945円 El descubrimiento de las Fuentes del Nilo, la expedición Malaspina, las visitas de tribus vikingas a tierras del Guadalquivir, Blas de Lezo, el «Lago Español»... y otros acontecimientos singulares que permanecen olvidados en la Historia de España. Muchos conocemos que Felipe II dispuso la Armada ...

526円 La Réunion de l’Alsace à la France, une leçon d’histoire à M. le comte de Moltke, par le juriste et doyen de la faculté de droit de Paris Charles Giraud (1802 – 1881). L'Alsace et la Lorraine, territoires du Saint-Empire romain germanique situés entre la Meuse et le Rhin, ont été annexés par le r...

9,285円 It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilize oral history. In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organi...

14,939円 Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last 'pagan' emperor. Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae offers a major reinterpretation of the work, which is one of the ma...

1,972円 Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and...

4,861円 This book focuses on the presentation and evaluation of geological maps of the Central Europe from 1750 up to 1840. Milestones in presentation of stratigraphy and tectonics and new geological models on such maps will be underlined. Map descriptions contain fundamentals editorial data as well as t...

9,285円 For the past ten years, Nancy MacKay’s Curating Oral Histories (2006) has been the one-stop shop for librarians, curators, program administrators, and project managers who are involved in turning an oral history interview into a primary research document, available for use in a repository. In thi...

2,178円 ‘Based on research among thousands of unpublished documents concealed in the Communist Party archives until the fall of the regime, Lenin: Life and Legacy is a crushing indictment of the regime’s founder…’ Sally Laird, Observer In the first fully documented life of one of the greatest revolutiona...

6,210円 The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the 'sto...

4,637円 Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staffs strive to commemorate and document horror. On the one hand, the events museums represent are beyond most people’s experiences. At the same time they are often portrayed by theologians, artists, and philosophers in ways that are...

9,119円 First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitudes at all levels of society and expressed itself in countless ways. In this work, David Roberts provides a comprehensive examination of the reviva...

9,119円 First published in 1976. This title brings the Victorian era to life with stories of its spectacular leading magicians, conjurers, illusionists, escapologists, scientific experimenters and tricksters. Geoffrey Lamb describes the kind of people they were and the kind of things they did, whilst kee...