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For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present. This groundbreaking work draws on both well-established and new...
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The five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's first transatlantic voyage has provoked an outpouring of scholarship on how European exploration and colonization affected America. This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European thought. The result of an international conference sponsored by the John Carter...
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Uwe Heins erzählt aus seinem bunten Seemannsleben Er fuhr als Moses und Jungmann auf großen Motorschiffen nach Afrika, Japan, in die Karibik und durch den Panamakanal zur US-Westküste. Später war er als Leichtmatrose und Bestmann auf Kümos zwischen Skandinavien und England unterwegs. Wie der Junge aus einfachen Verhältnissen sich durch den Alltag kämpft und lernt, sein Leben zu bewältigen, erzählt er mit einem Schuss Selbstironie in diesem...
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One hundred years on, the First World War has not lost its power to clutch at the heart. But how much do we really know about the war that would shape the 20th Century? And, all the more poignantly, how much did people know at the time?
Today, someone fires a shot on the other side of the world and we read about it online a few seconds later. In 1914, with storm clouds gathering over Europe, wireless telephony was in its infancy. So newspapers such...
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Anyone who has lived in China has stories to tell. For foreigners and Chinese alike, this is a land that transforms itself every day, with something to write about on every corner. Collected in this anthology are 33 contributions, a mix of narrative non-fiction, fiction and poetry, from the writers' colony the Anthill (theanthill.org). Together, they offer glimpses into this quicksilver country-by turns funny, touching and bizarre. Whether we stay...
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Since delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear saviour of not only the Democratic party, but of the integrity of American politics.
Despite the fact that he burst onto the national scene seemingly overnight, his name recognition has grown by leaps and bounds ever since. And in November 2008, he was elected the next President of the United States.
Barack Obama in His Own...
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It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process that necessitates a willingness to work together openly and objectively in confronting the past. Over the past ten years the Scholars' Initiative has assembled an international consortium of historians, social scientists, and...
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Religiöse Frauengemeinschaften vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart:
Ein Einblick in spirituelle Ideale und realen Alltag des Klosterlebens im Alpenraum.
Frauenklöster rücken zunehmend ins Interesse der Geschichtswissenschaft und insbesondere der Geschlechtergeschichte. Ein Leben als Nonne bedeutete nicht notwendigerweise, wie das Klischee häufig nahelegt, ein "von der Welt" zurückgezogenes Dasein. Blickt man ins klösterliche Leben, eröffnen...
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Twelve authors shed new light on the true history and enduring mythology of seventeenth— and eighteenth—century pirates in this anthology of scholarly essays.
The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the New World, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. Separating Hollywood myth from historical fact, these essays bring the...
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This is the heralded "definitive history" of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 years in the Land of Sunshine.
Twenty-three leading historians, assembled by renowned scholar Michael Gannon, offer a wealth of perspectives and expertise to create a comprehensive, balanced view of Florida's sweeping story. The chapters cover such diverse...
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La dictadura franquista, además de consolidarse mediante un régimen de terror, lo hizo apoyándose en múltiples ritos festivos creados 'ex novo' o imaginados como tradicionales por parte de unas comunidades que renovaban con ellos sus vínculos y memorias sociales. Este libro aborda, desde una amplia perspectiva cronológica y geográfica y con un enfoque histórico y cultural, la poliédrica relación de la dictadura franquista con las fiestas...
18) El último baluarte: La campaña de independencia del Caribe y la capitulación de Cartagena, 1819-1821
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La guerra de independencia en la Costa Caribe, que culminó con la capitulación de Cartagena y la salida de las tropas realistas, en octubre de 1821, fue un episodio decisivo de la emancipación colombiana de España. Este libro contiene ocho excelentes ensayos de destacados historiadores sobre cómo fue completándose estratégicamente la independencia de la Nueva Granada. Fue un momento heroico y único, dice Rodolfo Segovia en el Prólogo, que...
20) Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol. 11, Nuremburg 14 N
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Excerpt: "In April 1949, judgment was rendered in the last of the series of 12 Nuernberg war crimes trials which had begun in October 1946 and were held pursuant to Allied Control Council Law No. 10. Far from being of concern solely to lawyers, these trials are of especial interest to soldiers, historians, students of international affairs, and others. The defendants in these proceedings, charged with war crimes and other offenses against international...
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