lack - History 23

It was the evening of August 31st 1939. The New Germany, the third Reich, led by chancellor Adolph Hitler, has invade Poland in a surprise attack involving 52 divisions of over 1,800,000 soldiers on……続きを見る

The Weight of Words Series continues with Daniel Defoe, as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain in the late 1600s, and likewise looks to the times to interpret the fiction. A……続きを見る

In the wake of devastation and poverty left by the Agricultural Revolution, young newlyweds Emma and Benjamin Bowden emigrate to the free colony of South Australia and the promise of a hopeful futur……続きを見る

The remarkable story of how one ship ー doomed by war ー intersected lives and crossed into history. Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly thirty ye……続きを見る

Wie lebten Deutsche in Minnesota, in Südaustralien, in Liverpool oder im brasilianischen Rio Grande, wie prägten sie die dortige Kultur, zum Guten und zum Schlechten? Wer deutsche Geschichte erzählt……続きを見る

Once described as that metropolis of dress and debauchery by the Scottish poet David Mallet, then as now Paris had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from style to sex, cookery to couture, c……続きを見る

Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, r……続きを見る