General and world history Books

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any...

Scientific Essay from the year 2023 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, University of Graz, language: English, abstract: The focus of this paper is on the observation of the solar corona as a procedure to gain data for scientific purposes and on the...

Es ist die Geschichte meines Lebens und zugleich die Geschichte meiner Familie, verknüpft mit zeitgeschichtlichen Aspekten. Über das persönliche Erleben hinaus sind die Aufzeichnungen ein Spiegelbild sich wandelnder Zeiten und damit Dokumente von...

„Die Aufgabe bestand darin, an einem Einzelbeispiel die Wirkung der Hauptkräfte unserer Epoche zu zeigen. An der Geschichte des ,demokratischen' Georgiens versuchten wir die Politik der regierenden sozialdemokratischen Partei zu verfolgen, die genötigt...

„Die Einigkeit, aus Not geboren, war dahin, als man begann die Beute zu teilen."Führende Politiker, Grafen und Gelehrte des 19. Jahrhunderts geben einen Einblick in das Geschehen des Wiener Kongresses. Durch gesammelte Tagebucheinträge, Briefe und...

Friedrich Lietzmann wurde in der preußischen Ostseefestung Kolberg geboren und machte bereits 1807 als Jugendlicher die Belagerung seiner Vaterstadt durch französische Truppen und deren Alliierte mit all seinem Schrecken und Grauen.Nach der Erhebung...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neueste Geschichte, Europäische Einigung, Note: 1,0, Universität Augsburg (Lehrstuhl für Neueste Geschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der erste Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit widmet...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 2,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Hausarbeit soll beleuchtet werden, welche...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - Deutschland - Nachkriegszeit, Kalter Krieg, Note: 2,7, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie), Veranstaltung:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nachkriegszeit, Kalter Krieg, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, welches Amerikabild in den...

Que signifie la réconciliation dans les relations internationales ? Les seize contributions ici réunies interrogent l'histoire de la notion et les mots utilisés pour la dire, dans une double perspective d'histoire culturelle du politique et d'histoire...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

From January 18 to January 23, 1813, Frenchtown, on the banks of the River Raisin, became a battleground where the military forces of the United States and Great Britain fought each other for control of the Lower Great Lakes. At stake were the destinies...

Throughout history, natural disasters, wars, disease and political upheaval have yielded heroes - models that in one way or another we can emulate and whose example holds up for us the finest of human instincts. The heroes profiled here have all left...

In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? No one knows, but historians are quite certain the ship found its final resting place on the...

Contrary to a perception — fueled by Chinese propaganda during the 2008 Tibetan uprising that the Tibetan struggle is heading toward extremism, this study shows that the movement has since the 1950s moved toward a tighter embrace of nonviolent...

Each of the stories in this book originated from eye witnesses of the U. S. War Between the States and have been passed down through two, three, and sometimes four generation of family members. Every effort was made to insure historical accuracy, but...

The Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art, a collection of papers from the 2012 Arts & Letters Conference hosted by the University of North Georgia, explores how color can provide clues to the interpretation of history and politics, works of art,...

"Scott Hargreaves is a polemical warrior with a fine sense of the importance of history in general and Western Civilisation in particular. The Australian Achievement and its Opponents is a controversial work and, as such, makes a valuable contribution to...

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.At a time when part-time jobs are ubiquitous, it is easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This book explores the reasons behind the introduction of this...

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rentVon dem Augenblick an, wo die Arbeit nicht mehr in Kapital, Geld oder Rente verwandelt werden kannwhen labour can no longer be converted into a social power capable of...

ASSISTIMOS hoje, na cena mundial, a uma tragédia de enormes proporções: a destruição calculada da Raça Branca e da cultura incomparável que ela representa. A Europa, antiga fortaleza do Ocidente, está agora a ser invadida por hordas de não-brancos e...

Oggi stiamo assistendo sulla scena mondiale a una tragedia di enormi proporzioni: la distruzione calcolata della razza bianca e dell'incomparabile cultura che essa rappresenta. L'Europa, ex fortezza dell'Occidente, è ora invasa da orde di non-bianchi e...

Nous assistons aujourd'hui, sur la scène mondiale, à une tragédie aux proportions gigantesques : la destruction calculée de la race blanche et de la culture incomparable qu'elle représente. L'Europe, ancienne forteresse de l'Occident, est aujourd'hui...

The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from...

During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country's human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to...

The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that...

This is a compilation of Honours and Awards to the 35th Regiment of Foot the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1701 to 1966 when the regiment was amalgamated into the Queen's Regiment. It has taken me 25 years of research to finally finish something I had...

This is an autobiography by a schoolmaster looking back to his birth in 1933, one week after the Kray twins, and on through the war, life at school, the army and Oxford, to forty-two years working in schools and colleges.It may interest former pupils and...

This study investigates the music of the Anglican Church in South Australia from 1836 to 2003. The title refers to the Book of Common Prayer Evening Prayer Service, 'In Quires and Places where they sing, here followeth the Anthem'. The migrants to South...

Ever wondered what drove the Great and the Good in History? What questions would you ask them if you got the chance?What's the connection between Boudica and JK Rowling? Where did Walt Disney get some of his insights from? Who was Nettie Honeyball? Many...

This volume explores the roots and centennial development of radical Islam in the Balkans since the rise of early Muslim fundamentalists in the Muslim world in the early 20th century. It also follows current militant Muslim movements, which have grown in...

At last! An astounding answer to the Oak Island mystery is told within these pages. For those familiar with the History Channel's series The Curse of Oak Island, this book will take you on a journey toward the real treasure. For those who haven't watched...

A real true-life adventure to forbidden islands, secret mountain dwellings, hidden caves, and exotic locations secured by guardian monks, revealing the only known physical evidence of the existence of the Ark of the Covenant...the discovery of footholds...

""These essays have been brought together with a number of purposes in mind, within the context of a basic concern to explore something of the depth and vitality of the Jewish scriptures and of the Jewish and Christian religious traditions that have...

This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging...

In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and...

The picture of the young soldier with the ears sticking out graced my mother-in-law's kitchen forever. When asked, she would reply that her younger brother Donnie disappeared during the Korean War at the tender age of eighteen. In 2010, my wife, Sandy,...

This is a book about dictatorship and democracy. Its treatment of these two patterns of government is not conventional. Instead of setting the one against the other, it proposes to demonstrate how the institutions and methods of dictatorship have been...

The book ""Present State Of Christianity: And Of The Missionary Establishments For Its Propagation In All Parts Of The World"" was written by Frederic Shoberl in 1828. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Christianity at that time,...

Sveriges Historia Under Konungarne Af Pfalziska Huset, published in 1855, is a historical account of Sweden during the reign of the House of Palatinate. The author, Frederik Ferdinand Carlson, provides a detailed narrative of the country's political,...