History & Archaeology Books

This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and...

Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity...

Britain's Long War assesses the process of strategic change within the British Government's position on Northern Ireland, starting with Westminster's first intervention in 1969 and ending with the Belfast Agreement in 1998. Drawing on a vast range of...

This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to...

Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British...

Republican legal theory developed out of the jurisprudential and constitutional legacy of the Roman res publica as interpreted over two millennia in Europe and North America. In this book - the most comprehensive study of republican legal ideas to date -...

A collection of nine articles written by leading scholars in Britain, Ireland, Italy and the USA on various aspects of the city of St Petersburg during the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end of...

Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Régime and the Revolution . Yet among his contemporaries he was also esteemed for his brilliant investigations on social issues such as prison reform, pauperism and...

The conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire. It...

This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this...

Britain was arguably the single greatest catalyst and beneficiary of UN peacekeeping operations during the post-war period. This book analyses the reasons for this, including the post-colonial conflicts which Britain handed the UN and its determination...

The argument presented in this book arose from an extension to the question whether the suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, as represented by a long-standing historiographical consensus, spelled the end of Jacobite hopes, and British fears, of...

This volume examines attempted changes to industrial relations in Britain during 1948-1990, designed to promote institutional reforms of management and trade unions. Specific focus is given to the Donovan Commission and other trade union reforms, and...

Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945-2002 presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of eight essays, addressing the post-war foreign policy of Switzerland. The essays deal with a diverse range of issues: general foreign policy and neutrality; defense...

After almost four centuries of expansion the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century covered vast territories on the Eurasian continent and included an immensely diverse population. How was the new Russian regime to deal with the complexity...

The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence provides, for the first time, an edition of the messages exchanged between Harold Macmillan and Dwight D. Eisenhower during their tenures as national leaders in the late 1950s. The collection consists of more than...

The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and...

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially 'crimes' pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and...

Broers repositions the context in which the Napoleonic empire can be studied, and reconfigures the political and historical geography of Italy, in the century before its Unification in 1859. The Napoleonic Empire in Italy marks a fresh departure in the...

This book analyzes the development of the Stalinist state of the 1930s from the perspective of the changing nature of centre-local relations. It examines the trend toward greater central state control over the formation and implementation of economic...

The CDC is the national public health agency of the United States.

This index of federal naturalizations in the state of Georgia refers to two documents associated with the naturalization process, "Declaration of Intention" and "Petition for Naturalization." Prior to September 1906, this process could be accomplished...

An survey of the evolution of esotericism in South-East Asia from 1400 - 1500 in the peninsula of Malaya. The outcome was Sufism, Islam, and Sorcery in the minimal, but how did this all begin? This book can introduce you to the esoteric dimension of it...

谢选骏此书通过对于世界各种神话与宗教的梳理，说明这样一个观点:和其它的"有神学支持的神话不同"，贯穿《圣经》的，其实是一种"不可知论的神学"。圣经的神是没有名字的，圣经的神也没有可以把握的确切内涵。圣经的神不像其它神话里的神那样，具有系列的故事。圣经所讲述的，是神与人的关系，而不是神的自身──因为"不可知论的神学"否决了人类能够知道神自身的秘密，而最多只能透露一些"神与人相关的启示"。Synopsis: This book of Xie Xuanjun's attempts to, through...

谢选骏此书通过对于世界各种神话与宗教的梳理，说明这样一个观点:和其它的"有神学支持的神话不同"，贯穿《圣经》的，其实是一种"不可知论的神学"。圣经的神是没有名字的，圣经的神也没有可以把握的确切内涵。圣经的神不像其它神话里的神那样，具有系列的故事。圣经所讲述的，是神与人的关系，而不是神的自身──因为"不可知论的神学"否决了人类能够知道神自身的秘密，而最多只能透露一些"神与人相关的启示"。Synopsis: This book of Xie Xuanjun's attempts to, through...

Katsaus vuoden 1966 tapahtumiin Suomessa ja maailmalla. Valtikka siirtyi Suomessa vasemmistolle, Kiinassa fundamentalistikommunisteille, Afrikassa Bokassalle ja jalkapallossa Englannille. 36 s.

you will find this book to be much more than you expectedhere; you will also find keys to the black revolution.did Tupac know about The Master Blaster Jamming...is he Alive?Tupac Amaru Shakur's Social Security Number, 546-47-8539, provided on the...

内容简介《思想主权》是谢选骏先生2012至2013年间的著作。其核心观点认为:仅仅承认思想的自由是远远不够的，还必须承认"思想主权"的存在。思想是一种至高无上的主权，"思想主权"不仅创造了各种形式的国家主权，而且还创造了各种科学和艺术，各种道德和宗教。"思想主权"甚至创造了人自身，这不仅体现为"上帝造人"，也体现为"人的进化"。"思想主权"的存在，保证了人和宇宙的互通，使得人可以认识宇宙，使得宇宙也能塑造人。同时，作者还用"你答故我在"取代了笛卡儿的"我思故我在";因为你我他同在思想主权之下。"思想主权论...

Burial of IndigentsSonoma County, California1937-1967Sonoma County Genealogical SocietyThis book lists 789 indigent persons who were buried by Sonoma County between the dates of 1937 and 1967. It gives the specific date, the place where the indigent...

The South Carolina 3rd Artillery Battalion, also known as the Palmetto Battalion, was organized in December, 1861. Its members were from the counties of Allendale, Richland, Charleston, Georgetown, and Kershaw. For some time the unit served in the...

Stacy was interested in writing historical fiction about the world wars. She knew that her great uncle had been in World War II and was hoping to have great discussions with him about it. What Stacy didn't realize was that this research would bring her...

The South Carolina 2nd Regiment Rifles was organized during the spring of 1862 using the 5th South Carolina Battalion Rifles as its nucleus. It was organized from extra companies initially intended for Orr's Rifles. These companies were organized into a...

Spelaren på Kråkerøy handlar om talen Einar Gerhardsen heldt på Kråkerøy i 1948 og det politiske spelet som kringla talen. Denne vesle framstillinga freistar å gje nokre svar på kva denne talen var, koreleis han verka og ikkje minst kvifor Gerhardsen...

A genealogical snapshot of over one hundred veterans of the Spanish-American War from Company L Fifth Regiment, MA Volunteer Infantry, 1898 out of Malden, MA, USA. Surnames:BACON, BAKENHUS, BARNES, BELL, BERG, BLADES, BLOOMER, BOOTH, BRACKETT, BRIGGS,...

Building upon "Racket Theory: How Humans Behave" and "James Bond is Real: The Untold Story of Political & Military Technological Threats Ian Fleming Warned Us About" readers are taken on a quest from the beginning of time to the present-day explaining...

Don Greene's Shawnee Heritage XII is filled with information of the Shawnee people, their lives, plants they used and of the epidemics of the 1600's to present time. This is the latest book in Don's Shawnee Heritage series.

The Surgeon General of the United States was created in 1871. There have been 33 doctors who have served on this position.

Workshops in Architecture and Urban Morphology (WAM) is an educational-scientific tool directed to the basic themes of Architecture and Urban Design. Urban Morphology is the main instrument used for these experiences. Each workshop involves one or more...

La guerra del Paraguay contro la Triplice Alleanza (Brasile, Argentina e Uruguay) combattuta durante cinque lunghi anni (1865/70) è stata la più sanguinosa delle guerre sudamericane, ed ha profondamente influito sull'assetto e l'evoluzione del...

Это самая волнующая и кровавая мыльная опера из всех, разыгранных на европейской сцене, и Тюдоры на ней - многовековой миф, до сих пор являющийся психологической загадкой. Они пришли почти ниоткуда, получили трон в результате войны и свержения законного...

Il libro descrive un fatto storico molto particolare ed interesante che vale la pena di documentare. Come sappiamo il Risorgimento fu il periodo in cui la Nazione Italiana conseguì la propria Unità Nazionale. In questo libro si documenta storicamente il...

An easy way to study the colourful history of Great Britain. The Kings and Queens of Britain from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth the Second, in rhyme.

This book is an account of the history of medicine in its widest sense as practiced in the Maltese islands during the Prehistoric and classical periods, when medical practice was primarily based on superstition, religion and magic. While superstition and...