities to the American West. The early sophistication of saloons followed, and Denver……続きを見る

" Was Hitler a moral aberration or a man of his people? This topic has been hotly argued in recent years, and now Jay Gonen brings new answers to the debate using a psychohistorical perspective, con……続きを見る

Este libro abarca, un panorama del proceso que forma y define al pueblo de Cuba en su esfuerzo secular por fraguarse un destino largo. Está dividido en seis partes, la primera, aborda los siglos XVI……続きを見る

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some par……続きを見る

From 1840 through 1844 East Texas was wracked by murderous violence between Regulator and Moderator factions. More than thirty men were killed in assassinations, lynchings, ambushes, street fights, ……続きを見る

Cops in Kabul is the thrilling personal account of retired RCMP Superintendent William C. Malone, who was the deputy Canadian police commander in Kabul, Afghanistan, from May 2011 to May 2012. His s……続きを見る

Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late mediev……続きを見る

After an arduous journey to Utah's Mormon frontier, three Jewish immigrant brothers built a flagship institution that lasted more than a century in downtown Salt Lake City. The F. Auerbach & Bros. s……続きを見る

Major “Mick” Mannock, VC, was the top-scoring RAF air ace of the First World War, an almost legendary figure who personified the bravery and modesty that came to be expected of aerial heroes. While ……続きを見る

L'epoca vittoriana è considerata il periodo della storia inglese che ha inizio con la reggenza di Victoria d'Inghilterra. «Victoria & Writers of Victorian age» è un documento prezioso per chiunque v……続きを見る

World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression; in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champ……続きを見る

Perpetual sunshine, palm trees, miles of unbroken beaches, yachts, cliff-top mansions, millionairesーthese are the images of Orange County that come to mind for many people, and there is much truth ……続きを見る

Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major public research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges……続きを見る

Does kinship still matter in today’s globalized, increasingly mobile world? Do family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures? Answering with ……続きを見る

This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war. Beginning with the rise of German power and the French and British response to the Rhineland crisis leading to Worl……続きを見る

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 467 In this 467th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates a Maori Legend - "The Battle of the Giants”. Once, there was a spirit who wandered ……続きを見る

Popular blogger Key West Lou shares his journal that records the evacuation from Key West during the recent Hurricane Irma disaster. Along with his day-by-day diary you will find a visual record of ……続きを見る

My Halls Hill Family: More Than a Neighborhood is about a small community that got its start in 1850 when 327 acres of land were purchased by a white man, Bazil Hall for a plantation. Following the ……続きを見る

Excerpt: "It was November 9th, 1916. I lay in a state of luxurious semi-consciousness pondering contentedly over things in general, transforming utter impossibilities into plausible possibilities, w……続きを見る

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every scary, exciting moment – and the bonds of friendsh……続きを見る