lack - History 6

Ein unbestechlicher Wegweiser durch unsere schmerzhaftesten, aber notwendigen Erinnerungen. Die wichtigsten Reden und Aufsätze des brillanten Essayisten Martin Pollack erstmals in einem Band: Sie wi……続きを見る

Samuel F. Black provides an overview of the history of San Diego County from the earliest days till the early 20th century. He reflects on the history of Lower California, the settlement of San Dieg……続きを見る

Winner, 2018 LASA Venezuela Section Fernando Coronil Award In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzli……続きを見る

Bloomfield Hills is an affluent suburban city located 20 miles north of downtown Detroit. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the area's rolling farmland was purchased by wealthy ……続きを見る

This compelling book provides the first global history of the evolution of combined operations since Antiquity. Beginning with amphibious warfare in the ancient world of the Romans, Vikings, and Mon……続きを見る

Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeco……続きを見る

How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, ……続きを見る

In 1967, tour buses drove through the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to see the Hippies. San Francisco of the late 1960s became legendary as the epicenter for lifestyle experimentationーincluding plent……続きを見る

Warning: with This Used to Be Chicago as your guide, you may never look at Chicago the same again. Every building has a pastーauthor Joni Hirsch Blackman finds the stories behind more than 90 Chicag……続きを見る

This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive slaves had on the politics of the critical decad……続きを見る

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, ai……続きを見る

From Pauper to Black Prince don as in ones attire magic as in all that you see one as in the only one, an amazing truth that turned my life around through factual ?ndings, research, and my creative ……続きを見る

Percival Phillips was born in 1877. He began writing for newspapers at the age of sixteen with articles about coal miners rioting in Southwestern Pennsylvania. At the age of nineteen he began pursui……続きを見る

In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to its side, and the door was pulled open. The tropic……続きを見る

Return to the fray of the Afrocentrist movement in the second volume of White Athena. Walter Slack follows up his first volume, which took to task those who claim that the Greeks and others stole th……続きを見る

How would you feel about a bank that handled all of your financial needs efficiently, but made you feel like a dummy? In a relationship between two people, what the other person thinks of you (or wh……続きを見る

First published in 1936, this is a classic account of the reign of Elizabeth Tudor during the Sixteenth Century. The book provides a comprehensive account of the political, economic, social, literar……続きを見る

The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoo……続きを見る

This collection presents the incredible life stories of the legendary Native Americans such as: Geronimo, Charles Eastman, Black Hawk, King Philip, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse. Contents: Charles Eastm……続きを見る

"Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection exp……続きを見る

Characterized by precision of statement and clarity of detail, W.W. Blackford’s memoir of his service in the Civil War is one of the most valuable to come out of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Vir……続きを見る

William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564–1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time……続きを見る

Leonard Black was a slave who escaped after twenty years of captivity. He eventually became a Baptist minister. The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black is his biography. 続きを見る

Rebirth: A History of Europe Since World War II examines the transition of Europe from a period of crisis to an era of political confidence and economic strength. As the title suggests, the pervasiv……続きを見る

Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponr……続きを見る

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Cour……続きを見る

Leslie Pielack tells the story of those whose lives intertwined with the Saginaw Trail, the ancient path that transformed early Michigan. The Saginaw Trail led from the frontier town of Detroit into……続きを見る

“Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history.” ーKirkus Reviews, starred review In 1798,……続きを見る

Eigendomsstrijd van Karwan Fatah-Black gaat over het ontstaan van een vrije, niet-witte gemeenschap tijdens de slaventijd. Een prachtig boek dat nieuw licht werpt op het Nederlandse slavernijverlede……続きを見る

Hear the music of a singing cowboy who almost becomes Roy Rogers as he find love with a hat-wearing, quirky lady. Coming-of-age stories converge, revealing lives honed by life-threatening hardship i……続きを見る