Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History
Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History By Mary Hammond, Shafquat Towheed
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 0230500765 | edition 2007 | PDF | 248 pages | 2,49 Mb
The twelve essays in this book explore in depth for the first time the publishing and reading practices which were formed and changed by the First World War.
Details Das erste Zeitalter: Wie die Annunaki die Entwicklung des Menschen beinflußten und wie sie uns noch heute lenken
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 17 Mar 2009 10:09 | Comments : 1
Zecharia Sitchin, “Das erste Zeitalter: Wie die Annunaki die Entwicklung des Menschen beinflußten und wie sie uns noch heute lenken”
Kopp, Rottenburg | 2004 | ISBN: 3930219638 | 351 pages | PDF | 14,5 MB
The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 17 Mar 2009 10:01 | Comments : 1
John Gittings, “The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market”
Oxford University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 019280734X | 384 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context
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Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context By Peter Cane, Carolyn Evans, Zoe Robinson
Publisher Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521425905 | edition 2008 | PDF | 336 pages | 1,63 Mb
Is there a place for religious language in the public square? Which institution of government is best suited to deciding whether religion should influence law? Should States be required to treat religion and non-religion in the same way? How does the historical role of religion in a society influence the modern understanding of the role of religion in that society? This volume of essays examines the nature and scope of engagements between law and religion, addressing fundamental questions such as these. Contributors range from eminent scholars working in the fields of law and religion to important new voices who add vital and original ideas.
The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 17 Mar 2009 09:35 | Comments : 1
Roby C. Barrett, “The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy”
I. B. Tauris | 2007 | ISBN: 1845113934 | 496 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Afghanistan, der Krieg und die neue Weltordnung
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 17 Mar 2009 06:36 | Comments : 1
Winfried Wolf, “Afghanistan, der Krieg und die neue Weltordnung”
Konkret Literatur Verlag | 2002 | ISBN: 389458209X | 205 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Cuba Between Empires 1878-1902 (Pitt Latin American Studies)
Posted By : 55timur | Date : 17 Mar 2009 04:56 | Comments : 2
Cuba Between Empires 1878-1902 (Pitt Latin American Studies)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press | ISBN: 082295687X | edition 1998 | PDF | 512 pages | 1,0 mb
Cuban independence arrived formally on May 20, 1902, with the raising of the Cuban flag in Havana - a properly orchestrated and orderly inauguration of the new republic. But something had gone awry. Republican reality fell far short of the separatist ideal.
Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 17 Mar 2009 01:45 | Comments : 1
Kathryn A. Sloan, "Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico"
University of New Mexico Press | 2008-11-16 | ISBN: 0826344771 | 256 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB
Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State (Religions of the Americas Series)
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 17 Mar 2009 01:38 | Comments : 1
Jennifer Reid, "Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State (Religions of the Americas Series)"
University of New Mexico Press | 2008-10-16 | ISBN: 0826344151 | 326 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 17 Mar 2009 00:49 | Comments : 1
Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor, "Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History"
University Press of Kentucky | 2008-07-25 | ISBN: 081312493X, 0813191912 | 624 pages | PDF | 6,3 MB
What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 17 Mar 2009 00:47 | Comments : 2
Frank Camm, "What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities"
RAND Corporation | 2007-05-25 | ISBN: 0833040014 | 34 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel's Quest for Security Through Dominance
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 17 Mar 2009 00:46 | Comments : 7
Baylis Thomas, "The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel's Quest for Security Through Dominance"
Lexington Books | 2009-02-15 | ISBN: 0739126903 | 267 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
Religion, Civilization, and Civil War: 1945 through the New Millennium
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 17 Mar 2009 00:44 | Comments : 2
Jonathan Fox, "Religion, Civilization, and Civil War: 1945 through the New Millennium"
Lexington Books | 2004-03-28 | ISBN: 0739107445 | 312 pages | PDF | 12,2 MB
Anthony Barker - What Happened When: A chronology of Australia from 1788, 3rd edition
Posted By : hue | Date : 16 Mar 2009 22:13 | Comments : 0
Anthony Barker - What Happened When: A chronology of Australia from 1788, 3rd edition
Allen | 2008 | ISBN: 1865084263 | Pages: 520 | PDF | 2.94 MB
Andrea Liss - Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust
Posted By : hue | Date : 16 Mar 2009 22:11 | Comments : 0
Andrea Liss - Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust
University of Minnesota Press | 1998 | ISBN: 0816630593 | Pages: 152 | PDF | 2.73 MB
Sartre, Search for a Method
Posted By : pdf-etc | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:59 | Comments : 0
Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method Vintage | 1968 | ISBN 0394704649 | 224 Pages | English | PDF | 27 MB
The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters From the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:46 | Comments : 1
Peter Carroll, Michael Nash, Melvin Small, "The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters From the Abraham Lincoln Brigade"
NYU Press | 2006-10-01 | ISBN: 0814716601 | 290 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:32 | Comments : 1
David R. Meyer "Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis"
Cambridge University Press | 2000-05-18 | ISBN: 0521643449 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
David Meyer traces Hong Kong's vibrant history from the arrival of the foreign trading firms in the 1840s to its celebrated handover to China in 1997. Throughout this period, Hong Kong has been a pivotal meeting place of the Chinese and foreign social networks of capital...
Catalogue of the valuable collection of coins and medals.
Posted By : FLESH | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:31 | Comments : 2
Catalogue of the valuable collection of coins and medals.
Dryeden Press, London | 1901 | English | PDF | pages 285 | 31.91 Mb
Visions Of An Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:23 | Comments : 1
Sasha Handley, "Visions Of An Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England (Religious Culture in the Early Modern World)"
Pickering & Chatto Publishers | 2007-10-30 | ISBN: 1851968881 | 287 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB
Дубно 1941: Величайшее танковое сражение Второй Мировой
Posted By : arrow08 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:18 | Comments : 1
Автор: А. Исаев, Дубно 1941: Величайшее танковое сражение Второй Мировой Издательство: Москва "Яуза" "Эксмо" | PDF | Russian | ISBN: 9785699326259 | 192 pages | 207+30.5 MB | 2009
The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:10 | Comments : 1
Claude Markovits "The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama"
Cambridge University Press | 2000-07-03 | ISBN: 0521622859 | 344 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
Claude Markovits' book charts the development of two merchant communities in the province of Sind from the precolonial period, through colonial conquest and up to indepedence. Based on previously neglected archival sources, it describes how the communities came to control trading networks throughout the world, throwing light on the nature of these diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy...
Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama (Studies in Romance Languages)
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:06 | Comments : 1
Robert Lima, "Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama (Studies in Romance Languages)"
University Press of Kentucky | 2005-12-23 | ISBN: 0813123623 | 344 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
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Speaking of Teaching: Lessons from History
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 21:01 | Comments : 3
Gabriel Moran "Speaking of Teaching: Lessons from History"
Lexington Books | 2008-09-28 | ISBN: 0739128396 | 192 pages | PDF | 1 MB
"Speaking of Teaching: Lessons from History focuses on teaching as a fundamental act of all human beings, viewing the question of teaching through the lens of five famous thinkers and two contemporary problems. Moran argues that teaching is not given the attention that it deserves and proposes to situate school teaching in the context of many forms of teaching." This book traces the history of the idea of teaching from Socrates to Wittgenstein...
Wydawnictwo Militaria 10 - Henschel Hs-129
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Wydawnictwo Militaria 10 - Henschel Hs-129
1996 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209720 | PDF | pages 42 | 5.86 Mb
China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:51 | Comments : 1
Thomas G Moore "China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era"
Cambridge University Press | 2002-03-18 | ISBN: 052166442X | 362 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Thomas G. Moore examines the role of the outside world as a source of change in post-Mao China. Based on extensive documentary and interview material, the book adds the Chinese case to a long tradition of country-based studies by political economists, historians, and area specialists that have chronicled the experiences of developing countries as they enter specific industrial markets in the world economy...
Reading China
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:47 | Comments : 0
Daria Berg "Reading China"
BRILL | 2006-12-30 | ISBN: 9004154833 | 324 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume develops a new style of reading Chinese sources, as pioneered in Chinese Studies by Professor Glen Dudbridge, providing fascinating new insights into Chinese literature, history and popular culture. The analysis of self-fashioning, representation and political propaganda sheds new light on Chinese perceptions of the world.
The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:45 | Comments : 1
Jitse Dijkstra, Mathilde van Dijk "The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West"
Brill | 2006-10-30 | ISBN: 9004155309 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.
European Union Administration: Legitimacy and Efficiency
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:41 | Comments : 1
Peter Nedergaard "European Union Administration: Legitimacy and Efficiency"
BRILL | 2006-12-31 | ISBN: 9004155732 | 206 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB
The book analyses the administrative system in the European Union with a focus on the efficiency and legitimacy of the administrative practices. In the analysis three distinct theoretical perspectives are used (a structural, a procedural and a cultural), thus ensuring that a broad variety of factors are included.
Die Kabbala als jüdisch-christlicher Einweihungsweg, 2 Baende
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:40 | Comments : 1
Heinrich Benedikt, “Die Kabbala als jüdisch-christlicher Einweihungsweg, 2 Baende”
Bauer | 2002 | ISBN: 3762607567 | 1020 pages | PDF | 6,3 MB
Historical Dictionary of Pakistan
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:38 | Comments : 1
Shahid Javed Burki "Historical Dictionary of Pakistan"
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | 2006-10-28 | ISBN: 0810856018 | 648 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
At what point should one begin Pakistan's history? Should one start with August 14, 1947 when Lord Louis Mountbatten administered the oath of office to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor General? If we start with August 14 as Pakistan's birthday, it is impossible to tell Pakistan's full story...
Ein Kampf um Rom
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:36 | Comments : 0
Felix Dahn, “Ein Kampf um Rom”
Arena Verlag | 1994 | ISBN: 3401042572 | 1158 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB
Uniforms of the American Revolution in Color
Posted By : darkcut | Date : 16 Mar 2009 20:29 | Comments : 0
Uniforms of the American Revolution in Color Publisher: Macmillan | 1975 | PDF | 228 pages | ~55 MB
The first years of independence of States. Motley uniforms Continental Army, the red form of British Redcoats, and beautiful white uniforms of French.
Time-Sharing on Stage: Drama Translation in Theatre & Society (Topics in Translation 17)
Posted By : Yatsyura_Sanya | Date : 16 Mar 2009 19:23 | Comments : 0
Time-Sharing on Stage: Drama Translation in Theatre & Society (Topics in Translation 17) Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited | 2000-02-15 | ISBN: 1853594695 | PDF | 120 pages | 300.01 KB
Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-1945
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 19:14 | Comments : 1
Jörg Friedrich, “Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-1945”
Propyläen | 2002 | ISBN: 3549071655 | 591 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB
Portugal 1001 Sights: An Archaeological and Historical Guide
Posted By : Yatsyura_Sanya | Date : 16 Mar 2009 19:02 | Comments : 3
Portugal 1001 Sights: An Archaeological and Historical Guide Publisher: University of Calgary Press | 1995-01 | ISBN: 1895176417 | PDF | 180 pages | 1.83 MB
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Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 18:42 | Comments : 1
James Robert Parish, "Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops"
Wiley | 2006 | ISBN: 0471691593 | 368 pages | PDF | 5,9 MB
Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories
Posted By : Smirk | Date : 16 Mar 2009 18:26 | Comments : 1
Lore Segal, "Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories"
New Press | 2007-04-02 | ISBN: 1595581510 | 240 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB
Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftan, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887
Posted By : Julia1791 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 18:18 | Comments : 0
Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftan, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887
Utah State University Press | Routledge | 272 pages | 1999 | ISBN: 0874212707 | PDF | 2 mb
Sagwitch, a leader of the Northwestern Shoshone, grew up at a time when European Americans began arriving in his homeland west of the Rocky Mountians.
"Мифы древнего мира. Всемирная история" / "Myths of the ancient world. A world history"
Posted By : exLib | Date : 16 Mar 2009 18:06 | Comments : 0
Беккер К.Ф. "Мифы древнего мира. Всемирная история" / Myths of the ancient world. A world history
ОТ ДРЕВНЕЙ ИУДЕИ ДО ПАДЕНИЯ РИМСКОЙ ИМПЕРИИ
Саратов, «Надежда» | 1995 | ISBN: 5886180222 | 720 pages | PDF | 8 Mb
В фундаментальном труде историка Карла Фридриха Беккера, написанном в конце XIX столетия, прослеживается весь исторический путь Древнего мира — от библейского Моисея до падения Римской Империи в V веке н. э.
In the fundamental work of historian Charles Fridrih Bekker written in the end of XIX century, all historical way of the Ancient world — from bible Moses before falling of Roman empire in V century d.C. is traced
Стихи не для дам
Posted By : LightMoon | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:58 | Comments : 0
А.С.Пушкин - Стихи не для дам
Интерлист - Интершельф | 1994 | ISBN: 5900282058 | 174 pages | PDF | 10,6 MB
Поэмы, стихотворения и эпиграммы поэта, традиционно "вырезаемые" цензурой. Внимательно перелистав книжку, вы найдете в ее оглавлении указанные выше произведения и многие другие, которые сам Пушкин отнес к разряду написанных не для печати.
На каком основании включены они в сей сборник?
In eisige Höhen. Das Drama am Mount Everest
Posted By : tot167 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:49 | Comments : 0
Jon Krakauer, “In eisige Höhen. Das Drama am Mount Everest”
Malik Verlag | 2000 | ISBN: 3890291104 | 367 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
1996 nahm der amerikanische Journalist Jon Krakauer an einer Mount-Everest-Expedition teil. Das Unternehmen endete in einer Katastrophe...
Walking on the Water: Reading Mt. 14:22-33 in the Light of Its Wirkungsgeschichte
Posted By : robin-bobin | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:44 | Comments : 0
Walking on the Water: Reading Mt. 14:22-33 in the Light of Its Wirkungsgeschichte (Biblical Interpretation Series) By Rachel Nicholls
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers 2007 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 9004163743 | PDF | 3 MB
The concept of Wirkungsgeschichte is gaining ground in New Testament Studies. It involves the gathering of diverse interpretations of a text, but can it offer significant exegetical results or is it merely a form of cultural stamp collecting?...
Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:43 | Comments : 4
Margalit Finkelberg "Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition"
Cambridge University Press | 2006-01-30 | ISBN: 0521852161 | 220 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB
Systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes an interdisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the second millennium BC. The main thesis of this book is that the Greeks started their history as a multi-ethnic population group consisting of both Greek-speaking newcomers and the indigenous population of the land, and that the body of 'Hellenes' as known to us from the historical period was a deliberate self-creation...
Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson
Posted By : pariman | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:35 | Comments : 0
Jane E. Calvert, "Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson" Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521884365 | December 8, 2008 | 400 pages | PDF | 7.1MB
In the late-seventeenth century, Quakers originated a unique strain of constitutionalism, based on their theology and ecclesiology, which emphasized constitutional perpetuity and radical change through popular peaceful protest. While Whigs could imagine no other means of drastic constitutional reform except revolution, Quakers denied this as a legitimate option to governmental abuse of authority and advocated instead civil disobedience. This theory of a perpetual yet amendable constitution and its concomitant idea of popular sovereignty are things that most scholars believe did not exist until the American Founding. The most notable advocate of this theory was Founding Father John Dickinson, champion of American rights, but not revolution. His thought and action have been misunderstood until now, when they are placed within the Quaker tradition. This theory of Quaker constitutionalism can be traced in a clear and direct line from early Quakers through Dickinson to Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Crusades 1095-1197
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:34 | Comments : 2
Jonathan Phillips "The Crusades 1095-1197"
Longman | 2002-09-09 | ISBN: 0582328225 | 248 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In this compelling account, Jonathan Phillips explores the origins and development of the Crusades in their historical context. Through a mixture of narrative and thematic chapters, this latest book in theSeminar Studies in History series provides both an outline of key events and issues in the history of the crusades to the Holy Land, and an insight into new areas of research. Supporting documents include letters, charters, poetry, songs and art. This new textbook will bring an intriguing subject vividly to life. Those interested in Medieval, Middle Eastern or Christian history.
Details America's Wars
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:33 | Comments : 2
Alan Axelrod "America's Wars"
Wiley | 2002-03-01 | ISBN: 0471327972 | 560 pages | PDF | 7,6 MB
In America’s Wars, one of the nation’s leading authors of popular history provides a unique one-stop resource for essential information on every military action involving the United States and its precursor colonies. Comprehensive coverage includes...
Twentieth Century Italy: A Social History
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:32 | Comments : 2
Jonathan Dunnage "Twentieth Century Italy: A Social History"
Longman | 2003-06-19 | ISBN: 0582292786 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Putting the politics back into social history, this important new account presents Italian society and its development during the twentieth century against a background of struggle for full democracy and national consciousness. B Taking a chronological approach the book considers such key questions as the north/south divide, the limited social and political emancipation of the masses, the development of organized crime, often in league with organs of the state...
Africans: The History of a Continent
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 17:00 | Comments : 0
John Iliffe "Africans: The History of a Continent"
Cambridge University Press | 2007-08-13 | ISBN: 0521864380 | 384 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival...
Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926
Posted By : alexlvov | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:49 | Comments : 2
Raymond B. Vickers, "Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926"
Publisher: University Alabama Press | 1994 | ISBN 0817307230 | PDF | 336 pages | 3.5 MB
Government and the Enterprise since 1900: The Changing Problem of Efficiency
Posted By : alexlvov | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:40 | Comments : 0
Jim Tomlinson, "Government and the Enterprise since 1900: The Changing Problem of Efficiency"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1994-06-02 | ISBN 0198287496 | PDF | 472 pages | 5 MB
The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (3rd Edition)
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:36 | Comments : 1
John Tosh "The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (3rd Edition)"
Longman | 2002-07-11 | ISBN: 0582772540 | 368 pages | PDF | 6,7 MB
This is a revised third edition of the best-selling introduction to the practice of history. Since first publication in 1990, John Tosh's groundbreaking guide to the study of history has helped readers find their way around difficult and sometimes controversial topics. Noted for its clarity, breadth and even-handedness, regular revision of the text has ensured it remains completely up-to-date...
Divided Loyalties: The Public and Private Life of Labor Leader John Mitchell
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:14 | Comments : 0
Divided Loyalties: The Public and Private Life of Labor Leader John Mitchell (S U N Y Series in American Labor History)
Publisher: State University of New York Press | ISBN: 0791420876 | edition 1994 | PDF | 438 pages | 1 mb
Mitchell was a contradictory figure representing the best and worst of labor leadership at the turn of the century. Phelan (history, King's College) shows how Mitchell's life illuminates broad economic and political developments. He relates Mitchell's life to issues currently debated by labor historians, such as labor's search for respectability...
Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:12 | Comments : 0
Ralph W. Mathisen "Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity"
Oxford University Press | 2001-10-18 | ISBN: 0199240329 | 344 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
The sixteen papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity (260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social changes such as the barbarian settlement and the rise of the Christian church resulted in the creation of new sources of legal authority, such as local and "vulgar" law, barbarian law codes, and canon law. On the other, they investigate the interrelationship between legal innovations and social change...
Cicero the Advocate
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:08 | Comments : 0
Jonathan Powell, Jeremy Paterson "Cicero the Advocate"
Oxford University Press | 2004-09-30 | ISBN: 0198152809 | 460 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB
This is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. as designed to ensure that the person he represents is acquitted or that the person he is prosecuting is found guilty. It seeks to set the speeches within the context of the court system of the Late Roman Republic and to explore in detail the strategies available to Roman advocates to win the votes of jurors...
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D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:07 | Comments : 3
Stephen E. Ambrose "D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II"
Simon & Schuster | 1995-06-01 | ISBN: 068480137X | 656 pages | PDF | 9,7 MB
Declarations of Independence
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:04 | Comments : 1
Howard Zinn "Declarations of Independence"
Perennial | 1991-10 | ISBN: 0060921080 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
The Bill of Rights: A Bicentennial Assessment
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 16:01 | Comments : 0
The Bill of Rights: A Bicentennial Assessment
Publisher: State University of New York Press | ISBN: 0791422259 | edition 1994 | CHM | 280 pages | 1 mb
Ten essays developed from papers presented at a lecture series at Brigham Young U. during the 1990-91 academic year explore rights in America by reexamining their roots, assessing their effectiveness, and considering their future. Part One provides an overview of some of the major conceptions underlying the Bill of Rights, while Part Two focuses on...
The Advancement of Liberty: How American Democratic Principles Transformed the Twentieth Century
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:54 | Comments : 4
Matthew C. Price "The Advancement of Liberty: How American Democratic Principles Transformed the Twentieth Century"
Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth | 2007-12-30 | ISBN: 0313346186 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
The Advancement of Liberty offers a counterpoint to the prevailing view that the United States is an imperialist nation that has violently pursued power in the world to advance its own narrow interests. At the dawn of the 20th century, there were six democracies in the world, but by century's end, democracy was ascendant. Matthew C. Price maintains that this epic historical transformation occurred, thanks in great measure, to the vision and sacrifices made by Americans...
Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State
Posted By : robin-bobin | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:53 | Comments : 1
Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State By Leigh Clemons
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2008 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0292718071 | PDF | 5.5 MB
Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush)...
Spirit, Nature, and Community: Issues in the Thought of Simone Weil
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:52 | Comments : 0
Spirit, Nature, and Community: Issues in the Thought of Simone Weil (Suny Series, Simone Weil Studies)
Publisher: State University of New York Press | ISBN: 0791420175 | edition 1994 | PDF | 241 pages | 1 mb
In 11 essays (many of which have appeared elsewhere though some only in French, together with new material prepared especially for this volume), the authors cover the main, and some of the more controversial, aspects of Weil's (1909-1943) thought. The philosophical bases of her social and political thought, of her analysis of the natural world, and...
Immigrant Women (S U N Y Series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life)
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:44 | Comments : 1
Immigrant Women (S U N Y Series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life)
Publisher: State University of New York Press | ISBN: 0791419037 | edition 1994 | CHM | 378 pages | 1 mb
An anthology of memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction that provide a first-hand account of women's experiences in coming to the US. The new addition includes contributions by recent Asian and Hispanic immigrants, and drops several of the original accounts to make room for some poetry. Arranged in sections such as work, family, community life...
Les Uniformes du 1er Empire. Tome 2 - La Garde Imperiale. Troupes a cheval
Posted By : arrow08 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:34 | Comments : 1
E. Bucquoy - Les Uniformes du 1er Empire. Tome 2 - La Garde Imperiale. Troupes a cheval PDF | French | 213 pages | ISBN: 8439970862 | 66.5 MB | 1977
Feeling Power: Emotions and Education
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:30 | Comments : 0
Feeling Power: Emotions and Education
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 041592104X | edition 1999 | PDF | 272 pages | 1,5 mb
Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed or ignored at all levels of education and educational theory...
Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:27 | Comments : 1
Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker "Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England"
Cambridge University Press | 2003-07-21 | ISBN: 0521824346 | 374 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
This study ranges over private and public reading in a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities. It locates and charts specific historical moments of change in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts. Reputable contributors cover topics that include the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relationship of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception.
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature
Posted By : robin-bobin | Date : 16 Mar 2009 15:24 | Comments : 1
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature (Chicana Matters) By Anna Marie Sandoval
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2009 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0292718845 | PDF | 1.1 MB
Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across a diverse range of Latina authors. Within this range, calls for a coalition are clear, but questions surrounding the process of these revolutionary dialogues provide important lines of inquiry...
The Origins of the Cold War: An International History
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:45 | Comments : 1
Melvyn Leffler "The Origins of the Cold War: An International History"
Routledge | 2005-06-13 | ISBN: 0415341094 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
The Cold War dominated the world political arena for forty-five years. Focusing on the international system and on events in all parts of the globe, Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter have brought together a truly international collection of articles that provide a fresh and comprehensive analysis of the origins of the Cold War...
The War Between the Generals
Posted By : robin-bobin | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:44 | Comments : 1
The War Between the Generals by David Irving
Publisher: Focal Point Publications; New Ed edition (29 April 1982) | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0140055347 | English | PDF | 3.6 MB
A Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell Companions to American History)
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:40 | Comments : 0
A Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell Companions to American History)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0631223258 | edition 2002 | PDF | 608 pages | 1,88 mb
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“These 34 valuable essays review the current state of historical research on a wide range of issues and contribute to the scholarly study of US history following World War II. The issues reflect the diverse directions that historical inquiry has recently taken … This book will help define the new historiography: highly recommended.” Choice
“This is a gem of a book that will fascinate anyone whose interest in recent US history goes beyond nostalgia and personalities. Broad enough to cover both tourism and the Cold War, it will quickly become required reading for scholars of the period.” Michael Kazin, Georgetown University and co–author, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s...
Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:32 | Comments : 1
Andrew Fitzmaurice "Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625"
Cambridge University Press | 2003-03-24 | ISBN: 0521822254 | 234 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
Andrew Fitzmaurice reveals that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in its inspiration, and that humanist traditions were extremely influential in the early development of the American colonies. Until now, accounts of early American colonization, and of European colonization in general, have placed great emphasis upon the links between colonization and the aggressive agendas of modern times claimed by historians and literary scholars.
Lloyd George and the Generals (Military History and Policy Series)
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:31 | Comments : 0
Lloyd George and the Generals (Military History and Policy Series)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0714655074 | edition 2004 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,5 mb
World War I conjures up visions of barbed wire, trenches, mud and massive and futile offensives with horrendous casualties. The frustrating stalemate on the western front with its unprecedented casualties provoked a furious debate in London between the civil and military authorities over the best way to defeat Germany. The passions aroused continued to the present day. The mercurial and dynamic David Lloyd George stood at the centre of this controversy throughout the war. His intervention in military questions and determination to redirect strategy put him at odds with the leading soldiers and admirals of his day...
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Mandated Landscape: British Imperial Rule in Palestine 1929-1948
Posted By : hacker555 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:24 | Comments : 1
Mandated Landscape: British Imperial Rule in Palestine 1929-1948
Publisher: Frank Cass | ISBN: 0714654264 | edition 2005 | PDF | 644 pages | 5 mb
This work examines the construction of post-Soviet political space, geopolitical discourses and boundaries in Estonia. Making use of innovative methodological solutions such as Q-methodology, its analysis includes in-depth interviews in order to elucidate a variety of issues through human experience and subjective perception, such as Estonian-Russian border disputes of the 1990s, inter-ethnic issues and national integration and security...
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Posted By : Book-er | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:18 | Comments : 0
Jay Winik "The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800"
Harper | 2007-09-11 | ISBN: 0060083131 | 688 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Now, for the first time, in The Great Upheaval, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization...
Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World
Posted By : Julia1791 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:12 | Comments : 1
Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World
Four Walls Eight Windows | Routledge | 299 pages | 1998 | ISBN: 1568581181 | PDF | 2 mb
Focusing on the first manned flight to leave the earth's orbit, this book puts the space race in the context of American and world history.
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
Posted By : denscorpion | Date : 16 Mar 2009 14:05 | Comments : 2
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect Publisher: University Of Chicago Press | 2006-12-31 | ISBN: 0226798453 | PDF | 384 pages | 2.1 MB
Африканский корпус. Ливийско-Египетская кампания (1941-1943)
Posted By : arrow08 | Date : 16 Mar 2009 13:38 | Comments : 1
Автор: Франсуа де Ланнуа, Африканский корпус. Ливийско-Египетская кампания (1941-1943) Издательство: ACT Москва | PDF | Russian | ISBN: 9785170521524 | 288 pages | 133+94 MB | 2008
