A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the worlds most influential writersfrom Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948612)
Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russias urban modernization and the more-than-human environment in the context of the ma...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948803)
Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the prima...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953878)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953885)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538770689)
Tony Cornell spent his life probing the very edges of reality and paranormal activity. A member of the UKs Society for Psychical Research (SPR) from the post-war era to the dawn of the 21st century, Cornells role as an investigator of so-called sp...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520424708)
A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen...Lasīt vairāk
In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary so...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9780593657386)
A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War IItracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germanys implacable hostility towards Soviet RussiaIn the West, World War II is commonly underst...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487552916)
Set against the shattered landscape of post-war Berlin, Death in the Rubble follows a nurse battling addiction who murders her victims to buy gifts for her lover a married police detective....Lasīt vairāk
This book examines how the Iberian empires of the early modern period were structured around population control, segregation, and racial policies rather than nation-state characteristics....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967743)
Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the prima...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967729)
Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russias urban modernization and the more-than-human environment in the context of the ma...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Sutherland House Inc., ISBN-13: 9781998365470)
The best Canadian political diary that exists John English, author, The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.Jim Coutts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau from 1975 to 1981, was one o...Lasīt vairāk
A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale By the end of the Second World War, more than seventy million people across the glob...Lasīt vairāk
Marshall J. Breger, Stafanie Bock, Herbert R. Reginbogin, Christoph Safferling, Eli Rosenbaum, Herbert R. Reginbogin, Marshall J. Breger, Francine Hirsch, Toby Simpson, Herve Ascensio...
In this book, contributors go in-depth to analyze the crime of aggression, crimes against humanity and their applicability in the context of the invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine brings the principles of N...Lasīt vairāk
In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times.The success was almost a decade in th...Lasīt vairāk
Although the title makes it sound like a reference book, it is so much more than that The style of writing is engaging and informative The layout is attractive, with beautiful illustrations, photos, period paintings, quotes, and interes...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Three Hills, ISBN-13: 9781501782657)
Four generations of Millers and Sewards dwelled in Auburn, New York, between 1817 and 1860. William Henry Seward was a state senator and governor, and then a U.S. senator and secretary of state. Until recently, Henry (as he was known) Sewards publi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268209827)
Marie-Dominique Chenu demonstrates how this once condemned theologian influenced the major shifts of twentieth-century Catholicism and reveals the relevance of his thought for contemporary theology.In 1942, historian...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783110597165)
The conference volume should raise the awareness for the promotion of national minorities among agents, institutions as well as to an interested public. It sheds light on state policies regarding national minorities with a multilateral, multidisc...Lasīt vairāk
