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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
126th NY Infantry at Harpers Ferry — First Confederate Regiment from Santa Rosa to Chickamauga — Long road to Bentonville — Book reviews — complete list of contents and index for Volume One.
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Al juliol de 2010, un grup d'historiadors d'Europa i Estats Units, es van reunir en la Universitat d'East Anglia (Norwich) per a presentar i exposar noves perspectives, mirades i vies de recerca, vinculades a la història social. Allí van realitzar una reflexió que s'uneix a la renovació historiogràfica duta a terme en els últims quaranta anys per James Casey des del seu laboratori d'observació de la Universitat d'East Anglia. James Casey és...
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Que serait la communauté française de Barcelone sans la multitude d'acteurs institutionnels et associatifs qui l'ont forgée et qui continue encore à la faire vivre?
En presque 600 ans de présence, celle-ci n'a cessé d'évoluer.
C'est à travers son Histoire que nous voulons vous faire voyager et mieux connaître son périple avec la Catalogne.
Ce livre est illustré de plus de 100 photos et documents historiques.
Cet ouvrage est placé sous...
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Summary of First Women by Kate Andersen Brower | Includes Analysis Preview: Kate Andersen Brower's First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies examines how women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama have negotiated the personal and political challenges of being married to the president of the United States. The women who have served as first lady in the modern era have been very different. Jackie Kennedy was a style icon; Lady...
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The dominant culture of industrial civilization is highly materialistic, holding up Western-style, consumer lifestyles as the path to happiness and fulfilment. But consumer lifestyles are failing to satisfy the human craving for meaning, and they are degrading our planet in ways that are grossly unsustainable and unjust. We desperately need to explore or rediscover less materialistic, 'simpler' ways of living. 'Simple living' refers to ways of life...
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University and university students of various disciplines (health, technology and engineering, humanities, social sciences or basic sciences) have set their sights on certain cultural references to return them to the citizenry and invite us to reflect on these manifestations of collective and diachronic solidarity, of how those people in the past did or created things that have contributed to our welfare, but that above all-, they are manifestations...
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El castillo-palacio de Alaquàs es una de las obras más destacadas de la arquitectura renacentista valenciana. En el centenario de su declaración como Bien de Interés Cultural (1918), este libro acoge una serie de estudios sobre algunos de los aspectos históricos, culturales, arquitectónicos y artísticos que enmarcan y establecen la singularidad de este inmueble. El volumen aborda los rasgos que caracterizaron la nobleza valenciana durante la...
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Universitarios y universitarias de diversas disciplinas (salud, tecnología e ingenierías, humanidades, ciencias sociales o básicas) han fijado su mirada en determinadas referencias culturales de la ciudad para invitarnos a reflexionar sobre cómo las gentes que la habitaban en el pasado crearon elementos que han contribuido a nuestro bienestar, pero que, sobre todo, son manifestaciones del empuje personal y colectivo por mejorar sus condiciones...
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Desde hace dos o tres décadas la historia cultural ocupa un lugar preferente en la escena historiográfica, aunque con desfases cronológicos y distintas modalidades dependiendo de las circunstancias nacionales y, en este sentido, se impone una aproximación comparativa. El presente volumen pretende inscribirse en esta perspectiva, preguntándose por la realidad de un «giro cultural» en la historiografía mundial. Los numerosos colaboradores han...
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Esta edición del Proceso de José Rizal recoge los documentos relacionados con el enjuiciamiento y ejecución de este prócer filipino.
En 1896, en Filipinas comenzó una revolución liderada por el Katipunan, un partido abiertamente independentista fundado por Andrés Bonifacio, y a José Rizal se lo acusó de estar involucrado en él.
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro escapó de las autoridades españolas. A Rizal, lo detuvieron y le hicieron un juicio...
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The book tells the story of how the unique Dunblane Centre grew from the town's darkest day on 13 March 1996, a story which shows how the support received from around the globe, when combined with the dedication, enthusiasm and vision of so many in Dunblane, created an inspiring legacy. Two of the editors lost children in the Dunblane tragedy, the third was a member of the Primary School Board.
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This book is volume four of eight volumes. It covers mainly the air war. The volume covers the 2nd half of 1915 and starts into 1916. The Edith Cavell incident is truly tragic. To paraphrase the quote from the volume, "It wasn't so much a crime as a blunder." The story of the German battleship "Möwe" is told in detail. She ends up being sunk by British fighters in 1945. The fall of Serbia, Montenegro and Albania is described in great detail. This...
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Mit Beiträgen von Siegfried Becker, Heiner Boehncke, Renate Buchenauer, Helmut Burmeister, Jochen Ebert, Thomas Ende, Holger Ehrhardt, Gerd Fenner, Andreas Flick. Karl-Erwin Franz, Kerstin Fröhlich, Holger Th. Gräf, Siegfried Lotze, Christian Presche, Dorothe Römer, Guntram Rother, Christian Schäfer, Uwe Schmidt und Stephan Schwenke
Sie haben klangvolle Namen, verfügen über enthusiastischen Unternehmergeist und haben unsere Region nachhaltig...
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April 15, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, arguably the 20th century's most famous peacetime sea disaster. Titanic at 100 commemorates the anniversary by bringing together news stories, opinions, tributes, survivor accounts, and more, giving a glimpse into the aftermath of the loss of the "unsinkable" ship. Included are original articles from The New York Times, widely regarded as the first newspaper to correctly report...
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Saving Private Weinmann picks up where the authors previous book, Reckoning in Normandy ends. It chronicles the relationship between the author and an embittered Normandy veteran, scarred by the brutality of war. The two men develop a symbiotic relationship, in which the author gets a personalized view of the fighting in Europe, and the elderly veteran gains new hope in salvation he never thought possible. The climax comes in an unforgettable description...
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This is volume five of eight volumes. In this book the importance of the United States rises, as it starts off with events in America happening at that time. The Austro-Italian campaign continues. An insightful coverage of the air war is given. Also the Balkans are a main battle ground. The war moves to Mesopotamia and Jutland. Lord Kitchener dies.
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