500円 The coastal city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire suffered three devastating urban fires in the early 1800s. Collectively, they are known as the Great Portsmouth Christmas Fires because each one flared during the Yuletide season. The Great Parade Fire demolished the center of town on Christmas Night,...

5,576円 Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of g...

399円 Denise Le Blond-Zola (1889-1942) est la fille d'Emile Zola et de sa maîtresse Jeanne Rozerot. Elle nous fait ainsi découvrir son père dans son intimité : son enfance à Aix-en-Provence où il est l'ami d’un certain Paul Cézanne ; sa vie de bohème à Paris où il gagne péniblement sa vie avec ses arti...

6,461円 In the late nineteenth century, the United States underwent an extremely rapid industrial expansion that moved the nation into the front ranks of the world economy. At the same time, the nation maintained democratic institutions as the primary means of allocating political offices and power. The ...

1,681円 Here is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed account of the Civil War, one of the most moving chapters in American history. Introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, the book vividly traces the epic struggle between the Blue and Gray, from the early division betw...

1,681円 Old West Gunfighter’s Forgotten Memoir Found. Reveals True Story of Kill Or Be Killed Shootouts In The Real Wild West. Recently discovered memoir by one of the Old West's most feared (but virtually unknown today) gunfighter's and lawmen puts you behind a pair of Colt .45 six-guns and immerses you...

9,422円 It is often argued that the unification of Germany in 1871 was the inevitable result of the convergence of Prussian power and German nationalism. John Breuilly here shows that the true story was much more complex. For most of the nineteenth century Austria was the dominant power in the region. Pr...

15,983円 Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its histo...

13,628円 The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and Wilhelm II; equally, it need never have occurred...

11,945円 The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and too...

450円 A miscellany of tales of fraud from the 19th century onwards, which show that whatever we just lived through during the crisis of 2008, our forebears got shafted just the same. There have been Black Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays -- there isn't a day of the week that does not have a shadow over it...

3,600円 DIE EINZIGARTIGEN AUFZEICHNUNGEN EINES INNSBRUCKER STUDENTEN, DER 1848 "FÜR GOTT, KAISER UND VATERLAND" INS FELD ZOG und seine einschneidenden Erfahrungen zu Revolution und Krieg festhielt. Während in Paris, Berlin oder Wien 1848 die Studenten auf die Barrikaden stiegen, zogen über 300 Innsbrucke...