Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultu……続きを見る
著者:Tera W. Hunter
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 1998年09月15日
As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlantaーthe economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial southーin order to build an independent……続きを見る
著者:Tera W. Hunter
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2017年05月08日
Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize
Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize
Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize
Winner of the Will……続きを見る
Walter A. Dyer's 'Pierrot, Dog of Belgium' tells the heartwarming story of a loyal dog during the chaos of World War I. Written in a descriptive yet accessible style, the book vividly captures the b……続きを見る
In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's bir……続きを見る
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and o……続きを見る
In a provocative exploration of the triumphant South--the region that increasingly defines American politics and values--the former Atlanta bureau chief of The New York Times illuminates the people,……続きを見る
"Huchthausen knows the hidden history of the Cuban missile crisis . . . October Fury contains startling revelations."
-- TOM CLANCY
Drama on the high seas as the world holds its breath
It was the mo……続きを見る
著者:Peter Ackroyd
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年12月23日
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s……続きを見る
著者:Peter A. French
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This collection of essays, inspired by the author's experience teaching ethics to Marine and Navy chaplains during the Iraq War, examines the moral and psychological dilemmas posed by war. The first……続きを見る
A vibrant, richly illustrated commemorative book celebrating the first 30 years of Roy Thomson Hall, one of Canada’s most famous performance venues.
Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait traces the first 30 ……続きを見る
MARK WELL, O my Son, and give heed unto this my counsel and advice, O thou who hast for the first time this day beheld the Mysteries of the Redde Rose whereon sparklethRos. the Dew, and of the Golde……続きを見る
In this classic of medieval literature, a brilliant and daring thinker relates the spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment--and the tale of his tragic personal life as we……続きを見る
著者:Peter Ackroyd
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年11月04日
In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters,……続きを見る
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and o……続きを見る
著者:Peter Abelard
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2021年02月24日
THE STORY OF ABELARD AND HELOISE. It sometimes happens that Love is little esteemed by those who choose rather to think of Other affairs, and in requital He strongly manifests His power in unthought……続きを見る
Though he had served with distinction during the Civil War, it was Porter Alexanders memoirs that have kept his name alive today. Though many prominent officers on both sides wrote memoirs, Porter A……続きを見る
Though he had served with distinction during the Civil War, it was Porter Alexanders memoirs that have kept his name alive today. Though many prominent officers on both sides wrote memoirs, Porter A……続きを見る
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and o……続きを見る
The text of this little book is the joint work of Mr Leadbeater and myself; some of it has already appeared as an article in Lucifer (now the Theosophical Review), but the greater part of it is new.……続きを見る
著者:Peter Ackroyd
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月08日
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series, charting the course of English histor……続きを見る
A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II
On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan's wes……続きを見る
著者:Kate Ramsey
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2014年02月07日
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a ……続きを見る
著者:Peter Adam Nash
出版社: University Press Copublishing Division
発売日: 2014年03月06日
The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable story of Moses Ezekiel and his rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century I……続きを見る
Den store franske revolusjonen er Peter A. Kropotkins mesterlige historieverk fra 1909, om de dramatiske hendelsene i Frankrike i åra 1789-94. Kropotkin betrakter revolusjonen fra et gras……続きを見る
著者:Peter Ackroyd
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年10月21日
Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the prog……続きを見る
Dschihad – Heiliger Krieg. Seit dem 11. September 2001 ist dieser Begriff gleichbedeutend mit islamischem Terror und mit der Angst des Westens. Aus Anlass des zehnten Jahrestages von 9/11 dokumentie……続きを見る
When undertaking to prepare a new edition of this book I received permission from the authors to "throw it into the form in which you think it would be most useful at the present time." It was left ……続きを見る
著者:Peter Abelard
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2021年02月24日
KNOW, then, that I am come from a certain town which was built on the way into lesser Brittany, distant some eight miles, as I think, eastward from the city of Nantes, and in its own tongue called P……続きを見る
著者:Peter Arenstam
出版社: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
発売日: 2012年06月26日
In the fall of 1620, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sailed across the ocean from Plymouth, England, to start a new life in what became Plymouth, Massachusetts. They brought along lots of supplies and……続きを見る