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Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full……続きを見る

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activit……続きを見る

An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness a……続きを見る

Plusieurs croient que le 1er juillet 1867 représente la date de la Confédération canadienne, le jour de la création du nouveau pays. Mais le processus ne faisait que s'amorcer en 1867. Du petit domi……続きを見る

Storm splitter is a sharecropper tale about splitting a storm, that gives first hand written accounts, stories, diaries, and other recollections of Delta life by ordinary people. The story line is s……続きを見る

Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in……続きを見る

These entertaining stories from Old West history include cowboys, Indians, lawmen, lawbreakers, entertainers, prostitutes, priests, and politicians. They all helped shape the myth and legend of the ……続きを見る

A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home. **'**The grand object o……続きを見る

Much of the period 1661-1815 appeared to be the age of France. France was the greatest power in Western Europe in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Louis XIV and Napoleon seemed to d……続きを見る

The twelfth century witnessed the sudden appearance and virtual disappearance of an important literary genreーthe Old French verse chronicle. These poetic histories of the British kings, which today……続きを見る

No genre manifests the pleasure of readingーand its power to consume and enchantーmore than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction works, Without the Novel……続きを見る

O organizador reuniu pesquisadores de diversos países para explicarem a identidade de suas respectivas nações em ensaios críticos e concisos, apresentando assim Argentina, Austrália, Brasil, Canadá,……続きを見る

In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helena for a surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. • "Dazzling... a compelling meditation on Napoleon's exile...Blackburn has broug……続きを見る

On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million Al……続きを見る

Here is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold……続きを見る

The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth ce……続きを見る

Die Arbeit an der TV-Dokumentation führt die ORF-Journalistinnen in die ehemaligen Konzentrationslager Mauthausen und Auschwitz, nach Israel und Hamburg. Ihr Buch vereint tagebuchartige Schilderunge……続きを見る

If you thought the fitness craze was about being healthy, think again. Although Charles Atlas, Jack LaLanne, Jim Fixx, Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons, and Jillian Michaels might well point the way to a……続きを見る

A seguito del successo avuto dal libro Mystery in History (R) I misteri della storia, abbiamo deciso di continuare la serie con un secondo volume sulla stregoneria, argomento vastissimo e molto affa……続きを見る

Incorporated by veteran automakers in 1913, the Chandler Motor Car Company was initially successful in a fiercely competitive industry, manufacturing an array of quality automobiles at a range of pr……続きを見る

To what extent did the Russian revolution of 1917 bring about the changes wanted by the Bolsheviks? Why did many of these changes fail to materialize? How has the Russian heritage adapted to the cha……続きを見る

Excerpt from the Blue Dress “As I sat in church on Easter Sunday and listened to the lesson of how Jesus died for me not to suffer, I wondered why I was still suffering. Maybe God did not like color……続きを見る

Frank B. Mayer, a Baltimore artist, journeyed to Traverse de Sioux and Mendota on the Minnesota frontier in 1851 to record meetings between United States officials and Indian tribes who were ceding ……続きを見る

Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case. As Springfield residents d……続きを見る

The Nazi Census documents the origins of the census in modern Germany, along with the parallel development of IBM machines that helped first collect data on Germans, then specifically on Jews and ot……続きを見る

A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to a……続きを見る

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost.. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Jap……続きを見る

IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all……続きを見る

**CNN “Book of the Week” Featuring a foreword by Henry Kissinger The grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth,……続きを見る

If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fai……続きを見る